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It would be an interesting demo-scene thing to make the modern equivalent of an Atari 2600 on an FPGA — no frame buffer, you have to race the HDMI scan out with just a single line buffer and a trivial amount of ram and rom. I got a new Atari 2600+ recently, and while it is neat
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It would be interesting if LLM training tracked the per-token loss back to the source material — it would be an objective measure of how much each specific book / document contributed to the training. Might say something useful for human learning!
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Staring into the matrix, looking at some questionable blocking artifacts. https://t.co/o5b6auFsey
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There was a post recently (that I can’t find — X search is not great) suggesting VR devs should continue refining their offering like an app, instead of moving on to the next game. In many cases, I think that is wise. I still buy every single @BeatSaber pack and @WalkaboutMG
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GPU chains The Voodoo2 SLI was great – just run a ribbon cable between two cards, and you doubled the pixel rate. No special professional versions were required, so two friends could open up their PCs and put their cards together for a double speed experience, and you really
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With the Nvidia GB200 NVL72, can a single process launch kernels on all GPUs, CUDA:0 to CUDA:71, or do you still have to start CPU processes on 18 different hosts? https://t.co/MK9iZhNOK5
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Odd coincidence to have https://t.co/g8lJQ4cpt8 show up almost simultaneously in two books I am reading — Polostan by @nealstephenson and Material World by @EdConwaySky
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I was reminded recently of one of the more dumb-ass things I have done. In one of the Armadillo Aerospace vehicles we ran an alcohol feed pipe through a liquid oxygen tank. It had an air gap jacket, but we were still concerned about the possibility of freezing the alcohol if
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I am more skeptical than a lot of people in the tech space about the near term utility of humanoid robots. Long term, driven be AGI, sure, they are going to be an enormous economic engine, but business plans that have them making a dent in the next five years seem unlikely.
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Looking for advice on a little re-shipping project. I want to donate a set of 21 science fiction books, selected by the Libertarian Futurist Society from their Prometheus award winners, to any town or school library that requests them. Does anyone have good experiences with a
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I have always been disappointed that more instruction sets don’t have peak-efficiency block move and fill operations. REP MOVS/STOS in x86/x64 is still pretty great, although not optimal in all cases. https://t.co/RIOZjOhHBD There is certainly a bias against it due to not being
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RT @Project2501_117: Happy Halloween! 🎃💀👻 In 1986 the first hobby grade RC car I ever saw and drove was the Tamiya Hornet ( Yes, the? RC c…
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SD could be used with tools like DreamBooth to make images of specific people with as few as 3-5 reference photos taken from social media. (Today, modern tools need as little as 1 reference photo.) If Photoshop is like a musket, SD is like an assault rifle.
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RT @MotorCarTidbits: One of those people barred from buying a Ferrari is John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software. Why?, well, because F…
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Marvel has been producing collected editions of every comic they published in a given month when a famous character or team was introduced in the 60s. This is interesting as an unbiased slice of media, versus the normal Lindy effect where your view of a period is often formed by https://t.co/0JpMcPkmaC
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Thinking about an alternate history tech timeline where TVs used a spiral scan instead of a raster scan. The lore is that Farnsworth had the insight that led to raster scan while thinking about farm furrows, but it seems like the continuous smooth variability of a spiral pattern
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I worked on https://t.co/zTKG9POy4L for two years and the way it actually happened was that the software side was tyrannically overseen by a print publishing department with insanely strict quality standards
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A couple years ago, I made a $10k bet with a random developer about adoption of a distributed metaverse vs Roblox. It took a little prodding, but despite the account recently disappearing, the remaining bitcoin just showed up. More honor than you might expect from anonymity!
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RT @joebarnard: If you're stoked about this, don't let that energy go to waste! Go build something! You can learn CAD, programming, circu…
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RT @EloiAlonso1: Ever wanted to play Counter-Strike in a neural network? These videos show people playing (with keyboard & mouse) in 💎 DIA…
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