Woe is me, I’m a cog in the machine but I want to be the machine itself. I think the technology industry is detached from the rest of the world.
Programmers and mathematicians train to be “the utmost correct” and everyone thinks they figured it out. On this quest for hyper-optimization, hyper-correctness, and so on, EVERYONE has become ridiculous.
Yeah I don’t understand how people are so ignorant. But the system is designed to make them so—and they become mouth pieces for the big-agriculture lobby.
Make it an emotional issue and they’ll bring their pitchforks; but they’ve never worked in a slaughter house nor spent time with the animals.
That’s the problem—people are so far removed from animals these days… Farming is done by corporate machines en masse. Well, that and underpaid foreign labor.
In short—many people are dumber than the very animals they say “have no conscience.”
Wtf does HGX mean? God enough with the acronyms people.
Please take an extra ten seconds to speak in proper human language!
You could save on the worlds carbon footprint by reducing the number of times humans have to search for “what is NVIDIA hgx?” or is it “what is AMD HGX” and then subsequently visiting the websites to see if that’s right or not.
“Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions. Doing so increases encapsulation, packaging flexibility, and functional extensibility.”
The text has a lot more detail but that’s a brief summary. Folks just need to read the literature then this sort of knowledge would be in common use.
One downside of language evolution is a lot of people focusing on new language features, etc, but then some of this older, important knowledge gets skipped over.
You’re rightfully paranoid. LLMs are creative entities and there’s no repercussions for making up diseases. Like the chef one that recommended ingredients which combined yielding chlorine gas. Yummy.
Perhaps it knew that someone would die as a result and it did so intentionally. LLMs do have personalities and wit—and they know our human weaknesses.
To be fair to the author—they state it can “pass the medical exam.” Which is different than if I should ask it for medical advice. I mean it can’t examine me physically therefore it can’t be my doctor.
On the other hand, there aren’t enough doctors where I live so I guess I’ll take it! Lol
Somewhere along the line they changed the Xbox UI to sell more widgets. I hate that—let me see all my apps first and foremost, not apps that I don’t want. If I’m in a shopping mood I’ll open the store… and they brought that same pattern to Win11. Stop selling us shit we don’t want please MSFT.
Customer first vs corporation first.
The truth is, if they don’t see lots of returns on software they force it down customers throat. If that doesn’t generate enough revenue they just kill it on the spot.
Microsoft had some great products but it’s hard to want to buy anything from them now because it’ll be EOL in one or two years… feel bad for folks who bought surface duos, to name a more recent one.
Good example in my math and physics classes I found it really helpful to understand the general concepts, then instead of memorizing formulas could actually derive them from other known (perhaps easier-to-remember) facts.
Geometry is good for training in this way—and often very helpful for physics proofs too!
Well—it could go either way but I do think it is notable that the author is young and helping peers. Based on original post seems important to them. But the exact number 17 not important either way!
I might click through and read an article to see what the youth of today are creating, but not so much care about an adult writing something on CPUs haha
I also believe there’s some value in reassessing how systems like that function. There’s some value in a challenge like: what can you do on older hardware with todays knowledge? Maybe there’s something to be learned and applied to modern problems.
Also, it’s a good introduction to understanding full systems, from the electronics—soldering, voltage, current, etc to assembly programming. The system is simple enough for them to ship circuit diagrams in the developer manual—along with all the opcodes and kernel routines.
There’s a resurgence across all fields in artisanal craftsmanship. Carpenters, blacksmiths, printmakers, cobblers.
Retro-Computing is exactly that—artisanal electronics and programming. There’s something meditative and enjoyable about it.
Programmers and mathematicians train to be “the utmost correct” and everyone thinks they figured it out. On this quest for hyper-optimization, hyper-correctness, and so on, EVERYONE has become ridiculous.