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What do you mean? In the whitepaper they say that the original can't run on an iPhone 17 at all, and on an M4 the Bonsai version runs 5.6x faster than the original. This quantizati…

I had a long ELI16 session with Claude about it, and the way I understand it is that they - use Ising machines to describe a certain problem into clauses, storing system state (e.g…

No it's just analogies. It's a normal FPGA.

Wow awesome! BTW I see that deepseek V4 pro is trounced by it's little flash brother? Any ideas as to why?

In armageddon, you would run out of fuel around day 3 and then that's it. A CyberTruck will charge just fine from anything that can generate the proper AC or DC, no phoning home ne…

Why even bother with apple at that point. There are so many better and/or cheaper Android phones out there

this falls down really quickly once you get past a couple MB worth of data, like trying to add images.

And the scribes designing the incantations using magical tools, ever more complex, eagerly working towards stronger and faster magic crystals

I'm really curious about the reproducibility. The color is decided by the bandgap and the bandgap is tunable by voltage, but how temperature dependent is it, and how much does prod…

The two are not related at all. Refresh rate is how fast it can accept input, whereas this is how fast it can do TDM of colors and intensities

I got dramatical improvement in my myopia over a few months time when I switched to a Paleo-ish diet, drastically cutting sugar and supplementing with vitamins including luteine. I…

I can only make it louder, not quieter :(

The CERN folks are a humorous bunch, I assume one of them is responsible for naming this epic roundabout close to CERN the "large car collider" on Google maps https://maps.app.goo.…

> CONCLUSION > We introduced BtrBlocks, an open columnar compression format for data lakes. By analyzing a collection of real-world datasets, we selected a pool of fast encoding sc…

Actually, there's quite a few hard-coded references to /nix in nixpkgs I believe. It's possible but a little more work than just changing the prefix.

Actually the cache isn't that important, most binaries get rebuilt quite often due to their dependencies changing. Although it is my hope that rfc 17 eventually makes it through: h…

This is so cool - I'd like an open source CPU in my next phone please! (Of course, I would also like it to be fast, so that will probably not happen in the next 5 years) The articl…

ah yes, I was thinking of wave energy sorry. Actually, yes, that would indeed be a good use of the concept - anchor the generator to a submerged bouey (so as to not disturb shippin…

this looks to be made from only soft parts though. Worst case you get snipped by a tensed string (could still do damage)

Makani's kite is steered. This one just needs to stay aloft. Launching it is just a matter of a wind-up spool on a windvane-like small rotating platform (no more than a few m high)…

Power goes up exponentially with size. To get good RoI, you need to go huge.

Then the kites have to be rolled back home until the wind is good again.

It's back-and-forth though so you are constantly changing direction and losing power.

There's a whole bunch of thread with wings attached in a fairly small radius. I would think birds can see this way better.

Makani needed expensive equipment and locations, and worked very differently.