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wills_forward··on High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights
stick enough floppy's in parallel and you could do the same thing
wills_forward··on DuckDB Internals Part 1
neat
wills_forward··on Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
There's a lot of opportunity in being the manager who can still see it
wills_forward··on Mistral OCR 3
Why not use both? I just built a pipeline for document data extraction that uses PaddleOCR, then Gemini 3 to check + fix errors. It gets close to 99.9% on extraction from financial statements finally on par with humans.
wills_forward··on Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and video
https://x.com/whowillrickwill/status/1920723985311903767
wills_forward··on A computer upgrade shut down BART
The cheap easy take: it's tragically ironic that the software running the infrastructure in Silicon Valley is such a problem
wills_forward··on Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float
So this could universally decrease the memory requirements by un-quantitized LLMs by 30%? Seems big if true.
wills_forward··on Emergence of a second law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems
This paper is basically statistical mechanics with a quantum veneer. Two major issues:

1. Scale: They're simulating just 13 qubits with QuTiP and making grand claims about quantum thermodynamics. The computational complexity they're glossing over here is astronomical. Anyone who's actually worked with quantum systems knows you can't just handwave away the scaling problems.

2. Measurement Problem: Their whole argument about instantaneous vs time-averaged measurements is just repackaging the quantum measurement problem without actually solving anything. They're doing the same philosophical shell game that every "breakthrough" quantum paper does by moving around where they put the observer and pretending they've discovered something profound.

wills_forward··on Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]
It was funny to hear the same guy warning LMMs were getting too powerful now talking about the limits of available original training data.
wills_forward··on Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home
Citadel or Jump?
wills_forward··on Show HN: GPT-V and OCR for Screen Control
I really like the elegant simplicity of tagging the screen elements like that and not obfuscating it away.

Nice work too!

wills_forward··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
Is this part of the reason Apple decided to support RCS? They knew the iMessage system would get opened up eventually anyway...
wills_forward··on LLM Visualization
Aw thanks for such encouragement all
wills_forward··on LLM Visualization
My jaw drop to see algorhythmic complexity laid out so clearly in a 3d space like that. I wish I was smart enough to know if it's accurate or not.
wills_forward··on Fast Llama 2 on CPUs with Sparse Fine-Tuning and DeepSparse
This seems like a big step forward in terms of running specific use-case trained inference locally, right? At least given current hardware generally deployed in business.
wills_forward··on Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]
Great podcast
wills_forward··on Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models
MIT and Microsoft Researchers Introduce "RetNet" - An 8X Faster Transformer Alternative for AI
wills_forward··on PredictIt is shutting down after CFTC withdraws no-action letter
This is such a bummer, but not shocked they're out-of-bounds given the bullets in the letter and how big they've become: https://www.cftc.gov/csl/22-08/download
wills_forward··on Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?
Does anyone see explainability as another good reason to trees on tabular data, for which I think users would expect more digestable outputs?
wills_forward··on No, DALL-E doesn’t have a secret language
That Twitter thread made me MORE of a believer that Dall-E has a language its own. As others said, seems like the argument is more about defining "language".
wills_forward··on Yellen privately lobbying lawmakers against Wyden-Lummis-Toomey crypto amendment
Because it will legitimize crypto, not discourage it.
wills_forward··on Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance
I’ve been looking for exactly this. Signed up for premium after doing my first model. So well built, very nice work.
wills_forward··on James Brown snatched a piece of steamboat history (2002)
“When he and his entourage flew back to Georgia on their private jet, we were like, what happened today,” Malone said. “He probably was sitting in that plane and was like, ‘what a weird place.'”
wills_forward··on AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool
YES. AWS' UI looks like a wholesale ripoff. Sad. Product manager: "Hey guys, see Trifacta? Go make that."
wills_forward··on FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals
LOL’d
wills_forward··on ReCAPTCHA Dataset
No, just an open door to litigation.
wills_forward··on For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity
Can we buy a list of colleges who are buying these names? Only seems fair. It'd be an interesting data point to know which schools aren't so desperate.
wills_forward··on Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice
^this guy for prez 2020
wills_forward··on Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017)
So true. And the United States has 2x the number of civil cases per capita than the next most litigious country, The United Kingdom. Tort reform just isn’t a sexy campaign promise either.
wills_forward··on Linux and FreeBSD: Multiple TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities
Every time I see one of these systemic vulnerabilities get found I wonder how many others someone (or some entity) are just sitting on until they REALLY need to use it.

Someone tell me it’s all going to be okay and this digital world isn’t going to just crumble someday. Please. Anyone.

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