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What do you mean? In the whitepaper they say that the original can't run on an iPhone 17 at all, and on an M4 the Bonsai version runs 5.6x faster than the original.

This quantization has a small order of magnitude improvement on memory and compute requirements, how can it be slower?

And all that while retaining quality.

I had a long ELI16 session with Claude about it, and the way I understand it is that they

- use Ising machines to describe a certain problem into clauses, storing system state (e.g. spin of something) in variables

- then use a neural network layer where each neuron determines the value of one clause

- then for each state item, use the neuron output to determine if flipping that state would improve the overall system score

- and then use FN-like "noise" to determine whether to flip or no

If the energy landscape of the problem is pretty local, this is guaranteed to find a good solution to the system, using way less compute than brute-forcing it.

No it's just analogies. It's a normal FPGA.

Wow awesome!

BTW I see that deepseek V4 pro is trounced by it's little flash brother? Any ideas as to why?

In armageddon, you would run out of fuel around day 3 and then that's it.

A CyberTruck will charge just fine from anything that can generate the proper AC or DC, no phoning home needed. Many home solar installations can work off grid and charge your car.

Why even bother with apple at that point. There are so many better and/or cheaper Android phones out there

this falls down really quickly once you get past a couple MB worth of data, like trying to add images.

And the scribes designing the incantations using magical tools, ever more complex, eagerly working towards stronger and faster magic crystals

I'm really curious about the reproducibility. The color is decided by the bandgap and the bandgap is tunable by voltage, but how temperature dependent is it, and how much does production variability impact it?

I image these displays could have color sensors attached to self-calibrate.

Or the variability is low and all you need is very precise voltages.

I think the first versions will be RGB displays with fixed colors, just no longer needing mass transfer. You could use tens of subpixels per pixel, reducing all worries about color resolution.

Make these into e.g. 1x1cm mini displays and mass transfer those into any desired display size.

The two are not related at all. Refresh rate is how fast it can accept input, whereas this is how fast it can do TDM of colors and intensities

I got dramatical improvement in my myopia over a few months time when I switched to a Paleo-ish diet, drastically cutting sugar and supplementing with vitamins including luteine.

I no longer needed my glasses to drive or go to the movies. Granted it was only -1 but still.

Now a decade on, my diet isn't so clean any more, far away details are somewhat blurry but still better than they used to be. The biggest impact is the amount of sleep I had the night before.

I can only make it louder, not quieter :(

The CERN folks are a humorous bunch, I assume one of them is responsible for naming this epic roundabout close to CERN the "large car collider" on Google maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/iLWZRLLUWhDTjiDS7

> CONCLUSION

> We introduced BtrBlocks, an open columnar compression format for data lakes. By analyzing a collection of real-world datasets, we selected a pool of fast encoding schemes for this use case. Additionally, we introduced Pseudodecimal Encoding, a novel compression scheme for floating-point numbers. Using our sample-based compression scheme selection algorithm and our generic framework for cascading compression, we showed that, compared to existing data lake formats, BtrBlocks achieves a high compression factor, competitive compression speed and superior decompression performance. BtrBlocks is open source and available at https://github.com/maxi-k/btrblocks.

Actually, there's quite a few hard-coded references to /nix in nixpkgs I believe. It's possible but a little more work than just changing the prefix.

Actually the cache isn't that important, most binaries get rebuilt quite often due to their dependencies changing.

Although it is my hope that rfc 17 eventually makes it through: https://github.com/wmertens/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0017-inten...

This is so cool - I'd like an open source CPU in my next phone please!

(Of course, I would also like it to be fast, so that will probably not happen in the next 5 years)

The article doesn't say if their port is also open source. There's a blog post here but I don't see any patches. https://riscv.org/blog/2021/11/how-alibaba-is-porting-risc-v...

ah yes, I was thinking of wave energy sorry.

Actually, yes, that would indeed be a good use of the concept - anchor the generator to a submerged bouey (so as to not disturb shipping) and it will always be pointing in the right direction and generating. Nice!

this looks to be made from only soft parts though. Worst case you get snipped by a tensed string (could still do damage)

Makani's kite is steered. This one just needs to stay aloft. Launching it is just a matter of a wind-up spool on a windvane-like small rotating platform (no more than a few m high)

Power goes up exponentially with size. To get good RoI, you need to go huge.

Then the kites have to be rolled back home until the wind is good again.

It's back-and-forth though so you are constantly changing direction and losing power.

There's a whole bunch of thread with wings attached in a fairly small radius. I would think birds can see this way better.

Makani needed expensive equipment and locations, and worked very differently.

Very different concept though - using a steered kite vs what is basically a self-erecting small wind turbine.

Way less logic and parts needed vs Makani

I added a bunch of Shelly Wi-Fi relays to my house and I can see temperatures of every room, tell the heater to turn on etc, from anywhere in the world, with full self-hosting if I want it.

Isn't that the same problem with zip files? So if we're assuming that the compressed SQLite format will take up the same or less space as the zip file, wouldn't that mean that exactly the same mitigations work?

Oh wow, AFAIK this is basically how AMZN already operates.

If they would transition to this setup, there's nothing for regulators to point at for antitrust enforcement.

I mean, I have several wifi-connected computers in my house whose only task is to flip a relay when I tell them to.