Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by crakenzak » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:53 PM UTC

Neuralink Compression Challenge
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Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by crakenzak » Thu, May 23, 2024, 9:59 PM UTC

This reminds me a lot of the Hutter Prize[1]. Funnily enough, the Hutter Prize shifted my thinking 180 degrees towards intelligence ~= compression, because to truly compress information well you must understand its nuanced.

[1]http://prize.hutter1.net/

Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by ClassyJacket » Thu, May 23, 2024, 10:25 PM UTC

So, they're asking skilled engineers to do work for them for free, and just email it in?

Why didn't every other company think of this?

Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by codingdave » Thu, May 23, 2024, 10:25 PM UTC

And in exchange for solving their problem for them, you get... ???

I'm all for challenges, but it is fairly standard to have prizes.

Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by davikr » Thu, May 23, 2024, 10:38 PM UTC

codingdave wrote: post #4

And in exchange for solving their problem for them, you get... ??? I'm all for challenges, but it is fairly standard to have prizes.

> apparently the best submissions get fast tracked to an onsite if you want a job

Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 23, 2024, 11:15 PM UTC

davikr wrote: post #5

codingdave wrote: post #4

And in exchange for solving their problem for them, you get... ??? I'm all for challenges, but it is fairly standard to have prizes.

> apparently the best submissions get fast tracked to an onsite if you want a job

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Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by iamcreasy » Fri, May 24, 2024, 1:21 AM UTC

Does it mean radio is using portion of this 10mW? If so, how much?

Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by rl3 » Fri, May 24, 2024, 11:01 AM UTC

ClassyJacket wrote: post #3

So, they're asking skilled engineers to do work for them for free, and just email it in? Why didn't every other company think of this?

>So, they're asking skilled engineers to do work for them for free, and just email it in?

Yup:

"Submit with source code and build script."

But hey, the reward is a job. Maybe.

I mean, not everyone can be privileged enough to experience Ultra Hardcore™ toxic work culture.

Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 24, 2024, 12:03 PM UTC

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Re: Neuralink Compression Challenge

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Post by palaiologos » Fri, May 24, 2024, 12:07 PM UTC

they're looking for a compressor that can do more than 200MB/s on a 10mW machine (that's including radio, so it has to run on a CPU clocked like original 8086) and yield 200x size improvement. speaking from the perspective of a data compression person, this is completely unrealistic. the best statistical models that i have on hand yield ~7x compression ratio after some tweaking, but they won't run under these constraints.