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by jl2718 2y ago
1. At this scale, we’re not just talking about buying GPUs. It requires semiconductor fabs, assembly factories, power plants, batteries/lithium, cooling, water, hazardous waste disposal. These data centers are going to have to be massi
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by jl2718 2y ago
I have an interesting anecdote about that. I was consulting for a very large tech company on their advertising product. They essentially wanted an upsell product to sell to advertisers, like a premium offering to increase their reach. My fi
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by jl2718 2y ago
> code is not literature One thing I’ve thought about is how AI assistants are actually turning code into literature, and literature into code. In old-fashioned programming, you can roughly observe a correlation between programmer skill
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by jl2718 2y ago
This is an awesome development. I don’t want to take anything away from the credit due to the product. But I really dislike these bloviated corporate press releases. It reads like a full article generated from a 1-sentence LLM prompt. Perha
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by jl2718 2y ago
This is the bigger reality. It’s turned almost all business and academic writing into long-winded meaningless trash. Well, more than it already was I guess. It seems that the way people use it is to expand few bits of information into many
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by jl2718 2y ago
This is a ridiculous take on espionage. “Technology” would be the lowest priority for collection at Google.
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by jl2718 2y ago
Andy Grove flew in Clayton Christensen to let him talk for about 15 seconds before deciding that Intel would disrupt themselves by taking huge losses on Celeron. But Celeron did not save Intel; ASCII Red and multicore saved Intel. If he had
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by jl2718 2y ago
I think you need higher algorithmic intensity. Gradient descent is best for monolithic GPUs. There could be other possibilities for layer-distributed training.
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by jl2718 2y ago
No. If you had 51%, you could revert one block of history for every 49 blocks of attack time. In addition, you have no ability to create transactions that were not already signed by the owners, nor create bitcoins more than the block reward
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by jl2718 2y ago
“Bitcoin security” is a different notion than almost all other popular chains. A prolonged 51% attack on bitcoin implies the ability to double-spend, but not at all the ability to affect prior balances. A 51% attack on most smart contract c
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by jl2718 2y ago
Mostly because there is a MASSIVE oversupply of people that can’t and won’t do anything useful, and insist that their technical incompetence makes them uniquely qualified to be in charge of everybody else that is doing the work. But at some
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by jl2718 2y ago
Remember the “Terminator” movies? SkyNet, according to the story, was a lot like CrowdStrike. This makes me think about how it could have broken out of its sandbox. Everybody is using AI coding assistants, automated test cases, automated in
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by jl2718 2y ago
The original idea behind passive investing was to use the pooled intelligence of many traders guessing the value of cr I think we’re beyond that. Most traders are just trying to get a timing edge over the indices. This introduces the modern
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by jl2718 2y ago
“Why don’t big profitable companies (and government agencies) innovate?” This was Clayton Christensen’s thesis, the most preeminent management academic of a generation, and still it’s been largely ignored or misinterpreted in favor of the c
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by jl2718 2y ago
We always hear about the benefits, but never the etiology. One theory suggested here is insulin sensitivity of muscle mass. Here is another. Leg muscles help to pump blood to your brain. You can actually die from being suspended vertically
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by jl2718 2y ago
Please don’t propagate clickbait titles on HN. “inflammatory bowel disease linked to gene”
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by jl2718 2y ago
Seems like it could be done with mode-locked fiber. It’s just easier to get high-Q with a tabletop setup. I’m bullish on hollow core to solve that too.
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by jl2718 2y ago
I get the nonlinear upconversion part, but what about the optical system? Are they saying that this preserves the direction of the incident photon so that it doesn’t require optics?
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by jl2718 2y ago
The fundamental problem here is investment cash flows eclipsing operational cash flows. This invalidates basic economics of supply and demand price equilibrium. In this case, it means that the landlords can restrict supply without losses.
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by jl2718 2y ago
Is there a reasonable case to be made for excluding citations entirely? They seem frivolous and arbitrary, and most of the genuine ones are discovered by search, so maybe we could publish without citations, and let the search be automated.
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by jl2718 2y ago
Can you elaborate more on how this fund or the startups are connected to OpenAI money or technology, and how he profits from the association, aside from the name? Seems like there must be an evil genius plan behind all of this, but maybe I’
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by jl2718 2y ago
“the rise of leisure time” I don’t think it’s actually leisure time. It’s a lot of non-productive required micro-tasks that like trying to find a place to live and scrolling an app for good prices on necessities, and mindlessly clicking for
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by jl2718 2y ago
I think early 20s are a very powerful time for many people because naïveté can be quite convincing, and they have a lot of time to learn without unreasonable expectation. People will start looking more at your record than your potential, wh
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by jl2718 2y ago
Would you rather hire someone with poor grades who struggled to find answers on their own, or someone who had excellent grades utilizing superior resources and teamwork? The reality is that the former student will probably never get a place
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by jl2718 2y ago
So just tell us your deepest secrets, desires, and insecurities and we’ll train an AI to extract as much money from you as possible.
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by jl2718 2y ago
I’m skeptical because the limiting factor for a person using flippers is their lungs, and a propeller is less efficient for propulsion.
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by jl2718 2y ago
I don’t disagree with the article. There’s almost no content to disagree with. The journalist picked bad experts and provided nothing but character assassination persiflage under the appeal to authority fallacy. This is a top-level publicat
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by jl2718 2y ago
So in summary, all of the few “experts” on the drug are getting paid to say it’s harmless, so we should believe them, and the generalist neuroscientists that study intelligence, as well as the subjective experiences of most people, are wron
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by jl2718 2y ago
This is not my field, and from loose understanding, so I’ll type out a hot take off the top of my head and prepare to be corrected about it, but… some of the things in the article seemed a bit in need of clarification and relevance. Hope I
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by jl2718 2y ago
This is going to be too long and off-the-cuff, but... I have a weakly-held theory that Overtraining Syndrome may be a neurological autoimmune disorder. I have some personal experience from a very long time ago at a sub-elite level with this

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