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New comment by pankajdoharey in "Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors"

pankajdoharey — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:00:38 +0000

There is absolutely no need for this to exist in physical form. It is perfectly alright to run this on a simulation in Logisim Optimize as long as you desire and then once that is done, implementing it in physical form is just a matter of assembling it, which mostly can be done by many print pcb and solder on demand services.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:24:43 +0000

That's a lot of transistors. Why do I feel it could be done in less? This is the absolute minimum number of Discrete transistors you need?

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:45:53 +0000

Looks like a Tiny Analytic transformer, RNN is arguably a better choice if you are gonna handwire an architecture to mechanically do addition. Learning is about discovering the patterns and algorithm from data. Wiring a machine to follow a procedure defeats that purpose.

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

pankajdoharey — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:50:38 +0000

I understand that what Taalas is claiming. I was trying to actually describe that model on a hardware is some not something new Or unthought of The natural progression of FPGA is ASIC. Taalas process is more expensive And not really worth it because once you burn a model on the silicon, the silicon can only serve that model. speed improvement alone is not enough for the cost you will incur in the long run. GPU's are still general purpose, FPGA's are atleast reusable but wont have the same speed. But this alone cannot be a long term business. Turning a model to hardware in two months is too long. Models already take quite a long time to train. Anyone going down this strategy would leave wide open field to their competitors. Deployment planning of existing models already so complicated.

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

pankajdoharey — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:30:34 +0000

There is nothing new here. This has been demonstrated several times by previous researchers:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06174

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03868

For a real world use case, you would need an FPGA with terabytes of RAM. Perhaps it'll be a Off chip HBM. But for s large models, even that won't be enough. Then you would need to figure out NV-link like interconnect for these FPGAs. And we are back to square one.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]"

pankajdoharey — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:00:06 +0000

Boston dynamics is far behind plus the robots are so cheap , even their dog is cheaper than BD. I dont think their humanoid can even catch up to this price. I am sure US Army and for the chinese counterpart Chinese army will be their biggest customers. But i wonder how will this workout in situations like Plane hijack, fire fighting and other such places where human lives cant be risked to save more human lives. (Please Dont downvote because your american patriotism is poked try replying.)

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

pankajdoharey — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:04:14 +0000

Not for the entire world, with their pricing it is only good for US market, for the rest of the world we have ChatGPT and cheaper Chinese models.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Learning from context is harder than we thought"

pankajdoharey — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:15:20 +0000

No, it’s actually the math of overwriting. Imagine you hiked down into a valley Task A and settled there. Then, you decide to climb a new mountain to find a different valley Task B. You successfully move to the new valley, but in doing so, you destroy the path back to the first one. You are now stuck in the new valley and have completely 'forgotten' how to get back to the first one.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "I am happier writing code by hand"

pankajdoharey — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:17:26 +0000

People will only build it by hand if there is a market for it. Otherwise it'll be mostly hobby software build for learning and entertainment (opensource). Businesses don't mind factory software Although the cost of developing software is going down and will be almost free, in that case, the price is actually of taste. The best designed easy to use Interface. My guess is there will be some people, even in future, who would prefer custom handmade artisanal software written entirely by hand. Those will be probably artisanal software collectors. Maybe there will be some art galleries in future who will auction this software as art pieces to be demonstrated in museums or galleries. These will be rare events. Most commercial software will be factory made.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Learning from context is harder than we thought"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:16:12 +0000

Not to forget we will need thousands of examples for the models to extract abilities the sample efficiency of these models is quite poor.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Learning from context is harder than we thought"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:12:36 +0000

Continuous learningin current models will lead to catastrophic forgetting.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "The longest Greek word"

pankajdoharey — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:22:38 +0000

Could be but the central bulb as made on the coins is unlike a fennel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium , and since this imaginary recipe is a part of a comedy it is unlikely to be edible. If you look at other ingredients they can surely make someone sick.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

pankajdoharey — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:05:36 +0000

Or you can just vibe code Rectilinear app.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "The longest Greek word"

pankajdoharey — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:59:30 +0000

I think the ingredient Silphium described in this dish (Now considered extinct) could be Sea Holly (Eryngium spp). Its highly debated as many authors think it is some extinct variety of fennel, but from the images on the coins it doesnt look like a Fennel.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:41:51 +0000

Don’t worry big companies still can’t copy anything quickly, even with AI. Why? Because before they can ship a single feature, they’ll need to schedule 42 alignment meetings, debate AI-generated slide decks, and log their “strategic pivots” into an AI-curated Jira board.

The real moat isn’t just code it’s speed, focus, user trust, and the ability to actually ship. Those are things bloated orgs struggle with, with or without AI. If you’re solving a real problem and building a real brand, you’re already ahead.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:28:43 +0000

WoW, i stand corrected. Though my actual point was that now we have Plutonium and it cant be wished away it cant be put in silos, even if we lock it up in silos sooner or later say in a few centuries when people will forget about it those silos will leak and threaten humanity. There is no better way to get rid of it than spent it away in fast breeder reactors. It will threaten humanity sooner or later.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:17:47 +0000

Model router.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:15:25 +0000

If they are real slime balls they can justify it by saying you see we use speculative decoding so we first use a smaller faster model model first and then then answer is enhanced by larger model blah blah ..... "FOr the best User experience"

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:51:28 +0000

Its the router they are using, we surely are not getting what we select. Also after a few queries the intelligence drops. abruptly. and doesn't recover even after we start a new session, so there is another internal quota at play.

New comment by pankajdoharey in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"

pankajdoharey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:11:37 +0000

There should be a law that lawmakers can only be scientific people when it comes to science, i.e scientist's and engineers not humanities or arts majors. These people take decisions which are absolutely absurd. The entire western world has stockpiles of plutonium which is not going to be used for anything other than mutual self destruction. Because of these anti nuclear activists types the western hemisphere has trillions of dollars energy locked in the plutonium bombs, that could have been used in Fast breeder reactors and would have benefitted humanity.