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by misprit7 1082 days ago
Hey I'm the one who made this, if anyone is interested in the specifics I'm happy to go into details!

Also as another comment indicates probably a better explanation of the project is the video I made about it: https://youtu.be/zXPiqk0-zDY

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This is a super impressive achievement.

- What would you say is your biggest learning from this experiment? - What were the Aha! moments you experienced while learning like this? For example, something you vaguely understood before but is now super clear to you.

I would say the RISC-V immediate encodings were like that, on first look they seemed completely random but as soon as I started implementing the decoder I realized they were geniusly crafted to make my life as easy as possible.
How much time you spent on this project?
With your future prospects, where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Writing advanced Excel macros to power PowerPoint presentations.

Duh.

With a bit of luck he could get an internship on an SRE team supporting ads data pipelines at Google.
Dual PhDs from Tom7 and James Mickens.
Staring at a screen for 40+ hours a week realizing everything digital is essentially worthless. I'm sure he'll make good money though.
> worthless

> money

There appears to be some fundamental misunderstanding here.

Not really, unless you're a complete dunce. Money can be obtained in various ways that don't require soul sucking work of letting your life slip away in computer chair staring at screens. Anyone with a decently average emotional IQ knows this.
I love it! Impressive use of 4 metal layers!