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TPU Inference Externalization Full Steam Ahead – InferenceX(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
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by eliben 1mo ago
I also remember libraries having a very small limit back in the day, so I was surprised to find out that in the Bay Area libraries typically allow up to 100 books per card!
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by eliben 1mo ago
Yes. Counterintuitive, but it make sense when you take all the factors into account (such that completely shutting down and then later restarting turbines may cost a generator more than paying someone to take power off their hands).
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by eliben 1mo ago
During certain hours of the day in California, electricity is essentially free due to solar overproduction, which sometimes causes negative wholesale prices.
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by eliben 2mo ago
Thanks for the nudge - I've added links to other posts in the series in each one (there are only 3 - you found them all!)
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by eliben 3mo ago
Joshua Tree NP <3
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by eliben 5mo ago
You're welcome :) The harnesses are documented here: https://github.com/eliben/watgo/tree/main/tests Note that I had to switch the harness from wazero to Node (unfortunately!) when it turned out waz
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by eliben 5mo ago
watgo ( https://github.com/eliben/watgo ) -- a WebAssembly toolkit for Go. Think something like wasm-tools or wabt, just in pure (0 dependency) Go.
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by eliben 6mo ago
According to the official tracker ( https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/clean-energy-serving-... and elsewhere) there were 279 days in 2025 where California was on 100% renewable for _some_ time during the day (could
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by eliben 6mo ago
California is a great example; highest electricity prices in the US (not counting Hawaii, which makes sense) despite significant hydro and fantastic solar capacity. In the last few years California runs 100% renewable on many days (and grow
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by eliben 7mo ago
Thank you for the feedback. The idea was to first define what we want the basis functions to be (a pretty abstract definition) and then develop how to actually get that from _normal_, continuous functions.
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by eliben 7mo ago
Fixed, thank you! (it's actually r(x)=p(x)-q(x)) (proof-reading through HN is a mildly embarrassing process, sorry about that! I do go over these posts and proof-read them several times myself before publishing)
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by eliben 7mo ago
Thanks for noticing, I'll fix it shortly
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by eliben 7mo ago
Right, standalone binaries for CLI tools is great. And if one has Go installed, they can just `go run ...` any tool from its GitHub path, all installation/build/caching happens automagically (meaning the execution is immediate aft
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by eliben 7mo ago
Very interesting! I encountered the problems these tools are trying to tackle just recently while trying to guide an agent into creating an in-browser tool for me. Closing the loop on a web interface isn't as simple as CLI-only tools.
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by eliben 8mo ago
The underlying issue here is that the Nobel Peace Prize is a useless, politicized joke. It appears to be almost designed to give newspapers something to write about. It's a shame it gets tied with scientific prizes which represent actu
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by eliben 9mo ago
Nice, I'm proud I managed to nerd-snipe you :-) Thanks for taking the time. Seriously, though, I think this solves a nicely framed simpler problem. I was thinking about a more general tool, but that's genuinely hard (you'll n
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by eliben 9mo ago
Great work, Simon -- thanks for sharing! One tool I'd really like to see in this format is a simple "turn the background of this PNG to transparent". Models still refuse to follow the instruction to create transparent backgro
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by eliben 9mo ago
I also enjoyed working with BF for toy compiler projects; here's a series of JIT compilers for BF in increasing level of sophistication: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/adventures-in-jit-compila...
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by eliben 1y ago
Thanks for spotting this, what a silly typo :) ... Fixed
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by eliben 1y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Regarding ring size, yes I'd say 2^64 is good. Since the representation is sparse, it seems safe but I'd be interested in hearing other views.
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by eliben 1y ago
Thanks for posting this! Just a quick note that this post is the first in a series: see https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/multiple-dispatch for the full series
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by eliben 1y ago
The Y combinator in Python: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/some-notes-on-the-y-combi... (scroll down, after the concept is explained using Clojure) A bit crazier, in Go with generics: https://eli.thegree
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by eliben 1y ago
A quick plug for https://www.goatcounter.com/ - a super lightweight visitor counter. Very much privacy oriented ( https://www.goatcounter.com/help/gdpr ). I've set it up on my blog a while ago ( htt
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by eliben 1y ago
Yes, Factor is mentioned in the first paragraph of the post!
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by eliben 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! What do you feel is not finished?
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by eliben 1y ago
Thanks for the note. Much of the blog post is dealing with this - how the approach I took for the Go implementation is not sufficient for the hacker level - because the code isn't stored anywhere but remains as text. This isn't a
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by eliben 1y ago
Indeed, generating functions are mentioned in a footnote :) Very interesting topic
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by eliben 1y ago
Plain text in git. Eternal, searchable, compact.
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by eliben 1y ago
Updated the result to 80ns - thanks for flagging this. This grows with the size of the data (because more cache misses), and running the benchmark on the full billion takes a while. [That said, on a hot production bloom filter, much can be

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