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Jan Gray
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Kilocore RISC-V FPGA accelerators; former Microsoft dev tools architect; Vice-chair RISC-V SoftCPU SIG & Composable Custom Extensions Task Group; blog: https://fpga.org. Cyclist. Let's try kindness. 🇨🇦-🇺🇸
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Needs a chrome teapotahedron
February 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Can’t “like” this enough times.
February 2, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Wow. Amazing story. If the same blizzard, I remember slogging in through snowdrifts from Beechwood (much shorter slog than your odyssey) purely for the fun of it. IIRC MathSoc C&D had beaucoup unsold doughnaughts — free, all you could eat.
January 26, 2026 at 6:32 PM
*Release 1.0 sorry
January 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Yours truly on the wonderful Microsoft Library from the 1988 Microsoft campus recruiting brochure.

Here I was referring to MS Library staples like Esther Dyson’s Release 2.0 and (later) Michael Slater’s Microprocessor Report.

I still have my 5 volumes of Inside Macintosh “permanently on loan”.
January 19, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Yours truly on the wonderful Microsoft Library from the 1988 Microsoft campus recruiting brochure.

Here I was referring to MS Library staples like Esther Dyson’s Release 2.0 and (later) Michael Slater’s Microprocessor Report.

I still have my 5 volumes of Inside Macintosh “permanently on loan”.
January 19, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Reposted by Jan Gray
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"SmartBlock: Adaptive Block Floating Point Quantization for Efficient DNN Acceleration", NUDT, ICPP 2025, Sep 9 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Systolic Array: Unified PE Arch
Block Size: Dynamic

Google (P: Apr 2024) bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
Systolic Array
Block Data
Structured Fine-Grained Sparse
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
… and somewhere in that it dawned on everybody in the Apollo that we were about to see the whole Ninth Wave performed and visualized! What an amazing experience.
January 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Pilgrimage to London for the Before the Dawn show. Began concert like, seven songs ending with King of the Mountain and a sonic tempest.

Then … a little scene about an astronomer calling in a distress signal … and a film of Kate floating lost at sea singing And Dream of Sheep. …
January 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM