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by sunpazed 3mo ago
I’m a vintage calculator tragic! I love what the C43/47 communities are doing in reviving RPL and RPN for a modern audience. What’s even more amazing, is that the DB48x calculator is a singular dev effort by the talented Christophe de
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by sunpazed 10mo ago
This is really impressive. At these speeds, it’s possible to run agents with multi-tool turns within seconds. Consider it a feature rich, “non-deterministic API” for your platform or business.
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by sunpazed 1y ago
Thanks so much for delivering on this model. It’s great as a draft model for speculative decoding. Keep up the great work!!
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by sunpazed 1y ago
Don’t have enough ram for this model, however the smaller 20B model runs nice and fast on my MacBook and is reasonably good for my use-cases. Pity that function calling is still broken with llama.cpp
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by sunpazed 1y ago
In my testing, tokens per sec is half the speed of the GPU, however the power usage is 10x less — 2 watts ANE vs 20 watts GPU on my M4 Pro.
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by sunpazed 1y ago
The key benefit is significant lower power usage. Benchmarked llama3.2-1B on my machines; M1 Max (47t/s, ~1.8 watts), M4 Pro (62t/s, ~2.8 watts). The GPU is twice as fast (even faster on the Max), but draws much more power (~20 wa
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by sunpazed 1y ago
Love this! The C64 introduced me to the world of computers as a kid. I still have that almost 40 year old machine in my collection, but I’m weary of failure every time I turn it on. This is somewhat better than the MiSTer as I can use physi
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by sunpazed 1y ago
Let’s remind ourselves that MCP was announced to the world in November 2024, only 4 short months ago. The RFC is actively being worked on and evolving.
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by sunpazed 1y ago
While I’m a fan, we’re not using MCP for any production workloads for these very reasons. Authentication, session management, etc, should be handled outside of the standard, and outside of the LLM flow entirely. I recently mused on these he
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by sunpazed 1y ago
Funny to see you here. I’m from operata.io (also a Melbourne based startup) and would see your website (operatr.io) when I would mis-spell mine!
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by sunpazed 1y ago
I had the same frustration and wanted to see "under the hood", so I coded up this little agent tool to play with MCP (sse and stdio), https://github.com/sunpazed/agent-mcp I really is just json-rpc 2.0 under
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by sunpazed 2y ago
Great stuff! I used both LiteLLM and Langfuse for a recent project at work — both tools were instrumental in development and deployment. Looking forward to seeing how this collaboration develops.
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by sunpazed 2y ago
Even though I have a reasonable intuition and understanding of how a LLM works, I am still awe-struck each and every time I use one. The fact that I have a junior developer at my convenience is a huge efficiency gain. I’ve been able to auto
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by sunpazed 2y ago
Operata | Data Engineer, Business Dev + others | REMOTE (AU & US) | Full-time Operata is building the world's first observability platform for Cloud Contact Centers. We're a VC-backed, small 13 person team — and have grown sig
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by sunpazed 2y ago
This is an unfair and snide take on Woz. We are literally standing on the shoulders of giants — Woz happens to be one of them.
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by sunpazed 2y ago
I have a few vintage programmable HP calculators that implement CORDIC on their 4-bit CPUs. You can also program them to calculate the Taylor expansion of sin() as another approximate method. If you liked this, it’s worth reading Donald Knu
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by sunpazed 2y ago
I had a .beats watch and found it never really achieved its aim of abstracting timezones — I’d wake up at @895 and head to bed at @580. I’d cross the 1000 boundary each day, which did nothing but highlight the international timezone differe
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by sunpazed 2y ago
Interestingly outside of games and consoles there are “emulators” that run classic HP calculators in the store. They emulate the HP Nut processor which runs small ROM dumps.
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by sunpazed 3y ago
https://longform.asmartbear.com/logo/
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by sunpazed 3y ago
The “European hacker-culture demo” from Ezra’s Amiga is likely State Of The Art or 9 Fingers from Spaceballs — both really cool scene demos: https://youtu.be/89wq5EoXy-0 https://youtu.be/n4M7e79XTYk These e
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by sunpazed 3y ago
After our fancy fridge died, we purchased a “dumb” Mitsubishi Electric WX Series fridge. No LCD panels, no wifi, no time. It’s tiny at only 470L, however it’s designed for maximum storage in small Japanese apartments, so we can fit heaps of
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by sunpazed 3y ago
A coffee table book about Keyboards that is also a functioning Keyboard /s
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by sunpazed 3y ago
This technology has been around for a while on a number of different platforms. Wizzard VHS on the C64 predates this from about 1987-88 https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61209
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by sunpazed 3y ago
> “The tragedy of the Luddites is not the fact that they failed to stop industrialization so much as the way in which they failed. Human rebellion proved inadequate against the pull of technological advancement.” https://www.n
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by sunpazed 3y ago
The Game Boy is by far my most favourite console of all time. I’m currently writing a game for it in ASM (a pinball-dungeon crawler). The hardware is simple to understand, and the restrictions require you to be creative.
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I understand where this is coming from. I had a short 4 year stint in a mid-size tech company, and led a small 16 person team. We managed to build and scale a fairly successful product, to the surprise of the much larger and well resourced
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I’d agree — but would argue affordable for a sponsored dissertation program with 3 research students and an associate professor. They’re actually still training it!
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by sunpazed 3y ago
> While LLM projects typically require an exorbitant amount of resources, it is important to remind ourselves that research does not need to assemble full-fledged massively expensive systems in order to have impact. Check out TinyLlama;
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Rolex have innovated consistently with their movements and oyster cases, and their manufacturing quality is amazing. Their business practices are questionable though, as the article highlights. I can walk into an AD today and walk out with
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I would argue that they used to be. Back in the 70s a Rolex was seen and marketed as more of a “tool watch” than a luxury item.

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