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iforgotmypasswotoday at 2:38 PM5 repliesview on HN

Anyone who has designed circuits will consider CPUs wasteful compared to ASICs. This new FPGA technology is just a less efficient ASIC.

That’s roughly what I’m hearing.

The fact that general purpose intelligent classifiers can be dynamically hacked together by an LLM in real time to allow them to build evolving labeled and understandable networks that perform substantially faster than the LLM, and can act as an intermediate sorting and organizing layer for caching context or handling simple tasks, and a complete layman like me can assemble a teachable layer of these in a few days from an inexpensive service…

That’s wild!

And then you can identify where an expert system needs a more specific ML technique for efficiency within this network that overlays the SOTA model. Or manually adjust the stored context in each secondary “neuron”. And paths forward can run programs or take actions at relative high speed.

And you can share these with others and improve them as a group.

You could insert this at the datacenters at scale with a local supervising expert to prune and encourage proper growth. You could identify specific gaps in capability that need more training, and patch over them temporarily.

Then you train those corrections back into the general purpose model, or you identify highly efficient subsystems for specific purposes.

And this is just one way to use it. High speed intelligent workflows can live in this. There’s a spot for a local LLM to learn on the fly.

Maybe I’m way off base, but for the non-experts Jev seems extremely valuable.


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NegativeLatencytoday at 5:16 PM

Also all of the mobile/embedded/resource constrained environments. Like sure my phone can run an LLM but it’s going to be bad and drain my battery.

bigyabaitoday at 5:18 PM

I don't think either of you are wrong. The parent's assertion is that we've known this for almost a decade. BERT was highly usable for classification and sentiment analysis a whopping 9 years ago, despite being less than 0.5B parameters large. Similar-scale models like FLAN-T5 showed that it could be improved without substantially scaling up.

Today, we're extremely spoiled by trillion parameter-scale models. Our conceptualization of vibe coding relies on wasteful tool-calling paradigms, the one-size-fits-all mentality of LLMs is part of the marketing blitz to make people buy more tokens. It's lazy on the part of frontier labs, but also wastes electricity, time and money.

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gyanchawdharytoday at 4:58 PM

Dude, this is gold!

sscaryterrytoday at 7:11 PM

FPGA's are definitely not new. They've been mainstream for 20 odd years+.

See https://www.eetimes.com/fpga-market-to-pass-2-7-billion-by-1...