Readit Newssubset commented on Voxtral Transcribe 2 mistral.ai/news/voxtral-t... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Because it's a 4gb download?
I think that web browsers only allow up to 4GB of memory per tab.
https://abstractnonsense.xyz/
My personal blog, I normally post about maths and computer science. But sometimes random design things, or bits about linguistics and words.
I recently wrote an eigenvalue solver for an interactive component on my blog with Rust compiled to WebAssembly. Being able to write-once and compile for the web and desktop felt like the future. But then, I'm no fan of JavaScript and wouldn't have attempted it if WASM didn't exist.
I was pleasantly surprised when a friend texted me after work to say this game was on Hacker News. I hope it brought some small joy to your day. Some comments helped identify some minor tweaks. I do not expect to have time or motivation to make bigger changes soon. Feel free to make GitHub issues.
Thanks for writing this game! I came across it after seeing your Checkers written in Rust for WASM game[0], and thought it deserved an HN submission of its own.
subset commented on Writing an eigenvalue solver in Rust for WebAssembly abstractnonsense.xyz/blog... · Posted by u/subset
A while ago, I also implemented a dense eigenvalue solver in Python following a similar approach, but found that it did not converge in O(n^3) as sometimes claimed in literature. I then read about the Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithm, which did the trick. It seems to have a reasonable Wikipedia page these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide-and-conquer_eigenvalue_...
Ooh, thanks for sharing that algorithm! Somehow, I didn't come across this and jumped straight into using the QR algorithm cited everywhere.
I found it hard to find a good reference that had a clean implementation end to end (without calling BLAS/LAPACK subroutines under the hood). It also wasn't easy to find proper convergence properties for different classes of matrices, but I fear I likely wasn't looking in the right places.