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Processors, Part Three: the Future. New models.

Posted on 24th September 2018by Vides

If one big com­plex thread being executed too fast is risky as we saw, because there’s a phys­ic­al lim­it to sheer clock speed and cheat­ing optim­isa­tions are unsafe, then, we all know the oth­er option: what about doing many simple and small things inde­pend­ently? To put it dif­fer­ently: if we can­not make the clock any […]

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Processors, Part Two: the Present. Meltdown and Spectre

Posted on 19th September 201824th September 2018by Vides
meltdown spectre

Imagine a res­taur­ant. A pro­fes­sion­al chef, in charge of the best piz­zas in town, and nobody knows how’re they done. It’s such a secret, those magic ingredi­ents. And ima­gine a bunch of appren­tices, sup­posed to help him. Imagine them fol­low­ing the chef’s orders. And then see, the chef going to the fridge to take some […]

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The Von Neumann Architecture, a friend and a foe

Posted on 20th August 201828th August 2018by Vides
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC - Von Neumann

Von Neumann, anoth­er star from Göttingen, gave the next import­ant step in com­pu­ta­tion after Turing (check­out my pre­vi­ous post for Turing’s first step), in a way that, to this day, you can’t talk about com­puters without talk­ing about Von Neumann. Which came first: the Hardware, or the Software and Languages? In an ana­log­ous way to […]

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What has Turing given to us

Posted on 13th August 201820th August 2018by Vides
ON COMPUTABLE NUMBERS, WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM

Last time, I men­tioned to have befriended Alan Turing. Who? You might fairly ask. Why? Those who already know him might add. Let me answer those ques­tions. Three years ago (pretty accur­ately), Leon and I were passing by Göttingen. It was our first bike trip, and along the road, we agreed this city was a […]

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How I befriended Alan Turing

Posted on 6th August 20186th August 2018by Vides
Fields arranged by Purity

While Leon has been learn­ing about arts, and he as been writ­ing about it, I caught up with a hobby of my own as well, but I have been silent about it. I befriended Alan Turing. And it’s time I talk about it. Let me keep it short so I can get to the point. […]

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