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by articulatepang 5d ago
Surely something prevents it being 1 quadrillion bits per instruction? Since that’s well within “unbounded”.
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by articulatepang 6d ago
I think you switched 2 and 3.
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by articulatepang 7d ago
People are willing to lose a small but predictable amount of money to avoid occasionally and unpredictably losing a massive amount of money. The former is a loss they can plan for and absorb. The latter might kill their business. Traders ar
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by articulatepang 7d ago
The hard part of porting to a different platform is usually not the instruction set. It’s the OS and system abstractions. For example, if you have a program that just does raw math and pointer arithmetic and data structure manipulation —- t
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by articulatepang 9d ago
Weird, my browser somehow doesn’t render the title as “T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees whichever unit doesn’t kill the dinosaur”. It just leaves that last part out, making it even shorter than “F”.
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by articulatepang 10d ago
Pretty sure the comment you’re replying to is satire, and that you agree with each other.
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by articulatepang 11d ago
> evolution is selecting for survival of the species, not the individual This is very wrong. Evolution is selecting for the total reproductive fitness of genes, and to a slightly lesser extent, individuals. There’s no mechanism that help
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by articulatepang 19d ago
It’s important for you to hear that this kind of syntax thing really, really doesn’t matter that much. Having this kind of complaint about languages is a sign that you haven’t worked on compilers or learned about the field of programming la
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by articulatepang 20d ago
Scraping would be costly in this world: scrapers would have to spend tokens in order to get the webpage. But, in this world, the website owner would receive tokens that they can then use to do whatever they want, including paying for serv
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by articulatepang 24d ago
I agree! I came to the comment section to say exactly this. In any cache hierarchy you want to put colder content in cheaper but slower storage. Here, compression is the cheaper but slower form of storage.
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by articulatepang 24d ago
For Excel?
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by articulatepang 26d ago
Who’s “we”? I don’t want to do that work. I don’t think kernel maintainers do, either. Do you?
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by articulatepang 26d ago
I think a reasonable story could have been told that goes like this: local models aren’t as good as frontier models with a $20/month subscription, and the hardware costs a lot. So only a few enthusiasts will buy Apple machines for this
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by articulatepang 26d ago
Surely this is not something that motivates the vast majority of people using local LLMs.
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by articulatepang 28d ago
There’s a big difference between DRAM and SRAM. SRAM stores bits in the state of a couple transistors. DRAM stores bits in the charge of a capacitor. A CPU is mostly transistors, so SRAM is made of the same “stuff” as the CPU logic itself.
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
I’m genuinely curious: why should it be on a separately managed DNS record?
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by articulatepang 1mo ago
In the context of microcontrollers and electronics, the likeliest intended meaning was shipping from China, South Korea, Taiwan and perhaps Japan, because that’s where the bulk of the fabs are.
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
Again, I’m genuinely curious: can’t two parties sign a contract that says “you pay for all tokens required to produce the answer, but you only get the final answer tokens”? My understanding of US law is that there’s nothing in logic or prec
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
When you hire lawyers or consultants you usually don’t know how many hours they’ll bill you. It will depend on developments in the case that you cannot in general predict. For example if the other side files a motion and your lawyer has to
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
> If they charge by the token, all your tokens are belong to you I’m not sure this argument is correct. You can sign whatever contract you like with the model provider, right? Including “you are entitled to the end product but not the in
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
I think it depends on whatever contract you signed. If you signed a contract that says “you pay per minute of screen time but only get the end result” then I bet that if you went to court demanding the screen recording, you’d lose.
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
I’m pretty sure the person you’re replying to means stealing in the context of information, IP, copyright, etc. This thread and this entire topic isn’t about stealing physical goods or money. We can all agree that if I break into your house
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
We don't really have to guess: as jet engines became more fuel-efficient, inflation-adjusted prices for air tickets dropped. And as oil prices fluctuate, so do ticket prices. There's a bunch of noise in both these trends but the b
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
But are you willing to pay 10-20% more for that joy? I personally would rather pay less money to fly, not get to see out the window, and spend those dollars on, say, a fancier meal at the destination. Or to have an extra day at the destinat
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
Yes, exactly this -- it's a fast and convenient way for my code to just write the pixels into a spot in RAM (the CPU's RAM, not VRAM) and have those pixels end up on screen. On modern architectures this nearly always goes through
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
I went through this a few months ago in Rust. I wrote all the code by hand, no LLMs. Then I went ahead and added a small "game" on top, plus some special effects like pixelization shaders and chromatic aberration at the edge of a
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
That's technically correct but consider the following: You're implementing quicksort. The actual algorithm is a conceptual piece of math. You write the code. But sometimes the code produces output that isn't sorted. The code
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by articulatepang 2mo ago
Hey! Thank you for posting. This a great project and an excellent illustration of progress in technology: commodity hardware and open source software got good enough that you could do this at such low cost and as a solo developer. Great wor
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by articulatepang 3mo ago
What do you mean not serious? He’s developing visual aids to teach students and to accompany his mathematical research papers. Also, not in this post, he’s been actively using LLMs to do real math research, that is, to prove theorems and so
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by articulatepang 6mo ago
Thank you and yes, I agree! It's neat to use the binomial theorem to see this, because that's the tool the article uses for the main trick/insight it's explaining.

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