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periyaon Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match

Give it 10 years maybe.

periyaon Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks

This was a terrific read , informative and concise without getting too technical. Would love recommendations on similar articles which are in different areas but well written.

periyaon “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”

I can answer 2 and 3. 2. IMHO I don’t think there is enough backlash yet. The average consumer is not informed about this yet. I guess this will change over the next couple of months since I’ve been reading a lot more about ME. 3. The chipset is fabbed irrespective of the SKU. Creating a separate floor plan for non enterprise parts is not cost effective , it’s easier to fab every SKU alike and then fuse out features based on the SKU.

periyaon Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect

This is unlikely, no company would voluntarily hand over their top talent especially to their rivals. Even with the new deal in place Intel AMD are very much rivals.

periyaon Ask HN: Where do I get started on ASICs, FPGA, RTL, Verilog et. al?

Check out EDA playground. You can run verilog on their web interface and can bring up waveforms from simulations.

https://www.youtube.com/user/edaplayground

periyaon Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

Deactivated my Facebook account last week and it's been one of the best things I've done. No more mindlessly logging in, I still use messenger to communicate with a couple of my friends who use it.