I learned that sometimes a female skunk will have babies under your shed, and then die. Fun times.

Snake hunting packs... racoon hunting packs... waaf

For a while (long time ago) we had a family of raccoons who would come by every night to eat the leftover cat food our outdoor cats had. You could just hand them a piece of cat food (though most of the time we chased them off).

kc man finds his doppelganger, released from prison after 18 years

this gets my blood boiling

A take that it was Gawker that ultimately is the source for taking Cosby down. Mostly I like it because of the idea of the accumulated circle of people willing to say things.

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/3337...ca-bill-cosby/

I blame Nader ofc. He wrote "Only the Super Rich can Save Us" imagining a world where Cosby and Donahue, etc... pooled their resources are brought about real change. It's like he made a hitlist for the Massive Right-Wing Conspiracy!

lol uber

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/06/u...&utm_medium=s1

I don't know, Travis sounds like he would be a pretty cool guy to work for.

von-Neumann architecture processors, the design of which has been around since 1945 and is basically in every device with a CPU today I think, are getting replaced in big data projects by a new HIVE processor. Intel and Qualcomm are working with DARPA to create the new architecture

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...e-of-processor

Might be a slow pony, but I liked this.

Rack another one up in the Millennals column



https://twitter.com/VancouverSun/sta...75174765854720

It's from 2013, who cares?

Got a link for this mate?

Good find.

Pretty interesting, I am still trying to imagine what this architecture will look like and the exact problem it is trying to solve.

It feels like an expansion of the principles in the Harvard Architecture that are used in DSPs but there still isn't enough detail in that article to say.

http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2016...mount-everest/

Because leaking gov't information def isn't something that every generation in recorded history has engaged in. JFC, can we all just stop ****ting on Millennials for like maybe one week?

Apparently cartoon trump wears some sort of collared muscle shirt with no buttons under his suit.

I understood literally nothing from that article. Is there a version for people who are dumb?

He nailed the tie length for the red tie, but blew it for the other one.

Looks like Trump went super saiyan.

Lack of familiarity with CPU architectures does not make one dumb!

Sadly, any explanation would likely be incredibly boring to all but the nerdiest of computer enthusiasts

also, super sad to hear about Adam West's passing.

1966 Batman movie >>>>>>>> every other Batman thing.

I will attempt to translate.

So for starters, a "graph" has a particular meaning in computer science:

So basically it's a whole set of entities and set of relations or links between them. Huge amounts of data structured like this are increasingly common in Big Data - think about a social network, for instance, people linked together in very complex ways.

Most computer processors right now use what is called Von Neumann architecture. This has a processing unit which fetches both data and instructions from a memory store. The conduit between the processor and memory is called a "bus". The CPU has to fetch instructions and then data sequentially, which creates a problem called the "Von Neumann bottleneck":

Bolded will be important in a sec. So, there are a number of ways that have been tried to mitigate the Von Neumann bottleneck. One thing you can do is try to be predictive about what the CPU will want next. So if the CPU requests data in memory location 1, then memory location 2, then memory location 3, then you can pre-fetch memory location 4, under the assumption that that's often what the CPU will want next.

So what problems are the absolute worst for the Von Neumann bottleneck? Per bolded above, when the CPU needs to perform "minimal processing on large amounts of data", which describes traversing a graph. Things are even worse when the nodes of the graph are distributed randomly and unpredictably through memory; or "sparsely" in the jargon.

Knowing all this, you should now be able to read and understand this:

How exactly that works, I don't know. It's more about the possible paradigm shift away from tried and true Von Neumann architecture, and the possible applications. From another article:

You can see the potential.