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by ykl 1mo ago
I have two Powerwalls mounted on my house and while I think they're fantastic and pretty compact for what they are, I would not describe them as anywhere near the size of a pizza box (unless you mean one of these things [1]). [1] http
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by ykl 1mo ago
This is super cool, but at least by a quick glance, I think the coverage for China is very incomplete.
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by ykl 2mo ago
One of the horses on a ball is very recognizably a James Baxter[1]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baxter_the_Horse
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by ykl 2mo ago
Why are macOS and OS X listed separately? Is it to delineate pre-2016 Macs from post-2016 Macs, when the rename to macOS happened? But in that case, I have a hard time believing that there are way more pre-2016 Macs floating around out ther
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by ykl 3mo ago
Is anyone else amused that the car shown on the landing page looks a lot like a Tesla Model Y, which famously does _not_ use any Nvidia chips (Tesla onboard computers have been AMD based for some time now)?
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by ykl 4mo ago
AWS Bedrock is other companies’ models running on separate dedicated AWS hardware, metered through AWS billing. AWS owns and operates all of the infrastructure and the client interface; the model provider basically hands over the model and
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by ykl 4mo ago
If you've used AI coding models in a large corporate setting, you'll know that a lot of big corporate deployments basically require using AWS Bedrock for two simple reasons: 1. Large companies tend to already have an existing rela
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by ykl 4mo ago
Ha, from the title alone I was hoping for a Derek Lowe article, and it is!
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by ykl 4mo ago
A medium-spicy take of mine is that a bytecode VM in a GPU kernel is not as bad of an idea as one might think, and in some cases it can actually be the most reasonable solution. Some fun examples: 1. As mentioned in the post above, the Dolp
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by ykl 4mo ago
This assumes that everything outside of the convex hull can already be described using existing language. If you need new language to describe what is outside of the convex hull, is this something an LLM can do? I actually don't know t
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by ykl 4mo ago
I was a little muddy in my original post on distinguishing between what I think LLMs might be able to do and what AI broadly might be able to do. I'm skeptical LLMs can expand the hull or add dimensions to the space; but I also don&#x2
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by ykl 4mo ago
I think of most things you can get to by guess and checking as definitionally inside of the hull; most forms of guess and checking are you take some existing thing, randomize a bunch of its parameters, and see what you get. Whereas with som
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by ykl 4mo ago
I like to think of it as: Imagine every bit of human knowledge as a discrete point within some large high dimensional space of knowledge. You can draw a big convex hull around every single point of human knowledge in a space. A LLM, being t
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by ykl 4mo ago
At the time of the announcement IIRC the deal was only for Colossus 1. Is Anthropic also leasing Colossus 2 new? At the time the consensus narrative was that SpaceX no longer needed Colossus 1 for Grok and that was why it could be leased to
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by ykl 4mo ago
I wonder how many other people do this: when my wife and I do long roadtrips, we use Costcos as waypoints. Need to refuel? Costco gas is always cheaper than whatever other fill up station is nearby. Need to re-up on snacks (and maybe see wh
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by ykl 5mo ago
Something I really like about this post is that I think the high-level takeaway from this post is generally applicable far outside of the India AI industry. Sure, the specific application here is the AI industry and that's certainly th
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by ykl 5mo ago
At least for me Claude Code is still working on my Pro plan. I don't know if that's because the change simply hasn't propagated all the way through their systems yet (the change is now up on the main Claude pricing page and o
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by ykl 5mo ago
I'm really hopeful about John Ternus stepping into the CEO role. Pretty much everything he's done leading Apple's hardware engineering has been an enormous unqualified success, and for a company like Apple, having hardware le
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by ykl 6mo ago
No, it’s not. MLX is Apple’s NumPy more or less.
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by ykl 6mo ago
No, MLX is nothing like a Cuda translation layer at all. It’d be more accurate to describe MLX as a NumPy translation layer; it lets you write high level code dealing with NumPy style arrays and under the hood will use a Metal GPU or CUDA G
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by ykl 6mo ago
Wouldn’t “insanely great”/“it’s shit” be more Steve than “genius”/“it’s shit”?
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M5 Max MacBook Pro beats Nvidia RTX 5090 laptops at Blender 5.1 rendering(opendata.blender.org)
1 points by ykl 6mo ago|1 comments
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by ykl 6mo ago
That is not just your opinion, that is the opinion of multiple United States Court of Appeals circuits in many many cases, and by its declining to overturn these cases, that is also the opinion of the United States Supreme Court. The United
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by ykl 6mo ago
If you aren’t familiar with the Amen Break, here’s a now classic 18 minute documentary on the Amen Break and its origins and evolution: https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac?si=J99_Sh9x3fIBCSms
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by ykl 6mo ago
Yeah, it used to be true that server GPUs at least somewhat resembled their gaming counterparts (i.e. Nvidia Tesla server components from 12+ years ago); they were still PCIe cards, just with server-optimized coolers, and fundamentally shar
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by ykl 6mo ago
I hadn't seen arun.is before; I really like this one! Thanks for the share!
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by ykl 6mo ago
One I like is Tom Macwright’s blog [1], which somewhat famously loads insanely fast thanks to having a sort of the web equivalent of a brutalist design while still looking nice [2]. [1] https://macwright.com/ [2] https:&#x
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Claude's Corner(claudeopus3.substack.com)
2 points by ykl 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ykl 8mo ago
I think this project is best described by one of my favorite quotes from Top Gear: “an ingenious solution to a problem that should never have existed in the first place”.
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by ykl 8mo ago
Hi! Original post author here. When I first started at Disney Animation, at one point I asked Ed Catmull what the rationale was for staffing two separate rendering teams, and he had an interesting answer. His answer was that it turns out th

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