kimixa

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by kimixa 6d ago
Often not in the same way - even if there are multiple queues (that can be given a priority), they're often limited in what they can schedule between. Often there's shared resources that are statically allocated to shaders (regist
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by kimixa 11d ago
Realistically the models will always be resident in the GPU during processing - the CPU and it's memory would probably more be used for related development tasks (as this is a workstation not a cloud server). If it's just runn
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by kimixa 22d ago
Yeah, but then there's the size of KV cache needing to be read through that HBM interface for each token, putting a hard limit on the tok/s based on the memory bandwidth. On some models a large context can be a notable proportion
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by kimixa 1mo ago
Yes, the "Big Scary Numbers" listing CCTV cameras per capita include private cameras, which can outnumber "public" (government, council and police) cameras by orders of magnitude. In the UK these include those owned by b
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by kimixa 1mo ago
There's the simple physics of a vtol craft when landing needing to push down a lot of a air very fast just to lift an average human - plus the weight of the craft itself. There's a reason helicopters today don't land on str
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by kimixa 1mo ago
No, but to most people the only exposure they've had to the term "Effective Altruism" (if they've even heard of the it) is morality-washing personal greed that never quite seems to get past the "accumulation" o
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by kimixa 2mo ago
A spaced en-dash is also commonly used in British english for the parenthesis equivalent. So it's not really "anglosphere". While there's no central authority, both Oxford and Cambridge University press style guidelines
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by kimixa 3mo ago
It mostly works because the object you're sling-shotting with is moving relative to the initial origin of the probe - if you can line it up so the object is moving in the direction you want to accelerate in you can get it to "drag
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by kimixa 3mo ago
Yeah, many of the theoretical solar sail ideas fall down on what I consider a useful "probe" is, and what it can mass. As mentioned in my other comment, if you define the "probe" to be "a single particle" we &#
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by kimixa 3mo ago
It might help a bit, as you mentioned that Voyager is currently going about ~17km/s, so nearly 0.005% c, so it's already nearly 1/200th of the way there to our target of 1% c. But then you're at a velocity so far beyond
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by kimixa 3mo ago
Space sails are super low thrust though, even lower than my VASIMIR example - so will take even longer to reach the desired speed - though they have the advantage of not having to carry the complex and heavy engine I ignored that in the rou
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by kimixa 3mo ago
No, not even close. The issue is simply exhaust velocity and reaction mass, that leads us into the tyranny of the rocket equation - in that you have to carry that reaction mass with you and accelerate that mass too. Even if you had magic
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by kimixa 3mo ago
They're really simple - arguably the problem is people try to treat them as a single complex unit rather than just "5 junctions in a row". Trying to think of them as a whole is rather pointless and self defeating, as there&#x
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by kimixa 3mo ago
Even then the "reserved" section is a carve out guaranteed chunk to allow stuff that might need contiguous physical memory (display scan out buffers and page tables, for example) and similar. The GPU can still happily use all the
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by kimixa 3mo ago
Imgur were found to be in breach of the data collection laws before any "you must check IDs" laws were even discussed in parliament, let alone passed, where the guidance was pretty much "Don't get caught actively selling
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by kimixa 4mo ago
I find this amusing as Apple were the people I had direct interactions with that didn't run stuff like fuzzers or sanitizers as a matter of course - at least not in the situations I was involved with. Though this was ~3 years ago now
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by kimixa 4mo ago
I remember this being a thing done a while back using linux's MTD/phram drivers - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM - not sure if that's still relevant though as I don't know how it
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by kimixa 4mo ago
A modern allocator with per-thread cache can satisfy some allocations in 20-30 cycles - dynamic dispatch can easily double that, even if the target is still in cache. It's one of these things where it's extremely use case dependan
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by kimixa 4mo ago
I think the real point is they didn't - until it became a "marketing" thing for another company who did it for them. A lot of these issues would be highlighted by "legacy" (pre-AI) analysis tools. The issue is t
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by kimixa 4mo ago
And the ones who get the "payday" are just the ones we've heard of. How many people didn't get media attention, don't have the ability (time/money) to sue, lost that case, and those where the intimidation and
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by kimixa 4mo ago
But each new customer is still losing money. As I said, subsidized growth only matters if you can recoup those subsidies afterwards - and that's what I'm not sure will be true. I think the idea of "all growth is good no matte
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by kimixa 4mo ago
From what I've seen pretty much every company is limited by hardware supply, to the level where's there complaints from current customers about the speed of new customer growth is exceeding their ability to service them properly.
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by kimixa 4mo ago
Get back to me when there's an AI company that's actually profitable and we can compare their service and pricing. Claiming that there's some small subset of their services (like inference per token) that's "profi
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by kimixa 4mo ago
For higher than audible frequency sample rates there's a good chance you can tell the difference. It often causes weird aliasing and harmonics in the more audible frequencies on "real" playback equipment. You can train your
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by kimixa 4mo ago
And bottled water likely varies by at least a similar amount - they're not testing and re-printing every bottle after all.
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by kimixa 4mo ago
Yeah, many of the things we consider part of what an "Operating System" provides to programs today were provided by DOS Extenders (or forwarded to something like windows if running under that). DPMI was pretty much an "Operat
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by kimixa 4mo ago
Publishing things that are still available for purchase from storefronts (like steam and gog) seems to be stretching the definition of "abandonware". While many people would likely justify their piracy with the idea that "The
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by kimixa 4mo ago
No, that didn't happen. You're confusing two different events together. The guy who posted the photo of brown skinned people with the "imagine the smell" comment was American and lost his job. The UK wasn't involv
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by kimixa 4mo ago
Note that the quoted laws also cover things that would be restraining or harassment orders in the USA.
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by kimixa 5mo ago
I think the sheer number of people below arguing it might not be about nationalism shows this sort of "Obvious" direct work may still be needed.

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