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As the lead architect of Shakti and the guy who helped kick-start the project, I figure I am owed my 2 cents !

1. We never positioned it as an ARM killer ! That was the imagination of the reporter who wrote the article.

2. Shakti is not a state only project. Parts of Shakti are funded by the govt, these relate to cores and SoCs needed by the Govt. The defense and strategic sector procurement is huge, runs in the 10s of billions of USD.There is significant funding in terms of manpower, tools and free foundry shuttles provided by the private sector. In fact Shakti has more traction with the private sector than the govt sector in terms of immediate deployments.

3. The CPU eco-system including ARM's is a bit sclerotic. It is not the lic cost that is the problem, it is the inherent lack of flexibility in the model.

4. Shakti is not only a CPU. Other components include a new interconnect based on SRIO, GenZ with our extensions accompanied by open source silicon, a new NVMe+ based storage standard again based on open source SSD controller silicon (using Shakti cores of course), open source Rust based MK OS for supporting tagged ISAs for secure Shakti variants, fault tolerant variants for aerospace and ADAS applications, ML/AI accelerators based on our AI research (we are one of the top RL ML labs around).
4. the Shakti program will also deliver a whole host of IPs including the smaller trivial ones and also as needed bigger blocks like SRIO, PCIe and DDR4. All open source of course.
5. We are also doing our own 10G and 25G PHYs
6. A few startups will come out of this but that can wait till we have a good open source base.
7. The standard cores coming out of IIT will be production grade and not research chips.

And building a processor is still tough these days. Try building a 16 core, quad wide server monster with 4 DDR4 channels, 4x25G I/O ports, 2 ports for multi-socket support. All connected via a power optimized mesh fabric. Of course you have to develop the on-chip and off-chip cache coherency stuff too !
8. And yes we are in talks with AMD for using the EPYC socket. But don't think they will bite.

Just ignore the India bit and look at what Shakti aims to achieve, then you will get a better picture.
I have no idea how successful we will be and I frankly do not care. What we will achieve (and have to some extent already) is
- create a critical mass of CPU architects in India
- create a concept to fab eco-system ind India for designing any class of CPUs
- add a good dose of practical CPU design knowhow into the engineering curriculum
- become one of the top 5 CPU arch labs around

Shakti is already going into production. The first design is actually in the control system of an experimental civilian nuclear reactor. IIT is within the fallout zone so you can be sure we will get the design right. If you want any further info, mail me. My email is on the Shakti site.
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There are other imperative languages in the ML family too, right? OCaml has an imperative mode.

I don't think Rust is that much different from other functional languages. The main critical difference is the manual memory management feature - the way it's acknowledged and used throughout the language and the ecosystem means that the functional patterns commonly used in garbage collected languages don't look nearly as natural in Rust.
Then you go to a college campus and cyclists behave as if they have the right of way over pedestrians (ex: stanford).

This varies a lot from place to place. In San Diego County, cyclists would yell at me "Excuse me!" And you knew they really meant "Bitch, get the fuck out my way." While they were on the sidewalk instead of in the bike lane right next to it.

Then I went to Fresno and it was an extremely different climate. People would warmly say "Hi." And some of the cyclists would go around instead of yelling at you and acting like the pedestrian was in the wrong for being on a sidewalk.

Then I left California entirely and although I am supposedly in a bad part of town, people are so much nicer here that I am having trouble adjusting. I think the insane housing costs in California are so eroding quality of life for many people that it is literally making them crazy. The social fabric there seems pretty messed up, and it is worse in some places than others.
Or if you're Canadian (of a certain generation), The Fuddle-Duddled Article.
Perhaps he is an unrealistic dreamer (though one who has achieved an incredible amount) but I can't think of any other individual who is doing as much for the planet.
I'm not aware of universities doing manufacturing and selling finished design, they more or less license IP.
You do realise you are an extreme outlier, that most people think of 30 minutes as a long ride.
That is how you should always interpret the "how are you?" question. Don't just say "I'm fine" - talk about what you did today, what you're going to do tonight, or tomorrow, or in the weekend. That's usually a good jumping off point to talk about some other topics.

Also: https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/18/88-dinner-partie...
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> "my day-today problems with bikes..."

> "They need regular maintenance on the drive train"

Regular maintenance is not needed daily; lights don't break daily. Charging a light is not a "problem". Buy a few lights and then charge them all at once in one weekly charging session or something.

"Not robust enough"... for what activity are they not robust enough?

"Safe & usable mapping system"... Cyclists shouldn't be looking at maps while riding. Stop and use your phone if you get lost. Also.. most cyclists don't need maps unless they're tourists, who will happily stop and use phone because tourists ride slowly and stop frequently.

Sounds like you're over cycling. Get yourself a motorbike or car or electric bike!
Having seven children puts you in a very small minority, assuming you live in a "first world" country.
Interesting to read that, after what role german media/newspapers played in 2015. Especially since even journalists of well-respected german newspapers admitted the lack of critical journalism during this time.
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I don't know, but that's the first thing that popped into my mind after "this is cool". It would generally be a non-issue with good development tools.
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Probably too late for this guy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/3bxyb2/i_accid...
I like the humorous way in which you put it, but oh, can’t help but imagine some higher creature talking about experimenting on us in a similar way /shudder
Bash may keep things running, but how many developers need to know it? In my limited experience, maybe 10%, and even they barely use it. It's just for writing some bits of the infrastructure, which is then calcified for years.
That isn't true, I'm running 58.0a1 nightly with legacy add-ons enabled.
Rather that go through all that nonsense, why not focus on connecting the airports to downtown more efficiently — such as how Heathrow has done it. 15 min from heathrow to paddington.

Flying is the best mode of long distance travel in the United States — you don’t have to pay for thousands of miles of track, instead you just need to focus on connecting to airports with the cities more efficiently.

With airplanes, you can route however you want, scaling with demand. But with a train: what happens if Chicago-NY becomes unprofitable? You’ve spent billions connecting cities rather than simply improving airports. Airports can serve all city pairs, a train is a permanent connection of city pairs.

It’s interesting how people here are ok with spending billions to run track, build stations, but nobody has brought up the simplest solution: improve airports and the airport UX. That would be cheaper and benefit more people — not just those living in a major city.
Because it’s mature and stable, hence not cool anymore
Its fair to question just how far AI driving can possibly go at the moment. Most of the AI we have today is being used for classification and recommendation in fairly low-stakes environments (advertising, (search, social)). It _is_ a big jump from that to powering large metal boxes that move at high speed around built up areas. Yes, of course AI driving is coming, but in the next 3 years? Almost certainly not. And then there's the question of where the next advances in AI are likely to emerge from- Google and Amazon? MIT, Oxford or Stanford? A well capitalised startup?
This is a really naive view of public company obligations. Corporations should always be acting in the interest of shareholder return, full stop. That’s not something PE firms invented. That’s the expectation that has fundamentally driven capital markets from the very outset. What might vary are the anticipated time horizon and distribution profile of returns.

What has really changed is how money moves in the markets and particularly the degree of short-termism being expressed by investors. That has a lot to do with the tremendous growth in available securities (related to opportunity cost), the increased efficiency of capital markets, dramatically lower transaction costs, and the general velocity of capital in the system. And of course, it’s just inherently easier to project near term than long term outlook and always will be.
> Makes sense, seat space isn't really
> something you consider when shopping
> for plane tickets

And at the other end, international business class seats keep getting better and better because it's absolutely a consideration. Hence: premium economy.
> a million dollars under budget

A hundred million, surely? 1e9 SEK under the projected cost of 9.5e9 SEK.
baking powder has a delayed effect, activated by heat.
Aside from energy efficiency, the semi would be an attractive vector to introduce fully autonomous driving:

1. Feasibility: Many trucking routes avoid some of the most complex driving tasks (e.g. dealing with pedestrians, city traffic).

2. Labor Cost: In commuter travel, the driver _is_ the cargo, so the utility gain is offset:

utility = cost(operation) - cost(occupancy)

For shipping, in contrast, there is no occupancy requirement, so the gain is greater:

utility = cost(operation)
There are a few apps right now that runs offline A.I. (instead of in the cloud) using the new CoreML in iOS 11 from Apple, including general object detection as well. But NSFW is a special unique use case.

Guess when you are a third party app running A.I. across entire user album you can't really do cloud anymore.

Disclaimer, developer of Polarr Album+ here (recently launched [1])

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/06/album-organizes-photos-wit...
Good planning laws should require the developers pay for some of the transport and government services used by the new residents. The UK's section 106 does this, I've seen it build or improve roundabouts, junctions, roads, GPs offices (PCP offices), train stations, bus stations, schools, community centres, water and sewage links.

Or the plan by South Korea to build a city where cars aren't needed.
That is why most likely they will not succeed in economical sense. Commercial tech space is just way too fast for governments to follow efficiently.
I don't know about you, but it helps put my overly large ego in check.

I especially like the read of Technician vs Performer. It truly unlocked something: it helps me rekindle the passion I had when I first started.
I scored pretty high (I don't remember the score though) on a cold LSAT, but after taking a course with an instructor who got multiple 180's, my official score was in the 99.9th percentile.

I got into a top 5 law school, but didn't get a scholarship even with my LSAT score, a 4.0 GPA, and multiple honors (including PBK).

Two weeks into the semester I transferred to the MSCS program. Best decision I ever made.
I am curious if it's because they are hungarian, or because they are jewish. Jews pay particular attention to science and arts, from what I gather from my jewish friends. Nobel laureates, for example, have disproportionate amount of jewish among them (compared to jewish population as a percentage of world population).
i feel safer already....
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Surely you're not serious. Uber is seemingly unstoppable at raising funds.
As in homographs in other languages, context is often sufficient to disambiguate.
I'm not "bad" at math per se, but would there be much benefit in going from the ground up learning in the Hungarian form?

I guess you could blow through the first 7~10 years of schooling in less than a year of dedicated study, but teaching yourself just up to before college level would take you a few years, right?

Is there any online courses that have this content?
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Well we have some great hucksters that tried maglev here in Norfolk and we got robbed.
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HTAs are a subset of MS's Visual Basic Script language with a smattering of built-in HTML support.

If you are a masochist, it's entirely possible to write a full application as a HTA. I once had to do this when I needed to explore an organisations Active Directory, but they wouldn't install the AD Admin tools on my Laptop, or give me local admin. (For those that know AD, it was a 'Users & Computers' clone written entirely in HTA. I used Notepad as my IDE)
Yes I always thought tuples were the archetypal product type, which is why in some ML dialects they're notated as "Type1 * Type2".

Rust most certainly has them, as does Haskell. Records/structs of course are just the same thing with names for the components.

Thus, even Java has product types.
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COBOL and Fortran. Probably with some z/OS as well.

Much of the world's financial systems run on it, replacing it is infeasible, but the expert's in this area are aging out (and many have retired more than once). But the tech still needs maintaining, and is difficult to work with.

Fewer and fewer grad students seem interested in learning it, and the expectation that you'll stay and work on this stack for 20+ years is something that drives others away.
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Why do Baidu and Tencent count, but Infosys and TCS not count? Each of these have companies with >10B USD of revenue, so it's not like the Chinese companies are any larger. And don't tell me, it's because of the difference between product and service companies, because that is meaningless distinction from the perspective of a hardware-marker. They all need hardware to run on and arguably a service company needs more.

> Considering the 'prestige' and money that comes with working in the US, I'd be very surprised if the country can ever accumulate enough talent to do anything fundamentally significant (esp. since all of the relevant Education/Industry is entirely Anglophone).

That was true maybe 10/20 years ago. Right now, thanks to Trump and Republicans, the US is much less attractive destination, especially for top-tier researchers. NSF funding rates are in the single digit percentage range, every year seems to see a new assault from state-level republicans on state university systems. Rising xenophobia and white nationalism obviously don't help the cause.

The situation in India is way better. There is more money available for research: the Shakti project is one example but many other big centers are being funded in various "institutes of national importance." There is a bi-partisan commitment to increasing funding and hiring for Indian research and there is a growing talent pool emerging from the non-IIT undergraduate colleges.

Twenty years ago, every R1 university in the US was better than every university in India. Now, once you get past the top-10 or 15, beyond the Berkeleys, MITs, Princetons and maybe Purdues, it's not at all clear that it is a good idea for a young assistant professor to go to say Virgina Tech over IISc or IIT Bombay. And in fact, these Indian institutes are consistently hiring people who would have been a shoo-in for a faculty position at places like VT.
JavaScript can hardly be called the language de jour when has been pretty much the only serious frontend language in the (short) history of the web.
People getting bigger. Seats getting smaller. Something's got to give.
To be honest, a cheap light is a cheap light.. but I have had my rear light stolen before now and had to cycle home in the dark without one (in truth, it was like 1 am and I went via the back roads but I still felt very exposed and pulled off when a car approached). I currently have a rear pannier frame which has a built in reflector and have thought it would be useful for that to be a light, though I can't charge batteries on the bike so they need to be removeable easily. I'm nervous about leaving anything on the bike that is easily removable though.. so a small light is enough. The LED ones these days easily fit in my pocket and are way bright enough for city riding where all you need is visibility.

I'm intrigued about that chain drive though..
The whole concept of NSFW is ridiculous and one of the more embarrassing things about the "modern" workplace.
Every major airline also sells their tickets based on transporting one human passenger, end of story. I'd be open to a price based on some linear combination of pitch/weight/etc. But shrinking seats so they don't fit actual people, and then upcharging for a few inches of "premium" space is downright fraudulent. It might only be 20% over their fantasy "full fare" prices, but it's a larger proportion of the actual prices most people pay.
The irony of the driver's vision blocked by a bunch of bicycles parked on the corner.

What was the outcome of this? I think you assumed right of way a bit too much in this instance and went flying through without slowing down. Car was moving very slowly and you still hit it!!

This is exactly where a lot of tension between cyclists and cars comes from. Cyclists have much better visibility and should avoid accidents like this.
The concept of bitcasting is as old as programming. In the context of C++, I'm also pretty sure that the bitcast template, in one form of another, is also much older than LLVM itself.
exactly. the solution is more people on bikes getting fresh air and exercise instead of road-rage in their cars
My problem is that's it's just not available - of my 4 transcontinental flights this year, all booked 2 months in advance - only on one leg was there a premium seat for me to buy (well on 2 legs, but they canceled and rebooked one of those legs - and no premium left on the rebooked flight. )

And they simply don't sell them on Bombardier CRJs that I normally fly.
I exclusively fly Virgin because their seats are 1.5" bigger and have 2" bigger leg room.
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I don't think that from their perspective they are overlooking the constitution.

All of their "illegal" programs are duly authorized by executive orders and DOJ legal opinions and signed off on by the intelligence committees.

You or me may view those operations as illegal but they are following orders given by democratically elected officials and signed off on by every level of the judiciary.

Ultimately I don't think it is productive to scapegoat the intelligence community for what is fundamentally a breakdown in the rule of law and democratic process. They are participants in that, but so is every voter, and every politician, not to mention all the corporations that happily do their work for them in exchange for money or favors and then lie about it.
Also everyone is welcome to review our code and to contribute to the codebase. It is an open source project. IIT-M incubated it but we want it to be community driven. FPGA based dev packages should be announced by jan , based on standard low cost FPGA boards. Dev parts based on ASIC parts will probably be announced 2nd quarter of next year assuming Feb/March tapeout.We would be glad to help other universities do their own tapeouts. One of the goals of Shakti is also to demystify the backend process.
You're implying that people are too stupid to know what they want so we have to prevent politicians from advertising to them because they'll be fooled. That's very arrogant. The idea of democracy is people get whatever they want - if they're stupid and get something bad, they'll learn their lesson next time. If they don't learn their lesson, they'll continue to suffer from their own personal choices. That's freedom - you don't have the right to dictate to somebody else what's best for them. They might value things that you don't value and are actually better off with what you think is a wrong choice.

I think this is a common attitude of democrats about Trump voters - nobody could be that stupid, so they must have been fooled by Russian interference or fake news or secret targeted ads. But actually they voted for what they wanted and are very happy now that they've got it. They're not going to get their coal mining jobs back, but that's not the point. The point is to give the middle finger to the "liberal elite" who seem to be oppressing them. That gives a genuine sense of satisfaction.
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But they also killed to icon in the address bar which made it easy to discover RSS feeds a long time ago.
>There's a reason almost all high end stuff is made in China as well (from Apple and Armani, to BMW parts).

Yeah, they're cheap. If you've ever worked with Chinese suppliers unless you give them a lot of crap they will send you parts where 10-20% aren't useable. They only pay attention to quality if there's a foreign company putting lots and lots of pressure on the factory to produce to their standards.

>China as a culture, has had extreme global masters for millennia, in painting, sculpture, woodwork, and tons of other arts.

Yes, but they lost them in the last century because of some movement, where they killed artists, intellectuals, etc... They still haven't recovered from this. If you kill a whole generation of intellectuals it will take probably a few more centuries to regain that culture they lost.
So when you raise taxes on the very wealthy, won’t the very wealthy just move to New Hampshire? What happens when you run out of very wealthy? I remember John Kerry has his yacht docked in a neighboring state because he wanted to avoid the high taxes. Why should the very wealthy pay for transportation if they rarely use it? Shouldn’t that be funded by riders?
It will also sometimes ban you completely (not even the CAPTCHA works, solving it just gets you another) for ~2h. I've triggered it manually, usually when trying very specific queries and multiple variations in quick succession and also going through to the "end" of the result pages.
Wrong title. These icons are not "free", they are merely "gratis with some strings attached".
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> Fewer and fewer grad students seem interested in learning it

Probably because it's not really fun languages to work in compared to newer things. I'd rather get paid a bit less and work with C# for example than get paid a lot more and being miserable. :)

And since it is a language that will probably die off sooner or later, it is not really a good investment since it will limit your job prospects if the bank you work for would ever change their financial system.
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If a cyclist didn't slow down / change course for a pedestrian on stanford campus, then yes, they are in the wrong, as a bike is a vehicle.