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Joined August 2019
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ARMv7 had the Jazelle extension which allowed native execution of Java bytecode
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazell…
> the java chip
daily reminder that intel's 32-bit iAPX 432 (1981) had integrated garbage collection & OO support, the 8086 was supposed to be a temporary stopgap
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_…
if only you knew how good things could really be
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idk you can train drones to fly on a 3090 in a couple of hours, this is a 3x64 nn
Jun 8
It is kinda wild that one essentially needs ~11k of compute a month (an 8xH100 box) to perform any form of useful experimentation, and that's the lower bar.
Never in my life have I felt similarly compute-constrained.
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ren faire is full of nerds that span the whole spectrum, if you are dividing it by left and right politics just stay home, we'll be eating turkey leg and shooting bow and arrow with the furries
Jun 7
Like I’m genuinely so baffled that e.g. Renaissance Faires & viking music festivals are full of Redditoids instead of right-wing extremists
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me over here building an actual marketplace for data labeling, I should be selling octopus recipes
Jun 5
Since we’re telling VC founder pitch horror stories
I invested in this app which was supposed to be the Shazam for food, a future of work data labelling marketplace but it turned out to be a company that sold sea food / octopus recipes…
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hand calculations are conscious, gpu backed ones are not
Jun 4
LLMs are intelligent, but they clearly aren't conscious?
You could (incredibly slowly) run an LLM by hand by doing the matrix calculations with a pen and paper, would that be conscious? There is zero difference between doing that and doing it on a GPU except its faster.
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TACIXAT retweeted
Jun 1
Yes, "creepy" things happen the further North you go, but there's a scientific reason for this. When you're on the Earth's surface (or any spheroid), our universe encodes your position as a complex number corresponding to a position on a plane tangent to the south pole. The renderer draws a line from the north pole to this position, and you are displayed where this line intersects the sphere.
This works fine at lower latitudes, but closer to the North Pole even small movements result in large jumps in your true position. Yes, sometimes characters can "flicker" between positions. Yes, sometimes their "insides" and "outsides" will temporarily render as disconnected, disjoint elements.
But this is just math. Nothing creepy. It hardly ever results in daemonic possession.
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