paulmist

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by paulmist 1mo ago
I think that such fine-tuning hinges on what do you consider to be a mistake, which is context dependent. Having task-specific finetuned models goes against the status quo of generalization/centralization where few large companies ser
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by paulmist 1mo ago
In Europe I don't think it's commonly done. For example, the standard Dutch MSM STI test [1] covers HIV, Syphilis, Chlamydia, and Gonorrhoea only while Trichomoniasis, HPV 2 and Herpes are rather common. That being said, it's
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by paulmist 1mo ago
Definitely a rough estimate! I recon base rate is also higher amongst military personnel & it’s not uniformly distributed there either.
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by paulmist 1mo ago
Assuming a predominantly male population, the suicide rate should be around 20 per 100000 per year. 5 people in a month gives 18x higher rate. Too short period to draw any statistical conclusions but it’s a large blip.
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by paulmist 1mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but all of the aforementioned advances were made in the last year? Until very recently few people had access to these tools. Most people still don't know how to use ChatGPT, and very few use tools like CC
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by paulmist 2mo ago
I love this video on Tay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsLup7yy-6I
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by paulmist 3mo ago
Even better, Qimonda was ultimately bought (alongside all their patents) by SMIC [1] who is now the Chinese memory player. For 30 million. [1] https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/chinas-cxmt-is-set-to-...
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by paulmist 3mo ago
IIRC Taiwan took a page out of Singapore's playbook and went all in on electrical engineering and adjecent fields. It was very much a long-term strategy. Germany probably didn't feel nearly as much pressure, and was already very s
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by paulmist 3mo ago
> “Semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers are the triple axis for a great leap forward.” Not the best wording... I wonder how serious this announcement is.
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by paulmist 3mo ago
Personal anecdote on ROI - I was at an early stage startup earlier this year where we had some burstable long-running GPU tasks (<100 VMs). Accross GCP and OCI we couldn't get our hands on L40S on-demand, and had to resort to T4s (r
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by paulmist 3mo ago
I think you're confounding streaming with the rise of solo-queue but cooperative (CS:GO, LoL...) games around 2010. Both were enabled by cheaper computing and alllowed competitive ladders to scale to millions of players. Games where yo
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by paulmist 3mo ago
I think that's a normal evolution of these games? In the end they are cooperative so your teammates depend on you. Although you'll find plenty of people at the top of the ladder spamming werid strategies and being successful.
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by paulmist 3mo ago
I wonder if we'll start seeing Amazon/Google/Apple completely verticalize their chip production (TPU/Tranium/M series/Graviton...) and buy (parts of) Intel. Their capex is already a trillion a year, surely it&#
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by paulmist 3mo ago
Can anyone suggest some ways to understand automation trends in manufacturing? Watching factory tours on youtube has been super interesting.
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by paulmist 3mo ago
Do you think humanoids would be a fit on assemblying the assembly line itself? To my limited knowledge a lot of setting up the factory is making sure your line works as expected with X 9s reliability. Here dexterous humanoids are this _univ
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by paulmist 3mo ago
I first saw Noam on Dwarkesh’s podcast together with Jeff Dean. Recommend if you want a taste of what’s Google’s folks take on things. https://youtu.be/v0gjI__RyCY?is=nz77XP4KiJy7L1AX
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by paulmist 3mo ago
According to IEA[1] most capacity in Europe is from South Korean companies. [1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/share-of-manu...
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by paulmist 3mo ago
Aren't biggest Qwen 3.7 closed? I don't suspect China's policy here would be anything but ruthless.
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by paulmist 3mo ago
It shows the same for this thread. https://imgur.com/a/EOWWUbD
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by paulmist 3mo ago
I do agree with the skepticism in this thread. But, if we assume Fable/Mythos really are that good (=easy to misuse) and thep keep getting better, what similar responses (signals) would you expect to see going forwards?
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by paulmist 4mo ago
Knowing the question is half of the answer. LLMs are great at scoping your context and answering precisely what you asked; it's also why they go off the rails when they misunderstand a part of your question. Incidentally, they're
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by paulmist 4mo ago
Why would it kill PC? There will always be hobbyists, e.g. I can't imagine pro e-sports players running on a Mac. Personally, half of the reason I moved away from Windows is Microsoft stalling/degrading Windows experience.
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by paulmist 4mo ago
I think it's the opposite. Sure in short term hobbyists are getting squeezed, but the amount of capital that they can put into pushing the edge is small compared to Fortune 500. Sooner or later hobbyists will benefit, especially if the
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by paulmist 4mo ago
Can you give some context the grad student union and how it intends to fight the explotatiove nature of the academia?
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by paulmist 5mo ago
At $15/GB of HBM4 the 331.8TB of HBM4 per pod is 5 million...
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by paulmist 5mo ago
I think author's point is that wealth drives investment which drives economic growth. In the case of lavish funerals - warranted in kinship societies - the wealth is spent on relatively unproductive investments bearing high opportunity
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by paulmist 6mo ago
In the Netherlands dental service prices are set by the government [1]. Under 18 are universally covered by basic health insurance; for adults average dental for regular work + emergency is 30/month. [1] https://puc.overheid
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by paulmist 6mo ago
This! I flew from Madrid to SF last year and I can't begin to describe the difference in the quality of food. The scale of agricultural industrialization is terrifying - I wish you luck but I don't think anything short of this bec
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by paulmist 6mo ago
As a European I would think a large part of the problem is that Americans are just sick more seriously and often. Your car culture, quality of food, and general preventative healthcare accessibility seem all terrible there. The prevalence o

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