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by dsign 1mo ago
Who the hell needs more than 640 KB anyway? :-) Jokes aside, I've been extremely frugal with memory in my latest project, in the hope that it can fit in a few megabytes of RAM. But we have come a long way since the eighties, and now an
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by dsign 1mo ago
Anecdotally, I saw Opus 5 come up with a complicated loop unrolling technique when I asked it to implement a simple biquad in SIMD, missing a simpler solution. Maybe it was a downgraded session, who knows. That SIMD instruction set, the one
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by dsign 1mo ago
I was arguing with a colleague today that we will never have a reason to make our AIs autonomous and sentient. But now I can't stop imagining an AI startup meeting where somebody says "LLMs do not go through the struggle of unders
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by dsign 2mo ago
Also, the "D" in this parallel story grew up to become an angel investor and a good friend of Felix. This D and his wife live happily with their cat, and travel the world.
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by dsign 2mo ago
These are another "Jacob" and another "Felix", not the ones in the post, but there are so many similarities and such a terrible lesson learned that it needs to be written. The Felix I know is still happy; still going out
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by dsign 2mo ago
I came here to say that. Though not in a bad way; the economics of what is possible but practical/impractical changes greatly with LLMs, and I suspect and hope we will be figuring out the ramifications for a while.
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by dsign 2mo ago
I personally have been trying to get a financial security cushion for the last ten years or so (and failing) so I don't take my own feelings into account; AI hasn't made me more frustrated. On the contrary, it's a tool I now
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by dsign 2mo ago
Hmm. Forget about desktops. I'm programming a microcontroller which is actually reasonably priced and has gotten all its 32Mb of RAM in the same die as the processor, but I'm getting nervous and having a strong urge to stockpile
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by dsign 2mo ago
> Both premises seem laughably unlikely to me. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. > The AGI-pilled must think one of two things; I'm cynical and I believe that AI will be our undoing. In fact, when we let that genie out of the b
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by dsign 2mo ago
I think the guy is right on point at least when it comes to therapies. But he is also missing one major angle: we are no longer in control; our systems are. If we were to vote on the issue, I suspect that a narrow majority would prefer chea
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by dsign 2mo ago
Replace "books" with "human brains" and you have a "warehouse" ready for a grim science fiction project. Or, increasingly likely, a prophecy.
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by dsign 2mo ago
I like the "cognitive debt" term. With the latest models, what I've observed is that they are really good, but I don't use them to write main code because I need to know what I'm doing. The article is not wrong thou
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by dsign 2mo ago
> What am I missing? Their marketing department :-) . I'm only half-joking; those guys are hard at work finding the best product-market fit for ChatGPT/Claude. "Product market fit" means "strongest revenue",
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by dsign 2mo ago
This is AI-writes-too-well is a problem with many solutions. Here's a slightly unconventional one: if an author has enough skin in their book, they could just do as Tolkien and sing their songs[^2], in public. Taking that one step furt
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by dsign 2mo ago
Hmm, those are some worrying news for Zephyr, but also for Linux. For reasons that escape my full understanding, a lot of embedded hardware needs Linux to work. If Zephyr, which I bet has been carefully crafted for microcontrollers, leaves
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by dsign 2mo ago
I loved the video. Also, I had a lot of fun watching it while imagining I was living in 2051 and this whole progression had ran its course. It's impossible to predict the future, but certain events can negate whole branches of possibil
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by dsign 2mo ago
It's a movie for theaters and not a flashback edgy post; the success of the work is about pleasing the audience. That is already a thing in Homer's original Odyssey, at least as I read it in high school. But now with a few more de
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by dsign 2mo ago
A bit tangential, and in the topic of nostalgia for old ways, remember when every block had a photo shop? Couldn’t we get a “PCB shop” in our bright near future? I wonder if the density of enthusiasts that need PCBs made is so low that the
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by dsign 2mo ago
There's often an issue of perspective. Imagine you visit an 11th century monk in the occupation of copying manuscripts by candle light. This is a guy that spends long cold winters hunched over parchment, using sticks with god knows wha
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by dsign 2mo ago
Interesting that you bring daydreaming to the conversation. I've got an issue with it, and it's that I get interesting ideas then. But nothing comes out unless I sit in front of a computer to do anything with them. And computers h
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by dsign 2mo ago
I have had, and continue having, way above average use for my handwriting. It works for all sorts of math, quick diagrams on anything from geometric reasoning to electronics, composing tricky fragments of text, taking notes on something I&#
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by dsign 2mo ago
It doesn't make me happy to say it, but the American LLM companies were first. Capital in the rest of the world is way more conservative, and I can't imagine the mega-investments OpenAI and Anthropic managed to secure happening an
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by dsign 2mo ago
This. Forgetting is the biggest crime. Anything in the other direction is atoning.
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by dsign 2mo ago
Well if AI destroys bad music videos by making them cost $25, I say it's a win. What will be left will be seriously scripted productions.
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by dsign 2mo ago
Another day, another model and another pelican :-) I can't help but wonder where is the trend going? What will we have in five years? Maybe it will all have puttered out, and we will have moved to the next thing? Or maybe the prompt th
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by dsign 3mo ago
PCBs are very neat, but that shipping time is a boomer when you are prototyping and you really don’t know what you are doing.
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by dsign 3mo ago
Honestly, I don't take offense at the joke. There's a reason freedom of expression has some degree of protection in many countries, and it is so that people can slander each other's religion or lack of it with impunity. I mea
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by dsign 3mo ago
A few years ago I bought a SUP and there was a motto on it "life is easy: just add water". I've done enough with that SUP to learn that the motto is actually true. I can imagine some people take it to the "life is great:
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by dsign 3mo ago
Deeply disappointed to read it doesn't work for iconoclasts.
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by dsign 3mo ago
Up to five years ago[^1], we lived an age of pure speculation about intelligence and minds. That age brought about multiple theories of the mind, and to me, their finest legacy are arguments of the form "$X is not $concept because $the

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