alecco

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by alecco 2mo ago
Those 2 comments are from a month ago, on the same day , and my point was he was spamming those threads with basically the same comment, and he links often to his site and his posts are all about his software. Both of my replies you link h
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by alecco 2mo ago
More wild speculation, now with wishful thinking spread on top.
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by alecco 2mo ago
Grok's latest model is objectively superior to any of the current Google models in the most relevant use cases. I don't like Elon musk but that does not change reality. And Google came up with the Transformer architecture (2017 &q
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by alecco 2mo ago
xAI > Gooogle & DeepMind I did not have this one on my 2026 bingo card.
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by alecco 2mo ago
AGPL only closes the SaaS loophole and forces them to publish their changes to the code. It's not anti-business at all. You could argue the BSL is anti-business. But IMHO even that one is only a reaction to abuse. Database companies in
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by alecco 2mo ago
It is quite telling that most cloud companies stay away from AGPL. Their business model is antisocial.
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by alecco 2mo ago
IMHE the models work much better if you go directly to the creator's API. DeepSeek V4 official API gives me 8x better caching so it was 40% cheaper in my case. Unless it bothers you China gets your data instead of giving it to the Amer
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Browser extension to filter out all unknown brands from Amazon search results(chromewebstore.google.com)
5 points by alecco 2mo ago|2 comments
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by alecco 2mo ago
The real thing not the knock-off website in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818963
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by alecco 2mo ago
Yep https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816025 And EU leadership completely destroyed Europe's future by betting on depending on US and Chinese models. https://pleias.ai/blog/fable-eu
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by alecco 2mo ago
This new forecasting industry is pushed by very dirty people.
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by alecco 2mo ago
And Anthropic sure reads and applies all the open research. This 2023 thread about this issue is prescient: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/11sboh1/d_... (just add Anthropic to OpenAI)
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Concentration of power in AI is a risk, by Andy Konwinski(xcancel.com)
19 points by alecco 2mo ago|2 comments
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by alecco 2mo ago
https://archive.ph/hhCcM Science The Graduate-School Dropout Toppling China’s Academic Stars Shamed by a blogger, Chinese universities wage blitzkrieg against academic fraud SINGAPORE—Compared with the glacial pace of Ameri
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The Graduate-School Dropout Toppling China's Academic Stars(wsj.com)
3 points by alecco 2mo ago|1 comments
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by alecco 3mo ago
Agreed. But please don't flag for the link as we'll lose the discussion. I don't care much about the tweet. It was the one I saw circulating. Mods can change the link to the full interview https://www.youtube.com&#
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Karp: Anthropic/OpenAI are stealing customer IP and their tokens have low value(twitter.com)
20 points by alecco 3mo ago|23 comments
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by alecco 3mo ago
I really don't like Karp but I think he is spot on this point.
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by alecco 3mo ago
Chinese Big Tech aim to do that and worse, also in bed with their political class. They only do open source because their hand was forced. Today big pockets and big datacenters are the differentiatior and it looks like even DeepSeek can&#x2
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by alecco 3mo ago
> The good guys are the chinese firms Eh... I'd say DeepSeek and maybe one more of the small labs. Chinese Big Tech is even worse than US Big Tech.
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by alecco 3mo ago
> Zuck finally takes the L https://x.com/zephyr_z9/status/2072298455314436380
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by alecco 3mo ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745456
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Thoughts on the Near Future(xcancel.com)
2 points by alecco 3mo ago|1 comments
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by alecco 3mo ago
I don't fully agree with all the points but in general it looks very solid.
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by alecco 3mo ago
US Big Tech is betting the house on AI, news at 11.
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by alecco 3mo ago
Isn't GLM-5.2 mostly DeepSeek V3 architecture? More and more I suspect Z.ai just has deeper pockets and access to the Claude traces while DeepSeek is punching way above their class.
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by alecco 3mo ago
EU just shrunk their AI projects and picked a very, very dodgy Italian company who has been burning money with nothing to show.
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by alecco 3mo ago
> Until there's some sort of "community owned hardware" The hardware is already available for renting at reasonable prices. We need community funding . I wish people pooled a fraction of the money they burn on local GPU r
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by alecco 3mo ago
Also https://pluralis.ai/ has distributed training (though they reach limits within seconds). And I think https://allenai.org/ has something like this, too.
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by alecco 3mo ago
MacBooks have lots of RAM and no PCIe bottleneck, but ~10x fewer FLOP/s than a much cheaper Nvidia GPU. Test LLMs on rented GPUs on vast.ai or other similar services (beware storage etc). Don't spend thousands before trying and kn

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