krasin

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by krasin 7mo ago
> I'd like to see a system which attempts to reward people for the full transitive value of their work as long as the work remains valuable. To a degree, this is what copyright was supposed to do.
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by krasin 8mo ago
U-234 is ~3000x less radioactive than Pu-238, so having ~120g of U-234 is negligible. I really fail to see a problem with these tiny amounts of non-brittle material embedded into a solid case. It's still very dangerous, but it's l
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by krasin 8mo ago
I found the specs for the fuel source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/SNAP-19C_Moun... The high-power unit had 300 grams of Pu-238 in 1965. Given its 87.7 years half-life, only 187g of Pu
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by krasin 8mo ago
> that (checks notes) has the potential to poison most of North India. How large is the amount of plutonium in there? I highly doubt that it has the claimed potential.
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by krasin 9mo ago
I am usually running Claude Code in tmux on a Mac. Absolutely zero scroll issues (but I use tmux scroll for that, naturally). It's a delight.
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by krasin 9mo ago
Apple raised iPad Pro prices in 2017 by $50 to address NAND memory chips price hikes from the vendors: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/13/ipad-pro-price-increase.html
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by krasin 9mo ago
Quilter is a real deal. Hopefully, open source catches up at some point. But for now, it's Quilter or a lot of manual work & more design iterations.
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by krasin 10mo ago
Yeah, this company (GeneralistAI) is, in my opinion, the most advanced robotics+AI company in the world. Slightly behind them Google DeepMind Robotics and Physical Intelligence, and then the rest.
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by krasin 10mo ago
In the meantime, China is constructing nuclear cargo ships ([1], [2]) that will be able to transport 14,000 containers at full throttle (200MW) without a need to refuel for years. Obviously, it's still not done, and yet to prove to be
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by krasin 1y ago
I refer to the RDNA4 instruction set manual ([1]), page 90, Table 41. WMMA Instructions. They support FP8/BF8 with F32 accumulate and also IU4 with I32 accumulate. The max matrix size is 16x16. For comparison, NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 su
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by krasin 1y ago
> This sounds like a happy ending for the employees of Windsurf and a good deal for Cognition The employees were robbed from having a big cash exit. Illiquid stock options from Windsurf were converted to illiquid stock options of Devin.
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by krasin 1y ago
Not only they do not release models/weights. They don't even tell the size of the models! The linked whitepaper is pretty useless, and I am saying as a big fan of diffusion-transformers-for-not-just-images-or-videos approach. Also
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by krasin 1y ago
The story is amazing and officially available online: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by krasin 1y ago
This is just a fake product page to gauge interest. From their "order" page: > UPERFECT Omega is currently in the concept stage and will soon be put into research and development.
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by krasin 1y ago
Quote from the article: >With these innovations, the team fabricated a 1.09 cm2 flexible monolithic perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cell. Competing with top rigid counterparts, the device achieved an impressive stabilized efficiency of
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by krasin 1y ago
> Slightly tangential, but what's the state of the art in auto routing and placement these days? I always recommend quilter.ai: https://www.quilter.ai/ - they "eat" Kicad or Altium files, and produce autor
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by krasin 1y ago
It's 32GB for $1300 for Blackhole p150a([1]). The rest of your point is very true. 1. https://tenstorrent.com/hardware/blackhole
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by krasin 1y ago
They seem to be showing very decent performance results for diffusion transformers. Not so much for the autoregressive transformers (the "regular" ones).
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by krasin 1y ago
DeepSeek R1 has 671B parameters. If you want to run at 8 bits/parameter (the native format for DeepSeek R1, in which it was trained, so the top performance possible for the model), one would need about 32 Blackhole p150a ([1]), which i
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by krasin 1y ago
It's far from the first generation. Unitree has been selling robot dogs for over 6 years now and I remember them being a lot less refined. See, for example, what Unitree was selling in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by krasin 1y ago
Somewhat related: a teardown of a Unitree Go2 robot dog by iFixit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjVbW6Fc11Y TL,DR: Unitree is making a real attempt to make their robots to be at least somewhat repairable, but these robot
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by krasin 1y ago
> Is this some joke? They use Llama 2 7B? What year is it? They use llama2 to demonstrate that their compression method works. There are potential cases: 1. The method works on all / most LLMs. In this case, it does not matter on wh
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by krasin 1y ago
RealSense is a golden standard in Robotics research. ALOHA, which was one of the first swallows of the new AI+Robotics wave, was enabled by RealSense: https://aloha-2.github.io/
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by krasin 2y ago
Relevant (upcoming) book, "AI for Robotics: Toward Embodied and General Intelligence in the Physical World" from one of the authors of RT-1 (Robotic Transformer) from Google DeepMind Robotics group: https://www.amazon.c
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by krasin 2y ago
With siblings of similar age, it's much harder in the first 2-3 years (external help is essential), but then the kids considerably shortcircuit to each other, so it becomes easier than having just one, constantly bored child. Source: I
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by krasin 2y ago
Yes and no. Jetson line (which Jetson AGX Orin is a part of) is also providing multi-camera support (with MIPI CSI-2 connectors) and other real-time / microcontroller stuff, as well as rugged options via partners. I hope to see new Jet
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by krasin 2y ago
I generally agree with your analysis of the current state of art but strongly disagree with the overall conclusion of where it leads us. I believe it will take on the order of 100M hours of training data of doing tasks in real world (so, no
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by krasin 2y ago
> What is the new breakthrough in robotics that is gpu driven ? There are subsets of the overall problem that can be solved by a gpu (eg object detection) but the whole planning and control algo scheme seems to be more or less the same a
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by krasin 2y ago
You're correct on $/bandwidth. The point about low latency continues to be ignored, though.
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by krasin 2y ago
> If models keep lasting ~year timescales could we ever see people going with ROM chips for the weights instead of memory? Before ROM, there's a step where HBM for weights is replaced with Flash or Optane (but still high bandwidth,

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