Banana Castles, Frog Island, and Skinballs: Here Are Some of the Wacky Things Devs Do to Test Video Games

I put out a call on social media and through various PR contacts for QA professionals to share their most ridiculous game ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...
Hackaday

The Intel 8087 And Conditional Microcode Tests

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...