trebach

“Well you’re not rebuilding here. If we don’t take it and knock it down, the ocean will. At least you’re getting your stuff out and not drowning in a collapsed building.”
Dare County, North Carolina

Did you not know about the magical incantations that would silence them? The AT codes for the modem were a lifesaver if you were trying to get on the internet without anyone knowing.

For crypto mining, the speed of computation before the next block was mined was the constraint so GPUs were being used for parallel computation before ASIC miners were built. This is a great example of where ASICs shine: deterministic simple algorithms that don’t require much if any I/O.

LLMs have a minimum RAM requirement in order to even load the model so even if you built a dedicated LLM card with an ASIC, you would still need at least that amount of RAM on the card. You’d probably want more RAM in order to store context because that takes RAM as well. At that point you pretty much have a GPU with an ASIC instead of more general compute units and no video outputs.

You might get some improvements by using an ASIC for LLMs but not nearly as much as when ASICs started being used for mining.

They’re actually not because they have randomness built in. Since we are working with probabilities, it won’t always pick the next token that has the highest probability and the randomness can be tuned via a “temperature” setting to make it more or less likely that it will choose the most probable token.

The weights for the model could be stored in a firmware chip but you still need RAM because it pulls all the weights into RAM in order to perform the calculations.

I messed up and should have replied to the guy above you.

They aren’t comparable. GPS is deterministic and simple so as you said it could be reduced to an FPGA or ASIC.

LLMs are partially matrix math and probabilities but they’re also more complex than that and require a large amount of RAM to run even the first time. Each query added to the context increases the RAM needed further.

The first post in that thread had a guy using AI to figure out how much of his portfolio was in AI.

They’re hoping it pays off in the long run, or at least long enough for them to go public and sell their shares at a profit while pension funds and mutual funds buy a crashing asset.

I also would be surprised they already don’t have mechanisms to validate choices made by traffic controller. That probably be a polynomial difficulty problem.

In the air, most planes are required to have a Traffic Collision Avoidance System onboard. It will alert pilots if they are too close to other aircraft and what action to take if they’re too close. Pilots are required to perform the action if alerted regardless of what the traffic controller says.

You can’t feed a radar image to a bunch of if/elif/elif/else statements.

You don’t need to input the image. You just need to input call sign, latitude, longitude, altitude, heading, speed, and emergency status (none, pan pan, or mayday) for each aircraft on radar.

The ATC will set the last one based on radio communications but the rest are either directly from or can be calculated from their transponders.

And absolutely doesn’t have an airport where if you don’t follow one of two narrowly defined routes for takeoff and landing, you could enter airspace that is patrolled 24/7 by the military and will shoot you down if you don’t turn around.

Their math is off by an order of magnitude. The US has about 4.25% of the Earth’s population, not 0.4%.

Assert.IsTrue(true);

There! That’s a passing test but doesn’t test anything. That’s why you write your own tests instead of having a machine do it for you.

Not always true. I got a notice from my ISP for downloading Airplane! which was released in 1980.

Pixel 11 made itself less compliant than its predecessor so GrapheneOS won’t support it.

They require certain features that most phones don’t have in order to be willing to support them. They want phones with GrapheneOS to be impossible to break into even by sophisticated methods such as Cellbrite so it defeats the purpose if it can be circumvented by methods that don’t involve the OS.

It’s supposed to be out next year but only the highest end devices will be supported because GrapheneOS requires certain security features in the firmware and hardware that Pixel 11, the lower end Motorola devices, and the other brands don’t/won’t have.

There was plenty of it going on around here. Even after Napster was taken down, there was Kazaa, Limewire, and your choice of Gnutella client. It was mostly us downloading stuff to listen to on the bus because high speed internet was rare unless you were in a city.

It appears to be banned in the US under 15 USC 7704(a)(3) because it’s neither one click nor does it allow the user to open a menu to select the types of messages they want to receive: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/7704

Work forced me into keeping a smart phone. The key fob I was using for MFA died and they were no longer replacing them so I had to use the app.