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Re:Inferring the Future of FPGAs on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:02AM (#18164494)
It is interesting that one can write code (for which certain computational/logic structures are automatically inferred) describing hardware to run inference models, while inferring that such a piece of computing power will be useful to infer the future.
The funniest part is that people would lose their minds if this happened to a Picasso.
Alexa, play Despacito.
Re:Where in the World Is Denmark’s $2B? on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:16PM (#18153316)
Dang: typo. Should be "Where in the World Is Danmark's $2B?"
Humans literally are not good enough at biochemistry to have created Zika.
Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:10PM (#18153292)
> When this happens, the chip could short-circuit power lines

No chip design would ever do this. The chip would incinerate itself.

> superimpose a signal on the power-lines to notify the rest of the system

The rest of the system i.e. the BMC already know that something weird is up.

Re:Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:49PM (#18152342)
> the simplest action for a chip on the SPI bus would be to hold the MISO line low during power on

MISO is master-in, slave-out for anyone not familiar with serial peripheral interface jargon. Usually, the slave quad-SPI memory would send the configuration over this line, so pulling it low should dump the real data to ground.