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everythingctl··on TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough
Maybe we can run more powerful models locally.

I thought the principal consequence of these KV cache optimisations was letting you run more simultaneous inferences on the same model with the same memory. It doesn’t let you store more model. In some sense that puts local LLM usage at a further disadvantage to inference done in a hyperscaler’s data center.

everythingctl··on Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler
I’d guess that’s a reference to Ada 95.
everythingctl··on Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco
Pretty much every other developed country has solved this problem without having to transact in digital lottery tickets.
everythingctl··on Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone
Has any startup succeeded by starting out offering shiny hardware running innovative new software, all of which they have to develop?

It seems like a fatal dilution of focus to have to worry about the design and logistics of a fancy dumb terminal widget when you also have to get the software/AI/app integration stuff right.

Just make an app with text and voice interaction. Accept that the thing in our pockets with a screen and an internet connection is going to be a smartphone. You will not build an own-hardware moat with these weird little bits of e-waste.

everythingctl··on New Ultra Fast Lossless Audio Codec (HALAC)
Cool toy and a nice piece for the CV perhaps, but it is difficult to take it seriously if you refuse to offer source code or a implementable specification.

I would give you the benefit of the doubt that it might just be code shyness or perfectionism about something in its early stages, but it looks like the last codec you developed (“HALIC”) is still only available as Windows binaries after a year.

I struggle to see an upside to withholding source code in a world awash with performant open source media codecs.

everythingctl··on Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem
Would any “real” mainframe software (not Linux on z) use Unix epoch dates though?

I’d have thought mainframe dates were mostly binary coded decimal in EBCDIC and already futureproofed during the y2k mania.

everythingctl··on Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms
s/purchase/purchase,/