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by LASR 3y ago
850k cores apparently. We have EPYC chips with ~100 cores at ~200w TDP. So each core is around 2W in the AMD chips. Core voltages are ~1v with modern CPUs. So that's 2A per core. 850k cores at 20kA is very much lower than the AMD chips
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by LASR 3y ago
When I started seeing sports scores on the Windows start menu was my last straw. Haven’t looked back since.
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by LASR 3y ago
Or a 2TB action camera. Not having to carry around multiple of these tiny things when going on vacation is a big QoL improvement. I’ve lost a few 256GB ones over the years. Only once with footage on it. But it was a whole day’s worth of my
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by LASR 3y ago
Video compression. Another separate modern marvel of mathematics. Not sure what security cameras you’re using, but mine all use H.264 1080p compressed streams. I get about 15 days worth on a 2TB spinning rust across 6 cameras. Even going by
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by LASR 3y ago
If someone is watching a movie when driving, yeah I would probably want to know before I call the cops.
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by LASR 3y ago
Cops can’t be colorblind? I don’t know if they have to do a test or something.
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by LASR 3y ago
Yeah. Sorry to tell you this, but the speculation / analysis is on incorrect premises. It was never faster to write than it was to read.
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by LASR 3y ago
TL;DR^2: Person finds a tool not useful to them and stops using it.
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by LASR 3y ago
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not but Promixa is 4+ light years away. So unless we have FTL tech, this is impossible.
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by LASR 3y ago
Have you dropped the iPhone 14 Pro? Or 11 Pro? These are literally stainless steel. The 15s with their titanium is a step back. The 11 Pro with its older curved edges has been the most solidly built phone ever IMO.
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by LASR 3y ago
I discovered a bug like this with GIFs too. It turns out some gifs can be encoded such that it is animated and a single frame long. Can’t remember the exact event name now, but the browser fires a play event when gifs loop. This particular
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by LASR 3y ago
Yeah that’s what I thought too. But there is a reason why we don’t have this in data centers. So my BS meter went off. Regular PCIE kind of makes sense. Although, it’s a strange spacing optimization.
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by LASR 3y ago
That’s not what it says. It says that there is a single definition that can be generalized to both real and complex numbers. A special cases of the general definition where im(z)==0 yields an expression where some parts are multiplied by ze
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by LASR 3y ago
We’re way beyond this kind of hallucinations now. OpenAI’s models are frighteningly good at producing code. You can even route back runtime errors and ask it to fix its own code. And it does. It can write code and even write a test to test
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by LASR 3y ago
What’s surprising to me is that top-level executives think that self-destructing the current leader in LLMs is the way to ensure safety. Aren’t you simply making space for smaller, more aggressive, and less safety-minded competitors to grab
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by LASR 3y ago
No malfeasance? Guess who would now be interested in backing Altman and his crew in whatever he chooses to do. Trillion $ companies are not forces you should be meddling with.
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by LASR 3y ago
The kind of AGI you’re talking about - the one that makes people nervous about who is in charge of it - nobody can truly be “in charge” of this kind of AGI.
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by LASR 3y ago
In a space where OpenAI currently has a razor-thin moat, these kinds of thrash will end up putting you out of the thought-leader slot. You can embrace AI safety all you want. But not being the leader means you have very little influence to
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by LASR 3y ago
So basically, this could have been a serious incident if they used a lower power light that did not cause the window to fail so obviously. I bet with a full pressure differential at cruising alt, this might have blown up catastrophically. Q
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by LASR 3y ago
Often the "stochastic parrot" line is used as a reduction on what an LLM truly is. I firmly believe that LLMs are stochastic parrots and also that humans are too. To the point where I actually think even consciousness itself is a
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by LASR 3y ago
Is this really just a consequence of terrible ideas combined with a bad mental model for execution? The way I think about ideas is like the many-worlds interpretation. You want to have a superposition as broad as you can be and then narrow
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by LASR 3y ago
Some clues in my comments. But for the most part, I can’t share. We’ve built some cool stuff, but not enough to be “moaty” at the moment.
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by LASR 3y ago
You’re worried people think LLMs are like databases that store information? Don’t worry. Anyone worth their salt in this space is doing RAG, using LLMs as a reasoning engine.
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by LASR 3y ago
So much disagreement in this thread over statements like LLMs “just predict the next token”. The thing to keep in mind - we know very little about how the human mind works. Thinking that somehow humans are special and then making conclusion
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by LASR 3y ago
Most things like the rest of the world - H.264 is really the only option. More technically correctly, more than half the currently in use devices in the world do not support more than H.264 Like all my Smart TVs, my kitchen iMac, my parents
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by LASR 3y ago
Great. So now my car is the teenager in the driver seat I have to keep pestering with instructions to not kill me.
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by LASR 3y ago
Why would this be a very weird edge case on a professional machine? For context, I hate it when the built-in display is not consistent with my external displays. Few displays actually support ProMotion rates. So chances are that if you use
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by LASR 3y ago
So just to be super clear, this is an embedding model. It generates no text. It’s not outputting words. Maybe I am assuming incorrectly, but I think the poor performance you are referring to is the old Ada completion model, where the output
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by LASR 3y ago
“Focus on problems” - yes, but if you want to build revolutionary products, you have to find new problems. Some of the solutions you build to new problems, often end up making the old problems irrelevant.
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by LASR 3y ago
Spectrum is a limited and highly contested resource. There is very likely no way for 3G to coexist just for IoT.

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