Oh I can steal GPU from my other son? Great idea!! 🙂
COMPUTING
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Phi-4 Mini 3.8B Performance on Mac Mini M1 vs M4
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I doubt it will run any well on an M1 MacMini. My AI says: “The pick: Phi-4 Mini 3.8B on CPU. It's the best reasoning model for its size and runs at 3-6 tok/s on a CPU — slow but usable for non-interactive tasks. For anything interactive, you'll want at least a Mac Mini M4”
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China’s Solar-Powered Stratospheric Drone Changes Strategic Infrastructure
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China just made one thing very clear:
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 9 avril 2026
the future of strategic infrastructure will not be built only in space.
It may also fly for months in the stratosphere, powered only by sunlight.
That is why this matters.
China has fielded a fully independent solar-powered drone capable… pic.twitter.com/BjRTlUFHz4China just made one thing very clear:
the future of strategic infrastructure will not be built only in space. It may also fly for months in the stratosphere, powered only by sunlight. That is why this matters. China has fielded a fully independent solar-powered drone capable -
BAIR Faculty Member Wins 2025 ACM Prize Computing
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Congratulations to BAIR Faculty @matei_zaharia who has been awarded the 2025 ACM Prize in Computing "for his visionary development of distributed data systems and computing infrastructure, which has enabled large-scale machine learning, analytics, and AI at global scale."
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Matei Zaharia Wins ACM Prize in Computing
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Congratulations to @matei_zaharia on winning this year's ACM Prize in Computing! This is very well-deserved!
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Amazon Nova 2 trails Sonnet 4.5 and remains in preview
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So what's the deal with Amazon Nova? They released Nova 2 in December, and even then, the top flight Nova 2 model trailed Sonnet 4.5. And it still hasn't left preview.
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Digital twin of world created with millimeter accuracy
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They used that data to build a digital twin of the world down to 1 mm accuracy. It is sick
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Niantic Scaniverse: 3D Gaussian Splats from Video in Realtime
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5 min video from an insta360 camera turned into a big ass 3d gaussian splat using the new niantic scaniverse app
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 9 avril 2026
it’s kinda wild how well we can model the complexity of reality, and run in realtime in a browser at 100fps pic.twitter.com/SgPsWiSRYX5 min video from an insta360 camera turned into a big ass 3d gaussian splat using the new niantic scaniverse app it’s kinda wild how well we can model the complexity of reality, and run in realtime in a browser at 100fps
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Virtualizing Software: Phone Playback with Computer Listening
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The only way I have figured it out is play it on your phone and have your computer listen. I hope some nerd virtualizes it.
