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by noogle 3y ago
The criticism from the second camp stems from the fact that the WHOLE job is to not drop anything. A fence with a hole is useless even if it's 99% intact. A lot of human jobs, especially white collar, are about providing reassurance ab
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by noogle 3y ago
We need to shift from thinking of solar/wind as "electricity sources" to thinking of them as "fuel sources". The marginal cost of producing a transferrable fuel from solar/wind is already lower than current ele
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by noogle 3y ago
No. A car can cost much less than $400. Hence I own a car instead of taking taxis.
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by noogle 3y ago
I had the opposite experience: using taxis/Uber/Lyft was far more expensive than owning a car so after Uber stopped subsidizing rides I had to buy a vehicle. That was in a city with a metro system, living in one of its main borou
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by noogle 3y ago
"prompt engineering" is a self-destructing field. If you use any rigorous approach to optimizing the prompt, you end up with essentially supervised machine -learning: models can (and do) learn the optimal prompt once there is a ya
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by noogle 3y ago
The government printing the fiat money that fueled a lot of this seems to be one. Besides, the "free market" is not a goal on its own. It's a method that is frequently the most beneficial one, but not always.
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by noogle 3y ago
I guess for the same reason most of them keep buying from Intel - their market position allows them to pass on the cost to their customers, so it's not worth the distraction. OpenAI is more of a "one-(very impressive)-trick-pony&q
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by noogle 3y ago
That's a broader question, but in general: it doesn't matter what I think about Nvidia's business. I could be correct all the way, but if other people disagree with me, they won't pay me for the shares. It's also no
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by noogle 3y ago
It's the ecosystem - everyone else is using CUDA, so you need a very good incentive to stray away from that ecosystem. a x2-3 cost of hardware won't justify such move. The cryptomarket was less favorable to Nvidia because it harme
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by noogle 3y ago
Why not? They seem to be a lot of leeway before any specific company will find it cheaper to design their own chips, or even to move to AMD (ROCm is not as well supported). Perhaps someone like OpenAI has both the expertise and incentive to
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by noogle 3y ago
Cryptocurrencies still had high barriers for entry for the public at large - not really a means of payment, and high risk as an investment. Generative AI is used by millions, has very low barrier for entry (it's even free!) and most im
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by noogle 3y ago
Should we buy Nvidia stock then? The greatest technological advancement in recent years critically depends on the hardware from a single company with no competition. yet Nvidia stock is still below its 2021 peak. How so?
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by noogle 3y ago
Gas jerrycans. Either one kept at your garage for emergencies (cost: $5), or the gas station scaling horizontally by using/selling jerrycans. Haven't seen any solution for instantly increasing charging throughput, and an on-line p
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by noogle 3y ago
That's the thing about cars: their real test (or importance) is not the 90% of the time spent in the "happy path" (short, planned drives after a full night charge). It's to address those edge but critical cases - long tr
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by noogle 3y ago
It's a different risk: if your novel DVD player did not work, you could just watch something else. If your novel EV doesn't charge, you may be left stranded, miss a flight or fail to reach medical care. Moreover, no government pla
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by noogle 3y ago
1. Flexibility. For a rental car you need to plan ahead, pick it up on time and return it on time. Traffic jam delaying you? too bad. You now pay a surcharge. 2. Cost: the rental cost is actually only a small portion of the cost. Extra insu
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by noogle 3y ago
So the article seems to be right - wait with EVs until they improve. Why suffer the pains of an early adopter?
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by noogle 3y ago
The question is not whether you can make it work, but how much effort do you have to put into using an EV. Vehicles are bought to make life more convenient. To introduce constraints and time waste you can just use public transportation.
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by noogle 3y ago
We will have no choice. Cities need to become denser to accommodate the growing population and reduce footprint. Efficient public transportation (trams/subway) are no longer regulatory or financially feasible enough to build (how is th
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by noogle 3y ago
Parents already use technology (TV, tablet computer) to alleviate some of the burden of caring for their children. Why not use a far more engaging product?
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by noogle 3y ago
Labor is not the only requirement for production. Resources will become the limiting factor, and their price will rise above what non-AI-owning people will be able to afford. So back to square one of scarcity.
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by noogle 3y ago
Models are re-trained periodically (months, weeks, even days), and new architectures/implementations come all the time. If a better algorithm appears, practitioners will adopt a new platform (e.g. Transformers for NLP models), so many
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by noogle 3y ago
How much of a moat is CUDA? It's indeed ages beyond any of their competitors. However, most ML/DS people interact with CUDA via a higher-level framework. In recent years this community has consolidated around a few (and even only
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by noogle 4y ago
The current (legal) answer is "unclear". There are indications that training is fine, but producing and using the generated content is questionable at least. As many IP issues, it will solved only when someone will try that in cou
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by noogle 4y ago
Sounds similar to Kotlin's and TypeScript's approach. The basic issue exists - how to handle unknown values. It goes beyond programming language constructs.
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by noogle 4y ago
Why? There are various search engines that perform sufficiently well, all ran by start-up (Neeva, Kagi etc.). Android is a suitable alternative for iOS. The absence of European tech giants might reflect the consolidated nature of software r
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by noogle 4y ago
You miss one thing - positive feedback. It's easier to be laid-back and relaxed when "the world smiles at you" at first sight for your looks. When others treat you like a creep for any move you make, you eventually become bit
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by noogle 4y ago
Which is why the general advice to men "adopt a hobby" to meet a girl generally doesn't work. It's transparent and therefore defeats its purpose.
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by noogle 4y ago
It's very simple - there is a need for a dispatchable and transferrable form of energy. So far, this need has been fulfilled by fossil fuels, and if arguments against P2G solutions prevail, will probably continue for a long time. But a
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by noogle 4y ago
And the rest of the world? And when extra energy is needed because of a cold/heat-wave, new project, or just an event in a forest? These scenarios, both large and small, are covered currently by fossil fuels, and are not answered by pe

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