I'm in agreement - experience counts for a lot when doing something new.
Being able to do something does not mean it is a good idea to do it.
I'm in agreement with this as well.
So many people have tried this approach to improving efficiency (MIT RAW, Stanford Imagine, Stanford Smart Memories) and have run into such serious problems (compilers, libraries, eco system, system-level support) that unless he has solutions for those problems, starting it again is not a smart idea.
It is highly unlikely that this will go anywhere (so, yeah - agreement again)... BUT... he is displaying a great deal of talent for his age. The lessons he learns from this failure[1] will be more valuable than the lessons learned in succeeding at a less difficult task.
As I understand it, he proposes removing the hardware cache and instead using the compiler to prefetch values from memory. He says the hardware cache logic gates add 40% overhead to every memory fetch. Whether he can actually produce a compiler than will insert the necessary memory fetch instructions at compile time in an efficient manner remains to be seen, but it is still a worthwhile endeavour for a 19 year old.
[1] Worst case scenario. He might succeed after all.
"I don't like what you have to say so I'm going to claim you imagined it all".
You are literally claiming that none of the threats she got were real.
Or perhaps she's claiming that the threats were so non-credible that no cause for investigation could be found. Cops *wanted* to investigate but apparently there wasn't anything of substance *to* investigate. It's easier to investigate when there is, you know, actual evidence of a credible threat.
The biggest thing is what we have tried to emphasize, which is the fact that we have an entirely different memory system that does away with the hardware managed cache hierarchy. The rest of the really interesting stuff we have not publicly disclosed (yet), but I can tell you that it is very different from both Kalray and Tilera.
You might have answered this already but I'm not very good at reading walls-o-text, so apologies if this is a repeat: The hardware managed cache design for chips is popular for a reason - it provides a speed boost. If you remove this what kind of process do you propose to replace it with? (Unless you have a design that makes a hardware managed cache redundant. What do you do then? Have software manage the cache?)
How did you feel when Windows 7 x64 no longer ran 16 bit applications? Make the remote features into a module. Right now its slow and hobbled together with decades of legacy code.
"Decades of legacy code" == "mountains of debugged and user-required code implementing logic that was never written down anywhere".
...distracting that critical thinking with irrelevant asides...
That's a flat-out idiotic comment.
[a whole bunch of other confused tripe]
Talking about two housewives in a company that failed before it started is a feel-good story at best, a lame attempt at social justice at worst.
The company was highly successful at the time, went public, and years later failed after the IBM/DOS combination came to dominate. Yet because the company was founded by two "housewives", you deny its success and importance.
It was not "founded by two housewives". It was founded on the basis of a product created by a man who gifted his bored wife with it to sell. She subsequently took the product, kicked him out and failed miserably. Seriously, read the article.
you imagine yourself as some sort of authority that polices comments
i'd submit your little temper tantrum here is way more off topic than my comment ever could be
you have a social disorder
if you don't like what someone is talking about, ignore it
if you have to attack them because you don't like they brought up a subject, maybe you're just a useless douchebag. maybe you and your attitude is the actual fucking problem here
Quite ironic really - the only ones who throw abuse on slashdot are those who loudly proclaim that they're the victims. When you go around proselytizing your personal ideology don't get all hurt when someone points out that you're simply repeating a pre-prepared rant you've posted before. This thread stands as a good account of how the so-called enlightened behave.
They were afraid the drones would be sucked into a jet engine or smash through a windscreen, they are also afraid of large birds for the same reason but there is fuck all they can do to stop natural bird strikes.
To add to what TapeCutter said: you aren't going to find many birds flying that low above a raging forest fire. Ever stood downwind of a bushfire? You'll get pelted by every single living thing that lives in that place as they run to escape the fire. Seriously, there aren't going to be birds above a forest fire.
Whereas your whine about "SJWs"has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
circletimesquare was entirely on-topic and was making an interesting point. He did not deserve your attack.
Really? Care to point out my "attack"? You blatantly throw insults as shown above, but anyone who dare politely question what relevance enforced paternal leave has on an ageism lawsuit is an attacker? Did you ever consider why the phrase "victim mentality" has been gaining prominence recently?
this is a discussion site. people discuss things. apologies for thinking that
Of course we discuss things - the question is - do you have anything other than a patriarchy argument to offer to a discussion that is *not* about patriarchy?
Today, Fillekes' LinkedIn profile describes her career as a "cheese maker at Mohawk Drumlin Creamery." In 2014, "I bought a dairy farm in upstate NY. I designed and built an on-farm creamery to produce farmstead sheep's milk cheese and yogurt," she wrote.
someone with her education who goes to make cheese... hey, that's really romantic. maybe she burnt out, maybe she has some social issue that prevents competent office interaction
but maybe the real issue here is resume prejudice. where the guy or gal who takes 5 or 10 years off to pursue a passion never can get back in the game. which is especially true of women and the pursuit being having children
the usa should be like the nordic countries, and have mandatory child leave for *fathers and mothers*
that way having kids dings men's careers as much as women. otherwise, as long as child rearing impacts women disproportionately, women will never achieve parity with men in the office. nevermind that men want to spend time with their children and time with dad is just as important as time with mom if we really care about strong families in this country. put your money where your mouth is on your rhetoric about strong families, the presence of a father in a child's life, and family values in general, dear social conservatives, and promote equal family leave for men and women
Do you realise that you veered off into your SJW rant? The story is about a woman who believes she was discriminated against due to her age, and yet you respond about how things would be better if we enforced paternal leave on men.
(PS. Not every discussion should be viewed through the patriarchy glasses)
My cousin died at that age. She was beautiful, incredibly smart and was totally fucked up by my aunt. She had to take drugs to shut up the hypercritical voice her mother ingrained into her head.
Then there are the idiots who do stupid things like race their motorcycles at 160MPH and get killed - like my brother did 10 years ago.
Then there are the shit happens of cancer and other diseases that you can't help. That's my fate.
In other words, everybody's family at one time or another has a tragedy so get over yourself.
You're a fucking retard. Losing a child is the worst thing I can imagine.
You only see two types of people wearing watches today - The rich (or pretenders thereof) showing off their Rolex; and the hipsters, showing off their vintage $10 Swatches to prove themselves as more Bohemian than the next guy on a fixie.
What about those of us with ten year old casios that just plain refuse to stop working? Are we hipsters too?
I wonder why they do not insist on them taking down the cougar site? It seems inconsistent with the rest of their demands. Is there something special or different about the cougar site that I am not aware of? I have not made use of any of their sites nor used any dating site actually.
They said...
“Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion,”
So it appears that the hate is only directed towards men. Not really an unusual thing for the usual self-loathing white knight:-)
Some of your questions have already been answered by the science community.
You're not a troll, just an ordinary self-righteous individual rationalizing how two wrongs make a right.
On an unrelated note, I think it's wrong thing to leak the data, but if it does get leaked, I can't wait to find out the demographic information! Do women cheat as often as men?
Yes. While 1 in 12 women admit to cheating on their husbands, 1 in 3 women have their paternity claims against their husbands dismissed during divorce after paternity testing. For men, 1 in 3 admit to cheating on their wives.
More? What age ranges? Does it vary by city? Profession? There's a goldmine of social data there to help understand something that's very difficult to study.
You're right about the goldmine - the social data in here would, I expect, be devastating to almost all of the social-science studies carried out in recent years (due to the studies mainly possessing self-selected subjects). These subjects aren't self-selected.
"Crying man-babies":-) You gotta love what some of you nutters come up with
Hey, it's been weeks and you're still crying.
Laughing at you is not crying:-) It's been months actually, and we're still laughing at the conspiracy theorists.
You simpering beta. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Did you seriously just compare a well respected egalitarian who fought for equal rights to people like yourself who rant on about MRA conspiracy theories?
"MRA" is the punchline to a joke, not a conspiracy. There's not enough brain-power in the entire Men's Rights Movement to hatch a conspiracy.
You are the one who see's MRAs everywhere you look, hence it is *your* conspiracy. You are convinced that anyone with an egalitarian outlook is an MRA agent.
What? Did an MRA come to your house and kick your puppies, impregnate your cats and spoil the milk in your refrigerator? Did you get sand kicked in your face at the beach by some MRAs? (I know - they can be quite cruel, right?)
Wait! Lemme guess - I MUST BE ONE TOO!!!!eleventy!!! Only *you* know the truth about the moon-landing^H^H^H^H^H 9-11explosions^H^H^H^H^H Patriarchy!
Face it - you people who come with things like 9-11 conspiracies and patriarchy and creationism get laughed at, not feared:-)
I could not possibly be working from that assumption, because I'm blessed to be married to exactly such a woman, who is beautiful both inside and out. I know one day her outer beauty may fade (though probably not for a while - her mom is beautiful as well). But if it is doing so now, it is doing so imperceptibly, whereas her inner beauty . . her kindness and thoughtfulness and strength and intelligence and many other insanely wonderful qualities . . . continue to impress me more and more, each and every time we manage to spend time together. I am sure that sooner or later she will get sick of me and ditch me for someone better, but there is *zero* chance I would ever want to leave her or to want anyone else. She is that wonderful.
That's a totally different proposition - if you are already with someone you are happy with then what she looks like probably makes no difference to how you feel about her. I know this, because I'm married too.
The post I responded was not about how women feel about their current partner. Specifically, it was about how women over 40 have limited choices. TBH, an over 40 women who is looking will have to drastically lower her expectations - she cannot be as picky as a 25 year old. She will have to settle for less than what she would have accepted even ten years ago. Men do not have this problem at 40. It appears much later in life for men, sometimes not at all if the man can keep what he earned throughout his life. The characteristics that make a man desirable as a mate are not the same that make a woman desirable as a mate.
Maybe you hang around the wrong kind of women. Sure, appearance may fade with age, but that is, quite literally, only the surface of that which makes any woman attractive. There is so much more underneath, for those who care enough to look.
You are working on the incorrect assumption that a young and beautiful woman has nothing substantial underneath the beauty. Depth and beauty are not mutually exclusive. Why bother with a less attractive older lady when I can easily get the same benefits from a younger attractive woman and have the bonus of having an attractive partner?
Less attractive members of both sexes have to work harder to attract a potential mate, Just as older women have to provide something more than depth to compensate for lack of desirability, men without money and/or power will have to provide more than depth to compensate for their lack of desirability.
A woman at 45 in the USA will have got the assets of her ex....no beauty but money.
And she will soon learn all about the evaporative effects of inflation - people who have not earned money tend to lose it. Those who have earned money but lost it will earn it again. I've been through the divorce, and 8 years later I'm richer than my ex even though she got everything,
It's a fact of nature that an average male has 1.5X the upper body strength of an average female, so on average a man will hit a golf ball a lot further than a woman, ie: Both men and women are "good enough" to play golf but men have a significant competitive advantage on the first shot of each hole simply because they have male anatomy and can hit the ball harder.
This is irrelevant to the maths olympiad or chess competitions (where men routinely dominate), unless you are saying that the differences between men and women go further than physical strength.
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Talent is not the same thing as experience.
I'm in agreement - experience counts for a lot when doing something new.
Being able to do something does not mean it is a good idea to do it.
I'm in agreement with this as well.
So many people have tried this approach to improving efficiency (MIT RAW, Stanford Imagine, Stanford Smart Memories) and have run into such serious problems (compilers, libraries, eco system, system-level support) that unless he has solutions for those problems, starting it again is not a smart idea.
It is highly unlikely that this will go anywhere (so, yeah - agreement again)... BUT... he is displaying a great deal of talent for his age. The lessons he learns from this failure[1] will be more valuable than the lessons learned in succeeding at a less difficult task.
As I understand it, he proposes removing the hardware cache and instead using the compiler to prefetch values from memory. He says the hardware cache logic gates add 40% overhead to every memory fetch. Whether he can actually produce a compiler than will insert the necessary memory fetch instructions at compile time in an efficient manner remains to be seen, but it is still a worthwhile endeavour for a 19 year old.
[1] Worst case scenario. He might succeed after all.
this imagined "terror" of Gamergate,
Basically what you're saying is:
"I don't like what you have to say so I'm going to claim you imagined it all".
You are literally claiming that none of the threats she got were real.
Or perhaps she's claiming that the threats were so non-credible that no cause for investigation could be found. Cops *wanted* to investigate but apparently there wasn't anything of substance *to* investigate. It's easier to investigate when there is, you know, actual evidence of a credible threat.
The biggest thing is what we have tried to emphasize, which is the fact that we have an entirely different memory system that does away with the hardware managed cache hierarchy. The rest of the really interesting stuff we have not publicly disclosed (yet), but I can tell you that it is very different from both Kalray and Tilera.
You might have answered this already but I'm not very good at reading walls-o-text, so apologies if this is a repeat: The hardware managed cache design for chips is popular for a reason - it provides a speed boost. If you remove this what kind of process do you propose to replace it with? (Unless you have a design that makes a hardware managed cache redundant. What do you do then? Have software manage the cache?)
"Virtual Memory translation and paging are two of the worst decisions in computing history"
"Introduction of hardware managed caching is what I consider 'The beginning of the end'"
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These comments belie a fairly child-like understanding of computer architecture.
He's young, and he displays much more talent than people twice his age. What's your problem anyway?
Whatever. You ever kiss a girl? You've tossed your youth away to build next year's landfill. Good for you.
I'd imagine that a 19 year old as impressive as he is pretty much has the sexual choice of anyone (male or female) that he wants.
How did you feel when Windows 7 x64 no longer ran 16 bit applications? Make the remote features into a module. Right now its slow and hobbled together with decades of legacy code.
"Decades of legacy code" == "mountains of debugged and user-required code implementing logic that was never written down anywhere".
"Fresh new code" == "fresh new bugs".
.
I've been using X since it was X10, that includes all levels of programming from bare Xlib up.
You must be a damn masochist.
(Sadly, I did xlib programming too in the far past)
-if a little slowly- for me ten years ago on commodity hardware running RHEL.
3-D applications have performance requirements, so in other words, it didn't work for you either.
It only doesn't work if you make up constraints that don't exist. For me, when I made up no fictional constraints, it worked as expected.
Q: "I'm interested in what development languages you excel in and how you mastered them"
A: "My track record of success speaks for itself."
Hmmm...
...distracting that critical thinking with irrelevant asides...
That's a flat-out idiotic comment.
[a whole bunch of other confused tripe]
Talking about two housewives in a company that failed before it started is a feel-good story at best, a lame attempt at social justice at worst.
The company was highly successful at the time, went public, and years later failed after the IBM/DOS combination came to dominate. Yet because the company was founded by two "housewives", you deny its success and importance.
It was not "founded by two housewives". It was founded on the basis of a product created by a man who gifted his bored wife with it to sell. She subsequently took the product, kicked him out and failed miserably. Seriously, read the article.
you imagine yourself as some sort of authority that polices comments
i'd submit your little temper tantrum here is way more off topic than my comment ever could be
you have a social disorder
if you don't like what someone is talking about, ignore it
if you have to attack them because you don't like they brought up a subject, maybe you're just a useless douchebag. maybe you and your attitude is the actual fucking problem here
Quite ironic really - the only ones who throw abuse on slashdot are those who loudly proclaim that they're the victims. When you go around proselytizing your personal ideology don't get all hurt when someone points out that you're simply repeating a pre-prepared rant you've posted before. This thread stands as a good account of how the so-called enlightened behave.
They were afraid the drones would be sucked into a jet engine or smash through a windscreen, they are also afraid of large birds for the same reason but there is fuck all they can do to stop natural bird strikes.
To add to what TapeCutter said: you aren't going to find many birds flying that low above a raging forest fire. Ever stood downwind of a bushfire? You'll get pelted by every single living thing that lives in that place as they run to escape the fire. Seriously, there aren't going to be birds above a forest fire.
Whereas your whine about "SJWs"has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
circletimesquare was entirely on-topic and was making an interesting point. He did not deserve your attack.
Really? Care to point out my "attack"? You blatantly throw insults as shown above, but anyone who dare politely question what relevance enforced paternal leave has on an ageism lawsuit is an attacker? Did you ever consider why the phrase "victim mentality" has been gaining prominence recently?
this is a discussion site. people discuss things. apologies for thinking that
Of course we discuss things - the question is - do you have anything other than a patriarchy argument to offer to a discussion that is *not* about patriarchy?
someone with her education who goes to make cheese... hey, that's really romantic. maybe she burnt out, maybe she has some social issue that prevents competent office interaction
but maybe the real issue here is resume prejudice. where the guy or gal who takes 5 or 10 years off to pursue a passion never can get back in the game. which is especially true of women and the pursuit being having children
the usa should be like the nordic countries, and have mandatory child leave for *fathers and mothers*
that way having kids dings men's careers as much as women. otherwise, as long as child rearing impacts women disproportionately, women will never achieve parity with men in the office. nevermind that men want to spend time with their children and time with dad is just as important as time with mom if we really care about strong families in this country. put your money where your mouth is on your rhetoric about strong families, the presence of a father in a child's life, and family values in general, dear social conservatives, and promote equal family leave for men and women
Do you realise that you veered off into your SJW rant? The story is about a woman who believes she was discriminated against due to her age, and yet you respond about how things would be better if we enforced paternal leave on men.
(PS. Not every discussion should be viewed through the patriarchy glasses)
My cousin died at that age. She was beautiful, incredibly smart and was totally fucked up by my aunt. She had to take drugs to shut up the hypercritical voice her mother ingrained into her head.
Then there are the idiots who do stupid things like race their motorcycles at 160MPH and get killed - like my brother did 10 years ago.
Then there are the shit happens of cancer and other diseases that you can't help. That's my fate.
In other words, everybody's family at one time or another has a tragedy so get over yourself.
You're a fucking retard. Losing a child is the worst thing I can imagine.
You only see two types of people wearing watches today - The rich (or pretenders thereof) showing off their Rolex; and the hipsters, showing off their vintage $10 Swatches to prove themselves as more Bohemian than the next guy on a fixie.
What about those of us with ten year old casios that just plain refuse to stop working? Are we hipsters too?
I wonder why they do not insist on them taking down the cougar site? It seems inconsistent with the rest of their demands. Is there something special or different about the cougar site that I am not aware of? I have not made use of any of their sites nor used any dating site actually.
They said ...
“Too bad for those men, they’re cheating dirtbags and deserve no such discretion,”
So it appears that the hate is only directed towards men. Not really an unusual thing for the usual self-loathing white knight :-)
You're not a troll, just an ordinary self-righteous individual rationalizing how two wrongs make a right.
On an unrelated note, I think it's wrong thing to leak the data, but if it does get leaked, I can't wait to find out the demographic information! Do women cheat as often as men?
Yes. While 1 in 12 women admit to cheating on their husbands, 1 in 3 women have their paternity claims against their husbands dismissed during divorce after paternity testing. For men, 1 in 3 admit to cheating on their wives.
More? What age ranges? Does it vary by city? Profession? There's a goldmine of social data there to help understand something that's very difficult to study.
You're right about the goldmine - the social data in here would, I expect, be devastating to almost all of the social-science studies carried out in recent years (due to the studies mainly possessing self-selected subjects). These subjects aren't self-selected.
So... torrent? Anyone?
Or know when to call it a day and end the relationship mutually, before it gets bad enough to warrant a divorce.
That makes absolutely no sense considering we're talking about married couples in this thread.
Hey, it's been weeks and you're still crying.
Laughing at you is not crying :-) It's been months actually, and we're still laughing at the conspiracy theorists.
You simpering beta. You should be ashamed of yourself.
"MRA" is the punchline to a joke, not a conspiracy. There's not enough brain-power in the entire Men's Rights Movement to hatch a conspiracy.
You are the one who see's MRAs everywhere you look, hence it is *your* conspiracy. You are convinced that anyone with an egalitarian outlook is an MRA agent.
What? Did an MRA come to your house and kick your puppies, impregnate your cats and spoil the milk in your refrigerator? Did you get sand kicked in your face at the beach by some MRAs? (I know - they can be quite cruel, right?)
Wait! Lemme guess - I MUST BE ONE TOO!!!!eleventy!!! Only *you* know the truth about the moon-landing^H^H^H^H^H 9-11explosions^H^H^H^H^H Patriarchy!
Face it - you people who come with things like 9-11 conspiracies and patriarchy and creationism get laughed at, not feared :-)
I could not possibly be working from that assumption, because I'm blessed to be married to exactly such a woman, who is beautiful both inside and out. I know one day her outer beauty may fade (though probably not for a while - her mom is beautiful as well). But if it is doing so now, it is doing so imperceptibly, whereas her inner beauty . . her kindness and thoughtfulness and strength and intelligence and many other insanely wonderful qualities . . . continue to impress me more and more, each and every time we manage to spend time together. I am sure that sooner or later she will get sick of me and ditch me for someone better, but there is *zero* chance I would ever want to leave her or to want anyone else. She is that wonderful.
That's a totally different proposition - if you are already with someone you are happy with then what she looks like probably makes no difference to how you feel about her. I know this, because I'm married too.
The post I responded was not about how women feel about their current partner. Specifically, it was about how women over 40 have limited choices. TBH, an over 40 women who is looking will have to drastically lower her expectations - she cannot be as picky as a 25 year old. She will have to settle for less than what she would have accepted even ten years ago. Men do not have this problem at 40. It appears much later in life for men, sometimes not at all if the man can keep what he earned throughout his life. The characteristics that make a man desirable as a mate are not the same that make a woman desirable as a mate.
Maybe you hang around the wrong kind of women. Sure, appearance may fade with age, but that is, quite literally, only the surface of that which makes any woman attractive. There is so much more underneath, for those who care enough to look.
You are working on the incorrect assumption that a young and beautiful woman has nothing substantial underneath the beauty. Depth and beauty are not mutually exclusive. Why bother with a less attractive older lady when I can easily get the same benefits from a younger attractive woman and have the bonus of having an attractive partner?
Less attractive members of both sexes have to work harder to attract a potential mate, Just as older women have to provide something more than depth to compensate for lack of desirability, men without money and/or power will have to provide more than depth to compensate for their lack of desirability.
A woman at 45 in the USA will have got the assets of her ex....no beauty but money.
And she will soon learn all about the evaporative effects of inflation - people who have not earned money tend to lose it. Those who have earned money but lost it will earn it again. I've been through the divorce, and 8 years later I'm richer than my ex even though she got everything,
It's a fact of nature that an average male has 1.5X the upper body strength of an average female, so on average a man will hit a golf ball a lot further than a woman, ie: Both men and women are "good enough" to play golf but men have a significant competitive advantage on the first shot of each hole simply because they have male anatomy and can hit the ball harder.
This is irrelevant to the maths olympiad or chess competitions (where men routinely dominate), unless you are saying that the differences between men and women go further than physical strength.