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deep learning, GANs, art, graphics ML for creativity at diagram
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darknoon··on The Rise of Audio AR
Should be labeled (2024)
darknoon··on Router by Ramp
they really buried the lede on which models are supported, then the link is broken as of now to the list (https://app.router.com/supported-models)
darknoon··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Really want to use this, but for web page design you really need vision!
darknoon··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
I frequently run into scenarios where it won't let me generate the email within 1password on a website, and I have to go to Fastmail and then manually do it. Is this something you have bene able to work around?
darknoon··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
the `claude` binary is essentially a packed copy of bun + the js code, so this will replace the native runtime part of claude code.
darknoon··on You can beat the binary search
This relies on knowledge of the distribution, just querying in the middle of A = [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ..., 2^(n-1)] is slower than binary search
darknoon··on SVG Path Editor
I haven't seen one that worked properly—can you list a couple examples? Some of the ones that say they're "AI" are just VTracer / Potrace and don't give nice control points.
darknoon··on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
I think you'd find that it's far from "any human" who can do this without looking anything up. I have 15y of dev exp and couldn't do this from memory on the cli. Maybe in c, but less helpful to getting stuff done!
darknoon··on Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
really weird graph where they're comparing to 3x H100 PCI-E which is a config I don't think anyone is using.

they're trying to compare at iso-power? I just want to see their box vs a box of 8 h100s b/c that's what people would buy instead, and they can divide tokens and watts if that's the pitch.

darknoon··on Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped
Here's the problem, you're still going to get scraped and the LLM will understand it anyway. Maybe at best you'll get filtered out of the dataset b/c it's high perplexity text?
darknoon··on Helion: A high-level DSL for performant and portable ML kernels
The developers also gave a talk about Helion on GPU Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zKvCLuvUYc
darknoon··on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node
Here's the thing, they've completely given up and started making their (inferior to AMD) CPUs on TSMC. For example, Arrow Lake is on TSMC N3B. So it's not getting amortized over anything at all and their valuation is going to 0.
darknoon··on GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]
It's ok, somewhere between a qwen 2.5 VL and the frontier models (o3 / opus 4) on visual reasoning
darknoon··on Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken
In ML, often it does work to a degree even if it's not 100% correct. So getting it working at all is all about hacking b/c most ideas are bad and don't work. Then you'll find wins by incrementally correcting issues with the math / data / floating point precision / etc.
darknoon··on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work
If you were doing a lot of scraping, you could just solve this on a GPU in 1/10 or less of the time it takes a human's phone to do it. Generally you need a decent computer to render a webpage while scraping it these days, so I don't see what this is solving.
darknoon··on Physics of Language Models: Architecture Design and the Magic of Canon Layers
anyone know why they mix in the 3 previous tokens? could have just as easily done 5 or 2 right?
darknoon··on Show HN: NCompass Technologies – yet another AI Inference API, but hear us out
One vote for image inputs here. I would love a fine-tuned qwen-2-vl-72b on demand, but most of the solutions are "talk to us" level expensive. I'm assuming you beat the price or convenience of a replicate / modal solution?
darknoon··on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
I think just reading the code wouldn't make you a good programmer, you'd need to "read" the anti-code, ie what doesn't work, by trial and error. Models overconfidence that their code will work often leads them to fail in practice.
darknoon··on Transfusion: Predict the next token and diffuse images with one multimodal model
this is somewhat similar, but diffusion transformers typically use a pre-trained text model as the text conditioning whereas, in this case it's integrated and trained together multimodally.
darknoon··on Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup
I tried this w/ AM5, but realized that despite there theoretically being enough lanes for dual x16 PCI-e 4.0 GPUs, I couldn't find any motherboards that are actually configured this way, since dual-GPU is dead in consumer for gaming.
darknoon··on Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-Efficient (2021)
Relevant video about some of the history of superconducting computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14r2oMsAaE8
darknoon··on We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM
Why does this webpage have auto-playing audio?
darknoon··on Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft
No, it's connected to AirTrain, which is slow and unpredictable, which is then connected to either the A or the LIRR.
darknoon··on Mark Zuckerberg says Quest 3 'is the better product, period'
I think Vision Pro isn't really a product, it's for developers / early adopters to make apps that will then be available once a consumer version is ready.
darknoon··on We just launched Sketch Logo AI
in the video, it seems like you were designing something more complicated than the logos I was expecting-more of a vector illustration. It seems roughly in line with stable diffusion, and other models which struggle to make the clean, symbolic logos I would love to have.
darknoon··on Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023
It's striking vs the France chart, though I wonder how this reflects electricity import / exports https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
darknoon··on Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023
Interesting context I would like to know
darknoon··on Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
Would be more interesting if Pytorch with MPS backend was also included.
darknoon··on Run 70B LLM Inference on a Single 4GB GPU with This New Technique
Please reword this clickbait headline. It's just disk offloading.
darknoon··on Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO
Whisper v3, just a couple weeks ago https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3
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