froztbyte
I’m @froztbyte more or less everywhere that matters
the point is that your eli5 is unfounded rumour hearsay bullshit (and thus it’s entirely pointless to spread it), then when giving you a relatively gentle indication of that you decided to cosplay an ostrich
pro-tip: if it ain’t something you actually understand something about, probably best to avoid uncritically amplifying shit about it
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
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