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Why Giordano Bruno’s final trial was different
Renaissance justice often ran on patronage, which helps explain why Bruno survived earlier trials before the Inquisition finally executed him in 1600
@dwarkesh_sp on Backlist
4 appearances on the backlist front page in the last 30 days.
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Targeted on-policy self-distillation, explained from an iPhone recording (x.com)
Hint tokens inserted at the exact failure point let a model learn from a bad rollout without regenerating the whole trajectory
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How did Tensor Cores massively increase the throughput of Nvidia chips? (x.com)
How did Tensor Cores massively increase the throughput of Nvidia chips? @reinerpope explains the fundamental idea, systolic arrays:
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How chips work, from logic gates to GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and brains (x.com)
The lecture connects primitive digital circuits to modern accelerator architectures and the tradeoffs that make each compute substrate different