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Build Your Own ALU

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3 points·by virissimo·2 months ago·1 comments

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virissimo
·3 days ago·discuss
Logicians are typically part of the philosophy department, at least in the US.
virissimo
·10 days ago·discuss
It seems to me that LLM's could massively improve reproducibility issues if journals would require that the papers be reproducible by model X using a standardized prompt in < N minutes, etc...
virissimo
·14 days ago·discuss
> MRIs are actually widely available in most cities at reasonable cost

Typical wait time for an MRI in Canada is 2 months.
virissimo
·23 days ago·discuss
Applying equally to all the industry is a characteristic of good regulation, not of regulation tout court.
virissimo
·25 days ago·discuss
The U.S. Constitution is older than the current constitution of every EU member state and has remained continuously in force longer than any of them.
virissimo
·29 days ago·discuss
Furthermore, even if the trade deficit was something to worry about, why should the food and drug safety bureaucracies be the ones to determine that kind of economic policy?
virissimo
·2 months ago·discuss
I've been working through Nand2Tetris with my 13-year-old son, but the official hardware simulator was pretty overwhelming. That's why I built a browser version that tests the first 2 chapters, is simpler, and has a tighter feedback loop with more helpful hints.

Let me know what you think, especially if you are young or teaching young people. If you have any feedback, open an issue here or comment below: https://github.com/jaysonvirissimo/build-your-own-alu.
virissimo
·2 months ago·discuss
It's not insane at all to return both in a lookup. The "reporting person" will often be wrong about slight variations when calling in a license plate and the downside of errors are asymmetric: it is much more dangerous for the officer to think a driver doesn't have a warrant when they do versus thinking they have a warrant when they don't.
virissimo
·2 months ago·discuss
People are worse at mental arithmetic than they were in the recent past, so it's not clear that they aren't "dumber" in the sense people meant at the time.
virissimo
·3 months ago·discuss
US teacher pay is near the top for OECD countries: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/teachers-salaries.ht...
virissimo
·3 months ago·discuss
Does this apply to other domains or just AI? For example, if you think gain-of-function research accidents put millions of lives at risk, is the logical next step to quit your job and become a terrorist?
virissimo
·3 months ago·discuss
I'm beginning to homeschool my kids in computing, and we are pairing up chapters of The Elements of Computing System (the Nand2Tetris book) with games that teach similar skills/kinds of thinking (Human Resource Machine, Comet 64, etc...), but we didn't find anything to supplement the first two chapters (where you build basic chips up to an ALU in HDL). I ended up starting creating a kind of browser based kata for those chapters here:

https://virissimo.info/build-your-own-alu/

LMK what you think.
virissimo
·4 months ago·discuss
The quote literally contains the string "Transportation Security Administration" in it.
virissimo
·8 months ago·discuss
Some left-coded popular conspiracies:

1. The Iraq war was a plot to steal oil reserves

2. World Economic Forum / IMF intentionally impoverish nations

3. Police across America are systematically hunting and executing Black men (thousands per year), but are protected by racist institutions

4. Trump assassination attempts were false flag operations

5. Big Pharma deliberately hides natural cures for cancer to protect corporate profits
virissimo
·9 months ago·discuss
There are ZIP codes that overlap a city and also an unincorporated area. Furthermore, there are zip codes that overlap different states. A data model that renders these unrepresentable may come back to bite you.