[Feb 16 2025]

  fpga-accelerated alu, that recognizes common instruction combinations/sequences e.g. "add,mul,sub"
  at runtime and fuses these operations into one if possible.
  there would still be a regular alu but for some combinations we could use the fpga.
  we might need something like a fast instruction buffer before the pipeline through,
  the pattern matcher would work on that buffer.

  could be pretty dumb and counterproductive,
  this just came to my mind thinking about learned optimization on a hardware level


[Feb 18 2025]

  i propose that almost all problems that the world is facing today can be solved by advancing
  scientific research.
  i also propose that the fields of science, whether advanced through academia or industry,
  are interconnected and rely on one another. e.g. medicine as a whole and pharmacology in specific
  are interlinked and progress in one will lead to progress on the other. some fields have more
  unidirectional relationships - e.g. computer science is more or less upstream of aviation
  (enables things like cfd), and lithography is upstream of computer science. some fields are
  upstream of many other fields. i believe that in order to most effectively progress human
  development, we should put more effort into pushing the fields that are furthest upstream.
  in a simplified world, this is some sort of flow optimization problem on a directed graph,
  where the weights correspond to the dependencies of research areas on one another.


[Feb 19 2025]

  it's possible that, had chernobyl and fukushima never happened, and had the public opinion of
  nuclear energy therefore not been skewed, we would not be discussing climate change today.