firebirdn99

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by firebirdn99 4mo ago
you just need to look at Mythos to see the jump in performance from a 10T(?) model. As they scale, they get more capable. We might have an yearly release, but I believe the releases will continue, as long as scaling laws are in tact, and
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by firebirdn99 8mo ago
A lot of it depends on one's belief of whether these systems are conscious or can lead to consciousness
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by firebirdn99 9mo ago
Still hard to fathom the exponential of Moore's law- "took up an entire room and now I can carry more computer power on my finger"
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by firebirdn99 2y ago
its a pretty great realization to come along. We are all stardust, but complicated bits and blobs of atoms and molecules.
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by firebirdn99 2y ago
because no one watches them, so better be available, and in peoples minds, grab attention (which is the #1 commodity in the world) than fall to obscurity
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by firebirdn99 2y ago
i don't know if they were ever profitable. But certainly i think there's been a paradigm shift to commercializing everything (mostly through advertising) the last decade or two and if you fall behind, whatever growth you were aimi
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by firebirdn99 2y ago
almost every tech ceo is like that. Could list many examples. It's an effect of capitalism.
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by firebirdn99 2y ago
James Somers is awesome. Every now and then, I see another of his articles that comes up here. Really great writer, who didn't set out to be one, but switched from a career in tech I believe.
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
This is super interesting. I've been visiting HN every day, multiple times a day for the past year. Over the last month, as I was preparing for interviews I removed the HN bookmark on my browser tab, and almost for weeks in between int
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
> lowest common denominator of shows this is a good description, they've gone the CBS route with cable TV type programming, and Reality TV. There's been a lot of documentation over this- https://variety.com/2020
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Kinda sad that Netflix opted for quantity over quality. It shows with all the inane sequels like Murder mystery 2, Extraction 2 and with the idea of just filling an uninteresting script with some stars to make the numbers like Red Notice. A
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Wealth begets wealth. Capital compounds with no effort. A reminder for myself to revisit Capital by Thomas Piketty from 2013(!) "When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because i
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Funnily enough, I was watching the Spotify series on Netflix, The Playlist, and saw Sony Music Group's fight with the Pirate Bay(which covers similar themes) before Spotify exploded on to the scene. This was a real event too covered in
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What happens if AI alignment goes wrong, Silicon Valley [video](youtube.com)
1 points by firebirdn99 3y ago|0 comments
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
> Otherwise, to be relevant in guiding research towards AGI, they need to stay a going concern, and that means not running off 90% of the employee base. That's why they presumably agreed to find a solution. But at the same time show
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
The board was a non profit board serving the mission. Mission was foremost. Employees are not. One of the comments a member made was, if the company was destroyed, it would still be consistent with serving the mission. Which is right. The f
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
I remember seeing many posts about this in the last few yrs, one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423395
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
It's not necessarily consultants in these companies that are malicious. I find working with many to be honest, and deeply caring about their work. It's that some of the management in these companies are incentivized to engage in d
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Interview with Sameer Parekh, C2Net and Cypherpunk (1997)(linuxjournal.com)
4 points by firebirdn99 3y ago|0 comments
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Related blog post with above link on FIFO vs LIFO queue management: https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/first-in-first... .
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Should the last in a queue be served first? (LIFO)(bbc.com)
2 points by firebirdn99 3y ago|2 comments
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
I got back into Pokemon collecting for a bit during the pandemic, like many others . And boy it showed how fun and awesome collecting the original cards were in the late 90's/early 00's. Then with the 25th anniversary, they d
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Agreed, I enjoyed it throughly. Even with poor graphics, was a lot of fun! The new mechanisms are great innovations for future games
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
I honestly enjoyed Pokemon Arceus. It has a 3D open world game and there is a fun mechanism of throwing the Pokeball. I think they found a great formula for future games. The graphics are somewhat disappointing at times, but it's so fu
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
This just shows there is no way you can have a non profit board with a profit cap structure. The capitalists always will push through and "exert pressure" one way or another if they want their way. The non profit setup was a facad
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
It was down 4% earlier today from yesterday. Just back to where it was.
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Advice from Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++ [video](youtube.com)
4 points by firebirdn99 3y ago|0 comments
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Easing tritium fears in Fukushima wastewater release(nippon.com)
2 points by firebirdn99 3y ago|0 comments
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Chinese shoppers hoard salt after Fukushima water release(nippon.com)
2 points by firebirdn99 3y ago|0 comments
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
I didn't know this before, but it's cool that originally back then Apple's directory explorer was still called 'Finder and it's not changed since.

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