TL:DR - Remembered FPGA PCI boards being a big thing from my crypto days. Wondered if AMD Alveo V80 FPGA card could be used to approximate the performance of a Taalas HC1 (LLM-on-a-chip).
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Thoughts on using an AMD Alveo V80 FPGA PCI card as a poor man’s Taalas HC1 (LLM-burned-onto-a-chip). (www.reddit.com) Rada — AI coding workspace with local-first behavioral routing (no hot-swapping, I built this) (www.reddit.com) With GitHub pausing Copilot Pro+ signups and Claude Code potentially leaving the Pro tier, I started building the AI coding tool I actually wanted to use. One that doesn't depend on cloud access staying cheap and available.
Making an LLM Miserable About Boston Weather (medium.com via reddit) I replicated an Anthropic experiment about emotion vectors in an 8B Llama3.1, and then hooked the model up to a weather API to make it happy/sad based on the weather.