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may_mccheese
2y ago
the solution is people will figure how to burn their models onto ASICs cheaply. apple model on iphone, google model on android, etc. This is tantalizing to businesses (1) you have YOUR company's model on lockdown as you see fit (2) i
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may_mccheese
2y ago
I don't think we're "really close" insofar as I feel that's been side continuously since the 1600s say. Always another thing comes. People say "everyone is richer" because the cost "nice things"
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may_mccheese
2y ago
if you're a fan of DEFCON it has been found that there are weirdo instructions on an unnamed x86 CPU that activate some sort of secondary RISC core with completely different instructions. it's not unreasanable to hypotheticate th
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may_mccheese
2y ago
The person who did this study is actually YC '2025! Developing what is called "smart pipes" to trace these types of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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may_mccheese
2y ago
AMD's secret sauce is a smart cache using like a 1 or 2 layer NN or something. We see NVIDIA's major insight long ago, to but generic compute cores on their chip (so as to no longer need to predict how many shader units, how many
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3y ago
It's a flawed premise, the whole thing, worthless. In like any science, even half-baked science, there's a case and a control. Every drug, treatment, test you're given by the doctor... there was a phase trial, cases and con
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3y ago
In medical school we were taught that basically everyone gets alzheimers, or would get it if aged up to a certain age (200, 300, etc). You could make the same argument for cancer - actually in that vein prostate cancer is a big one people