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by textlapse 4mo ago
Say what you will about Sam Altman, but at least he engages with his user base and acts on user feedback. Dario and co seem to be on some elevated pedestal - us mere mortals are beneath them - and they have this scattershot devrel where eac
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by textlapse 5mo ago
At what stage does a series of floating point numbers output from a GPU become conscious?
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by textlapse 5mo ago
Does anyone here know if this would potentially help people with adult SNHL (not genetic)? i.e. for folks who got SNHL when they were >= 25 years old? Thank you.
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by textlapse 5mo ago
Working on an RL pixel platformer sandbox to learn RL and explore self-play with a playable RL agent. It’s a cross between JumpMan Jr and Spelunky 2. Very early demo with a smart dum-dum RL agent here: https://rlplays.com
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Show HN: Play against a live RL agent in a pixel platformer(rlplays.com)
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by textlapse 7mo ago
If someone could please give an octopus a waterproof keyboard, perhaps we could have a kernel, a compiler and a new internet protocol all in one.
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by textlapse 7mo ago
To really confuse it, ask it to take that tricycle with the platypus on it to a car wash.
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by textlapse 7mo ago
It's definitely possible, I am not arguing against that. I am just saying it's not as flexible/cost-free as you would on a 'normal' von Neumann-style CPU. I would love to see Rust-based code that obviates the need t
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by textlapse 7mo ago
My understanding of warp ( https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-programming-guide/01-intro... ) is that you are essentially paying the cost of taking both the branches. I understand with newer GPUs, you have clever par
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by textlapse 7mo ago
warp is expensive - essentially it's running a 'don't run code' to maintain SIMT. GPUs are still not practically-Turing-complete in the sense that there are strict restrictions on loops/goto/IO/waiting (th
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by textlapse 7mo ago
What's the performance like? What would the benefits be of converting a streaming multiprocessor programming model to this?
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by textlapse 7mo ago
I would love to see a nutritional facts label on how many prompts / % of code / ratio of human involvement needed to use the models to develop their latest models for the various parts of their systems.
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by textlapse 9mo ago
There is a big difference between paperbacks and TikTokification: Paperbacks required authors to spend the same amount of time/effort to create content with a vastly expanded market and distribution mechanism. TikTok and Insta created
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by textlapse 9mo ago
His consistency and craftsmanship is amazing. Being an engineer and coding at this stage/level is just remarkable- sadly this trade craft is missing in most (big?) companies as you get promoted away into oblivion.
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by textlapse 9mo ago
On the contrary, Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs were very customer focused - they listened to customers more so than other big tech companies. You could actually have emailed them and gotten a response (in the case of Bezos a legendary ‘?’ forwa
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by textlapse 10mo ago
This is awesome… but: On the Web, is Avalonia using Skia to render inside a Skia Canvas? **insert inception meme here** Joking aside: this points to MSFT moving away from the whole Mono/Maui investments and into Aspire or whatever they
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by textlapse 11mo ago
I wish C++ did some sane things like if I have a const member variable, allow me to initialize it as I wish in my constructor - it's a constructor for crying out loud. Don't be silly and assume if I assign it multiple times in an
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by textlapse 11mo ago
It does feel like Apple is firing on all cylinders for their core competencies. Software (iOS26), services (Music/Tv/Cloud/Apple Intelligence) and marketing (just keep screaming Apple Intelligence for 3 months and then scream
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by textlapse 11mo ago
I wonder how much of the nVidia DGX Spark announcement was meant to precede this M5 announcement by a day or two; M5 MBP has higher performance with a monitor attached and with a (bit) lower price tag. If you could yank the screen out, it p
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by textlapse 11mo ago
A curious-er question to me would be how did cephalopods (octopuses, cuttlefish) develop sophisticated intelligence a few hundred million years before ‘we’ did separately from us? And they still are alongside us right now. Which to me is fa
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by textlapse 1y ago
This looks neat. Great idea! Perhaps `dot`, `cross` etc might be useful additions.
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by textlapse 1y ago
Google Play Store on Windows really.
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by textlapse 1y ago
I sense an impending merge conflict. Seriously though this is inevitable as Fuchsia wound down and Android essentially proved its worth running on Windows (which was a nice experiment I guess).
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by textlapse 1y ago
If only there was an equivalent of the Arts funding for legit beautiful art via new media… It may be hard to find an audience (revenue) but these kind of gems should be encouraged similar to traditional art form. It is somewhat obscene that
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by textlapse 1y ago
I have worked next to an Itanium machine. It sounds like a helicopter - barely able to meet the performance requirements. We have come a long way from that to arm64 and amd64 as the default.
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A special static class that cannot be instantiated is not OOP already. C# does this well by letting you OOPfy your other code but doesn’t require you to use OOP for this monstrosity.
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What’s the cost of training vs inference? If it’s like Marvel sequels every year then there is a significant added training cost as the expectations get higher and higher to churn out better models every year like clockwork.
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Biggest drawback is the distribution medium: Chrome web store has lots of limitations (manifest v3) so the first point is moot. Installing untrusted extensions requires a leap of faith that most users won’t and shouldn’t have. Fortunately o
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I wonder if there is an LLM competition that can take the obfuscated code and return the unubfuscated/detailed code…
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by textlapse 1y ago
Tangential, but I have a basic question: What makes Aarhus (mainly its university/techhub) a powerhouse for Programming Languages? C++, C#/Typescript, Dart, etc all have strong roots in that one small area in Denmark. In general,

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