[COFF] Re: AI and spin locks

On Nov 27, 2024, at 4:41 PM, Warren Toomey via COFF <coff(a)tuhs.org> wrote: I was just trying to find out if there was a way of uploading the TUHS mailing list as a corpus of text into a LLM so that I could ask questions based on the knowledge contained therein. I'm not having much luck yet. Anyway, while messing around with things I asked a simple question and got this answer: What is a spin lock? A spin lock, also known as a spinning lock or spinning lock mechanism, is a type of mechanical locking device used to secure and protect sensitive electronic components, such as microprocessors, memory chips, and other high-value devices. Here's how it worked: when a CPU instruction was executed and the necessary data was stored in registers, the CPU would "lock" the registers by spinning them around to prevent other instructions from accessing them. Those poor registers must get dizzy with all the spinning that they have to endure :-) Cheers, Warren P.S. If anybody has ideas on how to usefully import the TUHS mailing list into a LLM, let me/us know.