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by pphysch 3d ago
That's a bizarre take. Which of Israel or Canada has assaulted a US battleship unprovoked?
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by pphysch 4d ago
The comment I am responding to is attempting to spin it as some kind of authentic concern rather than more IPO hype building.
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by pphysch 4d ago
This is the CEO of a company with an upcoming IPO publicly saying "my product is potent and valuable". We should not put any spin on it. There is nothing more to it.
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by pphysch 5d ago
That's very hypothetical, but one might also ponder what under scenario Israel might attempt to sink a US battleship and murder dozens of US servicemen. It's hard to predict what a theocracy might do.
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by pphysch 5d ago
I suggest you look into the many confirmed impacts in Israel, including at heavily protected airbases and downtown Tel Aviv where the regime embeds its military intelligence centers. There's a reason why Israel has stopped directly str
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by pphysch 5d ago
> Maybe we should have brokered some kind of deal with Russia to prevent them from invading Ukraine. I understand history and contemporary events is not your strong suit, but such a deal was very much on the table in December 2021 and th
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by pphysch 5d ago
"Sure, Israel might be mass-murdering children while calling them 'Amalek', but at least they aren't scary Muslims!" At what point does reality become more important than your favorite childhood stories?
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by pphysch 5d ago
Iran clearly has the capability to flatten every major hospital and university and desalination plant in Israel, like Israel has done in Gaza, but they don't. It's also clear that Iran having nukes would be a strategic deterrent t
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by pphysch 6d ago
Why can Israel have a nuclear weapon? It is also an insanely violent ethno-theocratic regime.
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by pphysch 6d ago
The USA is heavily supporting Ukraine with intelligence sharing, private financial support, StarLink, and """indirectly""" providing arms through European middlemen. The latter was Trump's innovation so th
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by pphysch 6d ago
The two major ongoing wars are due to US foreign policy and could be over tomorrow if US government fully stopped supporting their respective belligerents. A good chunk of the human population has never known a "Pax Americana" an
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by pphysch 7d ago
Who is taking it seriously? The unipolarists clearly don't, and the multipolarists have been busy building alternatives for the past couple decades.
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by pphysch 7d ago
This is straight up misleading. When you press your K key on a touchscreen, your keyboard program may decide you meant to press the neighboring L key (by dynamically inflating the collision geometry on it) because it was statistically far m
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by pphysch 7d ago
Yes, and keyboards also save a lot of time over handwriting. Numerical methods and proof engines save even more time. LLMs are just another tool in the kit.
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by pphysch 8d ago
That's usually a good sign you are on shaky ground!
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by pphysch 8d ago
In the same way you rely on a keyboard or touchscreen to type this comment. It doesn't mean the tool is the brain behind the work.
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by pphysch 13d ago
Nvidia is among the best positioned if open models win.
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by pphysch 14d ago
And some people win the first tournament they attend. Again, flubbing your first tournament is much less persistent than flubbing a product release. Significantly different risk profiles.
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by pphysch 14d ago
I also don't see a strong link between training at a competitive activity, and releasing a product. Obviously, training against real opponents is crucial. But the world is full of half-baked products, especially software. If you show u
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by pphysch 15d ago
Bad software, as in stateless programs, doesn't actually matter and never did. They can be replaced trivially. The problem is the real world isn't made of stateless programs, but lots of important data in bespoke formats/sche
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by pphysch 21d ago
I believe I first deployed VictoriaMetrics almost 5 years ago and have had zero regrets. Was also evaluating Thanos and InfluxDB at the time. The lead dev is super passionate about straightforward software that just works, and it shows. Lat
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by pphysch 21d ago
OAI/Anthropic shareholder? Speed and intelligence are not "every way". Cost is essential. Hence the Pareto boundary illustrated in TFA.
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by pphysch 23d ago
Are you implying that getting $MEGASaaS to implement a feature for you is faster than doing it in-house? Because that is absolutely not the norm.
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by pphysch 24d ago
Both of you are right. There is demand for tailored (fine-tuned) models; almost every enterprise would theoretically benefit from them. But there are also a lot of prerequisites, namely does the enterprise have its sh*t together on a techni
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by pphysch 24d ago
LLMs have only been really good for a couple years. You can bet that the remaining AAA studios are working hard on figuring this out in current unreleased products.
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by pphysch 25d ago
Yes, Grafana seems to be the best free querying frontend across multiple data sources right now. But each Victoria product has its own built-in query GUI as well.
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by pphysch 25d ago
There is, it's called VictoriaMetrics/Logs/Traces. https://victoriametrics.com/
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by pphysch 28d ago
Assuming they (and militaries broadly) do this +more, like actually using vision models trained on billions of geolocated landscape photos.
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by pphysch 28d ago
Installing & maintaining a Postgres extension is vastly, vastly simpler than running Elasticsearch and Kafka. Like, how could you even compare these things if you know what you are talking about? Or maybe you are looking at it from &quo
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by pphysch 1mo ago
Anyone resisting ethnic cleansing is a "terrorist", and so is anyone that happens to be standing next to them, as well as their nearest kin. We know the playbook.

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