of things I’ve found in the space that do address this somewhat includes this (a list of domains of either explicitly full of slop or heavily supporting slop)

brave supposedly has something as well but, well, it’s brave so it’s a non-starter

this is a now-archived project that maintained a list of chat widgets

regarding instances of widgets, off the top of my head some places where I’ve seen chat prompts unhelpfully placed: pluginboutique.com, hetzner.com, most aws doc and product pages (“Explainer”). I think hydro.run also had some trash popping up (I have a block for it), but can’t recall under which section

(DDG also pops some up constantly unless you have the cookies set, but that fails in fresh browser instances)

looking for advice/suggestions:

anyone seen anything yet (uBlock ruleset, {tamper,grease}monkey scripts, etc) that can block the “talk to our prompt” widgets that have started showing up on too many fucking webpages? I’m getting sick of the things, and I haven’t really yet found an exhaustive list of this shit from which to build up a list

reducing the 100r folks to “a gamedev studio” is abysmal, ew.

we already had quines at home. I’ll have to try see if I can budget quaking in my boots at scary-pictures-on-the-wall quines. hard call tho

in which karpathy goes “eh, fuckit”:

skipping past the implicit assumption of “well, just have a bunch of money to be able to keep throwing the autoplag at the wall until something sticks”, the admissions of not giving a single fuck about anything, and the straight and plain “well, it often just doesn’t work like we keep promising it does”, imagine being this fucking incurious and void of joy

I’m left wondering if this bastard is running through the stages of grief (at being thrown out), because this sure as fuck reads like despair to me

yep, a completely normal amount of non-specialist hardware that basically everyone has in their back shed. you just don’t turn it on all the time because the neighbours keep complaining about the fan noise. practically anyone could do this!

til if I wanted the program to go faster I should’ve just been asking it to switch its runtime

For another layer or assembly/machine languages, technically they could have reverse engineered the actual native ISA of the GPU core and written machine code for it, bypassing the compiler in the driver. This is also quite unlikely as it would practically mean writing their own driver for latest-gen Nvidia cards that vastly outperforms the official one

yeah, and it’d be a pretty fucking immense undertaking, as it’d be the driver and the application code and everything else (scheduling, etc etc). again, it’s not impossible, and there’s been significant headway across multiple parts of industry to make doing this kind of thing more achievable… but it’s also an extremely niche, extremely focused, hard-to-port thing, and I suspect that if they actually did do this it’d be something they’d be shouting about loudly in every possible PR outlet

a look at every other high-optimisation field, from the mechanical sympathy lot stemming from HFT etc all the way through to where that’s gotten to in modern usage of FPGAs in high-perf runtime envs also gives a good backgrounder in the kind of effort cost involved for this shit, and thus gives me some extra reasons to doubt claims kicking around (along with the fact that everyone seems to just be making shit up)

d’ya…d’ya think they’ll make it all the way along the path, to the realization?

for the love of god read the sidebar

pretty much my take as well. I haven’t seen any actual information from a primary source, just lots of hearsay and “what we think happened” analyst shit (e.g. that analyst group in the twitter screenshot has names but no citation/links)

and doubly yep on the “everyone could just be lying” bit

the wildest bit is that one could literally just … go do the thing. like you could grab the sdk and run through the tutorial and actually have babby’s first gpu program in not too long at all[0], with all the lovely little bits of knowledge that entails

but nah, easier to just make some nonsense up out of thirdhand conversations misheard out of a gamer discord talking about a news post of a journalist misunderstanding a PR statement, and then confidently spout that synthesis

[0] - I’m eliding “make the cuda toolchain run” for argument of simplicity. could just rent a box that has it, for instance

I want to say “plato’s cave of media awareness” but that’s perhaps too much a mouthful

is this the They I keep hearing about at parties? the ones behind takeout burgers getting smaller? the bastards!

yep, clueless. can’t tell a register apart from a soprano. and allocs? the memory’s right there in the machine, it has it already! why does it need an alloc!

fuckin’ dipshit

next time you want to do a stupid driveby, pick somewhere else

I do sorta get the idea that this is (one of the reasons) exactly why 'ole felon is trying to get his hand on all the funding faucets

it might disappear under the gigantic heap of money but gosh darn it we can KEEP HEAPING

foot-loom powered ml

for anyone reading this comment hoping for an actual eli5, the “technical POV” here is nonsense bullshit. you don’t program GPUs with assembly.

the rest of the comment is the poster filling in bad comparisons with worse details

and one doesn’t program GPUs with assembly (in the sense as it’s used with CPUs)