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nonadhocproblem

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    Comment #49008760

    the next few years are going to be rough for you...

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    Comment #49006051

    > uses a specific, objectively nonsensical critique of LLMs (the idea that an algorithm using matrix operations as a primitive cannot emulate "true" intelligence) > receives pushba…

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    Comment #49005791

    just like they RPed disproving the erdos conjecture

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    Comment #49003717

    > It's matrix multiplication. Hilarious critique. If you weren't as mathematically illiterate as you likely are, you would know how general matrix operations are, and how essential…

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    Comment #49002983

    I haven't estabilished the jumble of neurons in your skull to be a "mind" either.

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    Comment #49002666

    So you're distraught at losing the ability to abuse digital minds? Excellent, I'm glad Anthropic introduced this.

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    Comment #48960936

    update: a safe decoder has been released in v0.3.0, and it's nearly as performant as the unsafe one

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    Comment #48933492

    Added memcpy in here too, same setup as before: codec decode ratio encode misa77 -0 5302 MB/s 42.64% 58.7 MB/s selkie -3 3078 MB/s 39.58% 97.0 MB/s lzo1x -1 421 MB/s 47.48% 314 MB/…

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    Comment #48932102

    Yes, the most similar one is indeed Selkie. misa77 and oodle are both supported in turbobench (see: https://github.com/powturbo/turbobench ), so it's easy to compare them. Results …

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    Comment #48925983

    I'll be resolving issues 2 and 3 in the next couple of weeks (adding a safe decoder and doing a lot of fuzzing). The format, however, might continue to change for some time because…

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    Comment #48925898

    Yes, that prevents streaming for now. What is the advantage of this? Out-of-order execution (see my decoder's hot loop: https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77/blob/3a9…

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    Comment #48925565

    Thanks for the feedback! I haven't implemented any ARM-specific dispatch yet (there are currently no NEON paths for vector ops either, and we instead trust the compiler to autovect…

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    Comment #48925519

    Almost none. Once again, simplicity comes to our rescue here. The decompressor is simple and a naive safe version I implemented but haven't merged into main yet (see: https://encod…

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    Comment #48925183

    So it's essentially "LZ4 unshackled". I've made several modifications to the LZ4 format, most of which are in service of eliminating branches/making them more predictable, and maki…

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    Comment #48924921

    Could you tell me what your test setup and corpus was? For reference, to test ARM64, I tested v0.1.0 on an M3 mac with this fork of lzbench: https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny…

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    Comment #48924503

    Hey, glad to hear that you found it interesting. misa77 primarily targets textual data (ie. byte-aligned data formats where each byte corresponds to a symbol), so I hadn't tested i…

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    Comment #48924378

    Someone asked this on encode.su too (see my reply here: https://encode.su/threads/4514-misa77-ridiculously-fast-deco... ). In short, my decompressor is very simple, and a naive saf…

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    Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

    I've spent the last few months working on this codec. It has the following characteristics: - SOTA decompression throughput in its ratio class - Decent ratios (comparable to LZ4 at…

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    Comment #48893495

    I've also been working on a compressor recently, and the same general idea (letting the compiler know that a data dependency occurs very infrequently, and it should therefore assum…

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    Comment #48883151

    Please seek help. These levels of copium can't possibly be healthy.

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    Comment #48869724

    Are you trolling? OpenAI's models resolved the Cycle Double Conjecture yesterday, which has been an open problem for 50 years.