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by sowbug 8mo ago
It doesn't even need to be high speed. A minimal chip would have four pins: VCC, GND, TX, and RX. Even one-dollar microcontrollers can handle megabit-speed serial connections, which is fast enough for LLM communication.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
The S in IoT is for security.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
As scary as it sounds today, a lightning-quick zero latency non-networked local LLM could provide value in an application like a self-driving car. It would be a level below Waymo's remote human support, so if the car couldn't figu
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by sowbug 8mo ago
They'll be perfect for an appliance like the Rick and Morty butter robot.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Ugh, quick, everyone start panic-buying FPGAs now.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
You might be right, but not for long. Once my agent is interacting directly with your agent (as opposed to doing drafts of your work on your behalf), expectations will shift to 24/7 operation.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Thanks for looking out for us.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
If I were the CEO of a place like Plaid, I'd be working night and day expanding my offerings to include a safe, policy-driven API layer between the client and financial services.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Another pattern would mirror BigCorp process: you need VP approval for the privileged operation. If the agent can email or chat with the human (or even a strict, narrow-purpose agent(1) whose job it is to be the approver), then the approver
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Yes, I think that's the starting point. Another part of my question was whether a CPA applying GAAP would recommend recognizing the $2 as other income, or else as a liability against a future claim from the customer who bought the widg
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by sowbug 8mo ago
It may also have been because of the end of the de minimis ($800) tariff exemption. Without that exemption, even something valued at one cent would have to go through the import-tax collection process, which meant that small packages were n
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Right, but that's already happening today. That's the black-market point.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
I thought of the tracking and gate questions, too, when I vibed up an HF torrent service a few nights ago. (Super annoying BTW to have to download the files just to hash the parts, especially when webseeds exist.) Model owners could disable
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by sowbug 8mo ago
To the CPAs among us: will the refunded import taxes be treated as extra profit for all the importers who paid them? I could see an argument that they don't have a legal obligation to pass the refunds on to their customers, any more th
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Or maybe this is used to justify a new emergency federal law that all purchases must be reported on your tax return, just in case the government ever needs to refund any illegally collected import taxes. I think I'm kidding, but I&#x27
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Will I get back the $17 DHL charged to collect the $1 tariff on the cat toys I bought from China? Actual event may not have occurred, but DHL flat fee is real.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
s/tariff/import tax/
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Why doesn't HF support BitTorrent? I know about hf-torrent and hf_transfer, but those aren't nearly as accessible as a link in the web UI.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
There's a scifi story here when millions of these chips, with Qwen8-AGI-Thinking baked into them, are obsoleted by the release of Qwen9-ASI, which promptly destroys humanity and then itself by accident. A few thousand years later, some
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Also see Adrian Thompson's Xilinx 6200 FPGA, programmed by a genetic algorithm that worked but exploited nuances unique to that specific physical chip, meaning the software couldn't be copied to another chip. https://ne
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by sowbug 8mo ago
As the old saying goes, it's easier to write code than to read it.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Yes, all addressed by earlier discussion in this thread.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
They're the exceptions that prove the rule. For every Taylor Swift, there are probably tens of thousands of songwriters who have never earned a dollar from their creations. The vast majority of valuable copyrighted/patented creati
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by sowbug 8mo ago
It isn't the moat. But it gives you a head start to build it.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Creativity is a kind of labor. Like all labor, it never earns pay more than once.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
"return to normally scheduled programming" is probably not the exact phrasing you want to use. :)
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by sowbug 8mo ago
They removed that phrase because everyone was getting tired of internet commentary like "rounded corners? whatever happened to don't be evil, Google?"
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by sowbug 8mo ago
All the GB10-based devices -- DGX Spark, Dell Pro Max, etc.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
"Pink noise sounds like a waterfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
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by sowbug 8mo ago
It would be neat if someone resurrected Iomega and launched the 2026 version of the Zip drive for local backup. It'd be something like $200 (same as the original Zip drive) and it would take 20TB WORM tapes that cost $20 each. There wo

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