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New comment by atomicthumbs in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

atomicthumbs — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:20:44 +0000

you'd think with how often Opus builds two separate code paths without feature parity when you try to vibe code something complex, people wouldn't regard this whole thing so highly

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery"

atomicthumbs — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:41:48 +0000

Yes, I know. I'm pointing out they're comparing a laboratory prototype to a commercial product.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery"

atomicthumbs — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:59:28 +0000

And how much commercial development have NMC and LFP batteries had since they left the laboratory?

New comment by atomicthumbs in "AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4"

atomicthumbs — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:22:31 +0000

eBay Seller Research shows that the average sold price for a 5800X3D has increased by about $100 in the past 30 days, from ~$360 to ~$460.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "alpr.watch"

atomicthumbs — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:23:40 +0000

not really, because all the sousveillance in the world doesn't grant the average joe the power of a single cop

New comment by atomicthumbs in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:52:25 +0000

There are more things in this world than software. Many of them are important!

New comment by atomicthumbs in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:48:45 +0000

100%

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

atomicthumbs — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:07:43 +0000

AIs think like a rock flies.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:11:09 +0000

> Virtually all successful existing sequence models rely on mean squared error (MSE) or dot-product similarity for both their bias and retention. This reliance can make models sensitive to outliers and limit their expressive power.

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> MEMORA: This model focuses on achieving the best possible memory stability by forcing its memory to act like a strict probability map. By using this constraint, it ensures that every time the memory state is updated, the changes are controlled and balanced. This guarantees a clean, stable process for integrating new information.Virtually all successful existing sequence models rely on mean squared error (MSE) or dot-product similarity for both their bias and retention. This reliance can make models sensitive to outliers and limit their expressive power.

so did a Titans write this

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

atomicthumbs — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:00:40 +0000

The person you're replying to asked for a source, not an anecdote.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "A Reverse Engineer's Anatomy of the macOS Boot Chain and Security Architecture"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:30:28 +0000

Those aren't iMessage hardware backdoors.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:10:32 +0000

Do you have a testable hypothesis about this or are you flailing in the dark?

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:25:07 +0000

these things are popping "ordinary" adults' minds like popcorn kernels and you want to take their safeguards off... why?

New comment by atomicthumbs in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:56:29 +0000

better not use UPS; goods moving under ATA carnet are on their prohibited list

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Being poor vs. being broke"

atomicthumbs — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:05:33 +0000

"Im from a totally normal middle class-ish family."

Maybe that's why you can't comprehend the idea of being poor in a fashion that doesn't let you escape, even working as hard as you possibly can and making all the right choices.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

atomicthumbs — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:53:33 +0000

Optical quality is kind of a problem with a flatbed; even with it perfectly flat, it looks a lot better coming out of a Coolscan.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

atomicthumbs — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:52:42 +0000

Do you use it with an old computer, or do you have a good way to interface a SCSI scanner with a modern machine? I tried to get my Precision II up and running but the SCSI card driver would crash Windows at random intervals.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

atomicthumbs — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:45:33 +0000

It'd be nice if they were able to adapt the Hasselblad/Imacon "virtual drum" concept and curve the film underneath the sensor for side-to-side flatness. I wonder if that's feasible with a 2D sensor.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

atomicthumbs — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:43:20 +0000

The Coolscans used RGB LEDs.

New comment by atomicthumbs in "Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon"

atomicthumbs — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:21:14 +0000

The APOLLO lunar laser ranging experiment uses a 3.5 meter telescope as a laser turret and manages to get about 2,400 photons back from those retroreflectors every half an hour, and it's a challenge just to find the things as the spot's a few km wide by the time it gets to the moon. Good luck.