Benjamin Rosseaux

A pity, as I used to hold the one well known person in high regard, which makes it all the more disappointing now. It was about whether LLMs can count letters. I provided a working demo and peer-reviewed research showing it’s possible under the right setup, but the exchange ended before it began.

Sometimes, even in technical discussions, you can present clear evidence, working examples, and credible sources, but before any real back-and-forth can even start, the only reply is a block. And I was ready to talk openly and willing to find common ground. ...

And read tip: "Can ChatGPT Learn to Count Letters?" Mar. 2025, pp. 96-99, vol. 58 DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/MC.2024.3488313

... and with the right tokenizer/configuration it can effectively reconstruct letters before reasoning over them. So, while the standard LLM experience might fail on this task, it’s not an inherent impossibility of LLMs themselves. It’s an implementation detail.

... I can feed an unknown fantasy word, have it break it down into single letters, and count them correctly, as shown in the previous post. This works because the model has learned statistical associations between tokens and their underlying character sequences, ...

Sean, you are correct that most token-based LLMs don’t literally "see" letters and operate on subword tokens, but this is not a hard limitation of all LLM setups. With the Qwen3 30B A3B model running in my own WIP inference engine (Object Pascal + x86-64 inline assembler), ...

At least the Qwen3 30B A3B model can break an unknown fantasy word down from a set of tokens into single letters and count them correctly, as shown in the attached screenshot (running in my own WIP LLM inferencing engine, implemented in Object Pascal and x86-64 inline assembler).

YouTube video by Benjamin Rosseaux A short preview of PALM - A Object-Pascal-native LLM engine

A short preview demonstration of PALM with llama3.2 1TB as base model - A Object-Pascal-native LLM engine with inline assembler AVX2 SIMD optimizations, running on the CPU.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKC...

#llm #objectpascal #pascal #freepascal #delphi #llama #ai

@golemde.bsky.social Mein Golem Plus/Pur-Abo wurde am 05. Februar gekündigt, trotzdem erfolgen bis jetzt Juni weiterhin Abbuchungen. Auf E-Mails keine Reaktion, keine Rückzahlung. Bitte um dringende Klärung, inklusive Verzugszinsen.

Grid Quest by BeRo1985 A minimalist 8×8 puzzle game with vanishing tiles, procedural levels, ambient music, and single-shader rendering.

🎮I released a small indie puzzle game called Grid Quest.

A minimalist 8×8 vanished-tile-platform puzzle game with procedural levels, relaxing music, and pure shader-powered visuals.

Get it on bero1985.itch.io/grid-quest
#indiegames #puzzlegame #shader #gamedev #itchio

Everyone hopping onto Assassins Creed right now take note of the options that go from "Low, Medium, High, Very High, Ultra High". Please do not shove things to "Ultra High" and complain about game perf. As in many games, "Medium" or "Low" can be amazing looking and it is merely a naming scheme.

Endlich wieder Frühling Benjamin Rosseaux · Single · 2025 · 1 songs

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YouTube video by Benjamin Rosseaux Benjamin Rosseaux feat. Jon Becker - Endlich Wieder Frühling

Mein neuer Track „Endlich Wieder Frühling“ zusammen mit Jon Becker als Sänger ist da – diesmal im Rock-Pop-Stil statt EDM.

Hört rein:

▶️ YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIzH...

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/intl-de/albu...

#Frühling #NeueMusik #RockPop #EndlichWiederFrühling

YouTube video by Benjamin Rosseaux A personal message, every contribution counts: Supporting my creative journey through tough times

A personal message, every contribution counts: Supporting my creative journey through tough times

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDza...

Here a quick tinymembench benchmark performance comparison between the PasRISCV (Object-Pascal, FPC 3.3.1) and RVVM (C, GCC 14.2.1) RISC-V emulators.

Regarding how the instruction interpreter part in PasRISCV roughly works:

YouTube video by Benjamin Rosseaux RV64GC RISC-V emulator PasRISCV now with Sound and host directory mounting per 9p protocol

RV64GC RISC-V emulator PasRISCV now with Sound and host directory mounting per 9p protocol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Febv...

The beginning of network support in my Pascal 64-bit RISC-V PasRISCV emulator. 🙂 Although I still have a few routing issues here at the moment.

YouTube video by Benjamin Rosseaux A small comparison of Linux boot times with PasRISCV and JIT disabled RVVM (git 56f3510be)

A small comparison of Linux boot times with PasRISCV and JIT disabled RVVM (git 56f3510be) to show that my RV64-RISCV CPU emulation in Pascal (compiled with FPC) is faster than the one in C at RVVM (compiled with Clang).

youtu.be/6h1VPY9jraM

YouTube video by Benjamin Rosseaux PasRISCV demonstration of the new state, an RV64GC RISC-V emulator implemented in Object Pascal

PasRISCV demonstration of the new state, an RV64GC RISC-V emulator implemented in Object Pascal.

Now with PCIe, NVMe, PS/2 Keyboard&Mouse, VirtIO Keyboard&Mouse, VirtIO Block and FrameBuffer emulations. VirtIO GPU, VirtIO NET and VirtIO Sound are also coming.

youtu.be/rWebo5AZVLY

Good news! I've launched .masterknecht, a new free browser-based PWA tool for mastering audio using WebAssembly! Master your tracks with reference files. No ML, just efficient algorithms for fast mastering on your device. Try it & donate! masterknecht.klangknecht.com #audiomastering #PWA

PasVulkan now includes an external HTML5/JS-based tool for visualizing Vulkan memory allocations. Note that PasVulkan's custom Vulkan memory manager predates AMD's first public VMA release, addressing any questions about why VMA isn't used.