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Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

111 points • by csmantle • today at 12:25 AM • 25 comments • view on HN

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tiborsaas • today at 1:45 AM

This is fun and games, but wait until an agents finds this and does the most misaligned thing with it in order to fold paper clips.

> Because a CPU inside a language model clearly wasn't cursed enough, I decided the prudent thing would be to give it a filesystem too.

Love the spirit :)

jerrythegerbil • today at 2:17 AM

There was an interesting bit of research that qwen has a single neuron that makes it “demonic evil qwen” and a simple “Who are you?” will get some absolutely terrifyingly vile results.

Anyways, what I’m trying to say is I want evil qwen to be my CPU.

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dools • today at 2:38 AM

Have you any idea how it feels to be a Qwenputer living in a Qwenbot's Qwenputer's world?

jazzyjackson • today at 1:31 AM

> When Qwen 'saves' a file, the compiled layers hash its name into one of 1,024 slots in a directory kept in the DeltaNet state, and store the text itself in other heads, with eight tokens per row, chained together

I’ve never wanted to learn how LLMs work more than reading this. Fascinating.

Does divagr get paid to do wild things with LLMs? Just curious if they’re being compensated for these wild experiments

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yaoke259 • today at 2:20 AM

It could be interesting to experiment with more complex representations in the memory/file system, i.e. vectors. Seems like the full advantage of this architecture is yet to be explored. Blending neurons with deterministic compute to fit on one GPU is a fascination concept, never considered it before!

traverseda • today at 1:26 AM

I'd be very interested in how a scratch trained model that started training with this neural circuitry would behave. Especially the storage space.

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rumwerfer • today at 2:29 AM

But can it run Doom?

zardo • today at 2:22 AM

How much VRAM do I need to run DOOM?

voxelghost • today at 2:23 AM

Makes me want to run agents on it

bronlund • today at 2:05 AM

No, I don’t want you to use the computer, I want you to be the whole computer. No mistakes.

farhanhubble • today at 1:19 AM

This is cool and I understand the RAM emulation with gated attention but how does the CPU emulation wor? You add layers that are then trained to predict outputs while interpreting RISC instructions?

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ram_rattle • today at 1:22 AM

Cool cool cool

seba_dos1 • today at 2:07 AM

Now run LLM inference on it.

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cinderwick • today at 1:46 AM

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rickcarlino • today at 1:45 AM

If anyone else has an easier way to emulate RISC-V I’d like to hear it. /S

gigel82 • today at 1:27 AM

But... why? </s>

This reminds me of C++ Template Metaprogramming (TMP) (it's Turing-complete so people wrote "games" that run at compile time). The same with TypeScript types, I think someone got DOOM running entirely in the TypeScript type system. An interesting tech demo but entirely superfluous.

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rvz • today at 1:31 AM

So this is yet another rube goldberg machine.

We have gone down this path already in [0] and this is the same thing but overly complicated. This reason is "because LLMs".

Why?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

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