I really should be following Joe's advice circa 2008 and just not responding, but I can't help myself.
On 01/12/2012 11:45 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > The biggest problem for this list: > 1) The lack of postings by RGB past few months, especially the ones > where he explains how easy > it is to build a nuke, given the right ingredients, which gives > interesting discussions. The last post from RGB was a long, long discussion about how very wrong you were about RNGs. You just don't get it. It's okay to be wrong once in a while Vincent, and even moreso to just agree to disagree. Foolish, unedited and inflammatory diatribes with a unnatural dose of newlines are what is killing this list and what that blog I referenced was specifically disappointed with. So please, I'm begging you. Stop writing huge emails that trail off from their original point. Try to say things in a non-inflammatory manner. Use spell-check, and try to read your emails once before sending them. And last of all, remember that there are many people on this list that have all sorts of different applications -- not just Chess. Your experience does not generalize well to all areas. Speaking of which, for anyone who is interested in doing serious work with low-power processors, please see a paper named FAWN for an excellent example of use-cases where low hertz low power processors can do some great work. It's by Dave Anderson of CMU. I was lucky enough to be invited to the CMU PDL retreat a few months back and had a nice conversation about the project when we went for a run together. There are some use-cases that benefit massively from that kind of architecture. Best, ellis _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
