In my ongoing research, I have looked at the ways that non-volatile memory interacts with the CPU as a way to improve various computing tasks. You can look at previous work on setting up and executing benchmarks. Assessing the performance of such a system requires data to be shuttled between…

In my ongoing research, I have looked at the ways that non-volatile memory interacts with the CPU as a way to improve various computing tasks. You can look at previous work on setting up and executing benchmarks. (Part 1, Part 2) For standard processing, non-volatile memory is simply not going…

I’m in a book club and we have been reading a book called Post-Capitalist Desire by the late Mark Fisher. It is a critique of capitalism and neoliberalism through a series of recorded and transcribed lectures.

In 2013, now CEO Meredith Levien joined the New York Times. That was a year of major changes in the publishing industry. Buzzfeed was taking off, using clickbait to build a newsroom. Senator Cory Booker started a company called Waywire to enhance citizen journalism. But these changes came at the…

I am researching next-generation memory in computer architecturse. Part of that includes learning ways to simulate computer systems with non-volatile memory and part of that of course is reading existing literature on the topic. I recently read A Cycle-level Unified DRAM Cache Controller Model for 3DXPoint Memory Systems in gem5…

At the end of last year, I decided that this year I had to do improve my productivity. I had so many ideas of things to do, yet my to-dos were scattered across a bunch of different apps and services. That had to be fixed first. …

I moved to New York City a little over four years ago. I moved from Mountain View, another place where rent is absurdly high. Somehow I wound up paying less money for an apartment in New York than California. Yet with the cost of rent skyrocketing across the country, it’s…

Running Whetstone The Whetstone benchmark is a tool used for evaluating the peformance of floating point numbers in a CPU. It was originally written in 1972 although modern versions can be found today. I found a version of this on Netlib which appears to be an archive of computer science-related academic material. …

Why am I doing this? Well, several years ago I created my own website for recipes. This was fun but I recently returned to it. I purchased an air fryer and wanted to document the things I’ve air-fried like air-fried ravioli. Recently, as I’ve been getting into building PWAs, I…