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I've been very productive getting some Zig code to work with 0.17.0 and I really don't find a reason to contribute anything back given this policy.
Good enough small models are the way.
Show HN: Multi-FPGA Usable Newbie Chips
https://github.com/guilt/munch
Minimal multi-board LED blinker that builds with Yosys (and open tools) and ships ready-to-flash images in GitHub Releases. It is a foray into building Flash Devices across many different boards. While doing so, it was discovered that many older Spartan Boards, UltraScale+ Boards and Cyclone Boards require better flow to bit synthesis support.Are there other tools I can start using to make this...
In general, Valve's work has been exceptional and supplementing AMD's own ROCM/OpenCL and Vulkan team, they've gotten a lot of defaults right and people should work together with Valve to improve support for their chips.
- The innate value of the models come from not training chips nor hosting, but the actual quality of thinking traces, inference costs and usage. Anthropic shines here, but not for long.
- The variety of skills and evals on new tiny open models proves Claude is expensive and not extremely better than these models today, and math benchmarks alone do not cut it.
- Enterprises are realizing that they can just buy some regular Macs and do their own inference far cheaper than invest in Claude Subscriptions, and Claude given tools are losing their edge to harnesses such as Pi and Opencode.
- Nobody needs Hacking Tools unless they are red-teaming their own code. The niche of people wanting this could write their own tools and workflows to test the effectiveness of many LLMs on these workflows and see how far they can push it.
- The amount of collusions, hypes and fear mongering do not sit well with many people (including myself) - stick to the science and make usage safe, like everything else we do with software in production.
- The IPOs often get priced down with market discovery and anyone who's buying it ONLY is interested in the long run, not inflated valuations not hype not any of these lies used to sell this stock. I am bearish about the IPO at this rate.
- For me, reasons for SpaceX money investments are NOT due to AI *That part is a true waste of money* but good enough due to manufacturing, supply chains and actually building useful Satellite infrastructure; I still am bearish about them launching NVL72 nodes in space, not because of the space part - I just don't trust those chips enough for it to sustain that long.
I'm tired of these kind of posts. This author is on my black pill list.
- TinyCC, SDCC, Musl and Cosmopolitan Libc
Reason is that I require a quick fast portable compiler with a decent runtime that can also be embedded into a larger runtime, like the way Bun does - while keeping runtime small and portable.
SDCC does not need the same amount of bloat - having decent small C runtime is a job in itself. Fixing it once could allow a better compiler that isn't quite as bloated as LLVM nor as small like TinyCC.
That gap isn't solved.
People are not going to slow down because this was brought to them on less than endearing terms. They don't see any of these stated noble intentions.
Claude was already used to cause economic, political and social destruction. As Anthropic is seen doing it, others aren't going to just sit down, read the blog and say, oh, I'll stop developing models because Dario, you touched my heart with your true words.
One thing I'd remind all scientists and the wonderful people here is this wonderful meme/line from Jurassic Park: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could they didn't stop to think if they should."
What is the actual amount of data that needs to be pre-trained and what is not? Nobody has come up with great answers to this question, and I'm already seeing amazing 0.5b-2b parameter models working very well with n-Gram corpuses of data. So, how many parameters do you really need for a given workload?
A lot of time accessibility is about that extra effort one can't get with tight development budgets. I apply generous amounts of butter while I keep the thing dry and let it be otherwise accessible at the same time.
I'd like to see some actual science saying, here was the problem, here's how we solved it, here's the AFR data, here's this running after X cycles etc. Nobody has done this reliably yet. That entire industry is hiding the bodies.