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John T. Wenger
@johntwenger.bsky.social
Sound Engineer, Musician, and Technologist working towards a sustainable future.
Unintended consequences...

US chip sanctions led a Chinese company to develop new AI models that are faster and more efficient than those developed in the US.

Why? Because the NVidia graphic chips being sent to them are throttled down to half speed.

#ai #opensourceai #deepseek #sanctions
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.
www.technologyreview.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Blue Sky uses DNS to authenticate users! You need to own and control a domain to register it as a Blue Sky handle. For example, an official Billy Strings handle would be, @billystrings.com. Brilliant!

www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
How to create your own Bluesky domain - and why I recommend it
Using a domain on Bluesky helps identify you to your followers. Here's how to do it, step-by-step.
www.zdnet.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
How the AT Proto federation architecture interacts with BlueSky. #atproto

By Martin Kleppmann, Paul Frazee, Jake Gold, Jay Graber, Daniel Holmgren, Devin Ivy, Jeromy Johnson, Bryan Newbold, Jaz Volpert - arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
November 19, 2024 at 11:06 PM