BenoitP

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by BenoitP 7d ago
Compare-and-swap is a hardware instruction, and beyond that a desirable pattern for dealing with concurrent writes. CMPXCHG https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cmpxchg https://lwn.net/Articles/847973
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by BenoitP 7d ago
There's even a load-bearing in there as well
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by BenoitP 9d ago
And GLM local models can eat Anthropic's lunch just like both eat OpenAI's. Mistral's revenue is mostly B2B, and that's much more difficult to move.
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by BenoitP 9d ago
Haha :) Well, that was the joke. If you're reading this, hi Ron!
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by BenoitP 9d ago
It helps you spend more token, is more expensive, and thus is obviously more AI. Also novelty and more complexity means less scrutiny of the approach. These are necessary and perfectly sufficient for an investment firm thesis I believe.
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by BenoitP 9d ago
> That has not been the case, and I no longer think that it will be. People get by with the existing programming languages and models, that seems to be fine. .. as long as the processing they do fits in a map(). I still deeply believe th
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by BenoitP 10d ago
> Is my friend a virus for recommending me their favorite book? In that case the book would be a virus, and your friend a host. But it generalizes way wider to ideas. Religions are viruses too for example. With very strong viral mechanis
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by BenoitP 13d ago
Another project worth checking would be Quasar (and had virtual threads in 2013): https://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/ But I believe the author moved to a Big Corp which sells databases, working on some big projec
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by BenoitP 13d ago
France exports about 60TWh of electricity yearly for about 4B€. Flamanville running at 100% generates 32TWh. It is amortized in 9 years. I'd say it's doing pretty okay even with its ballooning cost.
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by BenoitP 13d ago
Took your link, changed de to en, reduced granularity weekly to daily. It looks way more spiky: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&... Also, both wind and solar (especially solar) chan
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by BenoitP 13d ago
It'd be really great if wind turbines across Germany were producing at uncorrelated times. Let's look at the wind right now: uniform wind across Germany: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2026/09/04/1200
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by BenoitP 13d ago
Diesel, or rather energy, is also a way bigger part of every single aspect of our modern world. Let's take drinking a can of coke as an example: First degree: It came into your home from the factory through the shop. 80% product + 20%
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by BenoitP 15d ago
What's wrong with https://ann-benchmarks.com/index.html ?
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by BenoitP 22d ago
They had vertical integration and made bank. Then each layer got more complex as computing became mainstream, and IBM got out-competed on everyone of them by specialized companies. And then they sold them off. The only layer that remains is
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The Proof Machine (2016)(incredible.pm)
27 points by BenoitP 2mo ago|4 comments
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by BenoitP 2mo ago
To the more exercise-inclined, there's this introductory game: https://incredible.pm/
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by BenoitP 4mo ago
Same here A potential solution would be to have a reputation system, with some light pageranking in it. People who care about their reputation are bound to rate other likewise people higher. I don't think such loyalty exists between vi
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by BenoitP 4mo ago
Not doing retrieval, but one thing I'd love to try would be active learning passes of querying. Here is a paper for large scale active learning https://cdn.aaai.org/ojs/20591/20591-13-24604-1-2-20220628.p...
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by BenoitP 5mo ago
Yet another manycore proposal, but I feel each time we're getting closer. Bandwidth is one of the few dimensions still growing, and there's something to unlock by shaping computation by this firehose of bits. However it seems the
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Full System Cost of a Resilient and Carbon Neutral Electricity System [pdf](unece.org)
4 points by BenoitP 5mo ago|0 comments
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by BenoitP 5mo ago
LCOE is good for marginal cost (eg: one more solar panel), but fails dramatically at evaluating systemic costs. A nuclear reactor moves the entire market down, including the costs to the consumer when he buys solar energy. Here is a UN docu
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by BenoitP 6mo ago
JAX is designed from the start to fit well with systolic arrays (TPUs, Nvidia's tensor cores, etc), which are extremely energy-efficient. WebGL won't be the tool that connects it on the web, but the generation after WebGPU will.
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by BenoitP 6mo ago
I believe we could get there eventually. For example for collision there is work to make it differentiable (or use a local surrogate at the collision point): https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00669 The robotics will need to c
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by BenoitP 6mo ago
Yeah :) I had a lot of fun writing the article! And it is only half a joke My intuition for so-called world models is that we'll have to plug modules, each responsible for a domain (text, video, sound, robot-haptics, physical modelling
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by BenoitP 6mo ago
Damn, I should have spent more time QA-ing that post. I'll try to patch it. You did not miss much though: it just rotates the scene.
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Jax's true calling: Ray-Marching renderers on WebGL(benoit.paris)
91 points by BenoitP 6mo ago|14 comments
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by BenoitP 6mo ago
It is AI generated. Or was written by someone a bit far from the technical advances IMHO. The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma is a very specific and powerful concept, when in the article the QLJ explanation is vacuous. A knowledgeable human wou
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by BenoitP 6mo ago
> the whole process remains differentiable: we can even propagate gradients through the computation itself. That makes this fundamentally different from an external tool. It becomes a trainable computational substrate that can be integra
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by BenoitP 6mo ago
> He's still computing cross(z, d) and dot(z, d) separately. that looks like a code smell to me. with quaternions ... Fair point, but I think you misspelled Projective Geometric Algebra
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by BenoitP 7mo ago
But the newer commenters most probably could be younger

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