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Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon
"Dark silicon is the fraction of chip that needs to be powered off at all times due to power constraints. ... Due to lack of high degree of parallelism and the severe degree of energy inefficiency in the transistor level ... In less than a decade from now, more than 50% of the chip may be dark. ... Moore’s Law that has effectively worked as a clock and enabled the computing industry to consistently provide new possibilities and periodically may stop or slow down significantly."
School Shut Down and Kids Hospitalized After 6th Grade Boys Spray Too Much Axe
Just to be clear, the closure was not due to the boys who applied the spray getting pursued by hordes of their female classmates.
Does Bacon Really Make Everything Better? Here's The Math
"Does bacon truly make everything better, as some cookbooks have boldly declared? When it comes to recipes online, the answer seems to be pretty much yes, according to a data-mining project from the folks at Wired.com. They teamed up with FoodNetwork.com to sift through 906,539 ratings on the cooking channel's website."
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels apologize after cutting off head of wrong person
Oops. It's a bit awkward when you get these confused.