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by girfan 21d ago
According to The Information, it seem it's finalized? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op...
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by girfan 2mo ago
Can someone help clarify what it means, concretely, to make binding agreements to proceed "safely and slower" in the context of AI research (whether or not at frontier labs)? Are there specific policies and actionable guides being
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by girfan 2mo ago
Curious to know what people's thoughts are on this "Stop The AI Race" movement? I have not been able to find a clear objective---beyond slowing the progress on various AI fronts---and how that achieves an end-goal towards saf
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by girfan 2mo ago
If nothing else, Anthropic has explicitly acknowledged the threat to its moat and that the margin is thin between its models and open-weight models. I'd take that as a win for open-weight models. Good luck preventing distillation and l
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by girfan 3mo ago
Interesting. What would the incentives be for NVIDIA, for example, to opt into this? They are building their own racks now, like the NVL72 etc.
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by girfan 3mo ago
Cool tour. I haven't kept up with their developments; what kind of workloads have they been pushing for? Since they don't seem to have any specialized accelerators in the Compute Sled, I am assuming they are not targeting AI work
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by girfan 3mo ago
Go open models!
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by girfan 3mo ago
Partly serious, partly in jest: so type systems are no good?
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by girfan 3mo ago
This is super annoying and imo, really limits the usefulness of this model. It speaks volumes about what Anthropic's position as a company and its priorities will be going forward. I doubt this kind of gatekeeping will prevent open-mod
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by girfan 4mo ago
I broadly agree with the premise. As a PhD student in Computer Science, I feel there are some significant upsides to my work routine. LLM access has made many new domains more "accessible" to me which I otherwise would be too hesi
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by girfan 9mo ago
Cool post. Have you looked at slicing a single GPU up for multiple VMs? Is there anything other than MIG that you have come across to partition SMs and memory bandwidth within a single GPU?
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by girfan 10mo ago
This seems very interesting. Timely, given that Yann LeCun's vision also seems to align with world models being the next frontier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897271
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by girfan 3y ago
Right now it seems legal to scrape Reddit. But given their trajectory of making the API fairly expensive to use, do you think it's likely that they would also limit/prohibit scraping (assuming apps like Apollo start scraping as an
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by girfan 3y ago
Even if that is the case, it does not say much about their ability to evaluate what category of users (e.g., those coming from Apollo or their first-party clients) is generating more views/interactions and indirectly more "value&q
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by girfan 4y ago
That's great! There are a few cases where `dlmopen` has issues, for example, some libraries are written with the assumption that there will only be one of them in the process (their use of globals/thread local variables etc.) whic
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by girfan 4y ago
Currently it is, yes. I am not sure how fundamental it is. I tried patching glibc to support more (128 in my case) and it seemed to work fine.
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by girfan 4y ago
> You can't load one so/dll multiple times in some sort of container I believe you can do that with `dlmopen` in separate link maps. I have worked with multiple completely isolated Python interpreters in the same process that d
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by girfan 4y ago
This is a great analysis; thanks for writing. I have also been working on running multiple Python interpreters in the same process by isolating them in different namespaces using `dlmopen` [1]. The objective on a high level is to receive re
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by girfan 4y ago
Can you please share pointers to some of the podcasts etc. you listened to? Looking for something similar for non-Bio expert people.
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by girfan 4y ago
This looks like a cool project. Is there any support (or plan to support) I/O through kernel bypass technologies like RDMA? For example, the client reads the objects using 1-sided reads from the server given it knows which address the
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by girfan 6y ago
Cool product! Any plans to support Azure Functions?
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by girfan 7y ago
Here is something that has helped me a lot. It's a paper on how to read academic papers. You can extract the general idea and apply to many other technical reading material. https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m&#x
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by girfan 7y ago
Reading this beautifully written piece brings to mind the recent book about Elizabeth Holmes - Bad Blood. Some of the completely unacceptable behavior by tech CEOs and "higher ups" definitely rings a bell; some startups like Thera
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by girfan 7y ago
Just fyi, €80 billion is $87.55 billion.
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by girfan 7y ago
Take courses across a breadth of areas in Computer Science, even if you think you don't (or won't) enjoy them much. Don't take up courses only in areas you enjoy (say, Networking) and have no concrete knowledge of areas you t
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by girfan 10y ago
This is absolutely amazing. Thanks for the effort. How do we join the slack group for interactive help/questions?
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by girfan 10y ago
The 15inch MBP has i7 Quad Core processor, Radeon graphics and double the RAM than the default 13inch models. This is not a minor jump in performance. I agree that they do sometimes prioritize size, thickness and beauty over performance bu
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Instructions to install iOS 10(neowin.net)
1 points by girfan 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Gradcafe iOS App(github.com)
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Show HN: Ballot (Simple Voting App)(evening-peak-1379.herokuapp.com)
2 points by girfan 10y ago|0 comments

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