LarsDu88

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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Funny thing is, the circuit board on the Neo is barely smaller than that of the lowest end iPhone. The only remaining big cost item swappable item at that point is the display. The benefits of modularity begin to get outweighed by the costs
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
The MacBook Neo is just the response to the question of "what do we do with all these binned iPhone chips without making yet another even lower cost iPhone?" It's literally recycling Apple's garbage.
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
What Framework is trying to do feels like something that would've made more sense 10 years ago. And the reason for that is b/c of Moore's Law approaching its end. The way to manufacture more efficient compute now is do things
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
This is a fallacy. OpenAI and Anthropic would not continue to make money indefinitely by simply sitting still for the simple fact that their models can easily be distilled by competitors. Their value is contingent on sitting at the top of t
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Aw fuck why did it have to be my alma mater. Posting here before this politicized content gets autoremoved.
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
The poetry caret operator is pure cancer from someone who has seen firsthand how it leads to mindless ceiling pinning deps. To take that as good ui is not a good take.
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Well if it makes you feel better those frontier LLMs are all technically taking a big loss, and they may all be in your shoes after a few years.
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
TurboQuant reduces the runtime memory needed for the model's KV cache. This reduces both the memory bandwidth needed for inference (at the cost of slightly increasing the amount of compute needed), and the amount of VRAM used overall,
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. I guess I'll have to buy shares in case I need to pay for my Sun subscription. Perhaps the plan all along was to build enough rockets to blot out the sun over large parts of the Earth so only
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
TurboQuant. They can fit more in less now
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
With these kind of made up numbers, they might as well have simply used the fucking Kardeshev scale. Just compute the energy output of the Sun and claim they'll build a Dyson sphere around it. Can charge a nice hefty subscription fee f
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Wow! 3 years is an eternity at this level.
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Coincidentally using HTML rather than markdown uses waaaaaay more tokens. Oh hey look at this blogpost by the company that's selling compute by the token
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Look up DOOM Esp32 for numerous examples of doom running on a $2 microcontroller. Also see this article on the types of arm cortex chips actually found in a disposable vape pen: https://blog.jgc.org/2026/01/theres-
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
I would argue that Gates, Buffet, Mackenzie, and (yes) Zuckerberg do actually have philanthropic foundations setup that will outlast their mortal lives. Chan-Zuckerberg Institute + Biohub, Gates Foundation, giving pledge... Gates at least w
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Frogger is kind of too well known such that there is ample training data for building that specific game. The game I was thinking of is relatively obscure -> Panel de Pon
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Never said it would trickle down. Just that the economy wouldnt collapse
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
My goal post for "AI will definitely replace most SWEs" was to reproduce a particular 90s programming game one shot and then add multiplayer support with minimal prompting. Opus 4.5 hit that point in November.
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Could you elaborate on some of these load bearing asumptions? Maybe your thinking that underneath the corporate SAS economy, theres a giant sea of consumer spending that props it all up. That might be reasonable, but remember that in this f
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
You jest, but the wonderful thing is billionaires are mortal. The known anti-semite and Hitler admirer Henry Ford's chartiable foundation added DEI to its mandate in 2021. Andrew Carnegie, an infamous monopolist and strike crusher...hi
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
I think people's imaginations are overfitting on current reality or the past 20 years where people's vision of technology is something like Facebook (a multibillion dollar college yearbook app) or Netflix (TV, but on the internet)
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but here goes... The rise of AI does not mean that everyone will lose their jobs and the economy will collapse. That is an utter fallacy. It's important to ask two questions: - What happens to
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Did you not read the article at all? He had to do this in 2021, well before such GPT apps existed.
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
It's extremely verifiable. The reinforcement finetuning strategy I'm referring to involves LLM creating coding tasks with an expected output, implementing the code, and then having a compiler (or interpreter in the case of languag
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
And this is an asic that is still operating digitally. Imagine a chip with baked it weights that does its math analogue with 20x reduction in number of circuit elements needed to do a multiplication op. If there's a breakthrough in mem
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
I disagree with this. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards training is actually the secret sauce that is leading Claude and GPT to automating software engineering tasks. All the easily verifiable domains such as mathematics, codin
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
I think an interesting thing about recent AI developments is that its all happening right as we hit the diminishing returns side of another "exponential that's actually a sigmoid" which is Moore's law. The naive expectat
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Thats exactly what i did with https://panel-panic.com
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by LarsDu88 5mo ago
Would be a wonderful site for people to find places to have private movie sex, but then I remembered that this is HackerNews
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by LarsDu88 6mo ago
When I was a kid, I saw an interview with him on 60 minutes. He talked about how he had dropped out of college after letting go of his dreams of being an olympic swimmer. He then served as a medic in Vietnam, and tried to commit suicide by

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