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TheDudeMan··on The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention
Referenced in this paper:

"Overall, while approaches such as FNet, Performer, and sparse transformers demonstrate that either fixed or approximate token mixing can reduce computational overhead, our adaptive spectral filtering strategy uniquely merges the efficiency of the FFT with a learnable, input-dependent spectral filter. This provides a compelling combination of scalability and adaptability, which is crucial for complex sequence modeling tasks."

And a comparison section after that.

TheDudeMan··on Grok3 Launch [video]
Maybe he was joking about the Roaster 2, also.
TheDudeMan··on Macrodata Refinement
With Lost, I knew they had no direction in mind, and that bothered me. But I also knew that whatever they were doing, they were doing a damned entertaining job of it.
TheDudeMan··on Gradual Disempowerment: How Even Incremental AI Progress Poses Existential Risks
They are trying to convince the world of the problem. What else can they do?
TheDudeMan··on AI isn't going to kill the software industry
> I don't think LLM systems will be competitive with everything that humans can do for a long time

It's looking like about 3 years. That will be another ~100x cost reduction, $100s more billions in infra, new training algorithms, new capabilities.

TheDudeMan··on AI isn't going to kill the software industry
Did the radiologists suddenly get better than the AI at reading images? Or is the system simply unchangeable?
TheDudeMan··on Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas
I'm guessing that's mostly wifi congestion.
TheDudeMan··on Jimmy Carter has died
What panels? What is this about?
TheDudeMan··on Show HN: A portable hash map in C
I suggest improving the probing a little. Something like

  idx = (idx + 1) % map->cap;
becomes

  iterCount++;
  idx = (idx + iterCount) % map->cap;
TheDudeMan··on Francois Chollet is leaving Google
What you're calling "gamed" could actually be research and progress in general problem solving.
TheDudeMan··on What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)
Do you have millions of strings that need to be manipulated in the same way at the same time?
TheDudeMan··on Unfortunate things about performance reviews (2021)
This is why peer reviews are so important. Amazon does it right.
TheDudeMan··on Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker
Could you say a bit about how the poker AI works? I know it's not modern, but just curious. Thanks.
TheDudeMan··on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
100% this. This would be a dream job for the right candidate, too.
TheDudeMan··on Self-Compressing Neural Networks
Stop trying to mimic brains. Do what works best for transistors.
TheDudeMan··on Mixture of a Million Experts
Weird that this isn't getting traction on HN. This idea is going to go far.
TheDudeMan··on AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
So all forms of search are dumb in your view?
TheDudeMan··on AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
They are moving to Discord.
TheDudeMan··on Robot dog cleans up beaches with foot-mounted vacuums
Or wheels.
TheDudeMan··on $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange
Those are unfortunate, IMO. But miners would support those because they increase transaction fee revenue. Hopefully they'll get priced-out of the fee marketplace eventually, either by the network getting more legitimate use (moving money instead of creating NFTs) or by people losing interest in NFTs.
TheDudeMan··on $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange
$2.3T market cap seems like a lot for a dead thing. Market cap is crude metric for anything, but still.

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

TheDudeMan··on $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange
Yes, it is a public ledger. This ensures that no inflation is occurring (other than the expected decreasing miner subsidy).
TheDudeMan··on $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange
Most cryptocurrencies are controlled by a small number of insiders. Bitcoin's high level of decentralization makes this not the case. Although the increasing centralization of mining, mining pools, and mining hardware is becoming a concern.
TheDudeMan··on $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange
Bitcoin's strength is censorship-resistance.
TheDudeMan··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
Same here. People are confused because the author gave two options:

  1. Bundle the .dll as a resource into the app and make it extract it to some temporary folder, then use P/Invoke and call the compiled .dll from within the C#/.NET app.
  2. Use C++/CLI.
And then a single "problem" paragraph that didn't make it clear which problems go with which approach.
TheDudeMan··on Anatomy of a cryptocurrency scam
What is the standard solution to this type of phish? This problem did not exist in the ASCII world, of course. Unicode is useful, but what is the best way to prevent this malicious use of it?
TheDudeMan··on Taking a closer look at AI's supposed energy apocalypse
AI and bitcoin consume similar amounts of energy, but bitcoin uses more green energy than AI:

https://wired.me/science/energy/ai-vs-bitcoin-mining-energy

TheDudeMan··on Taking a closer look at AI's supposed energy apocalypse
Is the problem the data center or is the problem carbon emissions?

How about tax the carbon emissions.

TheDudeMan··on Taking a closer look at AI's supposed energy apocalypse
Which is better -- subsidize what you perceive to be the solution or tax what is known to be the problem (carbon emissions)?
TheDudeMan··on Taking a closer look at AI's supposed energy apocalypse
(people sing a different tune when the power consumer is bitcoin miners)
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