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Hey I'm the one who made this, if anyone is interested in the specifics I'm happy to go into details!

Also as another comment indicates probably a better explanation of the project is the video I made about it: https://youtu.be/zXPiqk0-zDY

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This is a super impressive achievement.

- What would you say is your biggest learning from this experiment? - What were the Aha! moments you experienced while learning like this? For example, something you vaguely understood before but is now super clear to you.

I would say the RISC-V immediate encodings were like that, on first look they seemed completely random but as soon as I started implementing the decoder I realized they were geniusly crafted to make my life as easy as possible.

How much time you spent on this project?

https://youtu.be/zXPiqk0-zDY?t=10

600hrs over 5 months.

With your future prospects, where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Writing advanced Excel macros to power PowerPoint presentations.

Duh.

Dual PhDs from Tom7 and James Mickens.

With a bit of luck he could get an internship on an SRE team supporting ads data pipelines at Google.

Staring at a screen for 40+ hours a week realizing everything digital is essentially worthless. I'm sure he'll make good money though.

> worthless

> money

There appears to be some fundamental misunderstanding here.

Not really, unless you're a complete dunce. Money can be obtained in various ways that don't require soul sucking work of letting your life slip away in computer chair staring at screens. Anyone with a decently average emotional IQ knows this.

I love it! Impressive use of 4 metal layers!

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