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“Truth in Media” 
“The Game of Life”
By Scott Hamilton I made an interesting discovery over the weekend while playing a board game with my grandchildren. It...
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Part 12. Vector Processor by Seymour Cray
content by Xing Chen In part 1 of this series, “the glorious X86”, I voluntarily removed vector processor from the...
“Self-healing concrete”
By Scott Hamilton I came across one of the most interesting ancient technologies so far last week. Scientists at Michigan...
Speaking Their Language: How IT Professionals Can Bridge the Gap with Non-Technical Stakeholders
The brilliance of your technical achievements can be lost if you can’t effectively communicate them to non-technical stakeholders. In a...
Part 11. Revisit of the HPLinpack benchmark
content by Xing Chen The HPLinpack benchmark for Top500 list, introduced by Jack Dongarra, generates a random n by n dense linear system of...
“The Forever Battery”
By Scott Hamilton I am always reading about new technologies and the one that caught my eye this week was...
“Electronic Waste”
By Scott Hamilton I have known for years that the giants in the software industry were in a profit sharing...
Part 10. Attention: The Floating-Point!
content by Xing Chen Suppose a bank was using the IEEE 754 Single Precision (32-bit) Floating-Point number to do their...
Part 9. CPU SIMD Extension for All (ARM & POWER)
content by Xing Chen ARM CPU also developed its own SIMD extension, called SVE, short for Scalable Vector Extension, here...
“Hallucinations”
By Scott Hamilton I have been using Microsoft’s Co-pilot for the last several months to help me with generating quizzes...