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by nl 3d ago
Their implication ("A la Enron", "they can buy good lawyers to keep it completely legal") that there is something illicit or wrong in what NVidia is doing. The OP clearly is implying that it should be illegal for some
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by nl 4d ago
Vendor financing[1] has a long and successful history. Here's a good WSJ article from 2001 about the practice and risks[2], written after the DotCom crash in March 2000. There is nothing illicit or illegal in anyway about what NVid
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by nl 5d ago
It's fairly easy to describe a task that is slightly harder than an existing one. For example if frontier models are able to one-shot a database query across 20 columns and 10 tables add one additional relationship then test. Keep doin
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by nl 5d ago
Sure? Doesn't everyone get their agents to construct evals it can't pass? There's nothing magical about this.
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by nl 5d ago
> A strict liability crime is something of an oxymoron. Crimes always require intent, the mens rea element. This is wrong. In criminal and civil law, strict liability is a standard of liability under which a person is legally responsibl
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by nl 5d ago
There were lots on the site, which I thinks shows how weak your "which is safe" point is. If there were lots of people there AND it still happened then.. not very safe right?
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by nl 6d ago
The Chernobyl disaster wasn't caused by a single person, as you note in your comment "proposed and exercised by people without knowledge or experience."
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by nl 6d ago
> some greedy, uneducated people from the past wanted better position We don't have greedy, uneducated people who want better positions now?
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by nl 6d ago
> OpenAI would have you believe this result shows how powerful their mystery better-than-Astra model is, but the reality here is that this model needed 10,000 agents, $20M of compute, and the assistance of a whole team of people at OpenA
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by nl 6d ago
Radar altimeters are widely deployed for drones and available for less than $100, eg https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012484730308.html Ardupilot boards are $20 and support lots of different altimeters technologies:
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by nl 8d ago
It's a Navier Stokes solution. They don't need any help publishing.
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by nl 9d ago
> Does the US position come with 5 weeks paid vacation? When the US position gets hit with layoffs, do you still have comprehensive healthcare and unemployment coverage? Maybe this appeal to mediocrity in a competitive market explains Mi
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by nl 9d ago
Of course. It's the real world, there is no bright-line. But broadly if you are dealing with building something in a world with constraints (time, materials, money, speed, safety) then it's more engineering. If you are studying ho
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by nl 9d ago
Science is discovery of new knowledge (that "pesky chemistry" which is literally don't know how to do). Engineering is applying that knowledge in a effective and efficient manner. Engineering is something that money and time
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by nl 10d ago
> But the more Holmes talks to Fielder, the more he teases out her unhinged rationale, which is: The device works fine! We just had to figure out that pesky chemistry stuff! The strange thing is that Holmes has such a corporate mindset t
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by nl 10d ago
> women will only say yes to 9/10 or better men, but men will message anyone with a pulse which in turn inflates female expectations Is this a SF thing? I'm maybe a 7/10 and I've never had trouble getting dates in an
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by nl 10d ago
Who is this "we" you talk about? There are hundreds (thousands?) of dating sites. The problem isn't the technology, it's the fact it's a two sided market place, and cold starts are hard for two sided marketplaces. I
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by nl 11d ago
Doesn't reference Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene". That explores this in a more general sense. Since they didn't reference that I questioned its perspective and didn't read further.
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by nl 12d ago
> at the end of the day their geometric intuition is nonexistent This isn't true anymore. I use LLMs for 3D CAD using OpenSCAD and they understand geometry fine. I've had more success with Sol than with Opus (Opus 5 is around 1
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by nl 13d ago
Constellation Software (mentioned in the article) is such an interesting company.
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by nl 14d ago
I'm using AI to build things I wouldn't (and/or couldn't) have built before. That's the opposite of parasitic.
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by nl 14d ago
Writing all the code is quite a long way from (your words) "better autocomplete"!
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by nl 15d ago
Something Cherny said in early December last year is clearly not relevant anymore. By late December he said: "100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code"[1]. That's production software shipping to mil
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by nl 15d ago
You are absolutely right, I apologize. I think I was talking about A100 prices (which are still only 6 years old) and conflated a few different things there. But A100 rental prices have climbed since 2024 (as far back as free account reco
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by nl 15d ago
Have you ever read a 10K before? It seems like the author of this piece hasn't. He says: > Stock market bettors aren't sure they like these odds. The company's stock is down more than 40 percent in the last month The stock
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by nl 15d ago
> Because he was wrong. That's how it works. > His statement was wrong. I don't care what other ideas you want to read into it, he was incorrect about AGI arriving in 2025. No Sam Altman never claimed we'd get AGI in 20
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by nl 15d ago
> but that doesn't mean investors or companies doing all the spending will make more than they spend, i.e. the net ecosystem business model is not sustainable precisely because intermediaries are capturing crazy rent relative to act
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by nl 15d ago
> Would they announce record losses and financial distress? Of course not, but private investors get to see their books and investors are lining up to invest.
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by nl 15d ago
> we know deprecation cycle of DC hardware leans towards tulips i.e. <10 years (very generous) vs 20+ years for fiber layout [1] is a reasonable discussion of DC cost models, which calculates depreciation as part of the annual cost. &
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by nl 15d ago
> that you don't know most people in the world Of course. To be clear, the claim was "all software is still built by humans coding" I know this all software claim is false because I've seen it. Proof by example. &

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