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Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by 7thaccount »

d-us-vb wrote: post #68
Aurornis wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clean slate designs with arbitrarily radical designs are easy when you don’t have to actually build them. There are reasons that current architecture are mostly similar to each other, having evolved over decades of learning and research. > Perhaps model where processing and memory are one, A:very simple core per 1k of SRAM per 64k of DRAM per megabytes of flash, To serve what goal? Such a design certainly wouldn’t be…

Perhaps not a true counterpoint, but there are systems like the GA144, an array of 144 Forth processors. I think you're missing the point, and I don't think OP is "being critical of companies making practical designs." Also, I think OP was imagining some kind of tree based topology, not connected graph since he said: > ...but it would take talking through up to 15 intermediaries to communicate between any two arbitra…

Are you aware of anyone who has used that system outside of a hobbyist buying the dev board? I looked into it and the ideas were cool, but no clue how to actually do anything with it.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by 7thaccount »

benob wrote: post #67
efficax wrote: post #52

Like clockwork every year or so someone emerges and says "I'm going to fix computing" and then it never happens. We're as mired in the status quo in computing as we are in politics, and I don't see any way out of it, really. Also the website is very low contrast (brighten up that background gray a bit!)

I have been having a lot of fun with PicoCalc. It's not targeted at end users but is fun for developers alike who want a taste of developing things from first principles. More than anything it can live independently from your other devices.

I keep seeing the videos pop up. It does look really cool. I see it has a basic interpreter, so I guess kinda like a C64?

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by 7thaccount »

wrs wrote: post #76
moconnor wrote: post #29

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.

I am very concerned about the long term effects of people developing the habit of mistrusting things just because they’re written in coherent English and longer than a tweet. (Which seems to be the criterion for “sounds like an LLM wrote it”.)

Haha. This is so true. I'm a bit long-winded myself and once got accused of being AI on here. I just don't communicate like Gen Alpha. I read their site and nothing jumped out as AI although it's possible they used it to streamline what they initially wrote.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by riversflow »

> No social networking

What an airball. Social networks are the single most valuable aspect of computers and the internet. It is a dark world where we all just talk to LLMs instead of each other.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by 7thaccount »

ItsHarper wrote: post #73
7thaccount wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

https://radiant.computer/system/radiance/prime/

Ah, so no quite "R", but "R'" (R Prime).

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by sleepybrett »

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…

I think it's fine if all the 'ai' is local.

I haven't read all of the documentation around this project but I hope it's in the same vein as the cannon cat and the apple-apple//gs (and other early computer systems with quick and easy access to some kind of programmable environment). (as an aside I think apple tried to keep this going with applescript and automator but didn't quite pull it off)

I think there is a weird trick though. General purpose computers a great and they can do anything and many people bog down their systems with everything as a result. I feel like past projects like Microsoft's Bob and the Canon Cat were also in this general thought pattern. Strip it back, give them the tools that they need and very little else.

I try and follow that pattern also on my work macbook. I only install what I need to do my job. Anything I want to try out gets a deadline for removal. I keep my /Applications folder very light and I police my homebrew installs with a similar zeal.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by ASalazarMX »

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…

> Radiance compiler targetting RISC-V ISA. Involves writing an R' compiler in C and then porting it to R'.

R is a language for statistics and data analysis, I can't understand why they chose it for low-level systems programming having modern alternatives like Go or Rust. Maybe it has to do with the AI integration.

It seems interesting enough to follow, but I'm uncertain about its actual direction.

Edit: Thanks to people in this thread for pointing out that it's not R, but R'. The language they're creating is called Radiance, so it may be that R' is a subset of it.

> Radiance is a small statically-typed systems programming language designed for the Radiant platform, targeting the RISC-V RV64GC architecture. Radiance features a modern syntax and design inspired by Rust, Swift and Zig.

Re: Radiant Computer

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Post by tonyarkles »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #89
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…

> Radiance compiler targetting RISC-V ISA. Involves writing an R' compiler in C and then porting it to R'. R is a language for statistics and data analysis, I can't understand why they chose it for low-level systems programming having modern alternatives like Go or Rust. Maybe it has to do with the AI integration. It seems interesting enough to follow, but I'm uncertain about its actual direction. Edit: Thanks to peo…

I think R’ is completely separate from R-the-stats-language and more like a cut down version of their Radiance language. Pretty common way to bootstrap a self-hosted runtime.
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