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> 100× energy-efficiency advantage for running some of the largest current Transformer models, and that if both the models and the optical hardware are scaled to the quadrillion-pa…

> it may be possible to achieve a 100× energy-efficiency advantage Running the math on a machine with 8x A100 (enough to run today's LLMs), that would be 300w * 8gpus / 100 = 24w. …

Not a book, but I had a similar question yesterday and ended up finding this article https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BThe%20... . Goes into more detail than I …

Pretty helpful! I would probably use this if there was an option for audiobooks.

From the info in the article alone, it's impossible to tell if this is even a correlation at all. I don't know what the expected number of reports would be for a given year, and if…

Fungibility is a spectrum. Bitcoins are _somewhat_ less fungible than most fiat currency, but way more fungible than art, or baseball cards, or NFTs.

Reddit was funded by ycombinator in summer ‘05, which probably explains part of it. Then the rest I would say is down to similarities between the two sites (primarily acting as lin…

Thanks for that! Coincidentally I’ve had that podcast on my list for a while, guess it’s time to give it a listen.

Has anyone heard of good resources that teach you "when to use X" instead of "why you should use X"? It's somewhat understandable that the official websites of frameworks/tools/lib…

I want that protocolization too, although I don't hold out much hope that the monopolies in place can be broken, outside of fairly radical regulation. To add to your list, there is…

gameboy emulator. I've been doing more of a product-ish role in my dayjob, so it's nice to do something (relatively) well-defined, where it's easy to tell if things are working, bu…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668792

The technique you're looking for is Acoustic Fingerprinting [1]. There's a pretty easily understandable python implementation[2] of it if you're interested. In Shazam's case it is …

Not sure if this fits within your definition of strategy, but Mini Metro is a great example of a game that "works" on mobile. https://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro/

> It is hardly surprising that techies are not getting enough sleep, given the industry’s culture of long hours, and the widespread notion that for a true entrepreneur, everything …

It's kind of hard to predict which way the fare would go for such a service... It might actually end up being higher than what Uber is currently charging. Which wouldn't be a bad t…

ADTs in Java, that's pretty cool. The nice thing it's not really adding anything new in the language, only restricted forms of classes.

One thing I've noticed since moving to a city where driving is unnecessary, is how good it feels to drive occasionally. While I think a big part of that is the physical sensation, …

I think the problem isn't the % of population that lives in a particular hemisphere, it's that the seasonal versioning scheme forces you to think about which hemisphere the softwar…

I use IdeaVim at my day job and can confirm it's gotten better. There are still some rough edges, especially around handling movements like L, M, and H which don't always go where …

This (and others who pointed out the regularisation effect) might actually help me to accept it more. It's more constructive to think "grammar is slowly changing due to a weird rul…

One that I've noticed everywhere throughout the tech community is "it's" instead of "its". It seems unrelated to whether the article author is from a majority-English speaking coun…

Since the technology is based on knative, it should in theory be possible to run these on a local k8s instance. It would support some debugging use cases. I do agree as far as cold…

I think this has the potential to be huge. Finally a FaaS platform without vendor lock-in, supported by a major cloud vendor, and uses regular containers. Basically removes all of …