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Comment · 5 months ago
What do you mean? In the whitepaper they say that the original can't run on an iPhone 17 at all, and on an M4 the Bonsai version runs 5.6x faster than the original.

This quantization has a small order of magnitude improvement on memory and compute requirements, how can it be slower?

And all that while retaining quality.

Comment · 5 months ago
I had a long ELI16 session with Claude about it, and the way I understand it is that they

- use Ising machines to describe a certain problem into clauses, storing system state (e.g. spin of something) in variables

- then use a neural network layer where each neuron determines the value of one clause

- then for each state item, use the neuron output to determine if flipping that state would improve the overall system score

- and then use FN-like "noise" to determine whether to flip or no

If the energy landscape of the problem is pretty local, this is guaranteed to find a good solution to the system, using way less compute than brute-forcing it.

Comment · 5 months ago
No it's just analogies. It's a normal FPGA.
Comment · 6 months ago
Wow awesome!

BTW I see that deepseek V4 pro is trounced by it's little flash brother? Any ideas as to why?

Comment · 10 months ago
In armageddon, you would run out of fuel around day 3 and then that's it.

A CyberTruck will charge just fine from anything that can generate the proper AC or DC, no phoning home needed. Many home solar installations can work off grid and charge your car.

Comment · 10 months ago
Why even bother with apple at that point. There are so many better and/or cheaper Android phones out there
Comment · 1 year ago
this falls down really quickly once you get past a couple MB worth of data, like trying to add images.
Comment · 2 years ago
And the scribes designing the incantations using magical tools, ever more complex, eagerly working towards stronger and faster magic crystals
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm really curious about the reproducibility. The color is decided by the bandgap and the bandgap is tunable by voltage, but how temperature dependent is it, and how much does production variability impact it?

I image these displays could have color sensors attached to self-calibrate.

Or the variability is low and all you need is very precise voltages.

I think the first versions will be RGB displays with fixed colors, just no longer needing mass transfer. You could use tens of subpixels per pixel, reducing all worries about color resolution.

Make these into e.g. 1x1cm mini displays and mass transfer those into any desired display size.

Comment · 2 years ago
The two are not related at all. Refresh rate is how fast it can accept input, whereas this is how fast it can do TDM of colors and intensities
Comment · 2 years ago
I got dramatical improvement in my myopia over a few months time when I switched to a Paleo-ish diet, drastically cutting sugar and supplementing with vitamins including luteine.

I no longer needed my glasses to drive or go to the movies. Granted it was only -1 but still.

Now a decade on, my diet isn't so clean any more, far away details are somewhat blurry but still better than they used to be. The biggest impact is the amount of sleep I had the night before.

Comment · 2 years ago
I can only make it louder, not quieter :(
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Comment · 4 years ago
Actually, there's quite a few hard-coded references to /nix in nixpkgs I believe. It's possible but a little more work than just changing the prefix.

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