bgirard

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by bgirard 6d ago
That's an example of AI growing the sector that can lead to more jobs. Because suddenly a lot of tasks that weren't economically viable are now going to be in demand. Custom software for small businesses, platform specific optimiz
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by bgirard 14d ago
It's a good nitpick. A hypothetical 1000Hz display will still look smooth to the human eye at 60/120Hz. A 1Hz display will never look smooth. But it's more about honoring the user's preference. I personally would rather
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by bgirard 2mo ago
Approximate calculation is putting the cost at ~$5 per million tokens (assuming 42W sustained, 20¢/kWh), and that's excluding hardware and other costs.
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by bgirard 2mo ago
What makes you think the unaccelerated path would use the accelerated iGPU path? Typically hardware decoding is disabled because of driver/reliability issues and thus would switch to software decoding to sidestep these concerns.
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by bgirard 2mo ago
It's not created out of no where. It's traders saying that the stock is over priced and putting their money where their mouth is and taking on a big risk if they're wrong. They're extracting this money from folks that ar
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by bgirard 2mo ago
It's really neat that the prompt was released! I'm curious how many unsolved problems are tried against frontier models when they come out. Are we trying every problems against every release? What is the solve success rate? Is the
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by bgirard 2mo ago
> As the person holding the money, it's my job to look at what is effective and what the active ingredients are in any given product. But I don't have time to do that. I would rather have a retailer do that curation for me and
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by bgirard 3mo ago
I don't recognized the CPU/GPU and PC building isn't my field so I could way off. But here's my honest attempt at it without paying a premium for the form factor which isn't an important feature for me: PCPartPicker
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by bgirard 3mo ago
SpaceX was said to be subsidized by gov contracts. Look at where that got it...
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by bgirard 3mo ago
You're missing the point. There was a lot of debate around if inference was subsidized or not. And that's a huge point to confirm in the public discourse.
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by bgirard 3mo ago
Similarly my friend swaps electric cars every couple of years (Volt -> Bolt -> Equinox) bragging about all the discounts and subsidies he's gotten. Maybe it's still beneficial through the used car market but it doesn't
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by bgirard 4mo ago
A ground level fall can be fatal for a senior. Throw in freak accident factors and other vulnerable demographics it's not very surprising to me.
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by bgirard 4mo ago
> It’s about bang for buck. Hard to know when they don't give the price per token. Presumably it will be comparable to a low-mid range model in terms of price. But otherwise their 'Ideal Zone' is meaningless without factor
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by bgirard 4mo ago
Which ones? Mortgage, real estate costs, repairs, maintenance are all still there with a condo. My gut feeling is that repairs and maintenance cost more with condos than if you own a home and you're handy to fix minor stuff and know ho
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by bgirard 5mo ago
I struggle with this too. But I remind myself that I'm buying myself one of the most expensive and valuable gift: freedom and independence. I also continue to work because I enjoy it. And that will let me pass on this gift to my childr
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by bgirard 5mo ago
Last week I got together with my math alumni friend. We cracked some beers, we chatted with voice mode ChatGPT and toyed around with Collatz Conjecture and we sent some prompt to a coding agent to build visualizations and simulation. It was
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by bgirard 5mo ago
I've been using Codex to build a repo that pulls down astronomical datasets and runs simulation to try to find explanation for the hubble tension. Having an agent to do the tedious bits and also having an LLM to bounce ideas has tough
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by bgirard 5mo ago
I’ve noticed that LLMs can effortlessly read minified JS. How does it do with obfuscated binary code? I wonder if the days of obfuscation are numbered when the tedious job of de-obfuscation can be automated.
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by bgirard 6mo ago
Subpoenas and whistleblowing are pretty good tools.
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by bgirard 6mo ago
I think they're thinking about this wrong. I get all my groceries deliver to my doorstep via Walmart delivery pass. The thing I'm really missing is having AI curate meal planning to my family's preferences. I already feed Cha
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by bgirard 6mo ago
I'd love to see the results of that. I think calling a single prompt iteration lifeless misses the point. It's like looking at a game that has had a few hours of development and saying it's bad. Games need iterations. Seeing
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by bgirard 7mo ago
It's very useful to understand what you're struggling from even if it's not curable. It explains your symptoms, your experience and help you understand what you're going through. Understanding that you're suffering
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by bgirard 7mo ago
> SpaceX has deorbiting assets on top of depreciating ones The deorbiting part is redundant. Their satellite are just that, a depreciating asset. Their lifetime seem to be 5 to 7 years. The important claim is if the total cost, including
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by bgirard 7mo ago
I've gotten pretty good results by prompting "What did you struggle on? Please update the instructions in <PROMPT/SKILL>" and "Here's your conversation <PASTE>, please see what you struggled with an
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by bgirard 7mo ago
Are there benchmarks if we allow the LLM to practice and study the game?
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by bgirard 7mo ago
Your experience sounds exactly like mine. My son is very autistic as well. I've had to cut off friends with families because either their didn't understand meltdown and were incredibly judgy because they were blaming my parenting
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by bgirard 7mo ago
That's a good question. As someone bootstraping a few projects on Vercel this post has me looking over at the pricing sheet more closely.
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by bgirard 7mo ago
That's true and I fully agree. I don't think LLMs' progress in writing a toy C compiler diminishes the achievements that the GCC project did. But also we've just witnessed LLMs go from being a glorified line auto-complet
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by bgirard 7mo ago
This to me sounds a lot like the SpaceX conversation: - Ohh look it can [write small function / do a small rocket hop] but it can't [ write a compiler / get to orbit]! - Ohh look it can [write a toy compiler / get to orb
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by bgirard 7mo ago
I like how the author shared the prompt + conversation transcripts. I wish OAI / Anthropic would do that when they share content demos.

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