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Where should I look for a more technical description of exactly what they are doing?


check http://neuroscience-landscape.com/

this is list of software, hardware, and other material on neuroscience

UCSF is big part of BRAIN Initiative lead by Allen Institute, many of the tools and their work is collected in Open Neuroscience Foundation


i think eddie chang's paper on voice synthesizing is published, i forget if it was nature or neuron. it's prob on pubmed but i'm too lazy/sleepy to pull it. doris tsao and a number of collaborators have a few nice papers out w ML applications to single unit/LFP recordings


How much of the supposed $500B will be US state budget money?


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Today I learned that there is a EuroRust converence. I have about that level of involvement with the mentioned technologies.

Whom are these kinds of tech conferences actually for in 2024, I wonder? For what kind of person and in which circumstances is it a good idea to go?


While I did not visit to the conference, I did attend the workshop the blogpost author mentioned.

It was an excuse for a train trip to beautiful Vienna. Also, I met Jon Gjengset for whom I hold a lot of respect, especially his ability to think and talk and explain.


Some people like to read books. Some of them join a book club.


Why would I want Android on my e-reader, again?


Because most people who read ebooks use a Kindle, and an e-reader having Android is by far the simplest way to read your collection of Kindle books on a non-Amazon e-reader. This is because you can just download the Kindle app to access your collection.


Anki, audiobook apps, better TTS, basic text browsing on the internet, notes apps, etc.


Where is $6.5B from?



Having read a few comments, and then the essay itself, I am surprised there's no call to action or announcement.


> in a couple of months Intel will launch Arrow Lake S, which will have a very close single-thread performance to Zen 5

Will they? Intel Innovation event was postponed "until 2025"[1], so I assumed there is not going to be any big launch like that in 2024, anymore? Arrow Lake S was supposed to debut at Intel Innovation event in September [2]

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/events/on-event-seri...

[2] https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-says-raptor-lake-microcode...


The Intel Innovation event was canceled to save money. This has nothing to do with the actual launch of future products, which are expected to bring more money. Intel can make a cheap on-line product launch, like most such launches after COVID.

Since the chips of Arrow Lake S are made at TSMC and Intel does only packaging and testing, like also for Lunar Lake, there will be no manufacturing problems.

The only thing that could delay the Arrow Lake S launch would be a bug so severe that it would require a new set of masks. For now there is no information about something like this.


Can you suggest how to get the best router experience if I intend to use an alternative firmware? (I am thinking of OpenWrt right now)

I have some experience running m0n0wall (it wasn't deprecated back then) as a router and a Ubiquiti Long Range AP (bought old, used) as a dedicated Wi-Fi AP at my old home.


My personal current setup is 10 year old desktop PC with a dual Intel NIC running OPNsense as my router. This is more than enough power and aside from a relatively long reboot time (about 80 seconds or so) it works wonderfully. Connected to this router is my WAN (Frontier fiber) in one NIC port and a TP-Link unmanaged Gigabit switch with POE ports on the other. The Wi-Fi is provided by TP-Link Omada access points managed by a local hardware controller (TP-Link sells these and they support many more APs at a time than I ever would need). This setup has been amazing in terms of managing it and in terms of user experience. Fast Wi-Fi, built in roaming over my 6 access points, and a router that is powerful, fast, and very flexible to manage with a great community behind it. Would have loved an open source AP solution but Omada at least does work well just like most TP-Link stuff.


My sibling comment covers what I've done at a high level, what seems to work really well to me is to use a separate router and AP so that the wifi side of things is completely divorced from managing the router. That'll let you use something like OPNSense, OpenWRT, or PFSense to manage the traffic. If you don't already have a device to do that I'd highly recommend looking at ServeTheHome's reviews of some of the N100/N300 based devices that have been coming out lately, there's quite a few really powerful ones coming out that would work wonderfully for this (I'm using a Ryzen based normal PC that I've optimized for power since those didn't exist when I did this).

Some recent reviews that give an idea of what's out there (look further too, there's a few 4x2.5GBe + 2x10GBe ones too)

https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-industrial-4x4-box-8840u...

I'm actually running mine with the router in a VM in proxmox with a PCI-e passthrough NIC because I'm also running a few other network critical services that I wanted more isolation on (omada controller, mail server, ldap, etc.) but don't want the power budget for yet another server.

EDIT: bah, wrong second link for STH, https://www.servethehome.com/everything-homelab-node-goes-1u...


There are 2 very different approaches depending on the reasoning your interest in running alternative firmware.

Reasoning 1: FLOSS/Libre principles - find whatever wireless router has the best wireless radios but still complies to your particular set of openness principles. More than anything the radio performance will still be your performance limitation so the rest of the box ends up not mattering and you can use your software straight on it without much worry. If you're ideal FLOSS hardware doesn't support running your ideal FLOSS "smarts" directly you can mix this with the 2nd approach, otherwise just stick with the one box.

Reasoning 2: You just want better software - find the device with the best radios and see if it has a native "AP" mode (it probably will). The radios will likely outperform the rest of the device if you want to do any "smarts" with the traffic so completely ignore whether or not that specific device can run open software and get an x86 tiny/mini/micro PC to run some set of software like OPNSense or whatever you prefer. The AP is then a dumb passthrough and the PC is flexible so the two sides no longer limit each other (both in performance and lifecycle).


Just checked it out. Is pay-as-you-go API access available at all? It says 'Coming Soon'

https://console.groq.com/settings/billing


I've found Bedrock to be nice with pay-as-you-go, but they take a long time to adopt new models.


And twice as expensive in comparison to the source providers’ APIs


I think you answered it yourself? It’s coming soon, so it is not available now, but soon.


It's been coming soon for a couple of months now, meanwhile Groq churns out a lot of other improvements, so to an outsider like me it looks like it's not terribly high on their list of priorities.

I'm really impressed by what (&how) they're doing and would like to pay for a higher rate limit, or failing that at least know if "soon" means "weeks" or "months" or "eventually".

I remember TravisCI did something similar back in the day, and then Circle and GitHub ate their lunch.


> They're also behind in GenAI

Where can I read up on that and what's state of the art in consumer GenAI chips?

Also thanks, all great points!


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