kashyapc

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by kashyapc 1mo ago
Yeah, I think Plato's dialogues are unparalleled. I love the rigour, drama, and how they don't end with a clear conclusion ("aporia"), forcing you to find your own.
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by kashyapc 1mo ago
> It doesn't help that nowadays Aurelius is being held up as some beacon of masculinity nowadays. Yeah, it's people like Tim Ferris, Ryan Holiday and others who write titles such as "how to think like a Roman emperor&quo
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by kashyapc 1mo ago
FWIW, I got a lot more about virtue ethics from reading Plato's works, the Stoics, and Cicero. Aristotle is somewhat dry and tedious to read. Go for him if you're into formal logic and related technical systems. But if you&#x27
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by kashyapc 1mo ago
> One of the example Gwern brings [1] is a GA as an agent for public discourse and political life, to bring your "set of values" to have an effect in solving society's issues, when you yourself don't have the time or
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by kashyapc 1mo ago
> What would it take for LLMs to make me 100× more productive? Without this, I am doomed to irrelevance. Are you, though? You will only be "doomed" if your place your value system squarely on "productivity". Then w
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by kashyapc 2mo ago
Not to be that guy, but the article has 14 (!) occurrences of the word "cyber". It's nauseating. As usual, this is OpenAI trying to give themselves a backhanded compliment: "look, how dangerous our models are!" I&#x
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by kashyapc 3mo ago
Thanks for elaborating. I totally agree with you. I wasn't implying that funding the LHC itself was misguided, for the good reasons you articulate so well.
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by kashyapc 3mo ago
I know what you mean. I was recently at lunch at a (non-physics) tech conference and an ex-physicist (now a systems developer) sitting next to me responded the same. I think (physicists in the room, please correct me if I'm making assu
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by kashyapc 3mo ago
I see; thanks for expanding on it so honestly.
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by kashyapc 3mo ago
> felt a strong sense of frustration at how modern research in particle physics is producing papers that are all identical to each other and have no true scientific impact Your comment above makes me think of Sabine Hossenfelder[1]. I
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by kashyapc 4mo ago
I see, fair point. Sorry for taking a dig at you. Please know that I do appreciate a lot of work that you do. I was just worried for a moment when just reading that bit.
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by kashyapc 5mo ago
Thank you; it's an educating read for me, as someone who doesn't dwell in this space, but cares about FOSS in its true spirit.
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by kashyapc 5mo ago
> No mention of the fact that Ollama is about 1000x easier to use. The point of the article is not to expound on how user-friendly "Ollama" is. It's about exposing the deception and shameful moral low ground they took.
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by kashyapc 5mo ago
You seem to see a "pretty strong case" from a bombastic press release. Don't get me wrong, I do know the reality has changed. Even Greg K-H, the Linux stable maintainer, did recently note[1] that it's not funny any more:
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
I recently heard a new (to me) excuse: When in the middle of a group text-chat, someone replied with AI-generated blather. It was dead-clear with the usual sterile vocab, structured buzzphrases, and other LLM "tells". I politely c
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
Well said. Some people are misparsing your core point here. Skrebbel is largely referring to the OSS projects that need people to do consitent grunt work like shipping predictable releases, stable branch maintenance, backporting security
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
> I've found this fails on my 16 GB P550 Megrez with swap disabled but works quickly and uses maybe 50 or 100 MB of swap if I enable it. I see, I don't have a Megrez at my desk, only in the build system. I only have P550 as m
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
I'm tickled pink to read this! I very much support this move. HN is one of the few internet forums I use. It'd be awful to see this riddled by bot spew. This rule will atleast partly stem the danger of HN getting turned into wha
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
They haven't produced any chips.
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
Great point; I only know about MIPS legacy vaguely. As you imply, don't listen to the "hype-sters" but pay attention to what silicon is being produced.
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
Please skim the thread :) We've already discussed it twice. Fedora "mandates" native builds. Build time on target hardware matters when you're re-building an entire Linux distribution (25000+ packages) every six months.
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
A couple of corrections (the blog-post is by a colleague, but I'm not speaking for Marcin! :)) First, we do have a recent 'binutils' build[1] with test-suites in 67 minutes (it was on Milk-V "Megrez") in the Fedor
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
On benchmarks, for more precision details, I recommend the RISC-V Vector (RVV) benchmarks[1], maintained by Olaf Bernsten. He only covers the Vector stuff, but with great depth. [1] https://camel-cdr.github.io/rvv-bench-res
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
Arm had 40 years to be where it is today. RISC-V is 15 years old. Some more patience is warranted. Assuming they will keep their word, later this year Tenstorrent is supposed to ship their RVA23-based server development platform[1]. They an
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by kashyapc 6mo ago
Near as I know, Fedora prefers native compilation for the builds. Your question made me look up Arm's history in Fedora and came up on this 2012 LWN thread[1]. There's some discussion against cross-compilation already back then. [
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by kashyapc 7mo ago
> Everyone is actually underestimating stickiness. The near billion users OpenAI has is actually a real moat and might translate into decent chunk of revenue. Maybe you're overestimating their "moat" and stickiness. T
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by kashyapc 7mo ago
Pretty sure he's not talking about the physics of stochastic chaos! The context gives us the clue: he's using it as a metaphor to refer to AI companies unloading this wretched behavior on OSS.
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by kashyapc 8mo ago
> what the people doing him kindness got in return was that they got to do something kind for someone Yes, there is something to that but he gives too much credit[1] to his own "willingness to be open". I don't know if K
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by kashyapc 8mo ago
Yeah, while the article is beautifully and poetically written (he's a reputed magazine editor after all), it comes across naive to extrapolate his good fortune to "you just have to be open enough to let the miracle happen to you&q
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by kashyapc 9mo ago
> Why should we aim to reward pointless, Sisyphean tasks at the expense of actual achievement? Of course that would be ridiculous. You're trivializing the author's point. I'm not sure you've actually read the artic

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