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robblbobblon Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token

At first, thank you for the insights. Could you please provide a pdf version of your article with a proper formatting so it can be also read offline?

robblbobblon Daunting papers/books and how to read them

To sum up: let AI simplify it for you.

robblbobblon I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video]

Impressive. Thanks for sharing!

robblbobblon Block Dude (Ti-83) in the Browser

I've had a great time playing this on my TI-83+. Thank you for porting this

robblbobblon U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)

Soldiers required ... for?

robblbobblon Show HN: Pong Wars

haha cool, reminds me of kid cudi day 'n' night

robblbobblon Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard

It is indeed the beginning of a new AI related era. But why cloud services, Microsoft? There is already a new infrastructure on the way better suited for AI, called edge computing. I'm not talking about completely eliminating cloud services. But solely depending on these kind of services could lead to further problems later due to this topic (national security) is very serious for all of us.

robblbobblon Show HN: Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant

I like the idea and support your project. As an enhancement/a suggestion you could let the assistant reply back with the voice of the user's choice like in the ChatGPT app.

robblbobblon If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source

Agreed.

robblbobblon TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning

Great job, thank you!

robblbobblon I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)

Good job :)

robblbobblon www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed

Hilarious

robblbobblon AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library

How is this different from https://github.com/AkshitIreddy/Interactive-LLM-Powered-NPCs ?

robblbobblon The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)

I'm pretty sure there are tons on unreleased and unpublished backdoor exploits for linux and windows likewise. The problem is you can't fix them yourself if the signature keeps unknown to anyone.

robblbobblon In 2024, please switch to Firefox

But even with Firefox your whole activity is being tracked. There is no privacy anymore. Your data is being collected massively to build a map to identify individuals. You can't protect yourself anymore from being a victim. This is so utterly bad that I even would recommend/advise to not use any computer or the Internet in total anymore.

robblbobblon YouTube is trying to block Invidious

Forcing the playing of ads like this is really bad for all users and results in a viewer decline in the long term. Maybe you should look for/shift to alternatives like dailymotion or vimeo. Even projects like github.com/teampiped/piped (privacy friendly yt frontend) getting heavily throttled now. Shameless move.

robblbobblon Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day

For the Penguin!

robblbobblon Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

Pretty interesting. I would love to see a version of this running locally with local models.

robblbobblon Curl on 100 Operating Systems

Thumbs up for the evergreen!

robblbobblon Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari

Interesting read

robblbobblon Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI

Hilarious

robblbobblon Researchers identify 'switch' to activate cancer cell death

Switch to life 8)

robblbobblon Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration

Major security concerns regarding the existing and upcoming chat bot releases.

robblbobblon Starship will attempt a launch this Friday

R.I.P. Rocket

robblbobblon Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code

Keep up the good work

robblbobblon Stan Lippman has died (2022)

robblbobblon What we know about LLMs

This got way out of hand as of by now and isn't about serving humanity as a whole anymore in big parts (!). This is some actors with the money and hardware trying to build their AI dream castles up on the shoulders of the rest and even don't care what the implications of their actions are. Money is regulating this business and is taking more away from us all in the long term than it pays in the short. I'm kinda glad we're developing backwards, because this changes are necessary for building a balanced future for all of us. Not just for a few eligible...

edit: I'm not in for a discussion.

robblbobblon AWS networking concepts in a diagram

It already went way too far and consider, the outcome will impact all of us. Now we have to ask an Artifical Intelligence to simplify the complexity of getting a footstep in a Cloud Hosting Platform like Google, Amazon or Microsoft. I don't know if this is desireable.

robblbobblon Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds

Similar to a DMT Breakthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RONAjJYB5bE

This is how our mind perceive or forms reality, ourselves and the objects around us in a huge floating chaos of elements. That's what we call order. Pretty fascinating and overwhelming.

robblbobblon DMT, Derealization, and Depersonalization

Interesting read and definitely related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death