LittleTimothy

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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
Reading the original bug report and the response by the maintainers.... yeeash. They are way more tolerant than they should be. At this point I feel the structure and verboseness of the original report are just massive flashing red flags th
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
Dumb question, would this be captured in NK's GDP figures? I imagine that the whole point of this sort of activity is so that they can skirt sanctions so there may well be a tonne of this activity going on that just never shows up in G
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
If the route we want to go down is looking at lobbying my guess is that the more complexity you add to the SNAP rules, the more lobbying you will get. If this is on the table every food company and their dog will be lobbying to X,Y,Z produc
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
Oh it's a totally different issue on the quantum side that leads to the same issue with difficulty verifying. There, the algorithms that Google for example is using today, aren't like prime factorization, they're not easy to
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
Depends on your understanding of human knowledge I guess? People talk about the frontier of human knowledge and if your view of knowledge is like that of a unique human genius pushing forward the frontier then yes - it'd be stuck. But
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
It's fascinating that this has run into the exact same problem as the Quantum research. Ie, in the quantum research to demonstrate any valuable forward progress you must compute something that is impossible to do with a traditional com
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
This is... interesting. From my understanding - and people can correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft spend an extremely large amount of effort essentially trying to screw people who made things like this in the 2000s? Inte
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
The question I'd like to know the answer to is "What was the total cost of training Gemini 2.0 and how does it compare to the total cost to train equivalent capability models on Nvidia GPUs?". I'd be fascinated to know,
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
I don't know why you'd be confused by the valuations, they're just 2 different businesses. Google is an ad sales business with an extremely strong revenue driver (youtube and Search) so it churns out money but it's prett
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
No. This is progress towards quantum computing but no where near progress towards a real practical quantum computer that could break Bitcoin's algorithms. If progress continues it could be an issue in the future, check back in next tim
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
You mean some capricious billionaire could get so mentally ill he buys up your favourite ~~website~~ copyrighted work and then just spend all his time inviting Nazi's and bigots to use it despite absolutely destroying it's value?
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
It's interesting to see such a long discussion of the value of a peice of art without any real attempt to wrestle with what the actual value of the art is. The copyright of Tolkien's work isn't just an amorphous blob of fut
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
I think the difference between cancel culture and just freedom of association is the difference between "I don't want to work with you because of X" and "I'm going to influence others not to work with you because of
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
As far as I understand it, only kind of? It's open source, but in their paper they did a tonne of pre-training and whilst they've released a small pre-training checkpoint they haven't released the results of the pre-training
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
"You didn't use enough compute in your reproduction of our methods" is kind of a funny criticism today. Well yeah, you're Google. Sorry guys, no reviewing of our methodology unless you own a cloud. It wouldn't surpr
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
They've already been headed that way for a long time, the problem is that they need huge amounts of capital to complete their foundry road map and that is meant to be cross-subsidized by the other part of their business, but now it&#
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
Difficult to see how this is anything other than a failure. I had high hopes when Gelsinger returned, but it seems that BK had done too much damage and Gelsinger didn't really get a grip on things. One of the things I heard that really
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
You need to look at how this market really operates. You have massive massive up front capital investment, you spent tens of billions of dollars designing a chip plant, and then billions more actually building one, and at the end of that
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
I think you're massively over-estimating what the average consumer wants from their computer. I need a computer but you're saying I shouldn't buy a computer I should buy a laptop and then a separate monitor? Why!? What a weir
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
Such a silly framing for a review. The iMac is for someone who just wants a good simple desktop computer. Ah but what if you want customize? Don't. That's not what it's for. Sure, if you're a tech reviewer and you'r
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
>Instead of trying to force genAI tools to tackle thorny issues in legacy codebases, human experts should do the work of refactoring legacy code until genAI can operate on it smoothly Instead of genAI doing the rubbish, boring, low statu
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
I don't think it is fundamentally the same question. If someone was about to throw a brick through a window I would say "Hey! Don't do that". But I wouldn't walk past a smashed window and think to myself "Bette
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by LittleTimothy 2y ago
Didn't you hear, every silicon valley company personally invented everything they ever did. Chamath invented Data Science at Facebook!