fspeech's comments

On: Ask HN: Is there a way to use Baidu cloud legally ...

[fspeech]

You need a Chinese number to sign up and facial verification to make payments, as far as I can tell.

On: SambaNova Cloud Launches the Fastest DeepSeek-R1 6...

[fspeech]

The smaller cluster is not necessarily a good thing. It may not be able to take advantage of unbalanced load on experts.

On: Alibaba's Tsai Says Apple iPhone Will Use His Firm...

[fspeech]

Deepseek doesn't have the infrastructure to support Apple. I suspect that they are also not interested in tailoring to Apple's needs given their mission and small size.

On: BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all m...

[fspeech]

In a polytheistic context the invocation is much less severe, roughly equivalent to Apollo's Eyes or Zeus's Eyes.

[rsynnott → fspeech]

But hopefully not Odin's Eye.

On: BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all m...

[fspeech]

That's due to the translation. The original term 天神 comes from the polytheistic Chinese folk religion so it doesn't have the same connotation.

On: Run Deepseek from fast NVMe drives

[fspeech]

Deepseek's open source inference code, while correct, may not be fully efficient. For example the MLA needs the right associative matrix multiplication order to be efficient.

On: Run Deepseek from fast NVMe drives

[fspeech]

Do you have any benchmark run yet? I am interested in knowing how many tokens/sec you can get to. Though in the end it should be more efficient to run the model on distributed server clusters.

On: The Race to God Mode

[fspeech]

Thanks for the thought provoking take.

On: SemiAnalysis says DeepSeek spent more than it clai...

[fspeech]

Right. And the number is based on rental rates of GPUs so how many GPUs they own is irrelevant to the claim.

On: Understanding Reasoning LLMs

[fspeech]

Recent developments like V3, R1 and S1 are actually clarifying and pointing towards more understandable, efficient and therefore more accessible models.