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xadhominemx commented on Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation   a16z.com/building-a16zs-p... · Posted by u/ProofHouse
jsheard · a day ago
The technical expertise of... buying four of the fanciest Nvidia GPU and plugging them into an off-the-shelf motherboard in an off-the-shelf chassis? A serious attempt at this kind of build would use the server variant of the RTX6000 and custom air ducts to cool them efficiently, but they packed four blower coolers like sardines so it no doubt sounds like a screaming jet engine under load.
xadhominemx · a day ago
Exactly, 4 blower GPUs!
xadhominemx commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
testfrequency · 2 days ago
Since Waymo is very reliable in LA and SF, you will be just fine in NYC.

Your grid system is far less of a challenge than the amount of hills, twists, narrow streets and low visibility back streets in California.

I genuinely think the most complicated challenge for Waymo in NYC will be…winter snow and ice.

xadhominemx · 2 days ago
Oof I don’t know about that. Driving in NYC is much different than San Francisco. Frequent lane departures, cutting into heavy traffic despite technically lacking right of way, and other moderate rule breaking is required to get anywhere. Boston will be even more challenging due to the hundreds of convoluted intersections.
xadhominemx commented on DeepSeek-v3.1   api-docs.deepseek.com/new... · Posted by u/wertyk
okasaki · 3 days ago
My experience is that gpt-oss doesn't know much about obscure topics, so if you're using it for anything except puzzles or coding in popular languages, it won't do well as the bigger models.

It's knowledge seems to be lacking even compared to gpt3.

No idea how you'd benchmark this though.

xadhominemx · 2 days ago
> My experience is that gpt-oss doesn't know much about obscure topics

That is the point of these small models. Remove the bloat of obscure information (address that with RAG), leaving behind a core “reasoning” skeleton.

xadhominemx commented on In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip   hitachi.com/New/cnews/060... · Posted by u/julkali
alliao · 5 days ago
honestly given how long ago that was I'd not be surprised if everything's completely peppered with chips... one from the manufacturer, one from inventory, one from logistic, one from corporate espionage agent, one from foreign adversary state actor sky really is the limit with these. didn't parmesan put some chips in their cheese too?
xadhominemx · 5 days ago
The ICs are tiny but the antenna are much larger.
xadhominemx commented on In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip   hitachi.com/New/cnews/060... · Posted by u/julkali
progbits · 5 days ago
Still needs an antenna tuned to the RFID frequency which will be much larger than the chip. It's cool engineering but doesn't mean you can have a working sub-mm tag.
xadhominemx · 5 days ago
The chip is still the majority of the cost of the inlay, so making a smaller chip is the key to driving total down and unlocking new use cases.
xadhominemx commented on Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?    · Posted by u/nomilk
xadhominemx · 5 days ago
Maybe maybe not but given the pace of improvement of the foundational models and tooling, seems like something that will be possible quite soon.
xadhominemx commented on Intel CEO Letter to Employees   morethanmoore.substack.co... · Posted by u/fancy_pantser
pointyfence · 25 days ago
I'm with you. For some reason, the hardware / tech crowd insist that evil finance people or evil MBAs killed Intel. It's such lazy thinking.

But if you look at the past CEOs, Intel had Krzanich (fab guy), Swan (CFO guy who didn't even want the job but they couldn't find anyone else), and Gelsinger (design guy and Grove disciple) in 11 years. I'll even throw in Jim Keller, not a CEO but still The Chip God, who left in frustration after two years.

What's the one common problem that all of them had despite all their different backgrounds? Getting relevant nodes to market and scaling them up. Their foundry efforts (v1 and v2) have been disastrous. The CEOs or MBAs perhaps were a friction, but they aren't the root cause. Technology Development has been the center of power that the fabs and products revolved around for decades.

xadhominemx · 19 days ago
I blame Bill and Sohail, principally. I think they essentially orchestrated a coverup of TD’s growing problems in the era of PSO and BK should have known better but was out to lunch.
xadhominemx commented on TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process   9to5mac.com/2025/08/05/ts... · Posted by u/mikece
seanw444 · 19 days ago
> Not that I think you can just plug in a thumb drive and download as you please

Why not? It's just data, and a thumb drive stores data. As long as it fits.

xadhominemx · 19 days ago
TSMC practices compartmentalization. The entire recipe is never stored in one place.
xadhominemx commented on High-speed organic light-emitting diodes achieving 4-Gbps communication   spiedigitallibrary.org/jo... · Posted by u/domofutu
monster_truck · a month ago
The paper says that "operational stability of OLEDs is important for high-speed operation"
xadhominemx · a month ago
That is a requirement for operation sure, but not a particular strength for OLEDs vs competing technologies
xadhominemx commented on High-speed organic light-emitting diodes achieving 4-Gbps communication   spiedigitallibrary.org/jo... · Posted by u/domofutu
xadhominemx · a month ago
I don’t understand why you would use OLEDs for this purpose. Traditional uLEDs can achieve higher performance and the cost of the LED itself is a minuscule component of the system cost.

u/xadhominemx

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