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Urban congestion relief experiments through routing-app interventions
(nature.com)
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Public WebGPU Benchmarking powered by vGPU
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What happens to real fluid in this particular cases? If the singularity is in the physical space? Is this just a result of ignoring things like friction and energy dissipation via heat, etc?
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Is this how politics works in the US? You hire the daughter of a prominent politician to get ahead?
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OpenAI hires Chuck Schumer's daughter as Big Tech cozies up to Democrats
(nypost.com)
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> Ignoring the drama But the drama here is a little important. Stealing the millennium prize for N-S is sort of a big deal, especially to those who had been working on it for the last few years.
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Ant Colonies in the Machine
(ben3d.ca)
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> I'm almost afraid to ask Claude if he could create a distributed LLM. Or you just add a lot of randomness to a bunch of small semi-smart LLMs. If you have enough of them, you basically are doing the "infinite monkeys" p
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> Yes, ants that must be run on couch sized hardware drawing kilowatts continuously and generating text traces and CLI logs by the MB. I wrote this recently, basically mini lls that can run in any browser that has WebGPU support and ~4GB
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I am starting to get the idea that AI feels like ants or weeds or mold. You simply can not get rid of it once you get an infestation. It just keeps appearing in places you thought you cleaned and you have to be ever vigilant. Right now gi
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Okay. I will give a raw WebGPU implementation a try and see if it is smaller and more efficient.
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1mo ago
ThreeJs has an abstraction that allows you to write your shaders using JavaScript, it is called ThreeJS Shading Language. This implementation makes of that to simplify development: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js&#x
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Three-LLM: Three.js-based WebGPU LLM inference engine
(three-llm.ben3d.ca)
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Running modern LLMs in the browser using Three.js and WebGPU
(ben3d.ca)
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Done!
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A common strategy on reddit is a downvote ring. If you make a comment on a topic that bots do not like, they will just continuously downvote you over the course of a day so that your karma per sub goes negative and then you are at least sh
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Title rewritten from original that was too long: "NBA suspends Clippers owner Ballmer for one year in Kawhi Leonard salary cap probe"
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NBA suspends Clippers owner Ballmer for 1 year in Kawhi Leonard salary cap probe
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> Terrance Tao's career trajectory has reached new highs due to AI. Given he is uniquely brilliant, he is likely one of the very last mathematicians to be rendered obsolete for his skills. But AI is pretty unstoppable here, so I wo
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I have some bad news for the non-mediocre mathematics. Given it another year or two or so and there won't be much need for non-mediocre mathematics either. Instead everyone will have on call a near magic mathematician who can push th
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Hopefully can be consolidated into an existing museum. Very specific museums are just hard to run in general worldwide unless they are uber famous and often that fades in a generation or two.
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The issue with many critiques like this is that “it depends” and that many of these strategies actually work while often they do not - but given that most startups fail even generally successful strategies will have a high rate of failure.
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I did the migration to Linux and it actually was painless. I didn't really notice any degradation or hiccups in any way. But I guess this is a good option if FreeBSD is important to you.
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I wrote up a theoretical post here about LMM performance of a MacBook Pro with PIM memory: https://ben3d.ca/blog/m5-max-samsung-lpddr5-pim-650-tokens-p...
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I've run into issues with using public wifi when I override my MacBook's DNS server to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8. I believe this is because captive portals require custom resolution of the name captive.apple.com. And external DNS serve
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In related news, Trump is also considering renaming the Atlantic and/or Pacific Oceans, not a joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPg9lQkuKkA
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Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
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Ratko Mladić, the 'Butcher of Bosnia', dies aged 84
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An M5 Max using Samsung's LPDDR5-PIM would generate 650 tokens/second
(ben3d.ca)
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An M5 Max using Samsung's New LPDDR5-PIM would generate 650 tok/s
(ben3d.ca)
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