The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation

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Accurate timing simulation remains one of the most important tools in computer architecture, but modern systems have made cycle-level simulation increasingly impractical. Today’s platforms combine many-core CPUs, deep memory hierarchies, accelerators, complex I/O, and large software stacks, making detailed simulation … Read more

The case for the return of fine-tuning

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Déjà Tune Most of my reading this week focused on fine-tuning, sparked by Thinking Machines Labs’ announcement of Tinker. The six-month-old, already $12B-valued startup founded by OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati wants to bring fine-tuning back into the spotlight with … Read more

The day Return became Enter (2023)

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Marcin Wichary December 2023 / 3,100 words / 35 photos Originally published as a booklet accompanying Shift Happens In the popular imagination, the transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was orderly and simple: at some point in the 20th century, … Read more

The ‘Return to Office’ Lies

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22 Nov, 2024 Edit: Sorry for the people seeing it on HackerNews, didn’t post it there and it wasn’t intended for that audience 🤷🏻‍♀️ yes, it’s an “immature rant”, because it starts with “I have to rant about the home … Read more

A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write

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Digital note-taking is gaining popularity, offering a durable, editable, and easily indexable way of storing notes in a vectorized form. However, a substantial gap remains between digital note-taking and traditional pen-and-paper note-taking, a practice still favored by a majority of … Read more