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Comment Interesting business model (Score 1) 44

Just using self driving cars to camp out in the best parking spots, then leave as soon as I get there? When my college decided to buy their own Taco Truck and put the guy everybody loved out of business by banning him from school property, students volunteered to park their car on city streets close to his old spot and move their car as soon as he got there, so he did a lot more business than the college-owned truck taking his old spot.

Comment Re:What's a TPU? (Score 1) 20

Wouldn't it make more sense to use an FPGA so the AI could reprogram to optimize whatever functionality best suits the current problem set? Data centers are spending billions on chips that are going to be boat anchors is a few years; they will never amortize that investment. I'm sure ASICs are cheaper, but you're permanently stuck with whatever mistakes you made in the design.

Comment What's a TPU? (Score 1) 20

"A GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a versatile, multi-purpose parallel processor originally built for rendering 3D graphics, while a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) is a custom ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) designed by Google specifically to accelerate machine learning and tensor-based neural network workloads." Yeah, google just made that word up,.

Comment Re:Uhh... Cool? (Score 2) 188

Note that this all is around the Compaq BIOS case, and a part that keeps getting glossed over is the finding that the part being protected, the ABI interface, was not substantial enough for protection.

Software that is more substantial beyond just ABI/API is likely to be considered differently.

Note if it documents the full code body and translates that back into code, that may be treated differently. The BIOS documentation covering inputs and outputs, but not how those things are processed are one thing, but if it is a full prose description of the execution steps of a function, well that's different. In short, the LLM is likely to carry over the substance of the implementation in the prose, and break the whole promise of 'clean room'.

Comment Sennheiser-like? (Score 1) 26

My dad bought me a state-of-the-art pair of $99 Sennheiser Open Air Headphones in 1970, and modified my 8-track boombox by adding a headphone jack, just so he wouldn't have to hear the "n-word bebop" rock music that I listened too. The open air design did provide really good high frequency sound, probably not so good for bass.

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