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Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math(ben3d.ca)
93 points by bhouston 2mo ago|49 comments
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by bhouston 2mo ago
You are right: https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/bells-fibre-foo... I didn't realize that Ebox was Bell. Interesting.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
Canada also has pretty fiber coverage in urban areas but only for a single provider, Bell Canada, and its legislatively allowed resellers like TekSavvy. It is really fast and reliable. You can get symmetric 8Gbps for around $100/month
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Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children(reuters.com)
543 points by bhouston 2mo ago|546 comments
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by bhouston 2mo ago
Or they could make use of LPDDR5X-PIM? That would be such a killer feature and competitive advantage.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
Apple has a dedicated "neural engine" which is designed as an inference NPU. Where as Google's TPU has a dual focus, both inference and training, which is a more complex design.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
I understand that will boost read rates to around 14 Gbps as compared to the current 10 Gbps for LPDDR5X, so a 40% improvement.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
The M6 doubled the neural engine from 16 to 32 cores. I would expect that the M7 doubles that again to 64 from 32? That would make sense. I believe that the CPUs are actually limited by ram bandwidth more than the neural engine right when
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Fine-Grained Shader Validation in Three.js(ben3d.ca)
2 points by bhouston 2mo ago|0 comments
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by bhouston 2mo ago
> Populist demagogues from Trump to Zohran are getting elected. That is quite the comparison. It also doesn't seem correct at all. What world are you living in where Zohran is a populist demagogue?
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by bhouston 2mo ago
What Canada is doing is turning to trade with other countries. It is the main solution we have to this issue. It is a long game, but necessary. Ganging up on the US isn't likely to work well.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
> This was totally the right move, if for no other reason than it's the only thing that this US admin will respect in the long run. Unfortunately, Canada (where I live) will feel way more pain from this than the US. I am not sure T
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by bhouston 2mo ago
Why not force them to release their records? Some legislation would help. If they are scanning the world's books, the results should be open.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
There is currently not a SINGLE American citizen under indictment, investigation, or facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The one case tied to US soldiers in Afghanistan was ended. So why is the US doing th
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by bhouston 2mo ago
"I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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by bhouston 2mo ago
I find that auto wrecks my code base and makes stupid mistakes. I find for routine tasks I need at least sonnet and then it is reliable.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
I have been a long time Cursor user but it is really expensive even if it is convenient to switch models. I recently switched to just Max on Claude and Max on Codex. That is cheaper than Cursor if you use it a lot.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
I bet OpenAI has failovers to other data centers. I think they have a variety of data center provides all over the place.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
> GitHub is a shared space, where commits and issues and PRs need to become instantly available to all readers across all geographies. They have a very different shape of scaling challenge to the LLM vendors. Github data is accessible by
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by bhouston 2mo ago
I am pretty sure OpenAI and Claude actually have a higher hardware cost per request that Microsoft. Github is actually most just a standard REST API app, although with some caching and git specific operations in the background. It is not
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by bhouston 2mo ago
> OpenAI and Anthropic are spending hundreds of billions of dollars that they may never recoup forcing the building massive new data centers in the face of widespread protest. So has Github's owner Microsoft. It's build out is
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by bhouston 2mo ago
Great article and work to reverse engineer who was mass buying used books.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
> Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage? They are handling it a lot bett
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by bhouston 2mo ago
Yeah, Codeberg banning AI generated code is weird. AI generated code is the future. It is like during the days of assembly banning high level languages.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
> To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire Is this rage bait? Isn't Google, Amazon, and all the other services in the world similarly impacted by LLM's? Isn't Claude, OpenAI, etc.? Wh
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by bhouston 2mo ago
I do not need it to be meaningfully different than Github, it sounds like that introduces additional complexity. I just want Github that works.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
What is the best Github alternative that has something like Github Actions? What is the easiest to switch to? I do not want to switch but it is having too much of an impact on me. It is time to give up on Github. This is just too much.
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by bhouston 2mo ago
It is not working at all, I can not load any repo pages. Github.com's promise is that it can be the central broker of open source code because it is reliable. That promise hasn't been kept recently. That said, Github is hard to di
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by bhouston 2mo ago
I wonder if gut changes could arise as a result of endurance training and then that affects the mind? This seems to be an understudied area. They are just apparently looking into gut changes with regards to endurance training: https:&#x2F
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by bhouston 2mo ago
> Two customer doing ~5% of your total volume who didn’t even exist a few years ago, must be kind of scary for Stripe. Shopify uses Stripe no? Probably good volume discount though.

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