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nateb2022

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About nateb2022

Computer/Software Engineer & Mathematician.

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__ Location

  Washington, DC, USA
__ Contact

  Discord: .gnu.
  Email:   6mac0wobz@mozmail.com (resume available upon request)
__ Skills

  - Systems and embedded engineering, with expertise in VHDL for hardware description and FPGA design
  - Software development in C++, Go, Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Python
___ Affiliations

  - IEEE Nanotechnology Council
  - IEEE Systems Council
__ Professional Interests

  - Analog systems
  - Kernel development, focusing on Linux ABI design and optimization
  - Low-level GPU driver architecture and hardware-accelerated computation
  - ASIC development and methodology
__ Personal Interests

  - Hiking
  - Pizza
  - Volleyball
  - Weightlifting

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    Seems to be entirely AI written. Full of the stereotypical rule of 3, and "not X, it's Y," in fact I think each paragraph features at least an instance of one of them if not both.

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    Some well written devblogs are also available: - https://lwss.github.io/Duty-Of-Kisak/ - https://lwss.github.io/Kisak-Black/

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    I use Luna a lot (over 1T tokens since it came out) and I'd rank Luna (high/xhigh) on par with Sonnet 5, without hesitation.

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    > tiny (3MB) I think small is a fair description. Say tiny and I'd expect under 1MB.

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    You can run DeepSeek v4 Flash at 4bit in ~150 GB VRAM, and it would absolutely destroy a 1 bit quant of K3.

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    > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it may be time to “pace” AI development so the world will be ready for it. Or, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to begin regulating openweight competit…

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    I agree with this. But I would add, I don't think we can define a person as anything other than a genetically distinct individual of the species Homo sapiens. If a definition were …

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    > Catholics are "pro birth" in general, but it really doesn't have much in scripture to support it Exodus 20:13: "Thou shalt not kill."

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    > The whole point of this paper you're citing is that the scientific definition isn't relevant to the ethical debate. I don't think we have the same reading of the paper. Scientifi…

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    Convenient strawman, but you're the one bringing "Gilead" into this discussion. My argument is scientific, and I would appreciate it if your counterargument was too.

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    I produced a citation, you're just handwaving. Dismissing evidence simply because you find the conclusion inconvenient is telling.

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    > Not your body, not your choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question > unscientific view of pregnancy As of 2018, a study found that 95% of all biologists affirm th…

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    if it's anything like the speeds Nvidia Nim puts Deepseek at, it'll probably be 10 tok/s or lower and timeout frequently

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    Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace

    Related: Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070985