@polpo You have a red Sony HB100 in the corner, one of the most beautiful computers ever made! :D

I was featured in an article as an alumnus of @utwente

https://www.utwente.nl/en/stories/student/362520/from-student-to-integrated-circuit-design-engineer-i-design-chips-that-support-peoples-health/?tag=alumni&tag=career

Highly recommend it 👍

When ordering his book, I asked John Romero if he could sign it on a random page. It took a while because I was busy, but I finally found it 😁 Awesome book!
The only downside is that I can't put it down once I start reading haha.

@volkan Nooo, that can't be true. I've neeeeever said something like that... Nope, never...

:')

OK, so I just recently discovered BABYMETAL and they are doing a concert here in the Netherlands May 13th. Guess where I'm going? 😁

5 years ago: "It's Actually Science, Motherfuckers!"🔥

"Grow the fuck up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now" — Bill Nye

Last Week Tonight at 18m15s https://youtube.com/watch?v=JDcro7dPqpA&t=1095s

#ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels

I'm going to start a regular weekly stream about #opensource silicon. Topics will include design, verification, #fpga, openlane, formal, #tinytapeout, #ASIC bringup, chip validation.

If you're interested, please let me know what days / times work for you:

https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/elXD96ge

After 31 years, a mysterious version of #Doom 1993 has been uncovered!

Happy birthday, Doom! 🎉

(stay tuned for more on this 😎 )

I'm currently unemployed, mostly bedridden, and trying to find a new doctor who* is actually interested in treating me. It's a whole thing.

If you could donate a couple dollars, that'd really help me. Thanks so much.

* Not that one. A time machine is not required, though I wouldn't say no to one.
https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
#mutualaidreqest

Let's say you have an N×N-bit multiplier but you don't need all the bits of the result. You can generate a few extra bits (columns in the compressor tree) and faithfully round the result. But if you Booth encoded the multiplicand to half the rows in your circuit you end up with a multiplier where A×B ≠ B×A. That's hard to explain to a compiler, being commutative is important.

Lots of rounding strategies I never heard of - AND arrays, CCT, VCT, statistical predict, etc.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14069

@fatlimey Very interesting, I was doing something similar during the research of my first paper, but only for array multipliers and not Booth multipliers. Thanks for sharing!

https://twitter.com/HikaruTanaka_va/status/1825839477857947649

Rest in peace, Major Kusanagi 😢🫡

https://gamerant.com/atsuko-tanaka-voice-of-major-motoko-kusanagi-passes-away/

@trcwm Does it work with processors with a clock speed higher than ~75 MHz though? :D

@piggo @whitequark Maybe this type of spamming works so well that they receive so many responses that *they* have to select potential customers?

Besides, by not responding negatively, you could probably be on a list of potential customers in the future?

@whitequark Emotional damage!

If I would ever receive a reply like this, I would rethink my life :O

@whitequark Hey, you apparently have the strongest heart ever, so why not haha.

@whitequark As someone who worked on an ASIC for measuring ECGs, that is what I would call 'slightly more that a little too much' :D

Man, am I glad I run Linux on all of my machines...