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by bob1029 8mo ago
I think the wafer scale compute is a massive deal. It's already being leveraged for models you can use right now and the reception on HN has been negligible. The entire model lives in SRAM. This is orders of magnitude faster than HBM
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Lucene really does feel like magic sometimes. It was designed expressly to solve the top K problem at hyper scale. It's incredibly mature technology. You can go from zero to a billion documents without thinking too much about anything
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by bob1029 8mo ago
The oboe playing a concert A is a pretty good one too.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> If Anthropic's compute is fully saturated then the Claude code power users do represent an opportunity cost to Anthropic much closer to $5,000 then $500. I think it's the other way around? Sparse use of GPU farms should be th
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by bob1029 8mo ago
The most typical end-game is using a HSM-backed cloud product, generating the PK in the HSM (it never leaves), and making calls across the network to the key vault service for signing requests. This is a hard tradeoff between availability a
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by bob1029 8mo ago
We can slow the propagation speed and increase population size. Another option is to use a metric like hamming distance over the programs to determine if two neighbors should even be allowed to interact. If we can come up with an accurate p
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> Across all workloads, energy consumption is proportional to execution time Race-to-idle used to be the best path before multicore. Now it's trickier to determine how to clock the device. Especially in battery powered cases. This i
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Next token prediction is about predicting the future by minimizing the number of bits required to encode the past. It is fundamentally causal and has a discrete time domain. You can't predict token N+2 without having first predicted to
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Non-symbolic, generative AI cannot satisfy regulatory constraints. If you are hoping to acquire any US banking clients for something like this, I can assure you that it would be a complete waste of time.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I feel like there are cases where burning an entire core on busy waiting will result in better overall power consumption than if we sleep and yield as much as possible throughout. Bringing a core back from the dead each time can be a very e
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I've done a lot of experimentation around brainfuck, this paper's specific variant, and applications to genetic programming. My conclusions so far regarding the abiogenesis/self-replicator angle is that it is very interesti
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by bob1029 8mo ago
No. Not yet, anyways. I maintain autonomy over source control at the moment. Headless activity is verified in a separate unity editor instance before I push any commits. I might look into source control tools once I get through perspective
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> Music doesn't live in an abstract realm of perfections I agree with this in spirit, but there are practical ramifications of getting the frequency domain wrong. The human brain is very particular in this space. Even for completely
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> AI will struggle like with Unity/Unreal/Godot. I am automating Unity with headless method invocation of agent authored editor scripts. I don't think "struggle" is the word I'd use to describe how GPT5.4 is
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> i am trying hard to convince more people to rack themselves especially for CI actions. What do you think the typical duty cycle is for a CI machine? Raw performance is kind of meaningless if you aren't actually using the hardware.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I think it's more about stress (cortisol). I find that regular exercise and avoiding things like coffee and Red Bull goes a long way. Stimulants set me off really badly.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Zip code is a very powerful factor from a PII perspective. https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/index.ht...
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I'm a little bit amused by the inclusion of .NET in this article. The last time I pulled in more than Dapper I was using .NET Framework 4.8. Batteries are very included now. Perhaps a cooldown on dapper and maybe two other things would
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software. They simply can't in my experience. Most people cannot prompt their way out of a wet paper sack. The HN community is bathed in thoughtful, high quality writing 24/7&#x2
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I believe the orange site's consensus was that it's approximately one additional mini fridge or dish washer worth of consumption on average. You've got users who use these tools barely 1k tokens per week. Assuming it's a
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by bob1029 8mo ago
> Claude is extensively used for coding, Computer Programmers are at the top, with 75% coverage I think there are some advantages to being first. It's time to re-evaluate strategies if we've been operating under the assumption
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I've written genetic programming experiments that do not require an explicit mutation operator because the machine would tend to flip bits in the candidate genomes under the heavy system load. It took me a solid week to determine that
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Classes are a safe default even if you expect things to go very, very fast. The overhead of screwing up NUMA concerns vastly outstrips any kind of class vs struct differences. It's really one of the very last things you should be worry
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by bob1029 8mo ago
Some businesses are genuinely this complicated. Splitting those facts into additional tables isn't going to help very much unless it actually mirrors the shape of the business. If it doesn't align, you are forcing a lot of downstr
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I was just testing this with my unity automation tool and the performance uplift from 5.2 seems to be substantial.
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I think notepad.exe is the strongest example of this right now. The amount of hacking required to even be allowed to re-associate text files with that particular exe on Win11 was shocking to me. I get that windows is extremely hostile to it
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by bob1029 8mo ago
The human body has a fairly elegant regulation mechanism for handling variance in things like CO2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_effect I think regular exercise can help to offset some of the effects of rising CO2
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I have a Sebo. The primary thing I dislike is the weight. You'd think something this heavy would have some kind of performance advantage, but it doesn't. I've seen battery powered shit from Walmart suck harder than this machi
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by bob1029 8mo ago
We should be focusing on how to build large turbines and transformers more quickly. A lot of transmission projects are blocked on equipment. There are warehouses full of photovoltaics that we cant use because of other industrial bottlenecks
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by bob1029 8mo ago
I've learned my lesson about German engineering after buying one of their vacuum cleaners. The ergonomics of the machine seem bad on purpose.

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