prezk

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by prezk 20d ago
'modern' is such an omnibus of a term. I was recently looking at Jasper John's American Flag and it hit me that the stars are weird---because it is from 1955 so before Hawaii and Alaska, and so it has 48 stars in even rows. I
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by prezk 3mo ago
Well, your computer is a Von Neumann machine that does not separate data from instructions, right? The techniques that secured it are not directly applicable to LLMs but in principle there must be ways to track them.
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by prezk 4mo ago
All the while, Linux is going towards reproducible builds (Debian just announced it as a policy). This is of course the only sane way for FOSS, and, I believe, the only sane long term approach in any case. Security by obscurity, while not w
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by prezk 6mo ago
Sorry, SM-4 not SM-1, was a full emulation of 11/40, with UNIBUS, and all. There were DEC copyright strings latent in some system files. It was a pretty good copy, but quite unreliable, and the reason was quite pedestrian---the connect
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by prezk 6mo ago
No, they disassembled German optics industry plants in 1945, moved them to the Soviet Union and started cranking out great cameras based on German designs. I've heard that some Soviet cameras had Leica labeled parts inside. Stuff like
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by prezk 6mo ago
Important factor is that AC at given nominal voltage V swings between 1.41V and -1.41V, so it requires let's say 40% better/thicker insulation than the equivalent V volts DC line. This is OK for overhead lines (just space the wire
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by prezk 6mo ago
An advanced AI rack might use 100kW = 800V 125A, requiring gauge 2, quarter inch diameter---this isn't your lol speaker wire. Actually, I apologize, I realized I may be talking to a serious audiophile, didn't mean to disrespect yo
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by prezk 8mo ago
Maybe LLMs are like a next evolution of a rubber ducky: you can talk to it, and it's very helpful, just don't expect that IT will give you the final answer.
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by prezk 8mo ago
Pretty much every laptop on the planet will run Linux. Maybe your optics are tinted because you seem to be a Mac person, and Linux support for newer Macs has known issues with low power modes. I note how your 12+ hour claim was reduced to 5
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by prezk 8mo ago
Linux will run on most platforms, so just pick up a fast, lightweight laptop, and select a conservative power profile for longer battery life and less heat, and don't run 32-thread machine learning jobs on it. A 12-hour laptop battery
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by prezk 9mo ago
You could run on 5V with a boost voltage converter to 12V. For extra credit, you could run the USB-PD off 5V, negotiate 12V and only then switch it to the load.
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by prezk 10mo ago
Normally a wafer would have die-sized spaces for test structures used for optical, electrical, chemical and other tests. Think the TV test card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_card
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by prezk 2y ago
apparently all Western Digital drives have a RISC-V controller, as well as NVIDIA graphic cards https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Tue1100_Nvidia_... WCH makes a microcontroller that sells fo
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by prezk 4y ago
It is just two years younger than the University of Constantinople, established in AD 425 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Constantinople