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by wmertens 4mo ago
What do you mean? In the whitepaper they say that the original can't run on an iPhone 17 at all, and on an M4 the Bonsai version runs 5.6x faster than the original. This quantization has a small order of magnitude improvement on memory
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by wmertens 4mo ago
I had a long ELI16 session with Claude about it, and the way I understand it is that they - use Ising machines to describe a certain problem into clauses, storing system state (e.g. spin of something) in variables - then use a neural networ
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by wmertens 4mo ago
No it's just analogies. It's a normal FPGA.
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by wmertens 5mo ago
Wow awesome! BTW I see that deepseek V4 pro is trounced by it's little flash brother? Any ideas as to why?
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by wmertens 9mo ago
In armageddon, you would run out of fuel around day 3 and then that's it. A CyberTruck will charge just fine from anything that can generate the proper AC or DC, no phoning home needed. Many home solar installations can work off grid a
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by wmertens 10mo ago
Why even bother with apple at that point. There are so many better and/or cheaper Android phones out there
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by wmertens 1y ago
this falls down really quickly once you get past a couple MB worth of data, like trying to add images.
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by wmertens 2y ago
And the scribes designing the incantations using magical tools, ever more complex, eagerly working towards stronger and faster magic crystals
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by wmertens 2y ago
I'm really curious about the reproducibility. The color is decided by the bandgap and the bandgap is tunable by voltage, but how temperature dependent is it, and how much does production variability impact it? I image these displays co
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by wmertens 2y ago
The two are not related at all. Refresh rate is how fast it can accept input, whereas this is how fast it can do TDM of colors and intensities
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by wmertens 3y ago
I got dramatical improvement in my myopia over a few months time when I switched to a Paleo-ish diet, drastically cutting sugar and supplementing with vitamins including luteine. I no longer needed my glasses to drive or go to the movies. G
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by wmertens 3y ago
I can only make it louder, not quieter :(
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by wmertens 3y ago
The CERN folks are a humorous bunch, I assume one of them is responsible for naming this epic roundabout close to CERN the "large car collider" on Google maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/iLWZRLLUWhDTjiDS7
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by wmertens 3y ago
> CONCLUSION > We introduced BtrBlocks, an open columnar compression format for data lakes. By analyzing a collection of real-world datasets, we selected a pool of fast encoding schemes for this use case. Additionally, we introduced
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by wmertens 4y ago
Actually, there's quite a few hard-coded references to /nix in nixpkgs I believe. It's possible but a little more work than just changing the prefix.
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by wmertens 4y ago
Actually the cache isn't that important, most binaries get rebuilt quite often due to their dependencies changing. Although it is my hope that rfc 17 eventually makes it through: https://github.com/wmertens/rfcs&#x
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by wmertens 4y ago
This is so cool - I'd like an open source CPU in my next phone please! (Of course, I would also like it to be fast, so that will probably not happen in the next 5 years) The article doesn't say if their port is also open source. T
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by wmertens 5y ago
ah yes, I was thinking of wave energy sorry. Actually, yes, that would indeed be a good use of the concept - anchor the generator to a submerged bouey (so as to not disturb shipping) and it will always be pointing in the right direction and
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by wmertens 5y ago
this looks to be made from only soft parts though. Worst case you get snipped by a tensed string (could still do damage)
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by wmertens 5y ago
Makani's kite is steered. This one just needs to stay aloft. Launching it is just a matter of a wind-up spool on a windvane-like small rotating platform (no more than a few m high)
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by wmertens 5y ago
Power goes up exponentially with size. To get good RoI, you need to go huge.
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by wmertens 5y ago
Then the kites have to be rolled back home until the wind is good again.
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by wmertens 5y ago
It's back-and-forth though so you are constantly changing direction and losing power.
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by wmertens 5y ago
There's a whole bunch of thread with wings attached in a fairly small radius. I would think birds can see this way better.
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by wmertens 5y ago
Makani needed expensive equipment and locations, and worked very differently.
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by wmertens 5y ago
Very different concept though - using a steered kite vs what is basically a self-erecting small wind turbine. Way less logic and parts needed vs Makani
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by wmertens 5y ago
I added a bunch of Shelly Wi-Fi relays to my house and I can see temperatures of every room, tell the heater to turn on etc, from anywhere in the world, with full self-hosting if I want it.
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by wmertens 6y ago
Isn't that the same problem with zip files? So if we're assuming that the compressed SQLite format will take up the same or less space as the zip file, wouldn't that mean that exactly the same mitigations work?
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by wmertens 6y ago
Oh wow, AFAIK this is basically how AMZN already operates. If they would transition to this setup, there's nothing for regulators to point at for antitrust enforcement.
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by wmertens 6y ago
I mean, I have several wifi-connected computers in my house whose only task is to flip a relay when I tell them to.

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