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New comment by nok22kon in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

nok22kon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:43 +0000

LLM are very good at looking at images and reasoning about them. much more than just object recognition/segmentation, they can explain the physics in the image, the intents, plan actions, ...

New comment by nok22kon in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

nok22kon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:58:00 +0000

this is an LLM, not a motor cortex. it will output commands as text (json, ...), so comparing size is not very meaningful, especially considering neurons are highly complex and likely requires thousands of artificial simple neurons (weight+bias)

New comment by nok22kon in "For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward"

nok22kon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:54:08 +0000

that water is recirculated. nobody sends it down the drain after one loop

New comment by nok22kon in "For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward"

nok22kon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:51:10 +0000

there is a glut if demand stops.

this time demand doesn't stop. there is an exponential demand for tokens.

New comment by nok22kon in "For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward"

nok22kon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:47:30 +0000

H100 were released in Oct 2022. They are now more expensive than at release time.

New comment by nok22kon in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

nok22kon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:38:49 +0000

linux was plagued for a long time by lagging mouse cursor

New comment by nok22kon in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

nok22kon — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:32:36 +0000

how do hardware cursors work in a composited desktop?

the cursor could just be another small rectangle texture you position on top of the other surfaces. there is no need to read the framebuffer/write into it, its just a z-stack of 3d surfaces now