Vector Floating-Point Unit (VFPU) - XiangShan Design Document

RISC-V - From a computational, geopolitical perspective. * THIS IS HOW "WE" LOOSE * The TOP RISC-V, open-source CPU is from China. Giving Intel (and others) more 'free money' does not fix this. XiangShan - https://xiangshan.cc - Code - https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan - Post x86 platform of choice. All the lobbying, subsidies, pr and marketing in the world doesn't improve the current path of BFC {better, cheaper, faster}. #riscv #cpu #corewars #opensourcer #xiangshan #georgehotz
香山 XiangShan

Chinese President #Xi Jinping could meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr #Zelenskiy next month, a former Ukrainian official said in #Beijing on Thursday at the opening of #China's biggest annual military diplomacy event.

Oleksandr #Chalyi, a former deputy foreign minister, told one of the opening sessions of the #Xiangshan Forum that diplomacy with Beijing had improved, and a meeting was now possible.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/beijing-kicks-off-annual-defence-forum-amid-multiple-regional-disputes-2024-09-12/

#Ukraine #Russia

My old friend, the 忍字碑 on Xiangshan, above Taipei’s Xinyi District.

忍 / ren means “to persevere” - a very fitting character to encounter carved into a rock up a mountain.

I first met the rock in 1990. I first took this photo in 1994. And now I’ve taken it again, thirty years later, at the end of April.

I’ll see if I can find the 1994 photo. It sat on my desk at work in Australia for many years.

#taiwan #taipei #xiangshan #台灣 #台北 #象山

Determination
(Elephant Mountain Exercises, 7/7)

Another favorite, re-posted in black and white.

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Flow
(Elephant Mountain Exercises, 6/7)

Not directly on Xiangshan Mountain, but rather in the park below it of the same name, you can meet many more Taiwanese doing their morning exercise routine. This group is doing Qigong.

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So Many Steps
(Elephant Mountain Exercises, 5/7)

Of course, just climbing the hill is a form of exercise on its own...

(Reposting an older photo in black and white. I kind of get the hang of it!)

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Don't lose the ball
(Elephant Mountain Exercises, 4/7)

Finding badminton courts tucked into the slopes of the hill was probably what surprised me most. They are not necessarily in the best condition, but still celebrated by the mountain athletes. You usually meet groups of older Taiwanese very very early in the morning.

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The mountain gym
(Elephant Mountain Exercises, 3/7)

Among my favorite places on Xiangshan (next to the lookouts) is this Mountain Gym, a bunch of makeshift weights and steel bars, of course once more "hidden" just some 30 meters behind the "elephant rocks" where most tourists stop their journey. It's usually a crowded place, of an easy-going and encouraging atmosphere. The men and women coming here know each other, and they are not trying to one-up each other in the size of their biceps but to stay healthy. And healthy they are!

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