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New comment by FL33TW00D in "Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:04:05 +0000

Why ruin good work by letting Claude write it all? Full of em dashes, riddled with Claudisms.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering"

FL33TW00D — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:50:01 +0000

Unreadable Claude slop

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

FL33TW00D — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:58:16 +0000

This was mostly down to enormous pressure from his father, causing him to have a breakdown in his early twenties.

Not to say the results weren't incredible, but certainly required sacrifice.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10378/10378-h/10378-h.htm#li...

New comment by FL33TW00D in "The Waymo World Model"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:56:30 +0000

Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:40:44 +0000

How many of these are due to going outside the normal envelope of what birds do?

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:39:42 +0000

It takes a different code path for efficiency.

e.g

if (batch_size > 1024): kernel_x else: kernel_y

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:10:55 +0000

But why is FSD "failing" is the key question.

Hint: it's not the sensor inputs that are the bottleneck!

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:28:58 +0000

I like the comparison, but with aviation on a fundamental level we made it simpler (removing actuation), not added more (senses we dont need)

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:07:42 +0000

How can you say camera only navigation won’t work with such finality when humans manage just fine every day! You literally have an existence proof of it working.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:07:58 +0000

I love this, the interday variability in my intelligence is extremely annoying.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

FL33TW00D — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:43:13 +0000

Mr Kwok already analysed these deals and gave them a nice little acronym: HALO

https://kwokchain.com/2025/07/15/the-halo-effect/

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:17:46 +0000

He did not "create" the TPU. He contributed to the creation of the TPU.

There are 66 authors on the original TPU paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3079856.3080246

New comment by FL33TW00D in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

FL33TW00D — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:23:55 +0000

He went from being unable to eat many foods, to eating a full cheese pizza on camera. Pretty sure it worked.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:15:55 +0000

The paternalistic state does not allow you autonomy over your own body.

e.g the amount of backlash thought emporium got when he genetically engineered himself to remove lactose intolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

Risky, but it's his body!

You probably shouldn't train an LLM in the browser - here's how

FL33TW00D — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:26:06 +0000

Article URL: https://vin.how/blog/train-a-language-model-in-your-browser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004328

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:26:24 +0000

Very interesting data point

New comment by FL33TW00D in "How to sequence your DNA for <$2k"

FL33TW00D — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:42:08 +0000

Dante and Nebula have a bad reputation. ySeq has an 8 month wait list. This guys Nanopore sequencer doesn’t work.

It is quite hard to get yourself sequenced in EU in 2025.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:44:44 +0000

How certain are you of this really? I'd take this bet with you.

You're saying that we won't achieve AGI in ~80 years, or roughly 2100, equivalent to the time since the end WW2.

To quote Shane Legg from 2009:

"It looks like we’re heading towards 10^20 FLOPS before 2030, even if things slow down a bit from 2020 onwards. That’s just plain nuts. Let me try to explain just how nuts: 10^20 is about the number of neurons in all human brains combined. It is also about the estimated number of grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. That’s a truly insane number of calculations in 1 second."

Are humans really so incompetent that we can't replicate what nature produced through evolutionary optimization with more compute than in EVERY human brain?

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:58:44 +0000

Throw away the H1B, introduce streamlined high skill immigration to the US. Top 1% of talent from all over the world should be able to move in under 2 weeks.

The first country that cracks this will have streets paved with gold.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x"

FL33TW00D — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:02:52 +0000

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.08.647863v1....