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…[2] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/2024/09/bitgrid-and-isolinear-m... [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [4] https://github.com/mikewarot/bitgrid-react-app [5] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/

comment by mikewarot · 2024-12-27 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (December 2024)?

bitgrid is cool! https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by timthelion · 2024-12-23 · in Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?

…me focused. Replacing everything is hard. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Improvements [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-11-19 · in Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

…it with LLVM, if you're feeling frisky. [1] https://mikewarot.github.io/bitgrid-react-app/ [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/bitgrid-react-app [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [4] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [5]…

comment by mikewarot · 2024-11-12 · in The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture

…or rule-set. It's that one "simplification" that relegates them to the domain of code golf. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_cellular_automaton [3]…

comment by mikewarot · 2024-11-08 · in Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language

…make high performance chips on any fab node. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-09-23 · in Tinygrad will be the next Linux and LLVM

…not. Someone could make billions off of this, or not. I just want to see one actualized. 8) Links: https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/

comment by mikewarot · 2024-09-06 · in Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate (thread) – 5 Sep 2024

…this could scale to PetaFlops quite cheaply (a few runs through TinyTapeOut then scaling up) [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [2] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html [3] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-08-27 · in Ask HN: Share your idea that you feel would never be picked by YC?

…100 lines all told with niceties.[4] [1] https://mikewarot.github.io/Bitgrid_C/bitgrid_sim.html [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [3] https://tinytapeout.com/ [4] https://github.com/mikewarot/RateMyPhotos

comment by mikewarot · 2024-08-25 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

…Actually performant, and possibly crazy enough to work [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid And my latest attempt at things, because Pascal isn't popular enough, includes C and a Web emulator [3]…

comment by mikewarot · 2024-08-13 · in What you learn by making a new programming language

…https://mnemocron.github.io/2023-12-08-DIY-FPGA-diary-1/ [2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [4] https://hackaday.com/2012/11/01/discrete-fpga-will-probably-... [5]…

comment by mikewarot · 2024-08-03 · in An FPGA built with 7400 series logic [video]

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Ask HN: How do I program a BitGrid?

story by mikewarot · 2024-07-27 · 7 comments

…architecture once you really dig into it. Description https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid Emulator https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-07-26 · in Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?

…Maybe if I implement it as a blueprint in Factorio? [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-07-24 · in Ask HN: How do you predict the AI will evolve in 2, 5, and 10 years?

…I can tell, the only problems are my own writers block. [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-07-21 · in Ask HN: What business would you start in 2025?

…of even a Raspberry Pi pico, if you have enough of them. [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-07-15 · in Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

…grids, the edge connections would dominate the outcome. [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-05-23 · in BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)

…the colors of a chessboard. [1] https://www.gnuradio.org/ [2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-05-22 · in Ask HN: What's an interesting, esoteric programming field?

…vastly reducing the power requirements. So... yea, faster Mandelbrots, but for way less power? [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-03-31 · in If you had no concern about market fit and funding, what would you work on?

…through chips that could crank out Petaflops. Here's a simulator for the thing, written in Pascal. https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2024-03-30 · in Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models

…[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [4] https://memgpt.ai/

comment by mikewarot · 2024-03-26 · in Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?

…quick and easy gigabyte string handling. For now, however, it remains in C, OLD C, apparently. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical

comment by mikewarot · 2024-02-27 · in Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

…up as an Esoteric Language: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid Here's an emulator written in Pascal: https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid I think the best approach is for both of us to try to get our ideas in the next Google open source…

comment by mikewarot · 2024-01-07 · in Ask HN: Let's generate some startup ideas in 2024

…myself back into perpetual analysis paralysis. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/GearFinder [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-12-14 · in Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

…a nice elegant alternative architecture. I'm quite surprised nobody actually tried it earlier. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid * I give 50/50 odds I'm a crackpot on this one... I'd really like to know for sure which way that coin…

comment by mikewarot · 2023-12-06 · in Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

…I hope to be done before it starts again next December. ;-) [1] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/ [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-12-05 · in Ask HN: Why is it taken for granted that LLM models will keep improving?

…(a project stuck in Analysis paralysis forever) with Advent of Code, excitement guaranteed![2] [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Advent_of_Code_in_BitGrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-12-02 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2023)

…undefined behavior or timing issues. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Advent_of_Code_in_Pascal [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [3] https://github.com/mikewarot/Advent_of_Code_in_BitGrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-12-02 · in Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

…a virtual wall around a function and control all access. [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-12-02 · in Ask HN: What's your big goal? What are you working towards?

…Here's my github repository where I have an emulator written in Pascal https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid Here's a writeup on the idea, from a computing language perspective, on the esoteric languages wiki https://esolangs.org/

comment by mikewarot · 2023-11-07 · in Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

…in the browser.... lemme see how bad it is making this happen. It'll take a few days, I think. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-10-30 · in Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

…do an Exaflop on a cheap chip? (<$10 in quantity) [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [3] https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gilder-4/

comment by mikewarot · 2023-10-29 · in Ask HN: Why haven't you started your startup?

…IT Admin job too long that crushed it out of me. [1] https://efabless.com/open_shuttle_program [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-10-22 · in 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

…I've got to write the actual software that can generate binaries for it, and the eventual chip. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-10-14 · in Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

…It's all a questiron of programming. (Which is where I'm stuck right now, analysis paralysis) [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-10-14 · in Ask HN: Is anyone working on neuromorphic CPU architectures for AI?

…real world power consumption/feasibility of this thing. I can't find a good answer anywhere. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [2] https://bitgrid.blogspot.com/2005/03/bitgrid-story.html

comment by mikewarot · 2023-08-17 · in Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

…optimizations. At present, I can simulate that 1024x1024 grid at about 37 Hz on my desktop.[1] [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-08-07 · in Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully programmable computer?

…is a ton of horsepower. And it should only be a bit bigger than a 2 megabyte Static RAM [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid/blob/master/WhyBitGrid....

comment by mikewarot · 2023-08-06 · in Ask HN: What projects are trying to reinvent core software infrastructure?

…of performance out of it, but it's not a CPU based system, so no software will port to it. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-08-03 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2023)

…before/after the instruction, so I can see what it does? [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-06-30 · in Dynamic bit shuffle using AVX-512

…require a whole new programming paradigm. [1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid#Game_of_Life [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-06-20 · in Conway's FPGA game of logical life with Neural Nets

…on BitGrid chips. I wrote a big chunk of a DARPA grant proposal for it about a decade ago. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid [2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

comment by mikewarot · 2023-06-17 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?