The IT cat

The IT Cat: Purring for tech that brightens our world, meowing gently at the missteps. 🐱💻

[Alejandro Santacreu @sirkanda]

@eToro for several days the app has been unusable. After reinstalling, the SMS OTP auto-fills, yet the Continue button remains disabled until the code expires. Being unable to access or manage my portfolio is unacceptable for a trading platform. Please fix this.

[Alejandro Santacreu @sirkanda]

33 days since @lastminute_com cancelled my Brussels–Helsinki by @Fly_Norwegian
EU law gives 7 days for a refund, that deadline expired 26 days ago.
Still no refund, no response. @PayPal closed the case in favour of silence.
@EU_Consumer @EUTransport?
#EU261 #ConsumerRights

[Alejandro Santacreu @sirkanda]

Vuelo cancelado el 7 de octubre por @lastminute_com / @Fly_Norwegian.
Por ley, reembolso en 7 días.
Hoy van 33 días.
Ni reembolso, ni respuesta.
@PayPal cerró el caso ignorando la normativa europea.
¿Así se protege al consumidor en 2025?
@consumogob @facua #EU261

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@RWalkerFW @SwedishPM Totally agree. The Gripen isn’t meant to compete with the F-35 or Su-57 - it’s designed for countries that want autonomy, low operating costs, and quick turnaround. A different kind of excellence: cheap to run, hard to kill, easy to fix on a highway. Not glamorous, just genius.

[The IT cat @tricotron]

🚦🛵 Milloin tämä toteutuu? Mopojen rekisteröinti ja melutarkastus näkyvästi arjessa.
@EspooEsbo @SuomenPoliisi

[The IT cat @tricotron]

Thank you @sama for such an amazing tool 🙏 I love it and I’m even fond of the Latin accent. But I really miss the option to choose European Spanish 🇪🇸 — before it was possible, now it’s only Latin tone/accent/grammar. Could we please have both again?

[The IT cat @tricotron]

This Nature paper is not just an optimisation, it potentially rewrites the compute economics underlying all the ongoing geopolitical AI strategies.

[Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo_abad]

In-memory attention: Accelerating LLMs with analog hardware

Large language models (like GPT) generate text one word at a time. To decide the next word, they compare the new input with many past words stored in a short-term “cache.” On today’s GPUs, that cache has to be constantly moved back and forth between memories, and this shuttling costs far more time and energy than the math itself. A promising alternative is in-memory computing, where data are kept where the computation happens.

Nathan Leroux and coauthors present a custom in-memory computing design using gain cells—tiny analog memory devices that both store cached information and compute the dot-products for attention directly on-chip. They further combine this with charge-to-pulse circuits, avoiding power-hungry analog-to-digital converters. Importantly, they also propose a way to adapt pre-trained models (like GPT-2) to this non-standard hardware, showing equivalent performance without retraining from scratch.

The result is striking: up to 100× faster and 10,000× more energy-efficient attention compared with GPUs. While this study focuses on the attention block, the main bottleneck in transformers, the approach could integrate with other in-memory methods to accelerate all components.

This points toward a future where large generative models can run not only faster, but with vastly reduced energy use—critical for scaling AI sustainably.

Paper: https://t.co/J1EMYJXTFW

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@a16z @drfeifei Language can indeed describe space with great precision —think anatomy or geometry. What LLMs seem to lack is a spatial abstraction layer like the one humans rely on (though unevenly: some people visualize vividly, others live with aphantasia).

[The IT cat @tricotron]

🚨 Selvä kasvu viritetyissä mopoissa ja autoissa, joissa on äärimmäinen melutaso Helsingissä/Suomessa — mitä @PoliisiHelsinki & @SuomenPoliisi tekevät?

[The IT cat @tricotron]

🚨 Clear rise in tuned mopeds & cars with extreme noise levels 🙉 in Helsinki/Finland — what will @PoliisiHelsinki & @SuomenPoliisi do?

[Simon Kalouche @simonkalouche]

RL is getting very good at controls.

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@JacksonAtkinsX Chart updated with this new “hidden OOM” as @leopoldasch called them in his pretty accurate forecast

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@JacksonAtkinsX 👆 @leopoldasch

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@JacksonAtkinsX Here’s the full chart with each breakthrough on its own line and distinct color/legend.

This shows clearly how each line bends upward from the baseline — and how the red line (all three combined) accelerates us significantly closer to AGI before 2027.

[Alejandro Santacreu @sirkanda]

“If you want human-level AI, don’t work on LLMs.”
Bold claim. But in AI, premature funerals usually age badly. 👇🧵

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@TheProjectUnity Ritual? Cult of the V8 then…

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@SuomenPoliisi @EspooEsbo 👇🙉

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@DPasterstein Sama juttu Matinkylässä: eilen yöllä klo 1.50am 🌙 joku ajoi 10–20 min moottoripyörällä ympäri naapurustoa kovalla metelillä. Kuulosti samalta kuin se, jonka kuvasin tänä aamuna.
Saako näillä ajaa ilman kilpeä? Ilman vakuutusta myös? Eikö melulainsäädäntöä ole? 🎬 🔊

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@DPasterstein Sama juttu Matinkylässä: eilen yöllä klo 1.50am 🌙 joku ajoi 10–20 min moottoripyörällä ympäri naapurustoa kovalla metelillä. Kuulosti samalta kuin se, jonka kuvasin tänä aamuna.
Saako näillä ajaa ilman kilpeä? Ilman vakuutusta myös? Eikö melulainsäädäntöä ole? 🎬 🔊

[The IT cat @tricotron]

@elonmusk plans to send @boringcompany’s tunnelers to Mars via @SpaceX #Starship for underground habitats, with @Tesla bots, @solarcity panels, and @Tesla Powerwalls for energy. Also, @OpenAI can’t generate this image without windmills. #MarsColonization

[The IT cat @tricotron]

PPS: The new law has adaptation periods between 2023-2027. In any case: you can ride your bike at any pedestrian crossing, you might not always enjoy priority over cars (young riders always will) and drivers should be careful.

#Espoo #Finland

Source: https://t.co/IB3t81G9ey

[The IT cat @tricotron]

Suomessa pyöräilijät voivat ylittää suojatien pyörän päällä, mutta heillä ei ole etuajo-oikeutta. Jotkut autoilijat luulevat virheellisesti, että tämä on kielletty. 🚴‍♂️🚶‍♂️ #Liikenneturvallisuus / 🧵

[The IT cat @tricotron]

PS: "(...) Irrespective of this, a turning vehicle must always give way to the pedestrian, cyclist or moped driver crossing the intersecting road.".

https://t.co/wsEHROqXzC ".