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Read the first two words of my comment again.

We're talking about the choice of Python for ML when CUDA came along, nearly 20 years ago. Upthread, alaties said:

> Around 2007, the main competitors in the scripting space had a lot of issues: [...]

> Perl [...] unstable

RadiozRadios replied:

> Huh? Please elaborate.

I did.

In 2007, Perl 6 was not Raku, it was intended to be the next major version of Perl. But it had been in development for ~7 years already, couldn't be relied on or predicted, and had become a bit of a joke. Since Perl 6 was still supposed to be the future of Perl, in 2007 Perl very much seemed unstable and unsuitable as a foundation for ML research.
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Sounds like something that would happen in Broken Sword.
Do Siri queries not fall back to GPT4o in older devices? That seems weird because the inference is done in the cloud.

But 100m figure seems small. There are ~100m Apple Silicon Macs sold in the last 4 years. That's not including any M1+ iPads or iPhone 15 Pros.

I'm guessing maybe 250m? Still a ton of queries and usage. It's not just Siri. I believe features like optimize email response also uses GPT4o.
How did you get to this very strange understanding from what I wrote ?

We have two arguably distinct operations so we might want two operators, but you have instead invented a plethora, seeming to understand that somehow the operators ought to depend on the type, which is part of the original mistake.

(5 // 2 == 2) whereas (5 / 2 == 2.5) those are two distinct operations

In many places Rust for example chooses to provide multiple operations but to only grant the most C-like operation an operator, e.g. (-15_i32).div_euclid(2) is -8 that's Euclidean division but (-15_i32) / (2) is -7 as you'd likely expect in C
It might be some form of metal corrosion. The change from metal to metal oxide can be accompanied by an increase in volume which can lead to some very fanciful structures.
I don't believe in neither, but I can admit that if we ignore placebo effect. The homeopathy has zero change of doing anything. On other hand with acupuncture you could technically hit something that would have some sort of effect... At least you have tiny amount of physical effect on body. Where as with homeopathy it is either sugar pill or water without anything in it.
I suspect it wouldn't be a lot of effort to make android chrome have the full desktop UI. The Chromium codebase is all one piece, and rendering of the UI is already unified between mac/windows/linux, so making the android build render a desktop-like UI is probably a simple job. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the right set of build flags can do it already.
The article includes a quote from the creator of Sponsorblock saying "This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times".
I hope not! We don’t know how this happened, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some outdated, unintuitive software that makes it easy to make mistakes was involved.
I think the perception is that humans can discover new information to question and improve what they learned, while LLM's cannot.
When I was a child I often explored problems using BASIC. It was a really powerful way for me to creatively learn. I tend to think in pictures and find maths hard to truly understand. Coding allows me to create pictures and relationships in my head. I was lucky to find this out when I was young. I'd be lost without it.
Back when EVGA was still selling GPUs ...
Without proper statistical metrics (why use average when 95% percentile is widely used?) and performance/watt this is a useless comparison.
JLC's polished stencils will happily work at 0.2mm pitch for ~$10.
> I know a fair number of them personally and they are often very young, generally inexperienced, highly intelligent, but with a hefty dose of hubris.

Part of the issue is that we keep calling these people “highly intelligent” and that is all they and others focus on. That is how we get the Zuckerbergs of the world. Their hubris is not a “but” (as if it were unrelated), it is instead a direct consequence of that unqualified praise.

But qualification is important. Intelligence is relative to the domain it is applied to. Being highly logical is often conflated with being intelligent, but being good at computers has zero relation to emotional intelligence, social intelligence, environmental intelligence, or any of the myriad of important types of intelligence which are useful to humanity.

Basically, stop calling those idiots “highly intelligent” or “geniuses” because they can make a line go up and have an irrational market throw money at them. You’re praising them for the characteristics that make them selfish.
Warning from an old Usenet fungus newsgroup: "If you collect fungi to eat you should always take three samples: one for the pot, one for the doctor and one for the coroner."
So just the CPU at idle pulling more than twice the Pi, about the same as a Pi4 running a CPU stress-test, depending on what figures you take.

I had a look around and there are many values out there, just under 3W idle and about 7W spinning the CPU seem like reasonable values (to get better data I might have to try properly testing mine – I've got an overly fancy USB3 cable that displays the power passing through, so I could do that at some point, at least approximately).

Figures for mini PCs obviously vary by model, but also you see a lot of different figures for the same model (some of the difference could be due to differences in storage power draw, some don't say if they have an SSD or traditional disk, and some could be differences in ambient heat affecting draw for cooling? age may also have an effect on the efficiency of fan motors) but between 9W and 15W (mostly below 12) at idle feels like a reasonable guess based on those quick searches. This is lower than I was expecting. The official rating for an Optiplex 3070 (picking a random model from the popular ones) is “up to 1.2W” which is far lower than people have measured in their own tests so I'll not be trusting official values.

Of course the PiZero or similar would draw less than anything else I've already mentioned, though to be a router I'd need to add at least some NICs to that, some extra storage (given one of my concerns is running the router off an SD card), and would lose some CPU resource (the Zero 2 is roughly equivalent to a Pi3 there?) and a goodly chunk of RAM.
Okay.

Still curious if Apple "at least" has to pay the cloud-compute for the "free" OpenAI services they use (with OpenAI just licensing them their product for free) or if Apple really gets free AI-features AND 30% RevShare from handling sales of Premium OpenAI accounts...

I can't imagine that the profit of sold Premium subscriptions for OpenAI is sufficient to pay for the infrastructure hundreds of million iPhone users will consume using the free account.

Moreover, with Apple obviously executing their usual playbook, being the gatekeeper and total owner of all statistics, then slowly diverting traffic to their own products and cutting out the supplier...
It also still has some stuff to munch on, despite the dice still playing a huge part. You can feel some sort of tactical positioning more or less impossible in a lot of classic board games.

Still kinda rough though
Blackwell won't be here till next year.
I'm Italian and I have no clue who Zeb even is.
Ok no problem, I'll just ideology to run things.
The DAX is only 40 companies, most of which make real products rather than advertising mechanisms. Making real physical things just doesn't scale, and never will.

While I would enjoy a US tech salary, I'm not sure we want a world where all manufacturing is set aside to focus on the attention economy.

Nvidia value deserves to be much higher than any company on the DAX (maybe all of them together, as it currently is) - but how much of that current value is real rather than an AI speculation bubble?
BGAs generally call for more complicated reflow profiles (including vapor phase reflow for very large BGAs - think 40mm+ FPGAs) and require X-ray inspection (if doing inspection at all.) BGA balls can have under-body solder voids, etc. BGA devices also generally specify a specific solder to use (leaded or lead-free won't be interchangeable.)

Generally, all single-row package pin layouts are easier than double-row (BGA, WLCSP, 2-row QFN) to reflow.
I'd still say you surround yourself with... mediocre incompatible folks to keep things polite, a friend is a too strong and overused word that should actually mean something.

A lot of people, I'd say most, desperately want friends and will take quantity over quality anytime. Beggars can't be choosers? It works till it doesn't, and life brings SHTF situations from time to time. You can do serious compromises just to keep them, but I wouldn't call that a proper friendship. Freedom of mind and action that certainly isn't.

I'd take 1-2 good friends with similar life views over an army of acquaintances anytime. But that's me. Its extremely hard to find them, most of childhood friends don't qualify since we end up very different and sometimes incompatible people. And nobody is perfect, neither me nor you, so its good to keep it just a bit humble within all that.
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Having living spaces too hot has a substantial effect on productivity. Bad sleep, lethargy, etc.

As a government, it's probably a good move to encourage installation of AC in your citizens homes even if it only gets used a couple of days a year simply for the productivity benefits.

Unfortunately, current UK policies on Heat Pumps specifically discourage installation of AC (you become ineligible for various grants if your heat pump system has a valve to allow use as an AC system).
Cool story. How supported is OpenCL compared to CUDA again?
> I cannot stress strongly enough that direct comparisons between LLMs and experts on the Internet are inappropriate.

In this context, I very much agree. But I'd like to stress that "experts on the Internet" is not what 99% of the users read 99% of the time, because that's not what search engines surface by default. When you make e.g. food or law or health-related queries, what you get back isn't written by experts - it's written by content marketers. Never confuse the two.

> A researcher can also query multiple sources to determine how much there is concensus about.

> You can't do that with LLMs.

A person like that will know LLMs hallucinate, and query multiple sources and/or their own knowledge, and/or even re-query the LLM several times. Such people are not in danger - but very much annoyed when perfectly reasonable queries get rejected on the grounds of "safety".
I guess it's a sign that the CIA and the US military don't do their dirty jobs for them anymore.

In another 100 years they might actually get a real sentence.
LLMs aren't indexes. You can't query them. There's no way to know if a piece of information exists within it, or how to access the information.
The linux kernel is full of binary blobs. For better or worse..
> A smart speaker is almost an essential device among my group of friends.

You live in a bubble
It’s interesting; we’ve lived within capitalism so long, it sounds reasonable for you to (archly) ask “do you not think all companies… should maximise their profits?” - as it that’s a given, and anyone even treading around questioning this fundamental is by default wrong, or forgetful, or crazy. It’s almost as if had moved from being a choice, to an immutable natural law.

But I’m coming to the conclusion —more powerfully in the recent few years— that not only is this an issue that should be debated, but the pursuit of profit above all else is responsible to a greater or lesser degree for many of the ills that we see and suffer in our societies. And from my European perspective, I believe that it is responsible for America (its culture, way of life, the ‘American way’) fracturing and falling apart.
> UK housing has really high insulation requirements for new builds. Your body heat will keep it warm most of the year. They are starting to require retrofits for old buildings too.

UK housing is mostly quite old - an average age of 50 years or so. Modern insulation requirements only became law in the last 20 years. Most houses aren't particularly well insulated - and most houses haven't had much retrofit work done. The UK is really far behind most of Northern Europe in this regard.

I think the rest of your reasons are valid. Average floor area is probably half that of a US house. Domestic air conditioning is almost unheard of. Almost everyone heats with natural gas.

Heating is a huge part of energy demand - around 25% of UK total energy goes into space heating - so if you're not doing that via electricity then average energy consumption per house will be much lower.
I spent my life looking for such an elegant tome. If I had discovered it when I was 15 maybe my life would have been happier.

Utilitarian programming is like utilitarian food. Programming should be seen as an act of worship to the god of simplicity. If the artificial world intrudes and makes the program complicated, this is what leads to suffering. Ultimately it is the world which should be changed.
I hear this a lot, but most people -- even otherwise-startup people, even if they interview -- don't get to work at a FAANG.

And I think starting now at a FAANG is a lot less lucrative than people seem to think for the average (or even above-average) employee. Certainly nowhere near as lucrative as it was 7-10 years ago or more.
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> If the book archive is electronic, like many in fact are, why can you not get a copy of the book with a given ISBN without altering anything?

Because new books are written?

It feels to me that you are set on insisting that a prompt and an ISBN are the same, and no amount of logic will move you from there.
There used to be far more (sometimes ocean-going) RORO ferries than there are now, Herald of Free Enterprise and Estonia really reduced the market to areas where the ferries are pretty much essential.
1. improving their adtech. someone else's API offerings are not an option due to the sheer volume, PII and whatnot.

2. virtually free moderation for their existing (facebook, instagram, threads) and future social media services. likewise, their volume is too insane to even consider paying someone else to process it.

the models they do release are probably toys in comparison to their internal models.
> these are all interpretations of the same type of event

Sure. But legally--and culturally--very different. If someone doesn't see that, they probably shouldn't be commenting on the law. (Practically speaking, they probably aren't.)
This is the key.

Everyone is happy to give the government extra power for things they don’t like but rarely consider they would use it for things they don’t like
Not saying I disagree with your conclusion, but if the question is about which is more likely from the perspective of an individual considering going either route, there’s also an implicit “given that an attempt was made”. You’re only comparing the absolute occurrence of each type of event rather than the occurrence relative to the number of attempts made.
A certain leak rate is expected. Helium is a very small atom, and as such is used for leak testing of systems all the time. It is very good at finding gaps in a system.

Obviously the leaks here are a lot more serious. My experience of significant leaks in spacecraft propulsion would lead me to believe that there are welding issues. It can be very difficult to weld some of the materials used in these system, adding to the fact that they are all bound to be very thin walled. Cracks in welds can be hard to find, although I would expect every weld in a system like this to be X-ray inspected, and maybe also penetrant tested.

On the projects I have seen with issues like this, the main culprit has been steps in a procedure being skipped. Inspections signed off despite not being performed. I would highly doubt that this is the case here though, even with Boeings recent track record. Human spaceflight is treated different.
How much time does it take to place a DFN-8 flash chip and 6 routes in reality?

The RP2040 is absolutely usable from simple registers and documentation, not sure where you got this idea.

The reason you want multiple megabytes of space in a professional product: identically-sized bootloader partitions for trial boots.
The electricity consumption in the cloud is not really important.

The H100 rents for about $4.5/hr consuming 0.7kWh in that hour which will likely cost them less than 7 cents.
Why are the STM32 ring oscillators any different than the one in the RP2040? (If you mean crystal-free USB FS - yeah, that's a nice little feature, but this is the only difference that I am aware of.)
I'm skeptical of these benchmarks for a number of reasons.

1. They're only comparing against VLLM, which isn't SOTA for latency-focused inference. For example, their vllm benchmark on 2 GPUs sees 102 tokens/s for BS=1, gpt-fast gets around 190 tok/s. https://github.com/pytorch-labs/gpt-fast
2. As others have pointed out, they're comparing H100 running with TP=2 vs. 2 AMD GPUs running independently.

Specifically,

> To make an accurate comparison between the systems with different settings of tensor parallelism, we extrapolate throughput for the MI300X by 2.

This is uhh.... very misleading, for a number of reasons. For one, at BS=1, what does running with 2 GPUs even mean? Do they mean that they're getting the results for one AMD GPUs at BS=1 and then... doubling that? Isn't that just... running at BS=2?

3. It's very strange to me that their throughput nearly doubles going from BS=1 to BS=2. MoE models have an interesting property that low amounts of batching doesn't actually significantly improve their throughput, and so on their Nvidia vllm benchmark they just go from 102 => 105 tokens/s throughput when going from BS=1 to BS=2. But on AMD GPUs they go from 142 to 280? That doesn't make any sense to me.
Buy a "chimney sheep". Made a huge difference to me.
Hello Many People. I am boxed.
Try the PY32 series MCUs for better bang-for-your-buck: https://www.lcsc.com/products/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPU...
Nvidia expects to ship 420k Blackwell chips this year.
It doesn't matter. AMD has offered better compute per dollar for a while now, but noone switched because CUDA is the real reason why all serious ML people use Nvidia. Until AMD picks up the slack on their software side, Nvidia will continue to dominate.
This device does not need a WiFi for any reason. A microsd with the entire database of messages (encrypted) would have made the device cheaper, safer, consuming less energy (not an expert, but I guess that those solar cells you see in calculators could power 1 e-ink transition/minute forever), still upgradeable and a better product overall.
We went from "the judges couldn't tell it was AI generated" to "the judges couldn't tell it was real". What a world we live in
Yes, where the "union activists and unruly workers" represent the rival armed group.
I'm happy to share, however, if I don't (90% of cases) it's because my code is basically extremely specific garbage with environment variables hardcoded. To share such would mean actual work to make it useful to more than me.
Also see: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_I...
It's kind of mad that the US houses are an average of 2000 square feet, yet if you watch some of the "New York apartment tour" videos on YouTube they are often far smaller than even what you'd find in London. The kitchens are often absolutely pitiful little spaces, especially considering the multi-thousand-dollar rents.
QSPI NOR flash pins are labeled basically the same on every single MCU, routed using the same guidelines, etc.

DFN-8 ICs take up 2x3mm and take 30 seconds to route.
Nearly all car mods pass inspection. Look at what is actually checked: safety and emissions. Nothing about speed, appearance, sound, horsepower, ride height, or stock state. And moreover: if you modify a car that fails inspection, it’s on you, not the manufacturer!
Apparently they're importing drafts and direct messages too, somehow?

https://wedistribute.org/2024/06/maven-mastodon-posts/

I'm not sure how that's possible, but it seems kinda worrying that ActivityPub lets you trivially make that mistake when mirroring data.
Try <1µA/MHz active current consumption on the Ambiq Apollo4 chips.
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Did you ever read package leaflet of mask?
Zero of these MCUs have anything resembling the quality of CoreSight/CMSIS-DAP/Keil/etc.
A free standing house at only 49 m^2? Is that typical in the UK? The US average size for single family homes was triple that back in the 1970’s. Today it’s more like 5 times that size.
Potential ozone depletion from satellite demise during atmospheric reentry
Not "DFU" as in an implementation of the USB DFU 1.1 class, but a hardware boot ROM with spiritually the same mechanisms exists.
I'd say the biggest problem was that they developed the language in isolation. Lattner is not making that mistake with Mojo
so very true
And offering warranty. And not doing stealth total component change under same sku.
Most businesses are not big enterprises that need a programming layer. You can focus on that later on when you actually found some traction and move up-market. I don't think starting with enterprise features is "DOA", it's just smart prioritization.

You don't want to go through enterprise sales cycles when you are just starting your company.
I do this today with my Asus Zenfone. Works great.
PIO-like speeds (50MHz+ - easy) are unobtainable across parallel GPIOs in any MCU without a similar core (NXP FlexIO, TI PRU) or an FPGA.

PIO has its use cases.
Indeed, I think price of electricity but also climate explains the large difference between UK and US air conditioning usage.

Many people forget that London (UK) has about the same latitude as Vancouver (Canada).
I wouldn't even say "contemporary"; people have been saying this (and I believe it's been true) for decades.

But overall that statement is making a lot of assumptions.

It's assuming money is the main priority for everyone. Sometimes the priority is to have a ton of autonomy and influence on product direction, not have to deal with 8 layers of management, and have an actual, large, often-measurable impact on the company's success.

It's assuming that the alternative is that anyone can work at a FAANG, and be in the higher tiers of salary they offer for their quite-above-average employees (hired today, not 10 or 20 years ago). Most competent, talented people won't pass an interview at a FAANG. Of those that do, many of them will not immediately be making $500k/yr. These points are especially true for 22 year olds, naive or otherwise.

I was going to make a comment about working your ass off at a startup vs. working 9-5 at a more established company, but I know plenty of people at FAANGs who work 50- or 60-hour weeks, every week, and often put in time on weekends. Granted, I would agree that pretty much everyone at a small/early startup is going to be working long hours, while a large number of people at a FAANG are going to enjoy a nice, relaxing life outside of work, so they're not at all equivalent in that regard.