This Week I Learned (Week of 21 February)
Intel had this thing called the f-div bug. The upshot of this was that Boyer and Moore were asked by AMD to prove that their processor worked as advertised. AMD uses the ACL solver and Intel uses something similar to do theirs. The ACL solver is described in detail here (I haven’t read this yet): [...]
I Learned
I have a new goal – to get smarter by accumulating more knowledge every week. It goes without saying that the knowledge should be something I actively seek out and not given to me (in the form of coursework and so on). I will try to learn stuff as we go along. The idea of [...]