This is partisan hackery of the worst kind!

Clearly we are in orbit of a Kerr black hole, whose axial rotation is causing the light to shift according to frame dragging!

Leave it to the blues to assume everyone is moving towards them!!!

I mean why not, that worked out perfectly fine for bulldozer…

And there it is, the actual reason the owning class are jizzing themselves over AI:

Finally they never have to worry about their underlings ever again, now they truly are everything and as self-reliant and self-made as they always told everyone from private school.

Not in comparison to… normal things like people and manufacturing.

And oil is oil, it’s self-powering. Many/most are powered off of the propane out-gassing to dedicated turbines.

Yeah, but Alaska uses dramatically less energy than… like, everywhere. Given that there are no people and the only industries are either oil or resources.

I’m not disagreeing, but if the energy is surplus, might as well make hydrogen, at least we don’t end up with pollution.

I mean, yeah, but also, that’s not really efficient or effective for burning.

We can make hydrogen everywhere, we can’t ‘make oil’.

Because calculators used to use paper, and clear entry basically invalidated the line.

This kept the same interface for the really old paper calculator users.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226285302528

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/busicom_141-pf.html the granddaddy of calculators, and the one the Intel 4004 processor was designed for.

All words are made up.

No, this is clearly evil and racist and true nazism, and we must reverse it even though it doesn’t hurt anybody but the west, and therefore Russia actually wants it, but not really?

I’m sorry, the talking points are confusing here, can I have my lines again?

So, trying not to dox myself, I worked with the architect twice.

Knights Ferry was derived directly from Larrabee (GPU), P54Cs with pre-AVX-512, .

KNC was a die shrink with more cores. Both of these were PCIe accelerators only.

KNL had full Airmont Atom cores with smt4, basically meaningful cores with proper AVX-512. Also you could boot them with linux, or as a PCIe accelerator.

KNM jadded ML instructions, basically 8/16bit float and faster SIMD.

They cancelled KNH.

I interviewed some of the actual Larrabee guys, they were wild, there was a lot of talk about dynamic translation, they were trying to do really complex things, but when people talk like that it makes me think they were floundering on the software and just looking for tech magic solutions to fundamental problems.

Intel always dies when the software gets more complex than really simple drivers, it’s their achilles heel.

KNL also had the whole MCDRAM on package for basically HBM bandwidth, but that didn’t actually work very well in practice, again due to software issues (you have to pick where you allocate, and using it as an l4 cache was not always effective).

Oof, yeah, they actually had another they didn’t release, based off pentium cores with avx512, basically knights landing with software support for graphics.

They were canceling projects like it was going out of style, which is sad, that would have been amazing for Ai.

So, if you’re an atlatl expert I see it.

But this is why we transitioned to crossbows from longbows, takes a lifetime of training to make a good longbowman.

Then again, not like they had anything better to do.

The loss of accuracy and more cumbersome handling seems to outweigh the increase in power?

Seems like I would just want to carry 2 spears, throw one after the other?

True, yet Nvidia was a nobody that arrived out of nowhere with the Riva graphics cards, and beat everybody else thoroughly. ATi, S3, 3Dfx, Matrox etc.

Actually, they didn’t.

This was their first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1

Complete failure, overpriced, undercapable, was one of the worst cards on the market at the time, and used quadratics instead of triangles.

NV2 was supposed to power the dreamcast, and kept the quads, but was cancelled.

But the third one stayed up! https://youtu.be/w82CqjaDKmA?t=23

I mean fine, but first gen, they can fix the features and yields over time.

First gen chips are rarely blockbusters, my first gen chips were happy to make it through bringup and customer eval.

Worse because software is so much of their stack, they had huge headroom to grow.

Fuck me that got dark quick. :(

Where were you 2 nights ago?

Arcs are OK, and the competition is good. Their video encode performance is absolutely unworldly though, just incredible.

Mostly, they help bring the igpu graphics stack and performance up to full, and keep games targeting them well. They’re needed for that alone if nothing else.