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Posted by adunk 4 hours ago

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64(github.com)
55 points | 13 comments
mixmastamyk 4 minutes ago|
Just reminded me of the random sentence generator program on my Vic-20. I had changed most of the words to all the bad words a preteen could think up. So many laughs with the neighborhood kids.
daemonologist 16 minutes ago||
You can chat with the model on the project page: https://indiepixel.de/meful/index.html

It (v3) mostly only says hello and bye, but I guess for 25k parameters you can't complain. (I think the rather exuberant copy is probably the product of Claude et al.)

wk_end 1 hour ago||
> 25K parameters is about 70 million times smaller than GPT-4. It will produce broken sentences. That's the point - the architecture works at this scale.

Since it seems to just produce broken and nonsensical sentences (at least based on the one example given) I'm not sure if it does work at this scale.

Anyway, as written this passage doesn't really make a whole lot of sense (the point is that it produces broken sentences?), and given that it was almost certainly written by an AI, it demonstrates that the architecture doesn't work especially well at any scale (I kid, I kid).

forinti 1 hour ago||
How does it compare to a Markov chain generator I wonder.
pizza234 20 minutes ago||
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anyfoo 39 minutes ago||
This would have blown me away back in the late 80s/early 90s.

(Or maybe not, if it doesn't perform better than random, I haven't actually tried it out yet. Some more examples would have been nice!)

I wonder how far you could push this while still staying period correct, e.g. by adding a REU (RAM Expansion Unit), or even a GeoRAM (basically a REU on steroids).

SuperCPU would also be an option, but for me it's always blurring the line of "what is a C64" a bit too much, and it likely just makes it faster anyway.

classichasclass 54 minutes ago||
If you're running this in VICE, run it under the SuperCPU with warp mode on.
bartread 40 minutes ago|
That's a good idea because, although I love this, 1 minute per token is absolutely savage. Whereas if you can juice the performance you're into semi-credible Jar Jar Binks simulator territory.

It does also make me wonder what you could do with somewhat more powerful retro hardware. I'd love to see what a transformer running on a PSX or an N64 could do.

brcmthrowaway 33 minutes ago||
How does this compare to ELIZA?
ghstinda 52 minutes ago||
but can you make mac keyboards feel like a c64c?
Lerc 1 hour ago||
Ok now we need 1541 flash attention.

I'm not sure what the venn diagram of knowledge to understand what that sentence is suggesting looks like, it's probably more crowded in the intersection than one might think.

harel 1 hour ago||
Eliza called, and asked if we saw her grand kids...
tclancy 1 hour ago|
What makes you say that? This is about you, not me.

(Came here to say an update to Eliza could really mess with the last person still talking to her.)

bighead1 1 hour ago|
i hate ai, and i love the c64, but i'll allow it.