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Say what you will about Sam Altman, but at least he engages with his user base and acts on user feedback. Dario and co seem to be on some elevated pedestal - us mere mortals are be…

At what stage does a series of floating point numbers output from a GPU become conscious?

Does anyone here know if this would potentially help people with adult SNHL (not genetic)? i.e. for folks who got SNHL when they were >= 25 years old? Thank you.

Working on an RL pixel platformer sandbox to learn RL and explore self-play with a playable RL agent. It’s a cross between JumpMan Jr and Spelunky 2. Very early demo with a smart d…

I trained a live RL agent inside a pixel platformer you can play against on a desktop browser (needs a keyboard or a controller): https://rlplays.com/game This is NOT a quick-one-o…

If someone could please give an octopus a waterproof keyboard, perhaps we could have a kernel, a compiler and a new internet protocol all in one.

To really confuse it, ask it to take that tricycle with the platypus on it to a car wash.

It's definitely possible, I am not arguing against that. I am just saying it's not as flexible/cost-free as you would on a 'normal' von Neumann-style CPU. I would love to see Rust-…

My understanding of warp ( https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-programming-guide/01-intro... ) is that you are essentially paying the cost of taking both the branches. I understand w…

warp is expensive - essentially it's running a 'don't run code' to maintain SIMT. GPUs are still not practically-Turing-complete in the sense that there are strict restrictions on …

What's the performance like? What would the benefits be of converting a streaming multiprocessor programming model to this?

I would love to see a nutritional facts label on how many prompts / % of code / ratio of human involvement needed to use the models to develop their latest models for the various p…

There is a big difference between paperbacks and TikTokification: Paperbacks required authors to spend the same amount of time/effort to create content with a vastly expanded marke…

His consistency and craftsmanship is amazing. Being an engineer and coding at this stage/level is just remarkable- sadly this trade craft is missing in most (big?) companies as you…

On the contrary, Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs were very customer focused - they listened to customers more so than other big tech companies. You could actually have emailed them and g…

This is awesome… but: On the Web, is Avalonia using Skia to render inside a Skia Canvas? **insert inception meme here** Joking aside: this points to MSFT moving away from the whole…

I wish C++ did some sane things like if I have a const member variable, allow me to initialize it as I wish in my constructor - it's a constructor for crying out loud. Don't be sil…

It does feel like Apple is firing on all cylinders for their core competencies. Software (iOS26), services (Music/Tv/Cloud/Apple Intelligence) and marketing (just keep screaming Ap…

I wonder how much of the nVidia DGX Spark announcement was meant to precede this M5 announcement by a day or two; M5 MBP has higher performance with a monitor attached and with a (…

A curious-er question to me would be how did cephalopods (octopuses, cuttlefish) develop sophisticated intelligence a few hundred million years before ‘we’ did separately from us? …

This looks neat. Great idea! Perhaps `dot`, `cross` etc might be useful additions.

Google Play Store on Windows really.