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I wouldn’t trust anything geohot says. He doesn’t have access to any inside information.
by bluedevilzn 3y ago
I wouldn’t trust anything geohot says. He doesn’t have access to any inside information.
- valianteffort 3y agoHe doesn't strike me as the type of person to lie (except when trolling). His reputation is solid enough that I'm sure he's had discussions with people in the space.
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoHe's a crypto scammer. Look up cheap eth
- valianteffort 3y agoI mean that was marketed as a memecoin from the beginning. More so than doge even.
- pixelpoet 3y agoHe added some code to give himself tons of it and didn't report it to anyone, dismissed it as a joke or something when it was found and then disappeared after hyping the project. Sound familiar? To me he joins the ranks of the most basic shady crypto types.
- imtringued 3y agoYou mean he has become Elon Musk?
- lannisterstark 3y ago>his reputation is solid Eh, is it? Not sure if I consider him an authority on anything anymore. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z2y8i0/from_this_this_is_my_mission_an_i_will_accomplish/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z2y8i0/fro... >This is the interview. Build this feature. You don't get source access. Link the GitHub and license it MIT. is akin to "Build this for free, license it MIT so I can use it without any issues, and oh, btw, I dont have authority to hire you, teehee."
- jimmySixDOF 3y agoWell he picked the right problem at the time which was (and still is!) search. I was really looking forward to some progress on this and then he deleted tweets and dropped off the system. I would love to see a podcast of him talking about that & fyi @realGeorgeHotz is back on it now to promote Tiny grad/box/corp.
- threeseed 3y agoAs someone who has spent 20+ years working in large companies you can spot developers like him a mile away i.e. the sort of behaviour you see with skilled but arrogant grads/interns. The right approach when you're new is to quietly pick a simple problem away from the core services where you can learn the processes and polices needed to get something into Production. More so when you're in a company that is undergoing a brain drain. Then you can progressively move to solving more demanding and critical issues.
- pseg134 3y agoYou should write a book or a blog about how to not rock the boat at large companies. Maybe you can call it Going Nowhere Fast.
- threeseed 3y agoYou don't need a book about it when it's a concept children understand. Before you run you learn to walk.
- pseg134 3y agoSome people were just born to run. Their legs don’t really work right for walking.
- barrkel 3y agoLarge companies normally (unlike Twitter) have achieved strong product market fit and are all about tweaks that deliver marginal revenue. Given that they already have a big slice of the market, the multiplier on marginal revenue makes what you're doing worthwhile. "Rocking the boat" is more likely than not to make things worse.
- ec109685 3y agoThis wasn’t very impressive: https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-george-hotz-resigns-from-twitter-4-weeks-into-his-internship https://www.pcmag.com/news/hacker-george-hotz-resigns-from-t... Spent two weeks trying to find someone to build a faceted search UI and then quit.
- nl 3y agoI think deciding to get away from the Musk/Twitter debacle as soon as you realize how bad it is isn't necessarily a bad thing..
- bboygravity 3y agoHow is it a debacle and how is it bad?
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- threeseed 3y agoBecause Twitter is trending towards bankruptcy. a) It is valued at about a 1/4 of what it was purchased at. b) Twitter Blue has generated an irrelevant amount of revenue and churn is increasing [1]. c) Roadmap looks poor. Video is a terrible direction where only Google, Amazon, TikTok etc have been able to make the numbers work and that's because it is subsidised through other revenue sources. Payments is DOA given Twitter's inability to comply with existing regulations let alone how difficult KYC/AML is to manage. d) Regulatory and legal risk increases by the day. Lawsuits continue to pile up and EU/FTC are hovering around as Twitter is not in compliance with previous agreements. e) Brand safety continues to be a huge challenge that isn't solvable without effectively going back to what Twitter was previously. f) BlueSky and Instagram are both releasing competitor apps to the broader public in the coming months. The market simply won't sustain this many text-based social media apps. [1] https://github.com/travisbrown/blue https://github.com/travisbrown/blue
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- machdiamonds 3y agohttps://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/1671267150101721090 https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/16712671501017210... It looks like at least one other person has also heard the same information.
- throwaway9274 3y ago2x0=0
- startupsfail 3y agoIt’s funny that this post is trending on HN right next to the post about a paper showing how to build a model 1000x smaller than 1.7T that can code better than LLMs 10x larger.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoI don't find it funny, I find it scary and mind-blowing: the impact of these headlines is additive - this one confirms the effectiveness of combining models, and the other one suggests you could cut the model size a couple orders of magnitude if you train on clean enough data. Together, this points at a way to achieve both GPT-4 that fits on your phone, and a much more powerful model that's not larger than GPT-4 is now.
- candiodari 3y agoIf it truly is the training data that's making models smart, then that would explain that there is both a minimum and maximum "useful" size to LLMs. The recent stream of papers seems to indicate that the cleaner the input data, the less size is required. That would negate, at least partially, the "we have 20 datacenters" advantage.
- ChatGTP 3y agoIs it a large language model anymore ? Something doesn’t quite add up?
- simondotau 3y agoIt’s fine to say you don’t believe him, it’s fine to say he’s wrong, but if you want to claim he doesn’t have inside information, I would expect a standard of evidence as good as that you would expect for Geohot’s claim. So tell me: how do you know the Geohot doesn’t have inside information?
- rat9988 3y agoIt's up to Geohot to prove his claim. Althoug he may have insider information, he isn't in a position known to have inside information. It might be more correct to phrase it that way but we all got the meaning.
- lohnjemon 3y agoThat's not how it works out in practice. For example, journalists who have insider info from sources and leak it on the regular don't do anything to prove they have insider information, they build up reputation based on how many predictions they make. There's no point in outing your sources, that's how you lose them.
- manojlds 3y agoProve a negative you mean?
- simondotau 3y agoIt's up to anyone making a claim, if they want people who aren't yet convinced to become convinced, to provide some supporting evidence. This basic rule of discourse applies whether one makes a positive claim or a negative claim. Bluedevilzn made a negative claim, so naturally I'm asking if they can prove their negative.
- mach1ne 3y agoThat's luckily not relevant here. Multiple sources have independently confirmed the same rumors. This means that there is a significant probability of it being true.
- curiousgal 3y agoWhat exactly is "it"? What is being discussed here? The size of the model? Who cares? People will make the same API call to get the results. Everyone is acting like a glorified AI expert now smh
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoThe rumor here is that GPT-4 isn't one giant model, but instead a "mixture of experts" combination of 8 smaller GPT-3 sized models with different training sets. This has implications for what may be possible on consumer hardware.