froztbyte

it's above-baseline among the tpots (at least relative to other areas I've observed it)

how do you reckon? not sure I directly see the overlap (and while admittedly I haven't gotten to dive full depth on the zizians, the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist)

I was struck by the outright "hey we've got cult camp" kitted out in whatever-the-fuck they've done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as "people are cyborgs now"

although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now I'm wondering if that's a thing that I missed in others of this before

new class of kook just dropped

of things I've found in the space that do address this somewhat includes this (a list of domains of either explicitly full of slop or heavily supporting slop)

brave supposedly has something as well but, well, it's brave so it's a non-starter

this is a now-archived project that maintained a list of chat widgets

regarding instances of widgets, off the top of my head some places where I've seen chat prompts unhelpfully placed: pluginboutique.com, hetzner.com, most aws doc and product pages ("Explainer"). I think hydro.run also had some trash popping up (I have a block for it), but can't recall under which section

(DDG also pops some up constantly unless you have the cookies set, but that fails in fresh browser instances)

looking for advice/suggestions:

anyone seen anything yet (uBlock ruleset, {tamper,grease}monkey scripts, etc) that can block the "talk to our prompt" widgets that have started showing up on too many fucking webpages? I'm getting sick of the things, and I haven't really yet found an exhaustive list of this shit from which to build up a list

reducing the 100r folks to “a gamedev studio” is abysmal, ew.

we already had quines at home. I’ll have to try see if I can budget quaking in my boots at scary-pictures-on-the-wall quines. hard call tho

in which karpathy goes "eh, fuckit":

skipping past the implicit assumption of "well, just have a bunch of money to be able to keep throwing the autoplag at the wall until something sticks", the admissions of not giving a single fuck about anything, and the straight and plain "well, it often just doesn't work like we keep promising it does", imagine being this fucking incurious and void of joy

I'm left wondering if this bastard is running through the stages of grief (at being thrown out), because this sure as fuck reads like despair to me

yep, a completely normal amount of non-specialist hardware that basically everyone has in their back shed. you just don't turn it on all the time because the neighbours keep complaining about the fan noise. practically anyone could do this!

til if I wanted the program to go faster I should've just been asking it to switch its runtime

For another layer or assembly/machine languages, technically they could have reverse engineered the actual native ISA of the GPU core and written machine code for it, bypassing the compiler in the driver. This is also quite unlikely as it would practically mean writing their own driver for latest-gen Nvidia cards that vastly outperforms the official one

yeah, and it'd be a pretty fucking immense undertaking, as it'd be the driver and the application code and everything else (scheduling, etc etc). again, it's not impossible, and there's been significant headway across multiple parts of industry to make doing this kind of thing more achievable... but it's also an extremely niche, extremely focused, hard-to-port thing, and I suspect that if they actually did do this it'd be something they'd be shouting about loudly in every possible PR outlet

a look at every other high-optimisation field, from the mechanical sympathy lot stemming from HFT etc all the way through to where that's gotten to in modern usage of FPGAs in high-perf runtime envs also gives a good backgrounder in the kind of effort cost involved for this shit, and thus gives me some extra reasons to doubt claims kicking around (along with the fact that everyone seems to just be making shit up)

d'ya....d'ya think they'll make it all the way along the path, to the realization?