Lord Follicle's whomsoever machine

@sarahmsachs 2x slower than Opus 4.7, 15x cheaper.

DeepSeek v4 works fine, but it’s not the frontier-pressing moment we saw with Kimi 2.6. On Notion eval data, it’s similar performance to GPT 5.2, with understandable failings. Most interesting — it doesn’t scale well. It’s ridiculously slow. On multiple major, trusted, and performant US inference providers we see it 15x slower than GPT 5.2 and 2x slower than Opus 4.7, a problem Kimi never had. Curious if it’s a fundamental issue in architecture, or a matter of time til inference providers make it work. Doesn’t seem urgent either way, if Kimi can outperform. Cheaper maybe, but not groundbreaking.

@CleansedTweets New York was cool in the 70’s and 80’s. Maybe that’s why the infrastructure doesn’t want to move on?

London vs New York - which of these is the greatest city in the world?

@mercurial_moons No data, just 20 year old pictures and vibes. Would there be less suffering in India, Brazil or any other similarly sized rural population anywhere? A lot has happened in these 20 years.

Thing is. Chinese villagers are often left out of the conversation.

@mercurial_moons Good job that you found a 20 year old picture. Yes, rural China was poor back then before 800 million people have been lifted out of extreme poverty

The culture shock I got when I first moved to the UK as a China born Chinese was that I was expecting General Tso's chicken , sweet and sour pork and fortune cookie type of fake Chinese food, but I was greeted with this ⬇️

@BBCNews Well I didn’t see that coming. What next, Amazon takeover by Cash Converters?

GameStop offers to buy eBay for $56bn bbc.in/4tQQgdl

@wbic16 Software maximalism plus a couple decades of “tech debt”.

100 MHz was more than adequate to run a GUI. At 100 fps, we had a budget of 1 million cycles per frame. At 4 GHz with 8 cores, no UI task should ever take more than 1 ms. We have 320 MHz per frame available. What the actual fuck is Microsoft doing these days?!

自己書き換えプログラムによる最適化の話 BLAZING STARとPULSTARをリードエンジニアとして担当致しました PULSTARはそもそもVIEW POINTからの系譜であり、そちらへもテクニカルアドバイザーとして参戦しておりましたが 晴れて自分の作品としてPULSTARを実装し、BLAZING STARへ昇華していきました BLAZING STARもとても好評を頂き大変有り難かった が、NEO GEOという全く同じハードウェアでPULSTARを超える為に、何百もの工夫をしました 当時のゲームプログラム業界は血で血を洗う最適化と表現の群雄跋扈時代 一サイクルでも多く稼ぐ、芸術的な、それこそ思考競技と言える様な切磋琢磨時代でした そんな中一つ、現代では馴染みのないテクニックを プログラムコードは通常RAMへ展開されますが、という事は、自分自身を書き換えるプログラムもあり得ます これはその一つである弾幕を扱うループ処理 言語は勿論MC68000アセンブラ 数十～数百を彩る弾幕を、現代で言えばそれこそECSの様にキャッシュを意識したコーディングが出来れば良いのですが、なにせ当時です 最適化の肝はCPUクロックの削減徹底 for 弾 in 弾幕群 update 弾 こんな言語はありませんが、全員判ってくれますね これが無駄なんです あの頃のアセンブラ界隈では、ループ処理すら無駄。無駄無駄無駄 CPUクロックが足り無くて仕方がありません そこで僕はこんな事を : 前提 弾 update 弾 update 弾 update 弾 update ↓ 以下管理RAMが許すまで同じ処理を書いておく : フレームの頭 このフレームでは「弾」が100個ある。じゃあ、100個目に「rts(ループを抜ける)」命令を上書きする : この、手作りの料理みたいなRAMの上で実際にCPUを走らせる : rtsに書き換えた部分を「弾 update」へ書き戻す :毎フレームこれを行う 馬鹿馬鹿しいほどのストイックさです これにより、ループにまつわる「変数iはn以上か？そうでなければループ」という処理すらを省いています 実効値で2倍以上の効率化です いつの時代も、コーディングにおける最適化は芸術だと思います なにより、楽しい

@davepl1968 Dave’s quick fire metaphors are the best explainers for a wide audience.

What does your CPU do when there's nothing to do?

@stefkegospodin @CarlZha It’s probably a overweight dude in Washington DC

@CarlZha It seems like her mind was colonized by the western imperialist ideas so now she sees everything through the lens of race.

They're in China

@Pott_Shrigley_ I wonder who the passengers were…

The horse-drawn bus to the Botanical Gardens turns onto Fargate in 1895. #Sheffield

@AaronBastani The 90’s, whether we’re talking about London or any other uk city, were 10x more unsafe than today. Large groups on the streets, they’ll glass you if they think you’re from a rival estate. Twokers driving stolen cars every night. Actual no go areas. Before ASBO’s and CCTV.

Is low level incivility getting worse? I think so. Phone thefts shouldn’t be acceptable, nor fly tipping. But you’re clueless if you think British cities are more violent than 30 years ago. They changed the glass used in pint glasses because blokes were cutting each other up!

@maityman Holy horse man you really went into the desert outback.

Up to the Pamir in a sandstorm. Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan just across the next range.

@CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @Hemigod85 It looks amazing, it should be awesome. But it’s shite 🤣. The Japanese won by optimising for gameplay ability.

ThunderCats. Elite, 1988. #Amiga #Commodore

@CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @Hemigod85 @nyimski Unlocked you bloody iPhone auto-idiot.

@CommodoreBlog @AmigaReposts @Hemigod85 @nyimski Memory loss locked wow 🤣. It was like Barbarian II on acid.

Night Breed. Ocean, 1990. #Amiga #Commodore

@RnaudBertrand Deepseek 4 was trained on Huawei hardware and It’s pushing new boundaries because of it. youtu.be/XJUpuOBpT-4

Oops... The end result of U.S. semiconductors export controls is: Nvidia down to 0% market share in the world's largest semiconductors market, and China's AI is on par with the U.S. "Backfired" is the understatement of the century. (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/…)

@Erickschultz11 @kevinUSA100 It’s called cognitive dissonance.

I think this framing misses the mark. A cult is usually a high-control group built around intense devotion, isolation from outside information, pressure to conform, and punishment for questioning the leader or doctrine. Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple is an example because it involved total control, social isolation, and catastrophic obedience to one man. That is not the same thing as ordinary political ideology, even when voters are biased, defensive, or overly loyal. People support parties for different reasons. Sometimes it is economics. Sometimes it is culture. Sometimes it is fear of the other side. Sometimes it is just habit. That may be flawed, but it is not automatically a cult. The bigger issue is that this post confuses the symptom with the cause. If people’s financial success has been declining under both parties, then the problem is probably more fundamental than one politician or one party. It points to the structure of the economic system itself. Both parties operate inside that same system. Democrats tend to argue for more taxation and redistribution. Republicans tend to argue for growth through trade policy, deregulation, or other market-based approaches. Those are different methods, but so far the brute fact remains that under administrations from both parties, ordinary people have continued to lose ground. So I do not think the right word is “cult.” I think the better question is why the system keeps producing similar economic decline no matter which political team is in charge.

How to Recognize That You’re a Cult Member: 1. You watch the politician you voted for make massive mistakes and serious miscalculations — and you applaud them anyway. 2. You see your own finances ruined under the administration you supported, yet you keep smiling and chanting “winning.” 3. You notice the politicians you elected actively trying to restrict your free speech, and you still insist it’s necessary and fully agree with them. 4. You see the people you voted for aligning themselves with crooks and corrupt figures to run the country, and you find their decisions amusing or entertaining. 5. You watch the politicians you supported do a complete 180 on everything they campaigned on — and you still cheer for them like a loyal sheep. Wake up. The politicians you’ve fallen in love with are preparing to put a leash on all of you.

@untergeek @davepl1968 If this is correct, then it makes a huge difference. The difference between 30 and 60 fps is huge.

@davepl1968 Even 24fps, the standard for movies and older animation, is 41.67ms. 200ms is 5fps, and you can easily perceive the distance

I can start and stop a Casio stopwatch in 0.07 seconds, which is 70ms. 200ms is not instant...

@JustCherry__ Sweet vinegar with seasoned kebabs?

🇨🇳 I’ve been totally obsessed with Xuzhou BBQ lately, especially the sweet vinegar they use.