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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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apparently those qualcomm NPUs (the "AI assist" chips in the copilot(?) laptops) aren't very good
The what in the what now?
What a terrible day to tech.
Have you seen the sticker with 'Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration'
(yes this post is a creative attempt at generating alt text for my image).
Thus leading to this sneer on HN. I'm quoting it in entirety; click through for Poe's Law responses.
gonna have to ship this person a 20d100 kit. maybe custom woodgrain? show some thought, y'know
wtf are NPUs anyway? some specialised vector maths thing?
non processing units
inference-tasks focused coprocessor
cope rocessor
hang on I have another.
NPU? More like, N-Pee-eeeww!!