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Over the years, I have learned a lot about how CPUs execute code and what their internals look like because I have worked on projects such as the Linux kernel and ScyllaDB, which are close to metal. I’ve even played a bit with Verilog in a futile attempt to build my own RISC-V core.Unlike CPUs, GPUs have been mostly...

Every month or two, I get an email asking whether I could enable captions on my YouTube videos. I also get asked on Twitter, on Reddit, and even on the orange site. Unfortunately, every time I’m forced to give the same answer: I already have auto-captioning enabled on my videos, but for some reason YouTube sometimes...

[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year. Please enjoy our favorite work this year and we’ll see you in 2024.]One of the more fascinating aspects of large language models is their ability to improve their output thr...