The CPU’s that we use for computers used to roughly double in speed (transistor density) every two years according to something called Moore’s law. This stopped happening around 2013/2014. Some innovations are being made, but right now progress is stagnating. There are a few implications: 1: You can probably keep your old laptop around for …
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NVIDIA has held a clear market and technical lead over AMD with video game graphics cards (GPU’s) in the past few years, having managed to get a chip design a few generations comfortably ahead of AMD. This market dominance, combined with increased demand for graphics cards beyond gaming in applications such as AI and Crypto …
Summer break has come, and that means it’s time for personal projects! To get ready, I’ve upgraded the storage array on my home server from 4TB (actual) to ~32 TB (raw). I’m using sub-consumer hardware by taking apart four 8TB WD easystore backup drives to cut down on cost, and I’m using zfzonlinux with CentOS …
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Cooperative Deep Learning in Quake CTF: Google’s deepmind team made some big waves recently beating the world champion at GO, a famously hard board game. They’ve since made a major advancement in agents that can play a modified version of Quake III Capture the Flag. Capture the Flag (CTF) is a popular first-person shooter game …
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