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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
or may be typical leaders have a better vision of what "sustainability" means. "Hire great engineers that have sustainability in their bones" Actual implementation by the grifters : Hire other grifters with Sustainabilit
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
The money was spent in Democratic-heavy zipcodes, not rural areas
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Why wasn't such cartoon made when Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to essentially increase Get-out-to-vote in essentially largely democratic areas. Delusional to think the WP and NYT journalists are coming at this at a highly non-p
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Thank god for John Roberts for preventing governmental overreach by unelected bureaucrats which has become increasingly ideological
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Why would you waste time in Good models when there are great models?
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Looks like it's not updated for nearly a year and I'm guessing Gemini 2.0 Flash with 2m context will simply crush it
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
A software developer's time is much more precious than wasting time on sub-optimal models. Open Weights models has it's place (in training custom agents and custom services), but if you are knowledge worker, using a model even 5%
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Whisk(twitter.com)
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Whisk – Images as Prompt(labs.google)
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
As a South Indian My name (in public school records) till I was age 21, was <name>. <initial> I was forced to pick the last name for passport purposes and typically i either have the option of attaching my dad's name or my
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
gemini-exp-1206 and I'm pretty sure Gemini 2.0 Pro will beat it https://livebench.ai/#/
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Google has 4 Billion users. It's delusional to think that you don't know anyone or you live in an incredibly small bubble
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
chatGPT's popularity and almost becoming a verb, says otherwise
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
OpenAI has completely pivoted to a Product company (vs a Model / API company) The minute they switch to API is the time their userbase realizes that OpenAI neither has the best model nor the most cost-effective one nor the fastest one.
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
A picture is worth a thousand words. A word is worth a thousand pictures. (E.g Love) It is abstraction all the way
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Exploring via Search can become O(1) instead of M^N
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
None of those matters (except multimodal). If you are running a business, the only thing that matters is a) How does it perform on my set of evals b) What is the cost/latency of serving it to my consumers. It shouldn't matter to m
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
If you prevent government from launching technologies for every software bug / mistake, you will get a bloated government which will do everything manually increasing it's cost to taxpayers and decrease in quality of services. The
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
HN has turned into an anti-billionaire, anti-VC, anti-success cesspool. It's a very dangerous echo chamber that'll destroy within
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
You have no idea the margins at which Elon Musk operates. If you read his biography he is obsessive about cost cutting like no else in the history of mankind. There are plenty of examples where Musk brings down the cost of a component by 90
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
That's perfectly fine. Considering OpenAI, Google, Amazon despite their strong RTO policies are attracting the top talent, they don't have worry about pleasing midwits not applying to their companies. Self-attrition by entitled, h
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Do you have data to prove that? If not, then leaders have every right to go with their gut instincts. Give me an example of a company that is immensely successful (massive growth) like say OpenAI that are fully remote
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Unless you can spin an alternate universe, some complex-dynamic things like corporate culture can't be data driven. A classic example is this https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friends
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
You can always go to a country where no one will attack you because you are a nice guy who sings sweet kumbhaya
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
Except Trump's stimulus was needed because of the lockdown (and people were losing jobs). Biden stimulus was the one that a) Ignited demand > Supply b) provided no incentives for people to go back to work (Biden also had extended mo
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by meta_x_ai 2y ago
oh look another article that brings the HN luddites come out of their woodwork and spew "hurr durr AI hype/bad/waste"