mathisfun123

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by mathisfun123 5d ago
Jesus Christ reading comprehension has completely fallen off a cliff - we're talking specifically about GPU performance here. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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by mathisfun123 5d ago
brother my point is they don't care about their product offerings outside of their phones. this post/thread is about one of their product offerings which is not a phone which is inferior to their competitors'. simple.
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by mathisfun123 5d ago
If you seriously think apple cares about anything other than cell phones, you're deluding yourself and probably have been for decades.
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by mathisfun123 5d ago
> 2.5B Siri requests per day that's like one request per day per user lolol
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by mathisfun123 5d ago
same reason they spend huge amounts of money on rolexes when seikos work better (the tech crowd isn't immune from vanity).
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by mathisfun123 6d ago
Because how else would you plant the seeds of doubt that this decision is fucked.
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by mathisfun123 7d ago
Brother I have no idea what your goalposts are supposed to measure in your mind but I do know they're meaningless for everyone else.
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by mathisfun123 7d ago
by that measure an LLM can "build" you gcc by doing cp -R lol
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by mathisfun123 7d ago
No I think Apple employees run geekbench for fun and don't care the stats get uploaded (you know just like other normal careless humans rather than demigods)
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by mathisfun123 7d ago
> I find that hard to believe at Apple Where does the myth of Apple come from? You should go on blind and ask someone that works there the reality lolol
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by mathisfun123 7d ago
You missed this from last year https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler Also I dunno why you should be impressed by this - gcc isn't anything near eg navier stokes
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by mathisfun123 7d ago
I was surprised to see they were using XLS but then I remembered Chris went there a couple of years ago.
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by mathisfun123 7d ago
.... The blog post literally demonstrates that it is not. Feel free to repro on your own machine.
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by mathisfun123 8d ago
probably - i guess then i meant -Werror=return-type
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by mathisfun123 8d ago
> Probably not something you’d encounter in practice it's actually probably the most common footgun you'll encounter in practice: non-void functions with no return statements just keep executing past their end. ask me how i kno
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by mathisfun123 8d ago
Yes? All the time in South Florida.
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by mathisfun123 8d ago
hn is just a bunch of wannabes these days. It's still a decent link aggregator but the discussions are exceptionally weak <shrug>
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by mathisfun123 9d ago
i'm asking you what happened to HVM that it needed to be reimplemented as Bend.
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by mathisfun123 9d ago
i really don't think you know what you're talking about. this isn't about better or worse. there are many many many workloads a GPU cannot at all implement (hint: anything with branches).
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by mathisfun123 9d ago
what happened to your other project? HVM?
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by mathisfun123 9d ago
> GPUs are taking one more step towards being general purpose massively parallel machines this has nothing to do with becoming more general purpose (GPUs will never be general purpose - it's literally physically impossible).
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by mathisfun123 10d ago
> Funny, how suddenly a tight, 1-2 sentence response on point is a sign of skill. Communicating well has always been a sign of skill. Talking to most devs was like pulling teeth even before LLMs.
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by mathisfun123 10d ago
> There's also ongoing issues around Codex for this sort of thing, given Apple is suing OpenAI over stolen trade secrets these two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other whatsoever
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by mathisfun123 10d ago
am i crazy or is the date stamp not literally in the link?
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by mathisfun123 11d ago
> The lack of respect [widget makers] have for their craft confounds me every day, to the point that I wonder if anyone in [factories] actually [makes widgets] because they enjoy it, instead of making money. before someone cries false an
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by mathisfun123 11d ago
The analogy is flawed - in Scrabble you get rewarded for unlikely word combos. Also causal attention attends to prior tokens (tiles already placed).
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by mathisfun123 12d ago
not all architectures have atomic cas
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by mathisfun123 12d ago
> Carpentry, blacksmithing, stonesmithing they're literaly not - do you know what the word artisanal means? > Stop gatekeeping what people find personally fulfilling wut? i can't even parse this in relation to what i wrote (
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by mathisfun123 12d ago
> computation is mathematics, as software is. So, my example tracks the same way in mathematics. brother i already addressed this literally in my first response to you: the reason software went to shit is because it became commodified (i
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by mathisfun123 12d ago
Have people completely forgotten how to read? I'm saying your analogy between software and math is completely, irreconcilably flawed. I don't need to read the rest of your screed because this is a thread about math not software.

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