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hislazinesson Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

This is amazing, now waiting for someone to run an llm on the cpu. Eventually it will be LLMs all the way down...

hislazinesson Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

Am I missing something here. Not finding a major bug/vulnerability just means that maybe the code is really good, not that the model is not what is claimed?

hislazinesson The current state of LLM-driven development

Would it be more appropriate to compare LLMs to Autotunes rather than pianos?

hislazinesson How to break the 'AI hype cycle'

Akamai CTO Robert Blumofe offers four tips for business leaders striving to foster AI fluency by empowering employees with the right tools and best use cases.

useful insights but definitely a PR article.

hislazinesson What the Fuck Python

Great. I enjoy these kind of articles. My all time favorite book for 'C' is Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets.

hislazinesson OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025

Terence Tao on the matter - https://imgur.com/a/terence-tao-on-supposed-gold-imo-sMKP0bm

hislazinesson Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces

As I understand, the LLM uses the techniques of searchformer - https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14083. To do "slow thinking" doing a A* search using a transofrmer.

hislazinesson $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

It is not just MSRP, management and operations cost too. The article goes into the details of this.

hislazinesson $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

The details are in the article. They have done the math.

hislazinesson $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

TLDR: Don’t buy H100s. The market has flipped from shortage ($8/hr) to oversupplied ($2/hr), because of reserved compute resales, open model finetuning, and decline in new foundation model co’s. Rent instead.

Is the AI infra bubble already bursting?

hislazinesson Task-Switching Experiment (2015)

The screen seems to be stuck at Wait a second... for me.

hislazinesson Reflection 70B, the top open-source model

I tried a few local LLMs. None of them could give me the right answer for "How many 'r's in straberry. All LLMs were 8-27B.

hislazinesson Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)

I know you mean this in jest, but we are much closer to this than we would imagine, the use of LLMs to process communication / translation is becoming ubiquitous. We are 1 bad translation away from a disaster.

hislazinesson Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!

I also use some email providers ability to have +xyz at the end of the username. So for a registration I would for user.name+sitea@domain.com. has helped me track spam and leaks in the past.

hislazinesson Llama 3.1 in C

Cool. I will try it out. I tried the same with ollama, the non english part needs a lot more polish. Do you see the outcome being any different?

hislazinesson CLISP Port to WASM

This is pretty awesome. How did you do it? Any blog on the detials?

hislazinesson Mistral NeMo

The model description on huggingface says - Model size - 12.2B params, Tensor type - BF16. Is the Tensor type different from the training param size?

hislazinesson Mistral NeMo

I just checked huggingface and the model files download is about 25GB but in a comment below someone mentioned it is 8fp quantized model. Trying to understand how the quantization affects the model (and RAM) size. Can someone please enlighten.

hislazinesson Mistral NeMo

isn't it 2 bytes (fp16) per param. so 7b = 14 GB+some for inference?

hislazinesson [dead]

The title does not do justice to the article. It talks about a new classification system that OpenAI has introduced for LLMs

hislazinesson ThankYouHN: 14 Years

Same here. Coincidentally I joined in June 2009 and this is the only social media I indulge in.

hislazinesson Apple's iPhone is not a monopoly like Windows was a monopoly

The articles states the case is for apple's monopoly in the premium phone market. Yet it compares the market share with low cost android phones.

hislazinesson Minimal phone gets back to basics with E Ink display and real keyboard

I have experience using the Motofone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone . It was not the best of experience especially due to the lag which many have mentioned here. E-Ink displays have come a long way, hoping this time it is a better experience.

hislazinesson KamilaLisp – A functional, flexible and concise Lisp

Inspired by MalbolgeLISP which was a lisp written in Malbolge.

hislazinesson Dive into Deep Learning

Came across this book today. Good introduction and deep dive into ML.

hislazinesson Google Cloud’s new Assured Open Source Software service (2022)

As a customer you could propose additional packages, send the request via the support channel...

hislazinesson Google Cloud’s new Assured Open Source Software service (2022)

This is about managing security risks of using OSS libraries. Many organizations end up using OSS code/libs/products without having the capability or the motivation to validate them. Google addresses some of those issues with this.

hislazinesson Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

From the fraudsters/spammers perspective large platforms provide the economies of scale.

hislazinesson Asking 60 LLMs a set of 20 questions

As the responses are non-deterministic I wonder how useful these tests are? Even if I did the tests with my own prompts, wouldn't I get different answers for the same questions at different points in time?

hislazinesson Google / DeepMind Launches SynthID

Watermarking of generated art. I think this technology should also help original artist in watermarking their works.