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"Standing on the shoulders of giants" and all that, this goes _way_ back.

Lol, a couple of years go, grown men were getting into fist-fights over toilet paper and it's looking like they are about to wage war over a tank of juice.

The Future's Bright. The Future's Onion.

Fossil fuels were always worth way more than people ever realized.

Like Joni says, "you don't know what you've got till it's gone."

The hash is merely a convenience, the _actual_ public key used in transactions is present in the ledger and available to anybody who wants it.

Me too, and I'm now grateful to have been proven wrong.

But then again I certainly wouldn't want to be the youth of today and expect the same outcome.

Cerebras have special techniques to work around etching errors / bad cores on their wafers. This is possible since their wafers are effectively hundreds of identical copies of redundant cores. Can't do that for a globally unique model.

Etching failure in that situation would be like brain-damage in a human, all sorts of weird effects would start appearing.

Reminds me of when November 2019 came and went (the date that Blade Runner is set in)

Make hay while the sun shines.

I think so, specifically lossy compression though.

A modern version of the book would include an extra section in the 'Lossy compression' chapter - 'Text' (alongside Images/Video/Audio) that would discuss LLM's.

LLM's seem to be the weird interesting outcome of applying lossy (de)compression concepts to text instead of the audio/image/video domains where they have traditionally been used.

Strange that they are feeding raw audio in. Even in humans, there is a hardware transform to the frequency domain (the cochlea) before data is fed to the brain, effectively doing this part in the LLM seems inefficient.

My favorite is 'spongy', an underwater journey through a Menger-sponge fractal in 128 bytes:

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53871

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36BPql6Nl_U

I'm more impressed by the eerie beauty of it than the technical achievement, even if the code was orders of magnitude larger it would still be wonderful.

For a more laid-back chill 'rain' demo, have a look at "Rainy 32b" 32-byte x86 demo:

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=86923

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgIQuPHb5w

I had to read that twice, I first thought you meant 4 GB of _storage_...

Worrying about only having 4GB of RAM.... that's how I know I'm getting old I guess. Kids these days don't know they're born.

I've always wondered if it was perhaps the inspiration for the novel Neuromancer (2 AI's in different continents plotting to combine with each other to form a global super-intelligence)

We got both, so twice as good.

Ah, 'demand destruction', which in sounds positive in theory but in practice will likely mean poverty, famine and 'population reduction'.

You are assuming that a battery is full at 4.2V and empty at 0V. In practice a Lithium Ion battery is empty at 3V. You are also assuming the relationship between capacity and voltage is linear - it is not.

In the developed world we have 'energy slaves' instead; around 100 per person in the USA in the 2020's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave

This is arguably the reason why the Overton window has shifted towards the rejection of human slavery over the last century or so, with the growth of fossil fuel use.

Human slavery will thus likely swing back into fashion again in the future as oil, coal and natural gas run out.

That will happen on the day there is enough to go around.

Unfortunately I fear that time has long gone.

As long as the population is growing and/or the (fossil) energy is falling there will never be enough to go around.

I keep reading this, is it meant to be a joke? What is being won?

People are losing their minds at the prospect of oil availability dropping just 20% for a month or two with the closing of the Strait of Hormuz - even just this could collapse the global economy.

So yea, no way is oil stopping or even dipping slightly any time soon.

Just to mention the original was cited in the most recent Veritasium video:

"The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

(at about the 9:50 mark)

Economies die from lack of produce though.

I wonder if you could use the same technique (RAM models as ROM) for something like Whisper Speech-to-text, where the models are much smaller (around a Gigabyte) for a super-efficient single-chip speech recognition solution with tons of context knowledge.

I think this lack of 'G' (generality, or modality) is the problem. A human visualizes this kind of problem (a little video plays in my head of taking a car to a car wash). LLM's don't do this, they 'think' only in text, not visually.

A proper AGI would have have to have knowledge in video, image, audio and text domains to work properly.

Has overtaken Saudi Arabia as nation with largest proven oil reserves.

Although it is 'heavy' oil, the 'brown coal' of liquid fossil reserves (i.e. low quality).

The fact that such a fuss is being made about low-grade oil is a concern in itself.

At least HDMI is a 'low frequency' connector, often only ever plugged in once, as opposed to USB (or refueling a car)

I believe this is what "Cargo-Cult Programming" is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming