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Once you have a mask of the positions you want to compress, you can generate a shuffle index vector from that mask to place the desired elements in the low part of the vector. You …

I think this is one approach to AI safety and interpretability that could work, but would require labs to slow down to figure out how to extract circuits/algorithms out of trained …

https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html

I’m starting to think the probability of RSI within 12 months is more like 99% I’m not sure it will be FOOM, maybe it will require AIs to iterate on hardware to get orders of magni…

RTFM

Even worse, people will discuss/diagnose/troubleshoot with their LLM of choice, some of which will be valuable, and the only way to get access to said information will be through t…

Perhaps, but I think what people mean by intelligence is something that learns and adapts. If LLMs couldn’t do in context learning I don’t think people would think of them as AI, m…

Yeah I don’t understand this port at all other than as a big marketing stunt. It would have made far more sense, for reliability, efficiency, cost, etc., every metric really, to us…

Alienware does the same thing, and as far as I could figure out, there is no way to stop it. The enshitification of Windows at this point is incredible.

Agreed on Sedra and Smith vs Razavi. Razavi uploaded lectures to YouTube that helped me a ton at the time.

One interesting feature of signed vs unsigned in languages where signed overflow is undefined is that signed numbers _behave_ like mathematical integers, whereas unsigned integers …

I personally use a 3x6 Corne for non-gaming tasks. I would recommend it for anyone that uses a keyboard for more than a few hours a day to preemptively reduce the risk of RSI, espe…

Indeed. Their single most important piece of evidence not providing any strong indication the decline is from LLMs does not bode well for their argument. If it were the case you wo…

I largely agree. Split, ortho/columnar, and tenting is 90% of the strain benefits. The biggest benefit from layout change (for programmers at least) is moving symbols and numbers t…

There are momentum indices. Momentum is actually a strange phenomenon from the perspective of the efficient market hypothesis because it does not have an obvious risk to balance it…

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Immigration is not a solution to low fertility. It might be a solution to labor being expensive, particularly if you’re a capitalist, but it doesn’t solve the problem of low fertil…

They can restrict it to US citizens only: just do KYC and enforce it. Any citizen exporting ITAR capabilities would be committing a felony. I think it is inevitable that more capab…

You can probably eliminate the switch bounds check by making the default case execute __builtin_unreachable(). The switch version is safe for non-conforming opcodes where the compu…

People have built entire careers shipping garbage, now they can ship 10x more garbage and to them that’s progress.

The STL is not good if you want performance or predictable behavior. The issue is in the specification and the requirements placed on certain algorithms and data structures. It’s e…

The consumer economy only exists to extract value from common people and funnel it up the wealth ladder. If robots and AI take over all the production, you don’t need a consumer ec…

This is a useful lesson! Tuning an allocator for a single application reduces to optimizing for that application’s empirical allocation patterns (sizes, lifetimes, access, usage).

I’m not exactly sure what you’re getting at, but I think I’ve had a similar question: why don’t HDLs have language elements more representative of what digital circuits are constru…

Maybe, another possibility is the frontier providers change their pricing terms to try to capture more of the value once a sufficient number of people’s skills have atrophied. For …