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PrayagBhakar··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant to restart, power Microsoft data centers
Sure, but on the other hand what happens if Gen AI bursts after all of this infra development?

- price of electricity goes wayyyyy down

- stigma around using atomic elements goes down

- price of excess available compute goes wayyy down (or the second hand market becomes side project budget range)

With excess electricity we can do a lot of things like Carbon Capture, water purification, power hadron colliders, replace gas stoves, etc. and with price of computer going down it makes more sense for certain industries to double down on tech. Essentially we are able utilise cheaper electricity + compute to patch over problems. On the other hand if the AI tech bros’s magic konch shell can lead innovations then I wouldn’t mind that either.

PrayagBhakar··on Building unorthodox deep learning GPU machines
I run a basement compute server[^1], what’s Nvidia gonna do? Not let me buy their hella expensive H100s? At least now I get to learn ML skills without my failed experiments exponentially scaling on the cloud.

[^1]: https://prayag.bhakar.org/apollo-ai-compute-cluster-for-the-...

PrayagBhakar··on "Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"
It’s AI generated Art

https://github.blog/2022-09-20-if-you-dont-make-it-beautiful...

PrayagBhakar··on "Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"
lol I just remembered about this last night [1] while pushing some code on GitHub. Idk what the long term goal of this project is. Will they update the catalogue as time goes on or is my bad college code stuck there?

[1] https://x.com/prayagbhakar/status/1750440884250792445?s=46

PrayagBhakar··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
I look forward to having Cydia as an AppStore on my phone again
PrayagBhakar··on WaveCoder: Enhanced instruction tuning with refined data generation
If we’re talking about model distillation[0] I don’t think the student can ever be better than the teacher as optimising for speed and smaller model sizes inherently means that there will be precision loss. Even if the student is as big as the teacher, there is still data loss.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.17332.pdf

PrayagBhakar··on Scaling Golang to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O
> The language is called Go. The "golang" moniker arose because the web site was originally golang.org. (There was no .dev domain then.) Many use the golang name, though, and it is handy as a label. For instance, the Twitter tag for the language is "#golang". The language's name is just plain Go, regardless.

https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang

PrayagBhakar··on Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model
[A used RTX 3090 goes for around $700.](https://prayag.bhakar.org/apollo-ai-compute-cluster-for-the-...)
PrayagBhakar··on What PWA Can Do Today
Isn’t there storage limitations for mobile PWAs?
PrayagBhakar··on Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code
AGI feels like a marketing term to me now. I mainly see it as just research into how can we improve and scale the current model architectures we have to be better than the last one
PrayagBhakar··on Show HN: Microagents: Agents capable of self-editing their prompts / Python code
But isn’t this also a step towards AGI? The model being able to find issues and self correct?
PrayagBhakar··on Three years after its revamp, Firefox's Android browser adds 450 new extensions
I wonder if part of it was being able to work with extension devs to see how to better integrate extensions on mobile. I suppose one way to test that would be to see if the Firefox extensions api improved for mobile
PrayagBhakar··on Dungeons and Directories, an exploration game in your file explorer
Doesn’t this make your var and temp rest on boots?
PrayagBhakar··on TSMC demos its first 2nm chips to Apple, mass production slated for 2025
Why is it called 3nm then?
PrayagBhakar··on Asking ChatGPT to draw the most normal image possible
Could be that it’s really easy to map a random noisy latent into a picture of a galaxy? Prompts like this also usually ask for “more” or “bigger” and I would say a galaxy is one of the bigger things that we can visualise.
PrayagBhakar··on Advent of Code 2023 on a Commodore 64
If you code for a living then it’s still helpful as it’s just leetcode but slightly more engaging as you could have peers solving the same problem as you to discuss with. Plus if you code for a living, “little meaningless challenges” are less of a time sink than a whole side project for when you wanna dip your toes into a new language/system/design pattern.

I feel like small puzzles like this help me get into more of a live to code mindset, which I personally enjoy more than thinking of my life as code for a living.

PrayagBhakar··on Linux distros are about to get killer Windows feature: The Blue Screen of Death
Not everyone runs Linux systems like a Sys Admin. Some folks use it to play games on their steamdeck or to give live to older hardware that can’t run windows/osx anymore. Others don’t even care what they’re running as long as it can open chrome.

BSOD is very clearly an end user feature for folks who don’t have experience debugging kernel panics. If the QR code can generate a copy passable stack trace of the error the it could help make linux more mainstream and easier to debug for non technical folks.

PrayagBhakar··on MLX: NumPy like framework for Apple Silicon by Apple
Could Transformer based models been converted to work on the NPU?
PrayagBhakar··on Show HN: Llama 2 Uncensored 70B as API
I am confused by the pricing here. Am I charged per month or per year?
PrayagBhakar··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Mistral 7B 4bit quant on an iPhone 15 Pro can also translate this. https://tinypic.host/image/AZGhb
PrayagBhakar··on Cloudflare incident on October 30, 2023
But isn’t this just a natural part of how distributed systems work? If one part fails it can have downstream effects that can cross multiple boundaries like end user clients crashing, or another business’s server crashing, or your own server crashing.
PrayagBhakar··on Using GPT-3.5 to render visual interfaces within a conversation
I’m not sure if these are real examples. If they are tho, then it might be using agents that do have that ability.

I think the larger point of the article is to show the user what an agents are doing in a visually understandable way.

PrayagBhakar··on Anna's Archive – LLM Training Data from Shadow Libraries
I don’t think it’s as much about day dreaming but more so about garbage in, garbage out. We know LLMs perform way better when you use high quality input data [0]. Having your input data be skewed towards one genre isn’t great. And thats not even getting into the quality of these books.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644

PrayagBhakar··on Low serotonin levels might explain some Long Covid symptoms, study proposes
I’m confused why folks think long covid isn’t real? Most disease have long lasting effects. Why not covid?
PrayagBhakar··on Microsoft in talks to sign on Amazon as customer in $1B cloud tools deal
Alternative link that didn’t take me to a paywall :: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/amzn/employees/

But yea Amazon has a lot of employees. Idk what the tech/business/distribution center split is but I’m sure everyone is given at least a work email.

PrayagBhakar··on Show HN: Netflix for AI-Generated Videos
> Without that, you’re stuck with these small clips of 4 seconds.

Considering how many cuts are in modern movies, 4 seconds might be all we need.

PrayagBhakar··on Illustrated A64 SIMD Instruction List: SVE Instructions
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining!
PrayagBhakar··on Illustrated A64 SIMD Instruction List: SVE Instructions
I’ve herd of A64 and SIMD before. What’s SVE? Security Vulnerabilities?
PrayagBhakar··on OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools
You have to do this with Excel as well to avoid your data automagically being formatted and/or truncated.
PrayagBhakar··on I hacked macOS
I don’t think that’s entirely true. When reading technical articles who the author is matters.

For example, this is the same person who’s working on Asahi Linux for ARM macs. This means that they probably know what their talking about and this is gonna be a good article.

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