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New comment by dnchdnd in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

dnchdnd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:01:45 +0000

Interesting side effect that this seems to place a downward pressure margins of their western competitors: by sharing not only models but serving optimisations, even those third parties serving the DeepSeek models can do so more efficiently multiplying the effect

New comment by dnchdnd in "Apple's MLX adding CUDA support"

dnchdnd — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:28:46 +0000

Random aside: A lot of the people working on MLX don't seem to be officially affiliated with Apple at least in a superficial review. See for example: https://x.com/prince_canuma

Idly wondering, is Apple bankrolling this but wants to keep it in the DL? There were also rumours the team was looking to move at one point ?

New comment by dnchdnd in "ESPHome"

dnchdnd — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:13:59 +0000

can you share details of the weather station please? ive been looking into gathering wind data on the cheap...

New comment by dnchdnd in "Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market"

dnchdnd — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:39:54 +0000

only vaguely related - but I've been recently trying out dagster and I'm pretty impressed so far. I've run large scale data-processing from Hadoop onwards and was expecting the usual crumminess whenever you hit and edge case.

Instead I found a system that seems to be thoughtfully designed and, crucially, easy to debug.

New comment by dnchdnd in "Yan tan tethera pethera pimp – an old system for counting sheep (2013)"

dnchdnd — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 04:43:50 +0000

The welsh ones seem eerily similar to Urdu numbers. 9 (nau) & 2 (dau) are in fact identical. Welsh isn’t even an indo aryan language. But them perhaps this system may in fact be?

New comment by dnchdnd in "A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (1966)"

dnchdnd — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:12:43 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLV7t9DvN8 This is a fascinating series of lectures by Borges. Those who enjoy his erudition and his infectious love for English poetry will no doubt enjoy the investment of a few hours.