Jan Gray

composable-custom-extensions/src/isa-state.adoc at main · riscv/composable-custom-extensions This task group will propose ISA extension(s) and non-ISA hardware and software interop interfaces to enable routine reuse and composition of a subcategory of custom extensions called composable ex...

Composable custom extensions work in progress:

We’ve started drafting another spec section for a new uniform (extension-agnostic) extension state context management extension.

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Cinema will find a way. 💕

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

Came here to write that.

Metroid Prime 4 cover art & snapshot of the game credits showing the Environment Art section.

Very proud to say at last that Metroid Prime 4 is here!

It was an honor to work with such a passionate and hard working team on a project so many have been looking forward to for such a long time. It really challenged me to learn and grow as an artist, and I'm forever grateful to be a part of it. 💜

“Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 10 pm
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After 6 pm children under 12 admitted only with an adult”

A third place for Torontonians, we hosted some amazing special exhibits shows in the Great Hall.

Map of Ontario Science Centre in its early years.

A bygone (?) safe place for generations of Toronto’s kids to explore and experience and learn and run wild all day long — especially so during a snowy winter break.

“Its ravine setting was deliberate and makes it a unique building in the province and relevant to its place in Toronto, the city of ravines.”
— Moriyama Teshima Architects

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Descending the escalators down to the Valley Building you knew you were in for some amazing exploring and fun.

An especially pretty ravine in the winter snow.

I can still hear the recorded birdsong.

Years later, working there, I found our exhibit labs were there in the back, behind secret doors.

My old colour matching exhibit from 1984 was ported to new hardware and (good? bad?) and was still going as of 2023.

A young woman has a long hair raising experience with the Ontario Science Centre Van de Graaff generator.

The wonders ceased.
@onsciencecentre.bsky.social
@saveosc.bsky.social

Worth it

Showcasing Canada’s riches, promise, & opportunity, by 2030 the Centre can be a must-visit attraction for every business visit to Toronto, and (more important) a STEM magnet, delighting convoys of schoolbuses full of Ontario’s kids, discovering hands-on what new careers await them.

The Centre staff would curate ever new interactive exhibits, created in partnership with companies large & small, & universities.

Admission free to the public.

Initially backstopped by the federal government, then self-sustaining, with exhibitors paying for their exhibits & share of space & staff.

So many great Canadian STEM careers and businesses were inspired at the Ontario Science Centre. 50 million visitors!

Ontario’s loss is Canada’s gain. Reimagine it as the Future of Canada Centre: a vast, immersive Expo Canada — a one stop showcase for our best new industries, products, ideas.

Highly recommended for those with “build my ASIC before I die” on their bucket list.

Great idea, @jangray.bsky.social !

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Happy Birthday from Seattle-ish

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"Numerics and AI", Paulius Micikevicius, GPU Mode, Nov 15, 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2N...
github.com/gpu-mode/lec...

Stochastic Rounding, Minisymp on Probabilistic Rounding, Sep 1 bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
Survey, Proc of the IEEE, Jun 26 bsky.app/profile/ogaw...
36 pp, 201 ref
MX+, MICRO25

If Ford gov’t doesn’t reopen @onsciencecentre.bsky.social pronto, it will never reopen.

2028, laying off the rest of the Science Centre staff, “I’m as disappointed as anyone,” fibbed the Minister of Infrastructure, reflecting on her 2024 decision to shutter an institution beloved of generations.

I was thinking of that movie with tap dancing guard! Thanks James

Is NVLink Fusion a response to Ultra Accelerator Link? Would it have happened sans UAL? 🤪

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Photo of Patrick Finnegan and colleague at the MOBATCH booth at SC’25 with a live VAX-11/780 and a board from a SiCortex parallel computer that I remember seeing at SC 2007 (?)

I was mentioning him 3 hours ago in this booth at SC — this VAX-11/780 was up and running 4.3BSD.
It’s mobat.ch/systems/vax7...

Microsoft Cobalt 200

- TSMC 3 nm
- two chiplets with custom HB interconnect
- 132 cores (Armv9.2), 66 per chiplet
- 3 MB private L2$
- 192 MB L3$
- 12 memory channels
- per core DVFS

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Hooray for bitblt, a.k.a. rasterop in some backward provinces.

You younguns don’t get it — but if all you knew was 24x80 character displays (*) or worse, bitblt was a long tall drink of water.

Color is fine but 80% of the advance came with the bilevel display.

(*) vector displays notwithstanding

Anyway, apologies if I’ve missed your FPGAs for HPAc thing. I suppose I’m just disappointed that (it seems) Xilinx and Altera stalwarts are not here anymore.

If you’re here with a cool FPGA accelerated solution by all means set me straight. Thank you.

But I was also told the machine’s sites/qubits come and go over time, you have to map the model to the working sites du jour, and the fine gadget can take months to calibrate.

Stepping in for FPGAs (in the role of exotic and challenging to use and also-ran to CPUs/GPUs) are a gaggle of quantum computing ventures. I did see one solve a simple Hamiltonian cycles / traveling salesman-esqe problem using Dwave QUBOs and Ising models / quantum annealing. Cool.