mNovak

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by mNovak 13d ago
I mean, not auto-purchasing with the card, no. But my wife has definitely used chatGPT to plan activities on the trips we've already booked.
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by mNovak 14d ago
So the goalposts have moved to include continual learning. In a sense I think no one will agree on a definition of AGI until it becomes impossible to construct any benchmark under which an AI underperforms "average" humans. That o
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by mNovak 16d ago
I'm confused, is this a research device, hobby/tinker item, or consumer product? I don't mean to be negative, but making a sustainable business on a hardware race to the bottom sounds challenging. I'd be curious to to kn
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by mNovak 28d ago
Cynically, I suspect oAI is subsidizing OR tokens to manipulate perceived traction, since OR usage stats get widely publicized
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by mNovak 1mo ago
ASIC makes it sound like it's a single chip, but in reality serving trillion-param models on Cerebras requires a full cluster (as in multiple racks, MW of power). Some interesting twitter analysis here: https://x.com/bl
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by mNovak 1mo ago
Major tenants like OAI have near total control. These GW-class datacenters are built to spec for the tenant. Construction doesn't start until all the details are signed off.
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by mNovak 1mo ago
What I like about this, is that it significantly increases the probability of a sci-fi scenario where you're picking up a hot chip on the black market; rumor has it, Mythos 9 weights baked in...
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by mNovak 2mo ago
> The only argument they have here is that they use GB300 GPU's which for some reason should not be available to chinese citizens Note that Chinese companies are free to rent from GB300 clouds internationally. There are large datace
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by mNovak 2mo ago
On the one hand, these debts may be off the balance sheet, but institutional investors certainly know about them and can reason about the company's valuation. Retail investors may be caught out slightly more. But on the other hand, the
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by mNovak 2mo ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/20260720174223/https://asia.nikkei.com/bu...
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by mNovak 2mo ago
That's the government's problem
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by mNovak 2mo ago
Noticed this as well. And the additional definitions under "explore this word" are all relating to the root word, not the actual form of the answer
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by mNovak 2mo ago
Definitely agree, I was very confused to see the latest guess (and with the most narrow letter ranges) at the bottom of the list.
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by mNovak 2mo ago
Though, by the time we've replicated a complete industrial hinterland (up to and including a semiconductor supply chain) which the author describes, it seems like generating fuel and engines wouldn't be impossible. Also to the aut
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by mNovak 2mo ago
I suppose it depends if you're assuming the probe is a complete factory, just taking in regolith and spitting out new probes, vs if the probe deploys and builds up the factory on the surface of an asteroid. In the latter case spinning
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by mNovak 2mo ago
> So the question is can they keep the pricing up on the older ones a few years down the line They don't expect to keep the prices flat over time, and everyone involved will have planned for this. Prices are highest when they'r
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by mNovak 2mo ago
Unrelated to the accomplishment or proof itself, but it's interesting how much of the prompt, even in this latest-and-greatest model, is spent essentially telling the model to actually solve the problem. Things like "Reject status
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by mNovak 2mo ago
>> approximately 700,000 A100e GPU hours of black-box automated red teaming Amusing that they use A100e as the reference point to sound impressive. Different ways you could make that conversion, but based on FP4 FLOPs (yes it's d
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by mNovak 2mo ago
If I recall correctly, Gibson had never even used a computer at the time of writing Neuromancer, so that's perhaps not shocking.
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by mNovak 2mo ago
Uhm.. Super High Frequency (SHF) and Extremely High Frequency (EHF) would like to have a word. Though yes in my experience, at those frequencies people stop using ITU designations, and switch to IEEE (S,C,X-band etc).
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by mNovak 3mo ago
Logic gates and memory bits have very different fabrication processes (mostly because DRAM is optimized for a high density of big capacitors doing the storage). You can put some memory on the logic wafer (SRAM) but it's area inefficien
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by mNovak 3mo ago
I enjoyed that book. But which part are you referring to?
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by mNovak 3mo ago
Someone please give Nemotron a thesaurus. This reminds me of the early days of SEO, where you try to hit 1% keyword density. The new game is finding a single sentence with the most instances of "safe" or "safety". My cur
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by mNovak 3mo ago
Interesting writeup. Would be nice to have a couple images of Linear A/B scripts to visualize. Looking on google, they're very daunting!
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by mNovak 3mo ago
The water is a clever impedance matching trick. The contrast in density between air and human flesh is high, so the waves all reflect off the surface rather than penetrating and reflecting off the internal structures we care about. That&#x2
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by mNovak 3mo ago
This is really interesting! And perhaps surprisingly doesn't trigger any immediate major technical red flags (as someone who has worked with MRI and phased array beamforming), as many HN HW articles do. My only criticism from the tech
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by mNovak 3mo ago
We already ultrasound babies in the womb, so one would hope this has been studied.
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by mNovak 3mo ago
To be clear, fuel cells are considered "low air pollution" because they eliminate certain nasty combustion products (NOx), but they still produce as much CO2 per kWh as a gas turbine. Arguably that CO2 stream is concentrated and a
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by mNovak 3mo ago
Also gas turbines are on backorder until 2029, and new grid connection queues on a similar timescale. Hence why all the bitcoin miners are cashing in (or trying to) by converting their facilities to datacenters.
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by mNovak 3mo ago
I think the right comparison would be a vertically integrated Neocloud like Oracle (insofar as they own some/most of their own datacenters, unlike a CoreWeave).

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