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by LarsDu88 1y ago
EDIT: I should have read the paper more thoroughly and been more kind. On page 59, they mention there will be a source and code release. Thank you Deepmind :)
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Thank you for this. I did not notice this at the end of the paper.
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The predecessor to this model Enformer, which was developed in collaboration with Calico had a weight release and a source release. The precedent I'm going with is specifically in the gene regulatory realm. Furthermore, a weight releas
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You know the corporate screws are coming down hard, when the model (which can be run off a single A100) doesn't get a code release or a weight release, but instead sits behind an API, and the authors say fuck it and copy-paste the enti
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
By limiting your definition of GPU to what currently exists, your sandboxing the possibilities of what a GPU can be.
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Maybe this should be titled "Basic Facts about Nvidia GPUs" as the WARP terminology is a feature of modern Nvidia GPUs. Again, I emphasize "modern" An NVIDIA GPU from circa 2003 is completely different and has baked in c
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Apple was a garage operation whereas Tandy was an actual corporation at the time. What Apple was able to pull off was far more impressive at the time on top of having a better product.
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
The subsidy is blatantly obvious when you compare the cost of self-hosting versus subscription, and the subscription is dramatically dramatically cheaper. The difference between Blue Apron and many AI tools is that the value add does exist.
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Apparently the Ycombinator equivalents of early microcomputer startups were leather hobbyist stores!
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One of my favorite bits of tech trivia is the story of Tandy's pivot from being a leathergoods store to selling some of the first home "microcomputers" simply because microcomputing overlapped as a hobbyist activity in it&#x2
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Von Braun went from burning through Jewish slave labor to build super weapons to Hitler to hosting TV specials on space travel with Walt Disney in Orlando Florida. Are we going to see the reverse progression with Elon?
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Very few companies have CEOs that actually have the voting shares to run their own company to the ground to buy it privately. Wojcicki was actually able to stand against the rest of the board to bring this company down to bankruptcy level b
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
But of course by then the 19 in flight space probes would have floated into the abyss of space costing even more money to redo those project from scratch...
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I live in Silicon Valley, and one thing I noticed while house hunting is that the entire Google Campus, including the entire early campus sits atop a superfund site due to groundwater contamination from solvent tank leaks from early chip ma
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
You think Harvard is a vocational school? Or Columbia, or Stanford, or Princeton for that matter? You think parents like to shell out money presuming their kids are "mediocre"? The elite schools are still elite schools. They just
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
When America was founded, universities were basically Bible colleges. With the enlightenment, came enlightenment values. During this time, study of Greek and Latin were practically standard. With the coming of industrialization, many adopt
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Gemini 2.5 TTS client integration for the Unity game engine so indie games can generate dialogue directly in the editor (and perhaps live games, eventually)
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Adding to this, the nice thing about the bsp partitioning was you could also leverage it to make off screen monsters go to sleep or reduce their tick rate. Was helpful for optimizing AI as well as rendering. DOOM not only had some of the fi
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
I'm misremembering Rayman for the Sega Dreamcast. Looking at wikipedia, I now see that there weren't many games in 1995 even on the new consoles that really leveraged the 3d hardware. The PC actually had more such games despite ma
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
In the ending of the original game, you kill the demon spider brain robot thing and the demons kill your bunny rabbit. That's the plot
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I guess the thing about rapid change is... it's hard to imagine what kind of games would exist in a DOOMless world in an alternate 1995. The first 3d console games started to come out that year, like Rayman. Star Wars Dark Forces with
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
The thing about Carmack in the 90s... There was a lot of research going on around 3d graphics. Companies like SGI and Pixar were building specialized workstations for doing vector operations for 3d rendering. 3d was a thing. Game consoles w
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by LarsDu88 1y ago
Blogpost from one of the authors of the first major discrete text diffusion model from last year
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Discrete Text Diffusion Explained(aaronlou.com)
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
This is a little bit silly. Intel and Andy Grove INVENTED OKRs. I think the problem in recent years, Intel started using them incorrectly... basically to determine comp (leading to rampant sandbagging), when in fact they are primarily to se
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
Fantastic model. I'm going to write a Unity plugin for this. Have been using ElevenLabs for my VR game side project, but this appears to be better
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John Carmack and John Romero also developed the original Doom on NeXT
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The problem with Unity is not their marketshare of game developers (which they have in spades), but rather their market share of ads which they completely missed out on. Game developers don't bring nearly as much revenue as ad serving,
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This guy is blunt... but he's correct. This company focused all it's effort in reinventing the part of multi-player games that did not need reinventing. 40 engineers for 5 years. I'm guessing at least 20 million dollars spent
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by LarsDu88 2y ago
A server DB monolith that explicitly doesn't scale? You put some of your game logic on the server and some on the client with no clear dividing line? When PoE2 uses PostGres and Eve Online uses SQLServer? Also doesn't tackle the

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