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From a brief reading of what Fusion does: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/plugins/fusion Looks like Fusion calls a bunch of models and then uses an LLM to synthesize the…

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack (Perpetrators also not caught)

The jury found that Ding stole trade secrets relating to the hardware infrastructure and software platforms that allow Google’s supercomputing data center to train and serve large …

Neat experiment that gives a mechanistic interpretation of temperature. I liked the reference to the "anomalous" tokens being near the centroid, and thus having very little "meanin…

That paper doesn’t seem to be about security vulnerabilities in MiG but rather using it to improve workload efficiency

Wonder why they haven’t gotten an in house pizzeria yet to reduce the signal on this side channel leak

From the article it appears to be something they invented: > Gemma 3n leverages a Google DeepMind innovation called Per-Layer Embeddings (PLE) that delivers a significant reduction…

Interesting! If Knuth is not the original author then they’ve been lost to the sands of time

Great article and nice explanation. I believe this describes “Algorithm R” in this paper from Vitter, who was probably the first to describe it: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/v…

The article mentions this union, not sure if it meets your definition of success: https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/our-wins

When subtlety proves too constraining, competitors may escalate to overt cyberattacks, targeting datacenter chip-cooling systems or nearby power plants in a way that directly—if vi…

Sorry to hear this A lot of my teenage years were spent building and playing with PCs and a lot of the knowledge and interest came from reading each and every issue of boot and max…

+1 Jumping into an unknown codebase (which may be a library you depend on) and being able to quickly investigate, debug, and root cause an issue is an extremely invaluable skill in…

I wrote about something similar, which was motivated by an issue I saw caused by an (incorrect) expectation that a Java hashmap iteration order would be random: https://peterchng.c…

Yeah, ops comment makes it seem like they are building racks of RTX 4090s, when this isn’t remotely true. Tensor Core performance is far different on the data center class devices …

Thanks for writing this. Is this concept (dice room puzzle, doomsday argument) at all related to the st Petersburg paradox? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox

Reminiscent of a scene from Billions: https://www.reddit.com/r/Billions/comments/czlg4u/need_help_...

Thanks - I added my contact info (I don’t comment a lot on HN, mostly just read) but will drop you a line

This is probably using their excess capacity, but not necessarily that their GPUs are idle. For LLMs/large models the huge cost is memory ops to load each layer weights during the …

A simplified explanation, which I think I heard from Karpathy, is that transformer models only do computation when they generate (decode) a token. So generating more tokens (using …