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KeplerBoy··on Nvidia RTX Spark
The DGX also contains the 200 GbE networking and linux support.
KeplerBoy··on Nvidia RTX Spark
Not at all. This is a more like what Apple has been doing the past few years. A bunch of decent arm cores paired with a beefy integrated GPU.
KeplerBoy··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
It's not that different in Europe depending on the route.

Checked bags are a hassle and cost money.

KeplerBoy··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
It is completely different. FPGA tooling is not the same as a driver for a consumer product.

A lot of the serious CUDA compute stuff is also not supported on all platforms (it's linux only, because why would you do such stuff on windows).

KeplerBoy··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
And that's probably necessary if you want a competent model. There simply isn't much norwegian literature on let's say banana farming.
KeplerBoy··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
How true is this statement: "He asserted that any country with its own language that did not have a sovereign LLM trained in that language was at a disadvantage as a globally trained, English-speaking LLM would not know about that country’s history, news and culture that was described in the local language."

I thought all big players already train on basically everything remotely available to them no matter the language or quality, so his take sounds like an opinion formed in the early days of generally available LLMs.

KeplerBoy··on Ferrari Luce
Interesting fact from the page: "The lowest drag coefficient in Ferrari history, achieved through aero-styling convergence, active air shutters, and ride-height logic that lowers the front by 10 mm even while cruising"

I guess not having large air intakes and generally a slightly larger frontal area helps with that (the coefficient of drag is always multiplied by the area, so this might not be the most aero Ferrari ever, that's a different claim).

KeplerBoy··on Ferrari Luce
Interesting idea, but ultimately not going to happen (or matter). I doubt the latency in that DSP Pipeline is below a millisecond, heck given the state of non-critical automotive Software it might a second.
KeplerBoy··on Ferrari Luce
This style might have worked as an apple car. It sure as hell doesn't work as a Ferrari.
KeplerBoy··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
There are trillions to be made. That moat won't be as insurmountable in hindsight.
KeplerBoy··on Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch
They just renamed it to antigravity ide. I don't think that product is deprecated.
KeplerBoy··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
Antigravity is just a vs code (more correctly: codeium) skin with Google telemetry and agent Integration. You can switch back to Microsoft's or cursor's flavor in minutes.
KeplerBoy··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Isn't that much better than PayPal? Why would i want my money to end up in some intermediate PayPal account?
KeplerBoy··on Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack
They seem to be doing let's say case studies on how AI based simulations can help industry.

They did injection molding for example, and I'm sure they're testing similar approach to everything which can be modeled by PDEs, which is well pretty much everything ever of engineering interest (I'm assuming this is somehow connected to a research project funded by Engel, one of the leading injection molding machine companies, located in the same Region): https://www.emmi.ai/models/neuralmould

KeplerBoy··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Feels like the opposite.

Stuff is still happening and you need to be part of a big lab to see it. NanoGPT is fun but at some point you need that datacenter.

KeplerBoy··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Can you elaborate why you chose slang-splat over let's say Lichtfeld studio? How does it compare to the other splat-training tools?
KeplerBoy··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
If you don't focus stack and try to train on partially unfocused images, the optimizer will try to match the rendered view to be also partially unfocused.

You would have to mask out the blurry areas for each image. I guess one could just implement a feature where the optimizer only optimizes gaussians within the sharp distances relative to the camera.

KeplerBoy··on Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
I'm not sure i agree. The blobs are exactly where the surface appear to be because they are constrained by multiple viewing angles.

Otherwise the splat would fall apart as soon as the viewing angle is changed slightly (Which it absolutely does in many examples on supersplat, you cannot really create an out of distribution view with 3GS, it's not magic)

KeplerBoy··on CUDA Books
Thanks I appreciate the answer!
KeplerBoy··on Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
Probably link training.

The very fact that it is a tens-gigabit-per-second connection in an environment full of RF noise (we all love our high powered switching power supplies) makes it hard to get a reliable signal instantly. Still shouldn't take longer than a few hundred ms though (worst case).

KeplerBoy··on CUDA Books
I wish there were any good literature on GPU Direct RDMA and GPU NetIO. Got any tips?
KeplerBoy··on CUDA Books
That's hardly a guide. It's the defacto documentation, you have to read this either way.
KeplerBoy··on Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
It's just a skin. Of course it uses more resources than windows 7.
KeplerBoy··on Googlebook
Nothing changed. You can still code the old way. All those 100x productivity gains are probably closer to 10% productivity gains after you account for all the added debugging and steering.
KeplerBoy··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
It's just higher nyquist zones.
KeplerBoy··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
That ship has sailed on the web a long time ago.
KeplerBoy··on Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive?
You can't have good performance without good DevX. There's a reason why we get a new python dsl for nvidia GPUs every week.
KeplerBoy··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
lol, are they doing stochastic invoicing?
KeplerBoy··on Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
Well the cheapest crap fans are almost free, Noctua fans are certainly not free. So the added cost is the entire price of a Noctua fan.
KeplerBoy··on Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Because someone might argue blender is taking funding from an entity that wants to make proficient blender users obsolete.
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