Back when the conflict started for the first few weeks here (Central Europe) on TV every program that featured Ukraine soldiers showed them with brown scotch tape on their upper arms. After a while they no longer gave a shit. Probably because they thought that the Wolfsangel would be unique enough for the commoners.

Westmere Xeon processors are still quite OK imo. I have an old enterprise machine with one. 12 Threads, 2.6 GHz is still quite usable for many things. I mostly use it to compile larger software. But personally I’d argue that Longsoon is already far better than Intel/AMD since Longsoon is based on MIPS, which is based on RISC, while Intel/AMD still clings to their bloated and way too power hungry CISC crap. Plus today most performance comes from parallelism and cache size rather than core frequency and Longsoon does already have 128 and 256-bit vector instructions in their ISA, which is pretty decent. Maybe they can figure out a 512-bit vector extension that doesn’t severely throttle the CPU when using it before Intel can, lol.

US Imperials about to seethe

It’s depressing to see so many AI powered FOSS projects that are basically just a chatbot/autocomplete or something that can spit out some images, when there are so many cool things you could use Neural nets for. For instance, as a FLOSS enthusiast a tool to help with reverse engineering proprietary binaries, specifically firmware and driver blobs would be awesome and could permanently change computing for the better. But everyone in the west seems to be more concerned with how they can use Neural nets to reduce production costs and increase profits.

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Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble! Thanks for posting this banger comrade.

I agree. This thread has some high levels of reaction. It’s disappointing to see.

start writing actually efficient software

We should be writing efficient software regardless.

I want an AI, for example, to analyze the material conditions of a country and plan a Communist revolution for me. Can I have that? Will capitalism produce this for me?

Unironically, I think what’s more likely to happen is that once the compute resources become affordable to the average working class people then someone will inevitably start a FOSS project like that. I have the feeling even if some private company manages to make an AI that could be used for things like planning revolution they will probably train it in ways to make it incapable of doing these things.

I wouldn’t even call it half of an AGI. AGI is comparable to a CPU; It’s a general purpose machine that is designed to run general purpose programs. But LLMs, Txt2Img Models, Img2Img Models, etc. are like ASICs: They’re specifically designed to do exactly one thing and do it very well. Claiming that any of the current AI technology is anywhere near general purpose is laughable. It’s nothing more than an attempt to build hype, to attract investors and gain market share.

Documentation on loongson processors is still pretty sparse. So far they’ve only published a volume 1 which covers the basics. All the interesting stuff is still to be documented but for some reason they archived the repository a few months ago: https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/

I’m curious how a loongson SIMD optimized program would compare to the x86 equivalent.