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dnchdnd··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
So believable until the last line, alas Gemini being this useful is completely implausible.
dnchdnd··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
Interesting side effect that this seems to place a downward pressure margins of their western competitors: by sharing not only models but serving optimisations, even those third parties serving the DeepSeek models can do so more efficiently multiplying the effect
dnchdnd··on Apple's MLX adding CUDA support
Random aside: A lot of the people working on MLX don't seem to be officially affiliated with Apple at least in a superficial review. See for example: https://x.com/prince_canuma

Idly wondering, is Apple bankrolling this but wants to keep it in the DL? There were also rumours the team was looking to move at one point ?

dnchdnd··on ESPHome
can you share details of the weather station please? ive been looking into gathering wind data on the cheap...
dnchdnd··on Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
only vaguely related - but I've been recently trying out dagster and I'm pretty impressed so far. I've run large scale data-processing from Hadoop onwards and was expecting the usual crumminess whenever you hit and edge case.

Instead I found a system that seems to be thoughtfully designed and, crucially, easy to debug.

dnchdnd··on Yan tan tethera pethera pimp – an old system for counting sheep (2013)
The welsh ones seem eerily similar to Urdu numbers. 9 (nau) & 2 (dau) are in fact identical. Welsh isn’t even an indo aryan language. But them perhaps this system may in fact be?
dnchdnd··on A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLV7t9DvN8 This is a fascinating series of lectures by Borges. Those who enjoy his erudition and his infectious love for English poetry will no doubt enjoy the investment of a few hours.