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by mhast 5d ago
In the long term interconnected nations might make electricity cheap everywhere. Currently it's mostly making it more expensive everywhere else. (As someone living in south of Sweden.) Edit: But to be fair... The biggest reason it&#x27
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by mhast 7d ago
For the problems ASICs exist they vastly outperform general hardware. Typically both in absolute speed and efficiency. But it's only possible to make custom ASICs when you have a specific problem to solve. For newer crypto systems they
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by mhast 22d ago
The different models of chips and memory config have very different memory speeds as well. Eg the M4 Max 128GB has a bandwidth speed of 500GB/s+. And that's true for other models as well. But as you note, the base speed has also i
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by mhast 22d ago
The main PCB is pretty much everything that has value. The rest is a heatsink, case and PSU.
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by mhast 22d ago
The PC platforms have anemic memory bandwidth in comparison. Eg, Strix Halo is 256GB/s max. If money is a bigger limiter than performance it can be an option though. As can Nvidia DGX Spark machines. (Also limited to 128GB memory and c
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by mhast 22d ago
It's worth noting that the 5090 (or the RTX Pro 6000 big brother with 92GB VRAM) will run rings around the Mac when it comes to compute. My old 3090 is typically significantly faster (almost 2x token/s) than my M4 Max 128GB machin
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by mhast 27d ago
One case where Apple can be very useful is if you're traveling a lot for work. Wherever you are you can probably find a local store that sells and services Macbooks. So if your machine is damaged during a trip you can get it fixed, or
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by mhast 1mo ago
I think the point was that even if you managed to make a O(n*2) parser it will ve fast enough for human entered problems.
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by mhast 2mo ago
Sounds like this is similar to a decompilation (pay walled article so I haven't read it). A while back a listened to a podcast where they interviewed people doing this and it was quite interesting. (And it's an engineering podcast
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by mhast 5mo ago
Their Foundation adaptation is pretty terrible at understanding what the books are about. Going from a story where societies and not individuals are the "heroes" to people with magical powers.
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by mhast 5mo ago
I'm assuming it's meant the other way around. Given their estimates of a Mac being able to generate $1k (per month?) a 5090 with a lot more power would be able to generate $50k. For a $3k piece of hardware. Which is obviously not
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by mhast 6mo ago
Strange. I've been running it on several different ubuntu 24 04 machines with standard terminal with no issues.
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by mhast 8mo ago
But with waymos it would be possible. Mark those streets as "extremely slow" and never go there unless you are dropping someone off. (The computer has more patience than human drivers.) If that's too annoying then bad parking
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by mhast 8mo ago
The field of "AI assisted programming" is progressing extremely rapidly. Claude code (arguably the most recent large change, even if it wasn't the first of it's type) was released one year ago. After watching the video I
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by mhast 8mo ago
If you just want to play I believe the Google alternative can even run on the free tokens you get from them. It's not going to do all that much before running out of tokens but you can probably have it make a simple single page web sit
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by mhast 8mo ago
Even at the Max plan it's not unlimited. IIRC they say the limit is something like 20x the $20 plan. With "normal use" you're unlikely to hit the limit though, unless you only use the Opus model and do things in parallel
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by mhast 9mo ago
If you want to fingerprint text you can also do it by small insignificant changes to text which doesn't change the meaning. If you have a number such locations with alternatives then you can make a number of identifiable versions by co
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by mhast 9mo ago
The typical "best practice" for these tools tend to be to ask it something like "I want you to do feature X. Analyse the code for me and make suggestions how to implement this feature." Then it will go off and work for a
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by mhast 10mo ago
It is typically neither free nor open to develop on consoles. As in, you pay to access developer tools. iOS and Android less so (even if there is a one time charge for Android and a yearly charge on Apple). OTOH I have not heard of them usu
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by mhast 10mo ago
Jim Keller goes into some detail about what difference the ISA makes in general in this clip https://youtu.be/yTMRGERZrQE?si=u-dEXwxp0MWPQumy Spoiler, it's not much because most of the actual execution time is spent in
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by mhast 10mo ago
That would probably be preferable from a PR standpoint.
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by mhast 10mo ago
None of those games are made for children. Particularly not CoD and Battlefield. That doesn't mean kids don't want to play them. But Roblox is pitching itself as a safe space for kids.
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by mhast 10mo ago
"People Make Games" on YouTube made some videos about it. Recommended watching for any parent who is trying to figure out if they should allow their child on Roblox. (Spoilers, the answer is "no".)
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by mhast 10mo ago
There are Python bindings for the framework as well. Personally I could see Go being quite nice to use if you want to deploy something as eg a compiled serverless function. I'm assuming the framework behaves the same way regardless of
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by mhast 1y ago
I have a M4 Max with 128 GB memory. Even on that machine I would not consider 70B+ models to be useable. Once you go below 20 tokens/s it becomes more like having a pen pal than an AI assistant. MoE models can still be pretty fast. As
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by mhast 1y ago
It depends on the model. It's typically ok for MoE models but if you try to run something non-MoE the speed will plummet. In that same thread there are people getting 50 tok/s on MoE models and 5 on non MoE. ( https://ww
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by mhast 1y ago
Using chip and pin is what makes the system secure. The PIN is verified by the chip on the card so it can't be skimmed. (You can copy the PIN of course, but you also need the same physical chip to clone a transaction.) Signing the reci
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by mhast 1y ago
Git won't catch new files the agent is adding. To get around that you can of course always add all new files, but then you'll potentially have your repo polluted with a bunch of temporary scratch files instead. You can typically g
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by mhast 1y ago
The problem is Dunning Kruger effect. The people who shouldn't disable these security features tend to be the first to do so. And then complain the loudest when the enter the "find out" phase.
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by mhast 1y ago
As someone who used to work for a bank building applications I would say no. This is definitely a feature companies and organizations like banks would request if it wasn't available. There are a lot of scams targeting vulnerable people

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