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simopa

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About simopa

I like simple code when possible. Exploring how mind, body and language interact. I live in Italy

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    Comment #47505966

    One thing I’ve always found tricky when reversing C64 code is self-modifying code, pretty much every game and demo uses STA to patch operands at runtime. Does the auto-analysis fla…

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    Comment #47492814

    The "if" is fair. But when scaling hits diminishing returns, the field is forced to look at architectures with better capacity-per-parameter tradeoffs. It's happened before, maybe …

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    Comment #47492398

    Thanks for the link.

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    Comment #47490778

    "Great engineers write bad AI code" made my day ;)

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    Comment #47490560

    There's something more, to me: the confusion between identity and role isn't just psychological, it's social. People ask "what do you do?" and mean "who are you?" It takes either c…

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    Comment #47490431

    It's crazy to see a 400B model running on an iPhone. But moving forward, as the information density and architectural efficiency of smaller models continue to increase, getting hig…