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eleitl··on Dumber phone
Way ahead of you here. I've upgraded to the original Nokia 3310 years ago, and it does the trick.
eleitl··on Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?
Moore's law is about constant doubling times of number of affordable transistors in semiconductor photolithography.

GPUs are obviously subject to that, especially if you look at the affordable part.

Moore's law scaling has been over for about three years, few people noticed.

eleitl··on A Visiting Star Jostled Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
It can't have had sufficiently fast impact on Earth by disturbing orbits to create impactors, given the distance.
eleitl··on Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day
Don't see Nectome mentioned.

Ah, there it is https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/these-are-the-64-startups-...

eleitl··on Deep Quaternion Networks (2017) [pdf]
This assumes numerics is free at very large scale, which is not reasonable if you want to create efficient biologically inspired AI.
eleitl··on Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
Use good Android forks like CopperheadOS sans Gapps.
eleitl··on A CPU bug with undocumented opcodes, possibly Intel (scroll to p. 155)
It's the page after that. And, no, it doesn't seem to be AMD when looking at the side of the grey bar censoring the vendor.
eleitl··on A CPU bug with undocumented opcodes, possibly Intel (scroll to p. 155)
It's page 155 and they've blanked out the vendor.

The bar is too short for Transmeta and too broad for AMD. It could well be Intel, judging from their other slide using Intel in the same location and font.

eleitl··on The End of Moore’s Law
> Only a very tiny proportions fit into that category

Actually, it is exactly the other way round: most problems in the real world are about local communications of cells in a 3 dimensional lattice. Including, relativistic limits to communication. So an ideal architecture for that is a 3D cellular automaton. With bigger cells, you've got nodes on a 3d mesh (torus). Incidentally, the topology of most supercomputers.

eleitl··on The End of Moore’s Law
Except that Intel's own data show that the constant doubling no longer applies. I have no idea what he means by Wikipedia data. See no source there.
eleitl··on The End of Moore’s Law
Nothing particularly golden about rearranging a given number of beads on a table. The only gains from cellular architectures is how many cells on a mesh you can get on a given piece of real estate.

What's left is wafer scale integration and stacking. And, making the cells smaller, which is not a silicon design problem but computer science brain damage problem.

eleitl··on The End of Moore’s Law
Moreover, the node numbers do no longer relate to any specific geometric feature, but are computed from how many standard (memory) cells fit a given area.
eleitl··on Hello, world: this is WikiTribune
> This is the launch of a project to build a news service. An entirely new kind of news service in which the trusted users of the site – the community members – are treated as equal to the staff of the site.

We've seen how well that works with Wikipedia. This is only solvable by presenting a filtered view for each user. The Wikipedia principals have no skills nor an interest to produce such infrastructure.

eleitl··on Orchid: a new surveillance-free layer on top of the existing Internet
https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/Whitepape...
eleitl··on Orchid: a new surveillance-free layer on top of the existing Internet
There are some issues with cjdns with pure DHT on small footprint devices with poor connectivity. The author is hence currently introducing experimental supernodes, which are stable fat nodes with large memory which can build routes quickly.
eleitl··on Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance
When AI comes it will do things with cellular hardware in a massively distributed way which has almost nothing to do with CPUs and code as you know them.

Provably optimal classical computing substrate is a hardware cellular automaton. We know this, we've known this for 50 years at least, we still don't go there directly.

eleitl··on The End of the Router? (2016)
What the network needs is precomputed paths. Let the end devices or at least network edge compute the routes. The core should be just a dumb crossbar, with the switch bits directly selected by the header, and gets consumed in the process.

This would even work with purely photonic relativistic cut-through.

eleitl··on How Google Could Collapse
> It can deny the use of it's services to people using ad-blockers.

This would be a good way to finish off Google search and Gmail, and Calendar, and Drive.

> google map, because it has absolutely zero decent competitor

Dedicated navigation device from Garmin in the car and Openstreetmap for everything else.

eleitl··on BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf]
I kept raiding the local library archives of the local army university for such back issues in the 1980s and 1990s. Great technical content.
eleitl··on GNU Ring 1.0 released
You can automatically promote real servers with good uplink and public IPs to be supernodes. This eliminates the whole NAT penetration brain damage (going IPv6 is a possible workaround).
eleitl··on What Does It Take to Track a Million Cell Phones?
Now you know why my Nokia 3310 is switched off most of the time.
eleitl··on Indian IT, “You're Fired”
It is interesting that he mentions Western protectionism. Those of us in the trenches know that oursourcing rarely works in practice but for that part of the management that is in charge of the outsourcing program, after moving on to greener pa$tures. His successor usually receives the blame for later failures.
eleitl··on Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”
Gee, such a surprise. Why didn't you speak out about it earlier, then?
eleitl··on German Unemployment Declines as Economy Poised for More Growth
They added over a million of migrants in a single year, almost none of them are employed and are even long-term unemployable. Meanwhile, the official unemployment figures have gone down.

If you apply the same unemployment metrics as Austria, Germany has pretty much exactly the same unemployment rate as Austria.

eleitl··on Caffe2 adds 16 bit floating point training support on the NVIDIA Volta platform
Any idea on the timeline for consumer Volta?
eleitl··on Caffe2 adds 16 bit floating point training support on the NVIDIA Volta platform
TPUs are smaller in terms of Si real estate and burn less power. Also, they can be made much faster.
eleitl··on Shutting down public FTP services
But not offering https:// services, huh?
eleitl··on BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen Will Start His Own Cryptocurrency
Try MojoNation list archives.
eleitl··on ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
I've brought up this thread on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/zeronet/comments/63lvqo/has_the_cod... and the author /u/nofishme fixed a few things and introduced automation.

Can you take a look at it again? It's not my area of expertise.

eleitl··on TED organizers cancel ZeroNet talk
Somebody saw Play and got scared.
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