An interpreter is significantly easier to sandbox than native execution, and it means they can make guarantees the host system won’t crash no matter what the program running is.

I could see it being useful for allowing third parties to run experiments on their hardware in space without having to manually verify the code safety.

Yeah, I said transformer because that seems to be the state of the art in AI architectures, but purpose built neural network hardware might not actually benefit from the same architecture.

A neural network made from analog hardware could theoretically replace a significant portion of an LLM’s processing and not be limited by things like floating point precision or clock speeds. Who needs floating point when you can literally just multiply voltages together with a couple transistor junctions at the speed of light?

If they don’t have a warrant, it’s not admissible in court anyway. Let em have it.

Oh it’s definitely admissible in court if you willingly hand it over. If they have no warrant, they have no legal right to enter your home, and you don’t need to talk with them. But that doesn’t apply if you invite them in and let them start developing probable cause of a crime.

Me: I need some new hardware to run my transformers on

Mom: We have transformers at home

The transformers at home:

Joking aside, I think you’re right, using discrete floating point math to simulate a transformer architecture will never be able to approach the efficiency of a “native” analog system like actual brains. I think eventually we’ll see someone come up with a hardware transformer that doesn’t require full synchronized clock signals.

We’re at the point where you can fit an entire computer inside a USB cable end without it looking any different (beware of keyloggers if you’re not using your own cables, they can even fit a wifi antenna in there)

It’s not a $20k repair bill I’m worried about, it’s the potential of $100k+ in medical liability that I’m really buying insurance for.

In my area there’s plenty of expensive cars driving around too, I somehow doubt the minimum $25k insurance would cover even half the cost of a totaled car + everything involved.

Sarcasm or not, the people dealing with localized datacenter heating during already hot weather don’t find it funny.

"AI datacenter are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. "

Yes, all that emitted radiation does cool down the sun. It’s why it has a mostly stable temperature instead of getting hotter infinitely.

There’d be nothing less than gold plated B300s in a space datacenter. If they’re spending billions flying it up there, they’re not going to be putting mid-range consumer GPUs in there. The gold plating probably doesn’t even do anything for radiation shielding, the AI just told them to add it to help prop up the AI bubble.

The advantage of datacenters in space is that the peasants can’t break in and sabotage your equipment. Only a very small set of nations would have the capability of blowing it up or somehow jamming its communications.

It literally only makes sense if you’re a billionaire worried about the growing unpopularity of your AI datacenters, or you’re using it for war and don’t want it easily bombed…

As far as I know, there are no more orbital deadzones. We’ve got so many satellites, if not Starlink, I’m sure some other satellites could do the job of relaying to ground stations. We get live video of boosters landing in the middle of the ocean after all.

This. Honestly they’re amazing on airplanes, since you can still talk and hear all the announcements / flight attendants without the background noise.

I might have to rewatch The Fast and the Furious. Now it’s just AI hardware instead of VCRs or whatever it was in the movie.

I don’t mind the angular design, it’s the specific design element of having a straight line from the headlight to above the passengers with the huge windshield. It just seems like it has so many drawbacks for driver visibility and other packaging issues. There’s a reason you don’t normally see this outside of really low cars, or buses/trucks with a flat front.

I’m waiting to see if Slate can hit their crazy $24,950 target base price. With a 65kWh battery, that’s a pretty great price. That’s almost cheaper than buying batteries alone. I’m wondering if it will be able to do home backup power.

Honestly, too many Cybertruck vibes for my taste. Maybe it’s better from other angles

You’re comparing high end 512gb prices with low end 2tb prices. I somehow doubt Valve is selling this with a no-DRAM-cache SSD. It’s only a $50 different if you compare fairly, and I doubt you’ll find anyone willing to buy the old 512gb for full price either.

Valve’s pricing is incredibly normal here. Yes the price is high, but they’re not straight up ripping you off like Apple’s RAM and SSD upgrades.

I’m not seeing a 2TB M.2 SSD for less than $250. Depending on the speed they put in it, it could easily be market price. The current Amazon best seller is $350 and is over 2x the read speed of the cheaper one.

A modern Camry is actually a whole foot longer than a Rav4, but the Rav4 is 1 inch wider and quite a bit taller. Definitely not the exact same size.