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Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by sealeck »

d-us-vb wrote: post #9
user_7832 wrote: post #4

> RadiantOS treats your computer as an extension of your mind. It’s designed to capture your knowledge, habits, and workflows at the system layer. Data is interlinked like a personal wiki, not scattered across folders. This sounded really interesting... till I read this: > It’s an AI-native operating system. Artificial neural networks are built in and run locally. The OS understands what applications can do, what the…

There are lots of systems that have tried to do something like the first quote. They're usually referred to as "semantic OSes", since the OS itself manages the capturing of semantic links. I don't think anyone denies the current utility of AI. A big problem of the current OSes is that AI features are clumsily bolted on without proper context. If the entire system is designed from the ground up for AI and the model ru…

Why isn't AI just another application that can be run on the device? Surely we expose the necessary interfaces through the OS and the application goes from there?

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by underdeserver »

7thaccount wrote: post #15
underdeserver wrote: post #10

I don't understand why they're particular about writing their own esoteric language. If they want people to buy and engage with it, software has to be the gateway, and that's easier to write in a language people know.

It's prob a balance. Sure, C is king....but if you are starting from scratch...do you REALLY need it or could you design something even better? Maybe, maybe not. I've programmed for a long time, but always struggled with Assembly and C, so take my views with a grain of salt.

I don't think C is king anymore. They could use Rust with nostd, or Zig, or C++. Anything (low level enough) is better than an entirely new language.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by d-us-vb »

system7rocks wrote: post #19

This looks like an advertisement for a new season of Severance or something. The image on this page is wild: https://radiant.computer/principles/ Of course, I am intrigued by open architecture. Will they be able to solve graphic card issues though?

You won't be bringing your own graphics card to RadiantOS. According to one of the pages, they want to design their own hardware and the graphics will be provided by a memory-mapped FPGA.

If your question is about the general intricacies in graphics that usually have bugs, then I'd say they have a much better chance at solving those issues than other projects that try to support 3rd party graphics hardware.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by edm0nd »

system7rocks wrote: post #19

This looks like an advertisement for a new season of Severance or something. The image on this page is wild: https://radiant.computer/principles/ Of course, I am intrigued by open architecture. Will they be able to solve graphic card issues though?

my outie enjoys trying experimental operating systems

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by 7thaccount »

largbae wrote: post #18

If it doesn't have a browser, how will you visit radiant.computer on your Radiant Computer?

You wouldn't I don't think (assuming this thing ever got off the ground - huge assumption), but is that really a problem? I think the web page is more to make normalish people aware that this hypothetical ecosystem would be out there. From within that ecosystem they could have a different page.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by 7thaccount »

palmotea wrote: post #11
d-us-vb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on its /log page, it doesn't look like it has one yet. They're just now implementing the implementation language, R'.

> They're just now implementing the implementation language, R'. They haven't done their due diligence: there's already a well-known language named R: https://www.r-project.org/ . The prime isn't sufficient disambiguation.

I assume they know but don't care. Either way, that is a bad choice. I think "Rad" would be a good name, but maybe they already are using that for something else.

Edit: where did you see it's called "R"? It looks like they call the system language "Radiance" : https://radiant.computer/system/radiance/

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

Out of curiosity- there's a focus on local llm then talk about no GPU, only FPGA. Those feel- at odds. But maybe I'm out of the loop for how far local LLMs on custom hardware has come?

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by moconnor »

The landing page reads like it was written with an LLM.

Somehow this makes me immediately not care about the project; I expect it to be incomplete vibe-coded filler somehow.

Odd what a strong reaction it invokes already. Like: if the author couldn’t be bothered to write this, why waste time reading it? Not sure I support that, but that’s the feeling.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by analog8374 »

system7rocks wrote: post #19

This looks like an advertisement for a new season of Severance or something. The image on this page is wild: https://radiant.computer/principles/ Of course, I am intrigued by open architecture. Will they be able to solve graphic card issues though?

Am I hallucinating or is that black diamond in the sky a little malproportioned?
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