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Michael E Johnson
Personal blog · bigattichouse.medium.comhardwarescienceai
Michael E Johnson's personal blog at bigattichouse.medium.com covers hardware, science and ai. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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I've been fascinated by a small mention in the 1.58bit quantization article that mentioned 0.68 quantization , which I believe to mean 0,1 instead of 1.58's -1,0,1. When I read https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bpa6ol/unoffic... great experiment of making their own unofficial 1.58b quantization, I began to wonder if I could squeeze a vector down to 1 bit. And.. I can! (with some caveats in the discussion…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode” as a story · 257 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enhancing neural network training with vectorspaces as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Biomimetic “Lungs” for gas exchange in metal-air battery electrolytes as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Simple Concept for Crystalline Holographic Rewritable Memory in Amethyst/Citrine as a story · 1 points
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