summerlight

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by summerlight 1mo ago
This is a valid take but at this moment, AI is not trying to solve this fundamental dynamic. But it can still accelerate the process by aggressive exploration of the solution space which cannot be done even with an army of human researchers
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by summerlight 1mo ago
It's not a tooling problem. It's more of a layer of policy problems. If you realize that you cannot run a simple experimental code even in non-production environment for weeks due to 10s of privacy, security, access, process and l
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by summerlight 2mo ago
I would be more careful before assuming 5 years depreciation schedule. Currently price tags are attached to computing power, not the production cost. Computing is not getting meaningfully cheaper with newer GPUs but it only allows better sc
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by summerlight 2mo ago
Apple can enjoy because it controls a significant fraction of consumer computing platform so they can simply collect tax from everyone else. This is not true for the rest of big tech. Only Google has Android but it cannot sit and enjoy beca
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by summerlight 2mo ago
There is a pretty simple yet disappointing reason. CSAM is much easier to investigate and prosecute. You got evidence, you prosecute. Almost guaranteed conviction. You can even enforce big tech to implement proactive monitoring systems. Com
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by summerlight 2mo ago
Looks like 3.6 Flash is the first model with their newest pretraining run (cutoff date is 2026/03), long after 2.5 series.
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by summerlight 3mo ago
The title is kinda misleading. The actual wording is not specific about humanoid robots but "physical AI" which encompasses every machinery that can be potentially integrated with AI, especially focused on mass manufacturing for t
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by summerlight 3mo ago
Looks like a lazy translation; the president used a word "대도약" while the Chinese campaign that you're referring is translated into "대약진운동".
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by summerlight 3mo ago
My personal rule of thumb: I am usually okay with agents driving e2e implementations if this won't make life noticeably worse when it does not work. Some analytical code? Perfectly fine. Hobby projects? Fine, though I prefer doing a f
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by summerlight 4mo ago
> 99% of the server code doesn't deserve trade secret protection, Unfortunately, it is not you define whether it deserves. It's a court, ultimately SCOTUS.
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by summerlight 4mo ago
This is one of the reason why that law will surely be challenged and very likely invalidated by SCOTUS. Trade secret protection is a very fundamental part and if this is forced to be broken by legally compelled speech, then it needs to have
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by summerlight 4mo ago
Many developers with good will actually tried that and gave up due to lots of problems. This is not just bad ROI but also a legal minefield. Engineers usually cannot argue against this kind of risks. Enforcing this will unlikely work in hig
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by summerlight 4mo ago
Because of high coupling dependencies between google3 projects, compiling just a single project usually pulls hundreds of thousands of different build targets.
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by summerlight 4mo ago
All the developments are done in a virtual remote file system. From editing to compiling, everything is done remotely. Of course this does not fully stop people from doing manual c&p, but it still makes it hard enough to discourage it.
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by summerlight 6mo ago
I guess it is much more frequent to maintain internal patches rather than doing all the merging work into upstream, especially the feature is non-trivial. Merging upstream consumes more time externally and internally, and many developers
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by summerlight 8mo ago
The quality of generated code does not matter. The problem is when it breaks 2 AM and you're burning thousands of dollars every minutes. You don't own the code that you don't understand, but unfortunately that does not mean y
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by summerlight 8mo ago
This is not very surprising. I've always thought that it's more of correlation than causation. If you're a good problem solver, then there is a good chance that you are probably good at both college admission and software eng
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by summerlight 8mo ago
Yeah, meet and chat (where each has their own bloat) are now integrated into the mail app as well. This contributes a lot.
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by summerlight 9mo ago
I guess if they want to eventually deprecate the 2.5 family they will need to provide a substitute. And there are huge demands for cheap models.
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by summerlight 9mo ago
I just hope them to provide an option to get rid of all those predictive models and just use a static, consistent layout. At least I can blame myself if my typo is from my own mistake.
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by summerlight 10mo ago
This looks interesting. This project has some novelty as a research and actually delivered a promising PoC but as a product it implies that its training was severely constrained by computing resources, which correlates well with the report
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by summerlight 10mo ago
Don't forget to mention automatic enrollment of your production group into access-on-demand. Any minor access on the production now requires the group manager's approval. I had a fun time with some production fire where only direc
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by summerlight 1y ago
Basically it all boils down to budget. Those engineers knew this is a problem and wanted to fix that but that costs some money. And you know, bean counters in the treasury are basically like, "well it works well, why do we need that fi
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by summerlight 1y ago
Internally, TPU is much cheaper for the same amount of compute compared to GPU, so I don't see much reasons why they need to use GPU. Probably >99% of compute budgets are spent on TPU. It might be true if you say these <1% still
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by summerlight 1y ago
> So do a currency swap? It is the US who refuses to do.
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by summerlight 1y ago
One condition that Washington has been broadly mandating is, when they ask for the money then it should be deposited in the treasury's account within a short period. Basically they control the pace of the investment and the detail is n
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by summerlight 1y ago
Agreed that template itself is not the problem but people are. It is still arguable that template is much more of fun to write clever codes because of its meta programming capability as well as its runtime performance advantages. With a pur
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by summerlight 1y ago
When people are obsessed with over-abstraction and over-generalization, you can often see FizzBuzz Enterprise in action where a single switch statement is more than enough.
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by summerlight 1y ago
> in C++, you can write perfectly fine code without ever needing to worry about the more complex features of the language. You can write simple, readable, and maintainable code in C++ without ever needing to use templates, operator overl
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by summerlight 1y ago
Waymo already had the permit, but they're just being (overly) cautious.

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