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🧧 Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
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Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs
Slow but bona fide made in China

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10025 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

I3: Intent-Introspective Retrieval Conditioned on Instructions
Recent studies indicate that dense retrieval models struggle to perform well on a wide variety of retrieval tasks that lack dedicated training data, as different retrieval tasks often entail distinct search intents. To address this challenge, in this work we leverage instructions to flexibly describe retrieval intents and introduce I3, a unified retrieval system that performs Intent-Introspective retrieval across various tasks, conditioned on Instructions without any task-specific training. I3 …

Watched Gamers Nexus' benchmark review of #DragonsDogma2 and damn. No wonder the game is getting destroyed in reviews. Literally every CPU ends up being a bottleneck as soon as you hit any cluster of NPCs, which explains why the 1% and .1% FPS lows are so consistent down the chart. If you look at most performance HUDs, they wouldn't show a CPU bind, but PresentMon has added new …

Anybody have any docs or performance figures for how much CPU is "enough" for routing/firewalling a given amount of bandwidth?
My current core router (Debian box with an i3-4160 and a dual 10G NIC plus some 1G interfaces) is getting long in the tooth and doesn't have enough PCIe lanes to add all the stuff I want, so I'm planning its retirement some time later this year.
I'm targeting ~10 year lifetimes for new builds at this point, so it needs to have the oo…

The songs on the 1987 animated movie The Chipmunk Adventure really have no business being so good! “Off To See The World”, “The Girls of Rock ’n Roll”, “Diamond Dolls”, “My Mother”, and “Chipmunk Adventure Theme” are just some of the songs that I really enjoy and give a hit of childhood nostalgia.
https://youtu.be/i3-62AAOISw

There is no mention of the ugly duckling i3 or the fact many people think the new BMW models have hideously ugly “faces”

Maiyunda M1 Alder Lake-N mini PC comes with four quick-release M.2 NVMe SSD slots, four 2.5GbE ports https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/04/09/maiyunda-m1-alder-lake-n-mini-pc-four-m-2-nvme-ssd-slots-four-2-5gbe-ports/

#enshittification
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