Tuna-Fish

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by Tuna-Fish 5d ago
Aren't those really easy to explain? EU opposes the Houthis because they are a horrifying slave state that distributes children as sex slaves to their troops. EU opposes Russia because it is a horrifying fascist dictatorship that has r
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by Tuna-Fish 6d ago
Rust allows much more aggressive optimization of the reference types than C++. If you have a &T, the compiler can assume that it will not change over the entire lifetime of the reference , and reorder things even past things that a C++
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by Tuna-Fish 6d ago
Or one Medusa Halo.
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by Tuna-Fish 7d ago
If nxm isn't saying that, I cannot imagine what the point of their comment was? Would you care to explain what you think it was? Why would anyone ever type that comment as a response to the comment above?
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by Tuna-Fish 11d ago
You seem to be confused about what organizations do what. ESA neither launches or builds rockets. They are an end-user, and they own the launch infrastructure in Kourou. Both these roles will exist long after Ariane is gone. Arianespace doe
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by Tuna-Fish 11d ago
Musk has benefited enormously from public contracts and policy, but all the questionable ones are in Tesla (and especially originally solarcity, but that got folded into Tesla). The government contracts that made SpaceX were all open bid, w
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by Tuna-Fish 11d ago
ESA is going to remain on the mission/payload side. ArianeSpace makes sense as a launch services provider handling everything that's not the rocket. ArianeGroup (the company that actually builds the rockets) will just become the F
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by Tuna-Fish 11d ago
That's fixed by having the CI server compile the code and run tests, and having it fail the merge and publicly shame the offender in slack when that happens. It's often said that you can't fix behavioral problems with technol
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by Tuna-Fish 12d ago
Yes and no. A single chip cannot have it's weights adjusted, once it's out, it is what it is. But also, the model weights are in a single mask rom layer, high up in the metal stack. They could manufacture the die specialized for a
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by Tuna-Fish 15d ago
Plenty of people wanted to do the work. Lot of European politicians were desperate to do the work. But it turns out that when a fascist has nukes, there's not much you can do to convince them to not be fascist.
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by Tuna-Fish 15d ago
We unfortunately have not found a way to turn our kleptokratic dictatorship neighbor into one. The greatest failure of the past 20 years was the belief that if we open up trade and grow rich together, rational self-interest will lead to lib
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by Tuna-Fish 17d ago
He tracks down where the statement "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" actually comes from, and whether the assumptions set out in the text where it was published still hold. It doesn't really contain anything ne
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by Tuna-Fish 19d ago
Many algorithms can be reasonably converted into matmul. Not many algorithms can be reasonably converted into very low precision matmul. And that's all that these things are going to do.
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by Tuna-Fish 19d ago
> Do we have a way to derive the amount of intelligence an LLM will have based on size / training / etc No? A large model obviously can be dumb, I don't think you can infer much other than by testing it. These small models
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by Tuna-Fish 19d ago
At this scale, moving from one pointer chase to multiple is almost certainly a huge loss, even if radix tree would save a lot of memory.
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by Tuna-Fish 21d ago
Designing a specific model into silicon buys you three orders of magnitude of speed and energy-efficiency. Flexible, software-defined solutions are used today because adaptability is key in an environment where people expect better models
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
At the basic job of showing a normal 24bpp photo on screen, the differences between the formats are marginal. jxl shines when you want to do anything even a little bit more complex. Support for lots more color formats, including fp ones. Su
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
No I mean literally a specific set of iirc 5 points, that none of them had ever used before, that they all did with very little variation, at the same time, one morning. They didn't all just independently end up with the same subjects
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
Huh? Stennis Space Center is a propulsion research site, it's not usable for orbital launches. There are towns south of it.
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
They want to launch to sun-synchronous.
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
In this case, southward.
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
Because as China has shown, people get angry when you drop hundreds of tons of steel and propellant on people. Rockets sometimes fail. SpaceX has one of the lowest failure rates in the industry, but that's still ~0.5%. When they fail n
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
People have been pointing out that various european fringe groups got funded by Russia for a long time. Like, they have actually been caught at it. I always thought it was a weird theory, why would they even bother? That was until the morni
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by Tuna-Fish 22d ago
The 27B one is great on a 5090. This one is basically aimed at macs, Strix halo and DGX Spark.
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by Tuna-Fish 23d ago
It has no internet access and only 8B 3-bit parameters. That's simply not enough for it to compress all that much knowledge.
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by Tuna-Fish 23d ago
The version I've had argued to me didn't change any chronology, they just insisted that the Song dynasty started earlier so the Tang shouldn't be counted. The context was weird, the person pushing it was very passionate abo
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by Tuna-Fish 23d ago
It's terrible because it's Llama 3.1 8B. It's such a crappy model because HC1 was a relatively low budget proof of concept. The team that built is working on a better implementation.
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by Tuna-Fish 24d ago
Please explain why you think cheaper/faster is not coming? All current devices used to run AI are very far from an efficient solution to the problem. What you really want is a pure dataflow architecture, instead of a von Neumann machin
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by Tuna-Fish 24d ago
Chips are made from silicon wafers that are ~0.8mm thick. The transistor layer is built on one side of the wafer (because the transistors need to be built from epitaxial silicon, that is, where all the atoms are neatly arranged, and you can
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by Tuna-Fish 27d ago
It's an interesting option for infrastructure that's not performance critical. I agree with Domen Kožar that I want an extern "fil-c" in Rust. https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/13/i-want-exter

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