jononor

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by jononor 6mo ago
I went though the list of prices at Europractice. Waferspace is 7000 USD for 1k of 20mm2. That is a per mm2 price of 350 USD. I could not find any offering at Europrice that matches that?
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by jononor 6mo ago
Interesting! Which EDA tool must I use for those, and what is the price of that? Will these services accept a single run of 1k?
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by jononor 6mo ago
What are your thoughts on including a RISC-V hardcore along with the gates? Because for almost all projects I can imagine using FPGA for, I would want a microcontroller also. This might however be slightly colored by me being a software&#x2
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by jononor 6mo ago
X-ray would be the traditional approach, though quite expensive. IRIS by bunnie is another approach that aims to bring cost way down. Ref https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/iris-infra-red-in-si...
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by jononor 6mo ago
Nice specs! Looking forward to seeing how this and the other projects on Waferspace goes. Being able to produce 1k chips at a reasonable price will hopefully do wonders for open hardware / open silicon.
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by jononor 6mo ago
Glad to see this. At least there is one player in Europe which does a full vertical integration around LLM/AI - from datacenter to LLM models and applications (Mistral Vibe). On the data center part Europe seems to be doing OK, and als
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by jononor 6mo ago
Have been playing with Qwen3.5 35B. Runs OK nicely on a RTX5060Ti, though I would have liked to have a bit higher thoughput (a 5080/5090 would do). It is seemingly close-but-not-quite-there for code generation / agentic coding. So
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by jononor 7mo ago
Very much looking forward to play with the BIO functionality on the Baochips that I have ordered. Thanks for the nice write up! It is fascinating to see how widely applicable the "just throw a RISC-V core or 4 in there" design pat
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by jononor 7mo ago
Highly recommend Statistical Rethinking for anyone looking for practical/applied/intuitive approach to Bayesian Statistics. For example the 2023 lecture series: https://youtu.be/FdnMWdICdRs?is=KycmwPL-cn8clOK5
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by jononor 7mo ago
Many "subjective" tasks can also be done in an "objective" manner - as long as there is a large enough dataset to estimate what humans would evaluate the outputs - and the evaluators being reasonably consistent. Many hu
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by jononor 7mo ago
Number of machines under control is a measureable target. Quite suited for this concept, at least in theory.
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by jononor 7mo ago
Very nice development towards more open hardware. And super powerful at that. The verification technique is alos super interesting. Have ordered a small set to play with, and to support the project. There are also several RISC-V microcontro
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by jononor 7mo ago
There are easy fixes to get rid of violent and crazy people. Why would a powerful ASI bother with fixing them? A rabid dog just gets put down by humans. Why would we expect anything better of our overlords?
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by jononor 7mo ago
Ouch, that is indeed a risk one must be wary of. Can be a "works for the company but sucks for employees". Which can also drain the company of skilled people, a poor trade in most cases.
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by jononor 7mo ago
Bus factor 1 is rarely enough for "entire business". But if the GPUs are for training models, and their users are the data scientists that are also on holiday around the same times - that might indeed be good enough policy.
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by jononor 7mo ago
The video is pretty hilarious. And the problem a serious one. So I am glad to see that the Norwegian consumer council is taking a stance on it, and not afraid to use humor as a tool.
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by jononor 7mo ago
A stable/predictable base of maybe 50k USD/year is probably more in the range where it could influence someone to be FOSS maintainer full-time.
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by jononor 8mo ago
Altman was just this week quoted as saying things in that direction...
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by jononor 8mo ago
This is basically what happens with the advertising/social media giants (Facebook, Google, etc) because everyone needs msrketing, and mobile companies (Apple, Google) because they handle payments.
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by jononor 8mo ago
It is a lot compared to what? I believe that a LLM capable laptop will cost considerably more than something that is good-enough for non-LLM productivity tasks. At least within the next 5 years. Say that it would cost 600 USD more, that wou
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by jononor 8mo ago
That something is useful does not necessarily mean that it will be doable for companies the capture enough of value to make up for the billions in investments they have/will have make in the coming years. Right now the frontier AI comp
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by jononor 8mo ago
They are likely aiming to maximize reach/mindshare. Get as many people hooked as possible. More important than minor upside from a few multi-Max users. EDIT: also, the casual or gym-style members that pay every month but barely use the
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by jononor 8mo ago
In a hypothetical future with 2026 level LLMs on a (high end) consumer laptop, I still think that majority of buyers would prefer to pay 20 USD/month for a service. Just for the convenience and flexibility.
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by jononor 8mo ago
You can submit analog to TinyTapeout now!
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by jononor 8mo ago
They were caught using all the data on the internet without asking for permission or compensating anyone. And it has cost them nothing and earned them billions so far.
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by jononor 8mo ago
Releases of a Heroku app is tracked by the platform, and both shown the the UI, in the CLI and available in the API.
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by jononor 8mo ago
The best commercial case for Open Source is as part of a commoditize-your-complements strategy, in my opinion. Give away the open source part in order to increase demand for your proprietary offerings. Use the open source project to build b
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by jononor 8mo ago
There is a decent chance there will be no clear consensus... Maybe people going custom LoRas etc should publish for the 3x most common models. Or maybe the tooling will make it so that switching models in a workflow will be painfree, as has
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by jononor 8mo ago
They might be undervolting and underclocking the GPUs to improve longevity?
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by jononor 8mo ago
You would have to buy said USB device and get it to your location. Switching WiFi is only easy if you mean on a single machine/gateway. Swapping the WiFi network equipment in an office is considerably more involved, depending on the de

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