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arglebarnacle: Fascinating. We hear that the leaps in AI have been made possible by orders of magnitude increases in compute and data availability, and of course that’s substantially true—but exactly how true? It’s a nice exercise in perspective to see how much or how little modern machine learning methods would have been capable of if you brought them by time machine to the 70’s and optimized them for that environment.
rahen: Thanks for reposting! I'm the author of ATTN-11. Happy to answer any questions about the fixed-point arithmetic, the PDP-11 hardware, or the training process.
AnimalMuppet: Woah. Dude has a running PDP-11/34 in 2026? Personally, I find that more impressive than the program.
rahen: That thing is a Tamagochi though, it constantly needs attention, pardon the pun. I did most of the development and tuning on ll-34 for that reason.
