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by api 1mo ago
Say you are spending $1M. Round up. Or even 0.9M. Their sales might only return inquiries with cloud costs ending in M.
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by api 2mo ago
When corporations grow to a certain size, they become banks. The same thing kind of happens to industries when they get dominated by a few large players. The large players are banks. The core of the industry becomes a form of finance. Holly
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by api 2mo ago
Fine. Sci-fi is a broad genre that intersects at the edges with fantasy, alternate history, magic realism, and all kinds of other very imaginative styles. The hard/soft axis is fuzzy. The extreme of hard is "known physics only&quo
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by api 2mo ago
So many Americans don't understand that these two "branches" of the Muslim world are at odds as much if not more than Israel and the Muslim world. That whole region is a mess of deep long-standing divisions.
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by api 2mo ago
Not only that, but we are searching time as well as space. Let say our civilization lasts for a million years. That's a blip. We are searching across tens to hundreds of light-years for just our galactic neighborhood as well as cross t
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by api 2mo ago
They're doing great if you're on the beneficiary side: oil companies, defense contractors, the Trump family, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc. All that is at the expense of the rest of the economy. The sectors that are hit the har
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by api 2mo ago
You can build your own a lot more cheaply now especially if you only want storage. There’s some canned distros and control panels for it. If the storage doesn’t need to be fast a newer Pi can do it with USB-C drives. An old Intel Mac mini f
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by api 2mo ago
Every invention is made of other inventions all the way back to big rock and sharp stick. So yes Bayesian spam filtering was impressive for its time. I remember it being done locally in mail clients. It’s also one of the early popular deplo
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by api 2mo ago
It’s declined in quality too but not as sharply as Reddit or the cess pools of the rest of social media.
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by api 2mo ago
Before: most code programmers write is thrown away. Most products fail. Now: most code LLMs write is thrown away. Most products fail. Knowing what to build and how at the high level (architecture and algorithms) has always been the most imp
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by api 2mo ago
Photography was not the end of painting. It was, however, a blow to painting as a vocation where a lot of your work was in the form of portrait painting.
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by api 2mo ago
Tangential to the main article point but… The energy density scatter plot is physically correct but misleading and everyone makes this mistake. From an engineering point of view you have to use work delivered at the end of the drive train n
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by api 2mo ago
That’s why I think you’d have to build boards with raw flash chips and do your own bus to make it rival fast RAM.
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by api 2mo ago
People don’t evaluate risks based on stats. They do it based on vibes. We do have a disproportionate amount of gun violence for a developed nation but statistically it’s still a very low risk. I recall pointing this out back during the post
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by api 2mo ago
I’ve wondered for a while: given the lower cost of SSD per GB could you build a very wide RAID0 style striped array of SSDs (maybe one per slot) to get almost RAM like read speeds? To really go fast you’d probably have to do PCB layout and
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by api 2mo ago
All technologies are a double edged sword like this, simultaneously strengthening and weakening. https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-... Humans are tool makers and this is what happens when
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by api 2mo ago
“Distillation” is just indirectly pirating the largely pirated training data used to train the original model. “You stole my warez!”
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by api 2mo ago
All vaccines are training data for the immune system, which is a learning machine whose operation is a little bit like a genetic algorithm. It generates and sieves variation using a vocabulary of pre-encoded building blocks to fit the targe
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by api 2mo ago
That was a stupid question IMO and he was hepped up on goofballs. I saw that interview and I know what a tweaker looks like. The electric company creates the most value. Why don’t they own stock in everything? Why didn’t PC makers take stoc
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by api 2mo ago
Here’s what I’ve seen: it can make skilled people more productive by acting like a “mech suit for your brain.” For unskilled people, it creates a false sense of productivity, but if the user of the tech does not understand what they are doi
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by api 2mo ago
I want whatever Karp is on when he does those interviews or writes that shit. Seems like fun.
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by api 2mo ago
… this week, until it’s obsolete.
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by api 2mo ago
Meanwhile all they accomplish is to slow down US tech and hand it to China.
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by api 2mo ago
And how would you stop people from fine tuning or ablating open models? Regulate GPUs? Ban general purpose computers?
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by api 2mo ago
The truth is that most people don’t go to school out of a desire to learn. At least not mostly. They do it out of a desire to earn a living, to be able to get decent jobs. If getting the degree is just a certificate to allow you to get jobs
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by api 2mo ago
It’s far less shitty than the social media industry (except where it overlaps) but that’s IMO. Still kind of shitty. But if you really hate it use open models hosted commodity.
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by api 2mo ago
Sometimes I’m not sure who is more unhinged: the total AI kool aid drinkers who think this will make us all into immortal demigods (or take over the world as it goes “foom”), or the AI doomers and haters who exaggerate everything potentiall
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by api 2mo ago
People would have at least somewhat less of a problem with this if they also put up an archive of PDFs of all these rare books if they are out of copyright. But that would help competitors with training data, which I assume is why they don’
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by api 2mo ago
No an entire nation state plus likely EU or US cooperation could certainly not reverse engineer some Soviet Cold War era electronics. Lol.
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by api 2mo ago
The singularity is near.

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