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pulse7··on Founder Mode
Cofounder of a well-known startup accelerator and venture capital firm tells us the truth: we (still) don't know why companies are successful and how they are managed best ...
pulse7··on Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts
The main advantage of Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller on Radxa X4 board is that they can now use the Raspberry Pi logo next to the Radxa X4 marketing to increase the awareness that they are "similar to Raspberry Pi". Without RP2040 they wouldn't be allowed to do that...
pulse7··on Copying is the way design works (2020)
Steve Jobs himself told what he saw at Xerox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7aUJyJbJMw
pulse7··on HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash
This "demand multiples for the stock price" will kill the United States economy - one company at a time: HP, Boeing, and others are going in this direction...
pulse7··on Twenty Five Years of Warehouse-Scale Computing
With more and more cores and RAM soon we will not need warehouse-scale anymore... everything will be on a single server again - for almost all needs... one can get servers with more than 10TB of RAM and soon we will have more than 1000 cores...
pulse7··on AI models that cost $1B to train are underway, $100B models coming
But human drivers don't need such restructuring. They can also handle impaired pedestrians, nonstandard and missing signs/lane markings. And if AGI will be "better than most humans at most things" no restructuring should be needed...
pulse7··on AI models that cost $1B to train are underway, $100B models coming
"We could make it happen today" -> As of today, human drivers make less mistakes than automated driving... and Tesla is promising it for a decade now, but has come to level 2 only (where drivers must hold the steering wheel) and Mercedes has achieved level 3 for highways only... So we are nowhere close to "level 5 on all roads with substantially less mistakes than human drivers"... and that would be just a single part of AGI...
pulse7··on AI models that cost $1B to train are underway, $100B models coming
"AGI is just around the corner" but we haven't be able to build "fully automatic car driving" for a decade... So first I would like to see car drivers replaced by non-general AI, then I will start believing in AGI...
pulse7··on A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence
A US supermarket is not allowed to sell Kinder Eggs - because they are "dangerous for children", BUT they are allowed to sell guns...
pulse7··on Apple introduces M4 chip
It is NOT the fastest available today. I have a 1 year old PC bellow my desk which does faster neural network processing than M4. It has an Intel CPU and NVIDIA 4090. It runs Llama 7B models MUCH faster than any Apple's chip. And it is a PC. I am sorry, but the sentence "It’s the fastest available today." is a straightforward lie...
pulse7··on Apple introduces M4 chip
"device I can barely do anything with" -> Apple can do anything with iPads, but we - regular SW developers - are cut off... :)
pulse7··on Apple introduces M4 chip
This is true, but... RTX 4090 has only 24GB RAM and M3 can run with 192GB RAM... A game changer for largest/best models...
pulse7··on Apple introduces M4 chip
Current 2 bit quant models are useless. Smaller models yield better results.
pulse7··on A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=sw_metaware
pulse7··on Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven () Other Memory Safety Approaches
With optimized RC (which deffer deallocation) you have no "constant-time performance guarantee", because you don't know at which time the deffered deallocation will happen... And all modern RC implementations are heavily optimized - especially in Apple's ecosystem...
pulse7··on Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven () Other Memory Safety Approaches
The more optimized RC is, the more similar it is to GC - and this includes properties like cycle handling and performance guarantees.
pulse7··on Virtual Colossus
In Firefox you can mute each individual tab.
pulse7··on Bitcoin tumbles $5000 in 24 hours as interest rates jump
when the bubble bursts, there may be (world) war
pulse7··on Low Cost Robot Arm
It has been here for several millennia... it even has two legs to walk around and two rotating cameras connected to a very powerful LLM...
pulse7··on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
So garbage collection is not such a bad idea after all...
pulse7··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
Maybe Boeing is part of "National Security" and they are allowed to do anything with anyone...
pulse7··on 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
The mafia took over the Boeing Corporation...
pulse7··on Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"
Every decent application should be a portable executable binary!
pulse7··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
Apple just prepared the ground for the next billion dollar EU fine...
pulse7··on The Windows Ubuntu Operating System
"counterfeit windows" -> the term "windows" is generic and shouldn't be a trade mark anyway...
pulse7··on The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s
PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD runs at ~3500MB/s, PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD runs at ~7000MB/s and PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD runs at ~14000MB/s (yes - megabytes, not megabits)!
pulse7··on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
This is a political action to angry consumers so that they complain to local governments... a type of sabotage...
pulse7··on Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
How can it be, that the US legal system derailed so much that such trolls can exist? A regular person or small business >>can't afford<< to go to trail and is therefore willing to settle... and patent trolls are living on this situation like parasites...
pulse7··on A company that sells lost airplane luggage
Please read the article...
pulse7··on One Billion Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds
Some people believe JavaScript/V8 is faster than Java so I would also be glad to see the comparison here...
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