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acchow
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acchow
3y ago
> That never happened. Three decades have passed and we still develop at an obscenely low abstraction level. Have you seen how APIs are written for ChatGPT plugins? It is in plain English. There's no code. Function calls also done i
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acchow
3y ago
That’s the DGX GB200 they announced today, with liquid cooling.
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acchow
3y ago
They showed 30x was for FP4. Who is using FP4 in practice?
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acchow
3y ago
He has more important things to do than perfecting a presentation. He likes his employees to message him freely with things they think he can help with.
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acchow
3y ago
In the US, according to BLS, information technology sector is at about 4.5 million today (vs 2.5 million in 2000).
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acchow
3y ago
Only level 3 in a very specific scenario: “At up to 40mph in traffic jam situations on highways” Which is the easiest possible scenario. Slow speed, highways only (no intersections, no pedestrians)
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acchow
3y ago
Tho Typescript does have structural types, mapped types, union types, optional types, type aliases..... Bunch of useful type features.
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acchow
3y ago
Those would be considered basic type systems. For "fancy", you gotta dive deeper into the lambda cube (tho generics I guess in 1999 would be fancy and one step in).
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acchow
3y ago
Well, there used to be 6 trillion trees on earth and today there are only 3 trillion left. Planting 3 trillion trees manually is certainly a lot more work then allowing them to reproduce exponentially.
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acchow
3y ago
Do these redwoods in Spain also reproduce naturally?
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3y ago
Experienced engineers don’t just build things to spec. They question the spec and the human experience of using the technology.
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acchow
3y ago
I can't find the memory bandwidth to that external memory. Did they publish this?
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acchow
3y ago
> that spending is a large part of our exports and economy. I'm seeing annual US exports at $2 trillion, with military exports at $56bn, or 2.8%. That is definitely material, but hard to call that "large part of"
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acchow
3y ago
Does your low carb diet have the same amount of protein as your prior diet?
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acchow
3y ago
I started losing fat rapidly (and gaining muscle rapidly) as soon as I increased my carb intake dramatically. Turns out carbs and fat aren’t interchangeable for muscle recovery (for me at least) and so much of my weightlifting efforts had b
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acchow
3y ago
HW acceleration isn’t going to help much here because it’s really the exploding space complexity that needs to be addressed.
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acchow
3y ago
You have a choice between software frozen in time (perpetual fallback license) or continually updated (subscription plan)
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acchow
3y ago
All of your descriptions perfectly match my experiences with Cruise but not at all my experiences with Waymo. I bike by Oracle park almost every day.
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acchow
3y ago
How would this surprise one-off holiday be accounted for programmatically? Does the government provide an API you can ping every day? Or you scrape the news feeds and feed it through ChatGPT?
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acchow
3y ago
The planet is holding us all accountable. Whether or not we want our governments to act I guess is up to us.
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acchow
3y ago
Note that their 2030 targets were already set far too out into the future. They should have been hit 50 years earlier.
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acchow
3y ago
Conversely, this also implies our current model sizes can still embed a ton more “understanding”
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acchow
3y ago
Llama2 13b runs on an m1 at 13 tokens/s. So they will be able to do this on an iPhone. https://gist.github.com/gengwg/26592c1979a0bca8b65e2f819e31a...
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3y ago
A new medical school in coastal California was bound to attract talent, in staff and students.
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3y ago
In finance circles, the word you are using for "earnings" is usually called "net income" (or "net income for common stockholders"). When people say "earnings" they usually are referring to "earni
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acchow
3y ago
Oops I was off by one month. Nvidia’s fiscal 2024 just ended (ended Jan 2024) and was reported this week. They are currently in Q1 2025.
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Cisco’s peak was $79 at a $546bn valuation in March 2000. Their year ended July 2000 had $18.9bn revenue https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ac49/ac20/downloads/... That’s a P/S o
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> How much revenue can nvidia realistically have 5 years from now, and at what margins? 100bn in revenue (NVIDIA grossed 25bn last year, so 4x top line growth) at 35% gross margins = 35bn. I think you are off by a year because NVDA’s fis
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acchow
3y ago
Where did you move to and how difficult is it for other Argentinians to do a similar move?
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I suppose the shift into the other space would be motivated by shifting to a different set of physical laws? Maybe our 'plaintext' program ("machine code") actually is the underlying instructions for the "encrypte
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