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New comment by tedd4u in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

tedd4u — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:33:45 +0000

And, “TSMC and ASML, currently, the only supplier of tools that could make cutting-edge 2nm chips, have added a ‘kill switch’ that will disable TSMC’s EUV machines remotely. According to Bloomberg.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-euv-machine...

New comment by tedd4u in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

tedd4u — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:51:38 +0000

And one cool trick is that if one develops step function more efficient training, one can still “open source” the model without revealing the training techniques.

New comment by tedd4u in "Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations"

tedd4u — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:46:27 +0000

True, but it's not all roses. If you like to sit at the front of economy to exit as fast as possible when arriving, you will be sitting next to a heavily-used lav which is not enjoyable. You have to sit 4-6 rows back from the lav to avoid the annoyance.

New comment by tedd4u in "AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less – HotHardware"

tedd4u — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:39:11 +0000

Consider the 7600x3d also if you're in the market for something like this. It has a slightly higher base and boost clock, and half the TDP. It's 6 cores instead of of 8 but if you're building a gaming machine that may not make a big difference. If you're putting it in a small form factor the lower TDP might be helpful.

New comment by tedd4u in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

tedd4u — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:55:38 +0000

The corps ruled the US until Trump. Now it’s moving to an oligarchical / kleptocratic mode like Russia. Sure the corps are still involved, but not on top. Will they remain after the current administration? I think it will be hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

New comment by tedd4u in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

tedd4u — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:13:21 +0000

Should we compare release date to release date? Or training date to training date?

New comment by tedd4u in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

tedd4u — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:21:27 +0000

An article exploring research and citations of "first sleep" and "second sleep"

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2013/08/first-sleep-...

New comment by tedd4u in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

tedd4u — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:23:12 +0000

There's an opportunity to insert or remove a leap second twice a year. They only decide about 6 months in advance of each opportunity what to do (leap second, skipped second, or do nothing).

New comment by tedd4u in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

tedd4u — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:08:38 +0000

Probably around the same people started saying "I have an ask" and "that's a nice solve"

New comment by tedd4u in "A global workspace in language models"

tedd4u — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:24:26 +0000

Right, will the devious unaligned thoughts squish over to a “K-space” we (the trainers) are not aware of?

New comment by tedd4u in "A global workspace in language models"

tedd4u — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:22:30 +0000

See also Ouro [1]. Good citations in the “related work” section.

[1] https://ouro-llm.github.io/

New comment by tedd4u in "A global workspace in language models"

tedd4u — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:59:54 +0000

The Ouro looping results are interesting [1] and they are focused more on the improved reasoning from looping middle layers rather than the parameter efficiency aspect. They train 1.4 and 2.6B parameter models with 7T tokens. The training includes learning how many times to loop on any given token (there’s an early exit module). My guess as to why (as far as we know) looping is not in frontier models yet is that, at frontier training run scale, it’s probably going to require a lot of trial and error and at-scale research. While currently they already probably have a list of dozens or hundreds of of promising ideas that don’t complicate things as much. In the other hand, Ouro’s looping technique shows ability to compete well with models with 3x parameters which seems attention-getting to me. If there’s another 3x to be had down that path. It’s order of magnitude opportunity. Btw there is a great related work section in the paper.

[1] https://ouro-llm.github.io/

New comment by tedd4u in "CarPlay Is Additive"

tedd4u — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:25:22 +0000

I hesitate to propose ulterior motives, but given there have been several seemingly obtuse objections to projection from Rivian, perhaps the CEO is concerned that, if Rivian supports projection, it will harm the perception of the value of their software stack? Related, I think they licensed their stack to VW.

New comment by tedd4u in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

tedd4u — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:16:54 +0000

I've seen that video. Guaranteed they wouldn't have put the slightest bit of information in there if they thought would help the competition.

New comment by tedd4u in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

tedd4u — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:14:47 +0000

I've heard students react this way to seeing problems on exams that are not strictly of the types taught in class or in previously-assigned homework. "It's not fair! The teacher never showed us how to do problems like that!" This kind of thing was expected and assumed when I was in secondary school, that there would be combining of some concepts from the unit into a single problem. Very worried that there's both a cultural change supported by AI tools that will lead to the outsourcing of thought to the AI rather than outsourcing drudgery.

New comment by tedd4u in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

tedd4u — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:09:25 +0000

One problem here is that students that use AI to outsource thinking become people who cannot think. These people are not likely to be very useful to employers or even society. We have to figure out how to allow AI to outsource drudgery but not the thinking itself. It should be a better and better bicycle for the mind not a replacement for the brain.

New comment by tedd4u in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

tedd4u — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:59:07 +0000

> Pen and paper is just not a very good way to produce text

Can you say more? It's worked well for 4,500 years. Probably the most important invention ever.

New comment by tedd4u in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

tedd4u — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:54:38 +0000

Grading written papers has worked fine for 200 years at least.

New comment by tedd4u in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

tedd4u — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:43:03 +0000

>AMD was shipping faster integrated GPUs than the M1 Pro before the M1 ever hit shelves.

At 30 watts TDP?

New comment by tedd4u in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

tedd4u — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:27:18 +0000

Try this WTO site instead. It breaks out oil, natural gas, fertilizer, and agricultural products with 7-day average and prior-year 7-day average.

https://datalab.wto.org/Strait-of-Hormuz-Trade-Tracker