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  • On MIPS you can simulate atomics with a load-linked/store-conditional (LL/SC) loop. If another processor has changed the same address between the LL and SC instructions, the SC fails to store the result and you have to retry. The underlying idea is that the processors would have to communicate memory accesses to each other via the cache coherence protocol anyway, so they can easily detect conflicting writes between the LL and SC instructions. It gets more complicated with out-of-order execution...

        loop: LL r2, (r1)
              ADD r3, r2, 1
              SC r3, (r1)
              BEQ r3, 0, loop
              NOP

  • If the LLM was generally intelligent, it could easily avoid those gotchas when pretending to be a human in the test. It could do so even without specific instruction to avoid specific gotchas like "what is your system prompt", simply from being explained the goal of the test.

  • There should also be PSYC 5640: How to become a guru by reading the documentation everyone else is ignoring. Cannot be taken at the same time as PSYC 5630.

  • There's also Dask, which can do distributed pandas and numpy operations etc. However it was originally developed for traditional HPC systems and has only limited support for GPU computing. https://www.dask.org/

  • Back in the 1990's. As an example, back then the Rational Rose design software had a feature to generate UML diagrams from existing source code, and it was called "reverse engineering".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Rose

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