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by semisight 3y ago
Guessing as to what the GP meant--coral TPUs max out around 8M parameters, IIRC. That's a few orders of magnitude less than the smallest LLM model.
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by semisight 5y ago
More context: https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/commit/27fce189cd1cd...
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Ask HN: Has any progress been made on large format E-ink displays?
314 points by semisight 6y ago|166 comments
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by semisight 10y ago
Well this strikes close to home. During grad school, I'd drink a red bull (or two) a day. Now, I've quit caffeine completely (save a tiny cup of coffee in the morning occasionally). I hope the author has a quick and easy recovery.
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by semisight 10y ago
Playing them against each other would be a pretty cool way for the two companies' AI teams to compete though.
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by semisight 10y ago
Facebook is heavily invested in Torch, a learning framework built in Lua.
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by semisight 10y ago
A Neural Turing Machine can learn programs.
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by semisight 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you, long term (about the chips). I think that the value here is in the ecosystem. If Google can compete with CUDA, they'll be doing really well.
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by semisight 10y ago
Yup, I assume they're gonna keep them in house as a competitive advantage for a time. I doubt they'll do it forever; the most valuable part of NVIDIA's CUDA is the ecosystem, and I think Google knows that.
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by semisight 10y ago
This is huge. If they really do offer such a perf/watt advantage, they're serious trouble for NVIDIA. Google is one of only a handful of companies with the upfront cash to make a move like this. I hope we can at least see some whi
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by semisight 10y ago
For 3., I've been interested in the same. How would it work though? Would it include non-free components, or be open source? If it's open source, why would the majority of people pay? I say this as someone who would definitely pay
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by semisight 10y ago
+1 from me. My favorite feature for browsing Reddit is the RES collapsing button. If HN declines to add it, maybe someone can make an `HNES'?
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by semisight 11y ago
Almost all of the open source software in the area is permissive-licensed, and relies on non-free components (CUDA). To be honest, I'm not sure how Gneural plans to compete with those packages without support from CUDA or cuDNN, all of
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by semisight 11y ago
Can't speak for OCaml yet; I've wanted to learn for a while but decided to go with Haskell first. On the Haskell side of things--it's biggest seller (functional purity) is also the biggest downside. To give you an idea, paper
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by semisight 11y ago
Thanks, I didn't catch that. I'll have to make some time to play with this, especially once it gets further along.
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by semisight 11y ago
This seems more like MirageOS/Ling than a rumpkernel. From what I remember, rumpkernels are more general, at the cost of being less "unikernel-y" (i.e. lean and fast). I agree that it would be easier and faster to use a rumpk
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by semisight 11y ago
Noticed the same thing, wondered if I was missing some niche side effect here. TBH, I've noticed there's almost never a reason for a general reduce() in Python (to my usual dismay, as an ex-Clojure programmer). It does result in c
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by semisight 11y ago
I'm five years out from this and still remember the stress. Students are now asked to give up their present for a chance at a good future.
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by semisight 11y ago
Exciting to see this! I haven't taken a look at TensorFlow code yet but it looks very similar (method names and all) to Caffe. I've wanted a CNN library for Rust for a while. It sounds like performance is important to you. Are the
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by semisight 11y ago
Good to see this project making progress, but I don't see a changelog. What's new?
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by semisight 12y ago
140 characters may not contain the full breadth of his view on the topic. Tweets are easy to compose but myopic. All the same, I understand your point. There's definitely stuff we don't know here.
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by semisight 12y ago
Change is sorely needed, I agree. And I don't think that the Common Markdown team should be forced to be backwards-compatible (I would prefer they didn't). However, Gruber's request to simply not call it Markdown is fairly
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by semisight 12y ago
It was certainly their decision to do a clean fork or not, and I'm not judging them for wanting to take ownership of a neglected project. I was just commenting on the fact that Atwood had sent an email and expected a response in 24 hou
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by semisight 12y ago
I think those are two different issues. Gruber has a legal and moral right to ask the Common Markdown maintainers to change names. The easiest thing is just to not have a name with Markdown in it. I don't disagree that it is still most
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by semisight 12y ago
I agree with the majority here--Atwood's reaction complies with the word of the request, but not the spirit of it. On Twitter, Gruber says that he's opposed to the naming because it restricts markdown [1]. Aka, valid markdown from
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by semisight 12y ago
There technically is an "unsafe" mode, but not in the way you're thinking. You can drop down to C level by writing code in unsafe blocks and using methods prefixed with "unsafe." This will stop the compiler from doi
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by semisight 12y ago
Why? Vim is a well tested codebase. It has many features. Starting over would produce better code, but in what timeframe? I think the neovim contributors made the right decision to refactor.
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by semisight 13y ago
My grandfather helped Hyatt to write his patent. Interesting to finally see any press about him.
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by semisight 13y ago
Just an FYI however: there are lots of different subtypes of Cherry MX keys. You can go with Blue or Green switches (named for the color of the 'stem' under the key cap). They give you a Model M-style feel, with a click halfway
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by semisight 13y ago
Very cool. Reminiscent of express.js, but statically typed and in Go. I may look at this for future projects.

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