froztbyte

I've been trying to avoid inundating people with US politics, but it's extremely bad. Like constitutional crisis, rise of techno-fascism, dismantling of the administrative state, transgender extermination, put career roadblocks in front of minorities bad.

yep. haven’t been posting about it here because not sure where here we’d put it (while a lot of it is well within the orbit of regular content and posters) and it’s not quite entirely anything I can do anything about but offer words of comfort and keeping watch on the nasty shit, but been speaking a lot with friends in places (signal generally, or some other spaces we actually control (i.e. not discord, etc))

I feel moderately confident that at least for a bit of the foreseeable future we’ll be okay this side of the world, but I also know enough history and context to know how vacuous that is by itself. these fuckers won’t stop.

I also wish I could just make people understand that none of this is by mistake, none of this is these fuckers just finding some shit they disagree with under the seat cushions. I wish I could make them understand the depth and extent of planning and preparation that went into this, the sheer commitment behind it all. but too often such concerns would all be received as this toot put it

there’s so much more I could say but I guess I’ll leave it there for now

I saw (via Stross) a mention that passport issuance was already starting to hit weirdness too

e: this one

sidebar: I definitely wouldn’t be surprised if it comes to this overall being a case of “a shop optimised by tuning, and then it suddenly turns out the entire industry has never tried to tune a thing ever”

because why try hard when the money taps are open and flowing free? velocity over everything! this is the bayfucker way.

okay so that post’s core supposition (“using ptx instead of cuda”) is just ~~fucking wrong~~ fucking weird and I’m not going to spend time on it, but it links to this tweet which has this:

DeepSeek customized parts of the GPU’s core computational units, called SMs (Streaming Multiprocessors), to suit their needs. Out of 132 SMs, they allocated 20 exclusively for server-to-server communication tasks instead of computational tasks

this still reads more like simply tuning allocation than outright scheduler and execution control (which your post alluded to)

[x] doubt

e: original wording because cuda still uses ptx anyway, whereas this post looks like it’s saying “they steered ptx directly”. at first I read the tweet more like “asm vs python” but it doesn’t appear to be what that part meant to convey. still doubting the core hypothesis tho

I heard someone say Private Reasoning was around the corner. Think they’re related?

got a source for that?

you'd think that $200+ entertainment would be better

my take too - someone hoping to make proxy use of the bigot wave that ngo is currently attempting whipping up with his fake panic

you should try not asking a llm

those get weighted out at filter pass because corporate ~~puritanism~~ personhood can't "look bad" because 4 to 5 generations of eaglecountry people have only learned to do things by image and story instead of by substance

do they not have sidebars in aus?

wow, the point must've picked up a speed booster when it got close to you. so hard to grasp it!