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by adwn 1y ago
> Weird guess. The guess probably stems from the number in your user name: 97.
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by adwn 1y ago
The "scoring process" is the generated code, which scores a page's relevance to the user's query . It has absolutely nothing to do with gathering runtime metrics about the generated code, nor with optimizing the perform
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by adwn 1y ago
The difference between Hotspot on one hand and Bing's use of NativeJIT on the other is that after code generation (the "formulates a custom expression" part), the code is immediately JIT-compiled to machine code , while Hots
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by adwn 1y ago
I started typing a reply to explain that "compiling at runtime" does not mean "having a warm-up phase before JIT-compilation", but this: > I cannot be convinced otherwise. made me think "why bother?". If y
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by adwn 1y ago
That's not "pedantism". Java+Hotspot are literally unfit for the task at hand.
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by adwn 1y ago
> Are you saying that Java doesn't do what the article describes? That's right, Java doesn't do what the NativeJIT library does: Hotspot starts in an interpreted mode and only later JIT-compiles frequently executed code;
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by adwn 1y ago
Doesn't Hotspot have notoriously long warm-up times? Have those been exaggerated, or have they recently improved? If you know beforehand that you'll execute some piece of code many times, the most efficient approach is to JIT-comp
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by adwn 1y ago
In addition, renting a large car for a few days is really expensive. If you have to do this 5-10 times a year, over 10 years of ownership, I'm not so sure that buying small and renting large make sense financially. Not to mention the i
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by adwn 1y ago
> It really sounds like a job for Java Why?
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by adwn 1y ago
It might be almost inconceivable for many Americans, but the daily lives of people in other countries doesn't revolve exclusively around America's internal politics…
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by adwn 1y ago
> EXO Labs showed otherwise by getting a 300K-parameter LLM to run on a Pentium II with only 128 MB of RAM at about 50 tokens per second 50 token/s is completely useless if the tokens themselves are useless. Just look at the &quot
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by adwn 1y ago
> a small LLM, say, with 200–300K weights A "small Large Language Model", you say? So a "Language Model"? ;-) > Such an LLM could have handled grammar and code autocompletion, basic linting, or documentation que
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by adwn 1y ago
> Good. My text document viewer only needs to render text in straight lines left to right. Yes, inconceivable that somebody might ever want to render text in anything but a "text document viewer"!
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by adwn 1y ago
When `free()` is called, the allocator internally marks that specific memory area as unused , but it doesn't necessarily return that area back to the OS, for two main reasons: 1. `malloc()` is usually called with sizes smaller than th
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by adwn 1y ago
I can't parse either of your sentences. Maybe you could introduce some intermediate variables, or use parentheses to give them structure?
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by adwn 1y ago
$900 million ?! That's an absolutely insane amount of money. How much of this will go into building the product itself, and how much into converting cash to marketshare? And they raised $100 million not even 5 months ago. Have they al
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by adwn 1y ago
From the article: > Despite its name, Full Self-Driving (FSD) is still considered a level 2 driver assist system and is not fully self-driving. How the hell has Tesla not been sued into the ground by now?
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by adwn 1y ago
> Himal Gautam, the director of Nepal’s tourism department, which is responsible for regulating expeditions on the nation’s mountains, said in an interview that using the gas was “against climbing ethics,” […] Okay, but then be consist
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by adwn 1y ago
Your explanation raises the follow-up question, which svantana already hinted at: Why don't construction cranes use hollow tubes instead of their typical truss structures?
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by adwn 1y ago
Okay, I grant that HDLs fall under the wider definition of "domain specific language". I was thinking of the narrower definition, which is apparently more precisely called "embedded DSL" – a language which is a specializ
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by adwn 1y ago
> I would argue that the prevalence of HDLs proves that DSLs are a good design for problem domains that scale in complexity. The major HDLs (i.e., Verilog/SystemVerilog and VHDL) are not DSLs in any meaningful sense of the word. T
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by adwn 1y ago
> just a tooling issue The word "just" is carrying the weight of the world on its shoulders…
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by adwn 1y ago
I'll take a closer look later, and I welcome anything that tries to bring concepts from modern programming languages to hardware design. But. The focus on "CPU" examples on the landing page ( A 3 stage CPU supporting Add, Sub
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by adwn 1y ago
> Wages are exactly the path to wealth and security -- the matter is what you do with those wages. You can't own things without receiving wages unless you inherit your wealth. No, you can also build things to achieve wealth – fo
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by adwn 1y ago
> I have a problem with people selling WASM as something spectacullary new, never done before. Nobody is doing this here, you're arguing against a strawman.
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by adwn 1y ago
> WASM is slower […] Without more details on their exact use case, their algorithms, and their data movement patterns, you have no way of knowing this. Doing stuff on the GPU isn't automatically faster than doing it on the CPU.
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by adwn 1y ago
> I suspect that the Chinese government is subsidizing the products and their shipping and artificially lowering the cost and that they have been doing this for a very long time. Why would the Chinese government be subsidizing airbrus
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by adwn 2y ago
That's not the same, and not what pornel is talking about. The x86 ADD instruction has a well-defined behavior on overflow, and i32 + i32 in Rust will usually be translated to an ADD instruction, same as int + int in C. But a C
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by adwn 2y ago
> Are you at all concerned that plugging stuff like this into ChatGPT is leaving you with weaker cognitive muscles? Couldn't this very same argument have been used against any form of mental augmentation, like written language a
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by adwn 2y ago
Have you ever written Markdown? Markdown is typically mostly human-readable text, interspersed with occasional formatting instructions. That's what XML is good for, except that it's more verbose but also considerably more flexible

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