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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by najarvg on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:11PM (#47595166)
Thanks for sharing the link to your instance. Was blazing fast in responding. Tried throwing a few things at it with the following results: 1. Generating an R script to take a city and country name and finding it's lat/long and mapping it using ggmaps. Generated a pretty decent script (could be more optimal but impressive for the model size) with warnings about using geojson if possible 2. Generate a latex script to display the gaussian integral equation - generated a (I think) non-standard version using probability distribution functions instead of the general version but still give it points for that. Gave explanations of the formula, parameters as well as instructions on how to compile the script using BASH etc 3. Generate a latex script to display the euler identity equation - this one it nailed.

Strongly agree that the knowledge density is impressive for the being a 1-bit model with such a small size and blazing fast response

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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by najarvg on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:17PM (#47595212)
I must add that I also tried out the standard "should I walk or drive to the carwash 100 meters away for washing the car" and it made usual error or suggesting a walk given the distance and health reasons etc. But then this does not claim to be a reasoning model and I did not expect, in the remotest case, for this to be answered correctly. Ever previous generation larger reasoning models struggle with this
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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by monarchwadia on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:31AM (#47600624)
Honestly, the fact that we have models that can coherently reason about this problem at all is a technological miracle. And to have it runnable in a 1.15GB memory footprint? Is insanity.
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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:14PM (#47603706)
Exactly. It's not that the pig dances poorly, or that the dog's stock tips never seem to pan out. It's the fact that it's happening at all.
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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by monarchwadia on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:04PM (#47604332)
But the fact that we have convinced a pig to dance, and trained a dog to provide stock tips? That can be improved upon over time. We've gotten here, haven't we? It really is a miracle, and I'll stick to that opinion.
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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by nlaslett on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:42AM (#47600755)
And to be fair, you asked about traveling to a location. It just so happens that location is a car wash. You didn't say anything about wanting to wash the car; that's an inference on your part. A reasonable inference based on human experience, sure, but still an inference. You could just as easily want to go to the car wash because that's where you work, or you are meeting somebody there.
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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by jjcm on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:15PM (#47595197)
> Was blazing fast in responding.

I should note this is running on an RTX 6000 pro, so it's probably at the max speed you'll get for "consumer" hardware.

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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by ineedasername on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:25PM (#47596037)
consumer hardware?

That... pft. Nevermind, I'm just jealous

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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by jjcm on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:47PM (#47596171)
Look it was my present to myself after the Figma IPO (worked there 5 years). If you want to feel less jealous, look at the stock price since then.
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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:15PM (#47605208)
Well in this context it's a 5090 with extra unused memory.
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Re:Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bi... by abrookewood on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:57PM (#47596243)
Holy hell ... that's a monster of a card
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