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by lz400 9d ago
I don't know how to read this and not see that this is a direct accusation to OpenAI of having used the researchers data to try to front run his discovery on purpose. The evidence is not completely proven and also circumstantial but to
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by lz400 15d ago
I've said this before in here but Zitron is completely captured by his audience at best and a grifter at worst. A couple of months ago he was tweeting that people were crazy talking about _agents_, that they didn't _exist_ and tha
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by lz400 24d ago
I'm staff+ too. I don't need to find problems, they find me, very quickly and it's mostly a triage operation on problems from then on. I always have a list as long as my arm of problems that are worth my time.
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Do LLMs dream of electric sheep?(vpablo.dev)
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by lz400 1mo ago
It’s sketchy to invest in a fund they probably knew full well had terrible risk practices and was likely going under on the first drawdown. When Leopold went to pitch NY investors they all passed and thought he was full of it. He could only
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by lz400 1mo ago
One theory (I don’t necessarily believe it): Jane Street was after the private part of SA’s portfolio (Anthropic), which is difficult to come by. Losing a few million dollars investing and getting in that network was worth it for them to tr
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by lz400 1mo ago
It's all so sketchy. Jane Street were investors in SA but presumably were much more sophisticated and savvy than Leopold. When SA got in trouble, 3 firms got into a bid war for the assets at fire sale prices: Citadel, Jane Street and a
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by lz400 1mo ago
Agreed, it's that the free market _allows_ you to do. What's concerning is that we're used to the "semi-benevolent" image of the free market where a company succeeds and then returns value to stock holders, and the
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by lz400 1mo ago
re: the crisis of the Mittelstand in competing VS China, I'm reminded of this tweet. It's a fictitious illustrative case not a serious study but I think it describes some of the root challenges of western industrial culture when i
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by lz400 1mo ago
Basically yes, there will be more coding in that phase, more prototyping, the PRD phases will be shorter too, there will be more pressure to deliver quickly and the PRDs will be under more pressure to move more quickly. This is what I'
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by lz400 1mo ago
Coding was expensive in the sense that once you decided what to do, it took a few engineers months / years to do moderately complex projects. That's not true anymore. Therefore the risk of "coding the wrong thing" is les
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by lz400 1mo ago
Like many others in the comments, I feel there are a lot of assumptions in this piece. Before, coding is only 14% therefore, small slice. I think that's a very superficial assumption. That was because coding was expensive and we needed
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by lz400 2mo ago
I mean, so many people also went in on the boom, that's why it's a boom. Leopold somehow got it 100% right and _still_ managed to go bust
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by lz400 2mo ago
I think the collapse of SA is very simple (as long as I'm not wrong about it of course hehe). SA weren't geniuses, they weren't sophisticated. They just did the same thing everyone else did, all in on semi-conductor, AI and m
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by lz400 2mo ago
Thanks, that's insightful. I haven't thought about it that way but in retrospect it's clear. In practice I think we've all seen that the numpy style construction is quick to write and performs (and reads) much better tha
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by lz400 2mo ago
Sure, but we're not talking about most code, we're talking about "code that would benefit from SIMD"
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by lz400 2mo ago
Isn't the better abstraction here to use a higher level library in the style of pandas/polars that will operate as vectors, compose and feel readable and inuitive, while (almost?) maxing out SIMD?
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by lz400 2mo ago
When my daughter was 7yo and she talked to chatgpt, she repeatedly asked, what's your name? are you a boy or a girl? eventually she lost interest at the evasiveness of the answers, like she marked it as not fun to interact with, not a
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by lz400 2mo ago
I have this tshirt. I'm relieved it's not a cognitohazard, virus or something, thanks!
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by lz400 2mo ago
I used to play EVE on and off for years (decades?) and as many people here I loved more the idea of the game than the reality of it so I couldn't handle it for long periods. I would love the possibility of setting EVE servers where we
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by lz400 3mo ago
I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist but how much do we think this responds to the Trump admin having documented financial ties to openAI? Trump has proven to me very transactional in dealing with private business.
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by lz400 3mo ago
FWIW I agree the financials are a bit crazy and OpenAI went a bit nuts with the circular deals. That said, honestly, I don't think it's the end of the world. I think there will probably be some correction/crash and it will pr
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by lz400 3mo ago
There's no shortage of sources of information. I'll exercise "critical reading" with sources I consider trustworthy to begin with. I've no time to engage with difficult analysis from people who are not worth the eff
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by lz400 3mo ago
I guess what I'm saying is that I won't look at his numbers since he's an unreliable source from my point of view and there's a chance that he's going to try to deceive me and it's a waste of time for me to lis
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by lz400 3mo ago
Already many comments saying this but Ed Zitron is not a person I trust. He's been so biased and wrong on stuff that I consider very obvious and trivial that his complicated analysis with numbers and trends I can't just take at fa
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by lz400 4mo ago
I don't think this works, and other comments have also pointed out the same. You open a position, you receive 200 CVs. Ok, then what, get them all to come in for a couple days work? A company that needs only one position can't pos
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by lz400 4mo ago
Truth is, most people who interview people have no idea how to do it. I know because I've done hundreds and nobody ever trained me or explained to me how to do it properly. Over the years I've seen so many people on both sides of
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by lz400 4mo ago
Even if we consider what they pay for colossus high (I've no idea, I haven't looked at the numbers), wouldn't this a bit be different from "investing in infrastructure"? They're not building the DC themselves,
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by lz400 4mo ago
Reminds me of the Ishkur's guide to electronic music https://music.ishkur.com/ Both these maps of styles have most of their richness in the past. Modern era is mostly stagnation. I suppose it would be different if I ha
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by lz400 4mo ago
I feel there are like 50 load bearing assumptions in this piece of fiction that are dubious at best, definitely speculation. When you put all of them together and chain them in a product of probabilities it becomes tech bro wish fulfilling

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