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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!

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On 9/1/2011 6:39 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:

>> Recording the design rationales, rejected alternatives, etc., is what I
>> am trying to do with comp-arch.net.  Slowly. Very slowly. Proprietary
>> FUD always gets in the way,
>
> I understood that :-).
>
>> usually due to self-censorship (e.g. I won't
>> post this now, because that would give you a clue as to what I am
>> working on. Even though everything is public domain.)
>
> Which is why I asked that you put it somewhere, some time, so your
> work doesn't get "lost" if you ever stop working.  I don't know,
> nor have any suggestion, w.r.t. how you do this.  It's real tricky.
> There are lots of things I didn't get preserved because of similar
> reasons.  There are times I wish I had broken security policies
> but it just wasn't possible back then.

You should be able to seee that putting stuff on Bitsavers doesn't save 
the sensitivity problem.

In my copious spare time I am rewriting the wiki software to have a 
delayed publication model: I write stuff that is public but sensitive 
because of time, and arrange for it to get published later.   A year 
later, three years later, randomized, all subject to the appropriate NDA.

In the meantime, I write it up, put it in my private area, and try to 
remember to move it to the public area after enough time has gone by.


>> Are you against wikis overall, or just wikipedia?
>
> Anything which allows assholes to destory knowledge and/or
> productivity.

Then you are not against wikis. Just wikipedia.

Wiki/hypertext make it easier to create knowledge.  Hypertext makes it 
easy to see links;  IMHO the biggest thing Ward Cunningham invented with 
wiki was a way of creating links to stuff that hasn't been written yet, 
making it easier to create hypertext.   The multiuser aspect if wiki is 
just icing on the cake.  I have a number of single user wikis (more than 
one of them because of security issues, usually; if wikis had good 
security, I might need only one).

By the way: at both Intel and AMD, considerable computer architecture 
knowledge is created and managed using wikis.   One of the best things I 
did for AMD was introduce them to wikis.

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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-30 13:32 +0000
  Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-30 07:02 -0700
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2011-08-30 17:09 +0200
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-31 13:21 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-31 07:55 -0700
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:24 +1000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-09-01 08:28 -0700
            Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-02 13:44 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 04:30 +1000
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:26 +1000

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