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TheDudeMan··on We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Why wouldn't it?
TheDudeMan··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Which is why we need to lower the cost of the reactors.
TheDudeMan··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Efficiency is not the problem. We have plenty of nuclear fuel.
TheDudeMan··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
Related question: Who is the highest-ranking US leader who would be able to understand such a statement and ponder it for more than 2 seconds?
TheDudeMan··on Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other
So strange that people are into this, but were not into the much stronger non-LLM poker agents.
TheDudeMan··on Faster Argmin on Floats
But how is that slower than sorting the list?!
TheDudeMan··on Faster Argmin on Floats
How fast if you write a for loop and keep track of the index and value of the smallest (possibly treating them as ints)?
TheDudeMan··on The obstacles to scaling up humanoids
OK, so you do get the vision.
TheDudeMan··on The obstacles to scaling up humanoids
No, I never said that.
TheDudeMan··on The obstacles to scaling up humanoids
You know they're getting better, right?
TheDudeMan··on Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo
They saw how much money stablecoin issuers are making. Simple as that.
TheDudeMan··on The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
I interpret The Bitter Lesson as suggesting that you should be selecting methods that do not need all that data (in many domains, we don't know those methods yet).
TheDudeMan··on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform
Yes, many PMs suck. And many engineers suck. And communication is always lossy. Having many/all engineers take some calls helps to mitigate those.
TheDudeMan··on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator
I would have loved this as a kid. Walkie-talkie range and battery life made them useless for my adventures.
TheDudeMan··on Monday – A personality experiment
Interesting. You just articulated why Chandler was annoying rather than funny.
TheDudeMan··on “The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of
The Bitter Lesson is saying, if you're going to use human knowledge, be aware that your solution is temporary. It's not wrong. And it's not wrong to use human knowledge to solve your "today" problem.
TheDudeMan··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
No.
TheDudeMan··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
System prompts enable changing the model behavior with a simple code change. Without system prompts, changing the behavior would require some level of retraining. So they are quite practical and aren't going anywhere.
TheDudeMan··on Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion
This is because coders didn't spend enough time making their tests efficient. Maybe LLM coding agents can help with that.
TheDudeMan··on A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
If "LLMs" includes reasoning models, then you're already wrong in your first paragraph:

"something that is just MatMul with interspersed nonlinearities."

TheDudeMan··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
Losing some bitcoin is effectively equivalent (over the long term) to distributing it to all other holders (proportionally). So this is fine.
TheDudeMan··on Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
This guy makes cool stuff and releases the source code.

https://www.youtube.com/@jamesbruton

TheDudeMan··on How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward
No. It is a purely theoretic result. It has zero real-world applicability.
TheDudeMan··on How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward
Only at the theoretic limits of efficiency. In real life, not true.
TheDudeMan··on I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Jeff didn't mention whether Consumer Reports discussed this problem. If not, they also deserve blame.
TheDudeMan··on Claude can now search the web
But this isn't automated. This is user-driven.
TheDudeMan··on The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
Machines going to be thinking in the frequency domain. We cooked.
TheDudeMan··on The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
Mamba is O(n). But I guess it has other drawbacks.
TheDudeMan··on The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
They do show their model as winning every category in Long Range Arena (LRA) benchmark. Hopefully they have not excluded losing categories or better models.
TheDudeMan··on The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
Referenced in this paper:

"Overall, while approaches such as FNet, Performer, and sparse transformers demonstrate that either fixed or approximate token mixing can reduce computational overhead, our adaptive spectral filtering strategy uniquely merges the efficiency of the FFT with a learnable, input-dependent spectral filter. This provides a compelling combination of scalability and adaptability, which is crucial for complex sequence modeling tasks."

And a comparison section after that.

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