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by topspin 2mo ago
2026-08-13: "Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) said it identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia’s new S-71M Monokhrom air-launched cruise missile" https://www.sofx.com/nvidia-
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by topspin 2mo ago
> We have a CiM with Taalas HC1 My understanding is that Taalas HC1 is "mask-ROM" fabricated at 6 nm for bulk model base-weight storage, and some SRAM for KV cache and other bits: https://www.eetimes.com/taalas-
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by topspin 2mo ago
> Surely it is clear to you that Read-Only /Memory/ does not /compute/ > Because the ROM does not "run" its contents... Conventional GDDR/HBM don't compute either, yet inference is implemented u
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by topspin 2mo ago
> our current need is not really for "ROM" A fast, low power ROM is the key ingredient to near term local inference with large models at low power. If I could offer you a $500 ROM that provided the model data for frontier infe
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by topspin 2mo ago
> Anyone serious about security will want to bring their own sandbox anyway Exactly. It's not as though it's difficult. It never occurred to me to not do this from day one, and it astonishes me that anyone runs this stuff bar
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by topspin 2mo ago
> It's not on the unions, it's on the people who hired the officers. This model you have inside your head, where there are public officials responsible for hiring that can exercise whatever they imagine are the prerogatives of
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by topspin 2mo ago
Correct. They're also rapidly rehired in neighboring jurisdictions. Public sector unions aggressively protect officers ability to migrate to new jurisdictions despite being fired for cause. Typically they end up working at less pres
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by topspin 2mo ago
> That can only work when there is physical capacity for improvement though. There are great opportunities for advancement. Both in the physical hardware and in how and where it's deployed and powered. Consider this, as only one
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by topspin 2mo ago
Yes, I know. This view is how these problems are always perceived, decade after decade, as our predecessors filled rooms with iron and silicon, unable to fathom that the equivalent capacity and power would be a portable device 20 years lat
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by topspin 2mo ago
"seems like baking models into silicon is speed-running obsolescence" Now maybe. When models are flying passenger aircraft, other prerogatives will assert themselves. When a 50TB ROM means you can impulse purchase a ChatGPT 6.3
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by topspin 2mo ago
Common lawn tractors integrate a mower deck. They're heavy duty riding mowers, but the terms are ambiguous. Large, commercial units can tow mower decks, but most lawn tractors used by property owners don't do that: it's har
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by topspin 2mo ago
Assuming the enclosure isn't armored (I wouldn't know...) a ladder and a power drill with a long bit would make very short work of these.
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by topspin 2mo ago
We people vary frequency with weather. Lawn tractors are heavy and, due to moisture, ground isn't always hard. On large properties some of the ground stays moist longer due to drainage issues. So yes, after years of indifferent mowi
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by topspin 2mo ago
"but it's a good thing that folks are still willing to fight for it" This is at least as likely to be theft as much as civic action. There are far easier ways one might permanently inhibit these cameras than cutting them dow
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by topspin 2mo ago
"It’s oddly difficult to do nothing" This isn't always true. It's likely true only when there is no pressure. However, when there is pressure, one can "do nothing" for long periods. If you haven't exper
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by topspin 2mo ago
> Would a cooling pond with controlled discharge... There are any number of methods of dealing with this. Using natural bodies of water is a lower cost (thus highly popular) method of sinking heat. Palo Verde has been operating 3 large
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by topspin 2mo ago
> These are probes. Judging responses and response times. Some, yes. Many are merely defective units. These weapons are being manufactured in enormous quantity and deployed rapidly with minimal quality control: based on the reported nu
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by topspin 2mo ago
> if the title is conflating The title is certainly a great conflation. Any seeker of capital would want to regroup after an unfiltered leak of this magnitude, if for no other reason than to secure the forum from future leaks. The comm
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by topspin 2mo ago
All I can say for certain is that 10 years from now there will great OpenGL-to-VulcanMetalWhatever translators, at least as good as the ones already built-in to several graphics stacks today, and the learnopengl.com tutorial and examples wi
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by topspin 3mo ago
Intel is doing well. They have 18A yields up to 85% at Fab 52. That's huge for the foundry business: the best foundries are not all in Asia now. Rumor is they're moving Nova Lake production mostly in-house due to 18A success.
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by topspin 3mo ago
Yes, the timelines are highly uncertain, but the AI boom and AI money are reinvigorating the entire fabrication ecosystem from top to bottom and causing innovation where there had only been incremental progress for years. People aren'
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by topspin 3mo ago
> Meaning that in a couple of years you may There is no "may" here. You will see this. It's always difficult to see it from the present, but we're not at some end stage in hardware development; we're still on th
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by topspin 3mo ago
I don't want a mechanic. I want something basic enough I can fix it. REO marketing clearly reflects this. We'll have to wait and see if the actual product hits the mark.
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by topspin 3mo ago
This is correct. There are a number of excellent asymmetric multicore MCU platforms now. You don't have to choose between efficiency and performance today.
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by topspin 3mo ago
Betteridge enters the chat. GoPro's market is changing: strong competitors now make solid, low cost alternatives. GoPro is moving deep into professional markets where margins are high, and leveraging their position as a US company wh
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by topspin 3mo ago
C++ is certainly a leader among the least feasible, but it's far from alone.
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by topspin 3mo ago
> Surely the RPM depends on the throttle? Partly. Another factor in the equation is load.
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by topspin 3mo ago
Oh dear. I got called a "cave man" for suggesting such a thing. Good luck with that. Running a VM is just a qemu-system-whatever command. They usually get pretty lengthy, but it's nonetheless an ordinary shell command.
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by topspin 3mo ago
Indeed. We use similar gauges to judge each other, with no better precision.
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by topspin 3mo ago
> I am an engineering manager. Strange. A good engineering manager would see that "way too big" PoE daughter board design as exactly what one would want in a reference design that will be used to test and integrate your prefer

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