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by alecco 2y ago
Atrocious clickbait title. Chimps were found to prefer flexible stick sources to get ants. That's it.
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by alecco 2y ago
On one hand, Pichai paid 2.7bn to get 1 guy back . On the other hand, Pichai laid off 200 Core devs and "relocated roles" to India and Mexico [1]. The duality of Pichai-style management. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2
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by alecco 2y ago
Yes, Pichai did nothing . He is good at that. And the top product, search, is getting worse every year with barbarians at the gate.
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by alecco 2y ago
Are you stalking me, doyouhaveasourcebro? Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40273440 Self-quoting here: That's in contrast to what OpenAI's David Luan "Why Google couldn’t make GPT-3" ( htt
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by alecco 2y ago
Here you go, doyouhaveasourcebro. https://www.google.com/search?q=google+core+teams+india
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by alecco 2y ago
Musk showed 80% were useless hires and AI gave the rest of the CEOs the excuse. So now they are downsizing and moving teams to India. From Google to American Airlines. What could possibly go wrong.
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by alecco 2y ago
Maybe a lot, sure. But at least the top 10% are elite at their craft. DeepMind, Google Brain, the TPU people, the datacenter people, etc. Sadly, Pichai is firing Core teams in USA and moving them to India.
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by alecco 2y ago
I think he missed adding: and let them do their job and be smart managing the resources by themselves. Pichai & co put a borderline-communist quota system and it became a popularity contest to get a tiny slice extra of compute. And then
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by alecco 2y ago
The board and Pichai should go. They had the best researchers at Deepmind and Google Brain, sitting on the best pile of data of any tech company (web, Google Books, YouTube, ...), having the leading custom hardware (TPUs), and top tier data
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by alecco 2y ago
I beg to differ. Pichai is a glorified McKinsey consultant who made a lot of mistakes. He was just lucky to be lifted by this Tech Bubble. And he is firing Core teams in US to rebuild them in India.
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by alecco 2y ago
Until Google shows they got rid of all the people responsible for stupid stuff like Black Napoleon and all the far-left politically charged garbage, I'll pass. It's one version mess up away from reverting to that while the same pe
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by alecco 2y ago
Late-stage Central Banking.
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by alecco 2y ago
> Germany returning to coal would be a bitter pill to swallow Impossible. Net zero was put at constitutional level to get the necessary votes from the greens. (And they were losing that voting power in the elected congress)
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by alecco 2y ago
The money system is owned by the Central Banking cartel (BIS club). The major holder of German debt is the ECB. This is not owned by states. It’s very enlightening to learn how it came to be. Next big buyers of German debt are individual Eu
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by alecco 2y ago
MIT license. 685 B params https://chat.deepseek.com/ it seems to be the new default Code quality is still way behind Claude 3.7.
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by alecco 2y ago
I think it's a good thing. Let them experience our little hell. They'll come out appreciating our craft more once they get through :)
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by alecco 2y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/04/s...
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by alecco 2y ago
> While the old API expected that the shared object is not used directly, the API made it possible which led to undefined behaviour, typically producing a data race. - C++ is insecure, don't use it [C++ fixes a hole] - C++ a
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by alecco 2y ago
But it's something new by a very small company. They are trying to convince CCP and big players to embrace opening up. It looks good but it's a huge cultural shift for the Chinese politicians and tech giants. We'll see if it&
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by alecco 2y ago
There's a DeepSeek mania in China. Due to this, CCP did a 180 on the tech sector. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3300629/dee...
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by alecco 2y ago
Please read that the right way. Deliberate practice compounds exponentially. Those extra hours refactoring, contributing to OSS, or mastering systems design create 10x impact through learned architectural intuition that median devs never de
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by alecco 2y ago
Agree. The required abilities multiply rather than add so the right tail extends much further than a normal distribution. The gap between median and top performers is extremely large.
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by alecco 2y ago
On the contrary, because he was leading Cadence it looks like he will at least spin off the fabs. The major card Intel had against competitors was the integration. The tick-tock model. The failure of Intel is in the board and terrible mid
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by alecco 2y ago
Intel employees are at high risk of losing their jobs. I don't think cornering the new CEO at an all-hands is a good idea. And I wouldn't even trust his answer, anyway.
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by alecco 2y ago
> That's what I'm trying to understand. His educational background was in Physics/Nuclear Engineering so he's obviously a smart guy, and he was CEO/Chairman of Cadence for 15 years, but other than that his 40+ ye
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by alecco 2y ago
Sounds like the guy to trim Intel to be sold in in parts. Intel engineers: thank you for these amazing machines, for all these years. They shaped many lives. We salute you.
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by alecco 2y ago
Is llama.cpp's CUDA implementation decent? (e.g. does it use CUTLASS properly or something more low level)
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by alecco 2y ago
It's still wrong advice. Stocks are not the only way to invest your savings if you are retail. Money markets are less fashionable but much better at the moment but those don't give juicy commissions and arbitration to the financia
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by alecco 2y ago
Previous discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27791539
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Against SQL (2021) [but pro-relational](scattered-thoughts.net)
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