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Not the same when the machines in question are not on the same level...


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Extremely inspired by Forth, when I discovered this custom CPU design specifically for Forth I couldnt hold myself and went on the expedition to purchase the parts to build one. Unfortunately it only made sense to build 5 and sell 4 to cover costs.

I have 3 remaining My4th Lights I'm looking to sell, and given how niche this space is, I figured I'd try here on the business-tech focused YCombinator. I've sold one to a very happy customer.

I finally got the time to write up a proper little sales page:

http://len.falken.directory/my4th-light/


What a great project! I hope stuff like this is still around when I retire, because right now it would just collect dust and make my heart heavy because I don't have the time to pursue such a hobby


If it's any peace of mind, the parts to build them should be available pretty much forever. It's possible I do more runs in the future :) Just for the sake of growing the Forth hardware community!


> the parts to build them should be available pretty much forever

I find that's the most interesting aspect of this board. It's an excellent addition to permacomputing-optimized designs. It's a simple digital civilisation landmark for the ages. Or if you're pessimistic, the ultimate fallback computer.


CollapseOS is a FORTH based system too, based on that exact premise.

http://collapseos.org/


Where are the benchmarks? How many far cries can it run simultaneously? Does it make you cooler than Ben Eater?

(Also could you compare it to Chuck Moore's GA144 (core)?)


The manual has a nice benchmark: "5200 additions per second" B)

Probably 0.0001 Far-crys. My best guess!

Ben Eater? What're they eating? :D

Chuck Moore's GA144 requires a fabrication factory to create. My4th doesn't! How's that for a comparison?


You now have 2̶ 1 remaining My4th Lights.


What a stupid piece. We are making leaps every 6 months still. Tell me this when there are no developments for 3 years.


I'm curious, what was the leap after GPT-4? What about the leaps after that, given a leap every 6 months?


Some important landmarks since GPT4 was first released (not in chronological order):

- Vast cost reduction (>10x)

- Performance parity of several open source models to GPT4, including some with far fewer parameters

- Much better performance, much larger context window in state-of-the-art closed source LLMs (Claude 3.5 Sonnet)

- Multimodality (audio and vision)

- Prototypes for semi-autonomous agents and chain-of-thought architectures showing promising avenues for progress


O1, new Sonnet, all the music models and video models, the voice models like 4o, etc.


The music/video models are cool, but It's an apples to orange comparison with GPT-4. I don't think there's really any comparison of intelligence or "advanceness" between those models and GPT-4.

I'm surprised to hear someone say that O1 and new Sonnet are "leaps", though. My impression of them is that they're qualitatively similar to GPT-4. Incremental improvements at best. I don't think the gap between GPT-4 and the new Sonnet is anywhere near as large as the gap between GPT-3 and GPT-4, for instance.


Sora was just one of the many…


Your best example is something that doesn't even do the things that GPT-4 does, isn't available to use, and has seemingly only produced a few clips (some of which were edited).

If it were one of many, I think you would name something better.


> I wonder how many consumers fall into this sunk cost fallacy scenario that Apple has designed.

Millions. Let that sink in.


But can we make it smaller


Someone's living under a rock :) Far from the truth.


But they have this expensive commercial real estate on their books...


Same thing with income tax brackets. You need conditional logic.


For this particular case, I would say that tax-brackets sort of logic can be expressed in the destination block with ordered destinations.

For example, you could have something like this:

    send [USD/2 *] (
      source = @users:1234
      destination = {
        // first $1000 are taxed at 10%
        max [USD/2 100000] to {
          10% to @taxes
          remaining kept
        }
        // Anything above that is, taxed at 20%
        remaining to {
          20% to @taxes
          remaining kept
        }
      }
    )
(You can test it on the playground, you'll just want to feed the "users:1234" account with an initial balance in the input section)


+1 for ledger. It has been the best one I've used. The fact you can script it is f'ing amazing. My taxes have been on-point for 2+ years now since I started using it.


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