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by alganet 1y ago
> Even for as low as ~$100 in cost (~4 hours on an 8XH100 node) This showcases how unacessible learning about LLMs is. 100 bucks for a hello world is kind of outrageous. People don't understand when I say there's a point in whi
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by alganet 1y ago
South America doesn't take off on tech mostly because the talent is poached by other countries. The recent xenophobia and the whole thing with migrants might actually help South American countries to retain their talent. It takes some
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by alganet 1y ago
Basically: do not farm, pillage instead.
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Twice the pride, double the fall.
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Ok buddy.
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Was there anyone saying "wow, when this bubble bursts there will be infrastructure everywhere!"? It seems that in the current AI craze, some people stopped saying "it's nuts" and started saying "it will leave s
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by alganet 1y ago
No, that's not how capitalism works. Debt is not the same thing as a speculation bubble.
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Underwear first. Then, clothes.
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One key difference in all of this is that people were not predicting the dotcom bubble, so there was a surplus left after it popped. It was a surprise. This AI bubble already has lots of people with their forks and knifes waiting to capital
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by alganet 1y ago
What is that category and what other machines are in it?
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by alganet 1y ago
I am sure that if I am a fancy auto-complete, I'm way fancier than LLMs. A whole different category of fancy way above their league. Not just me, but any living human is.
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XUL
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Leaks like this actually slow down ReactOS development. The project is supposed to be a clean-room reverse engineering effort. If you even see Windows code, you are compromised, and should not work on ReactOS.
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I'm not old enough to know if this is real footage.
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> "I have more ideas than time to try them out" — The problem we're solving I see a possible paradox here. For exploration, my goal is _to learn_. Trying out multiple things is not wasting time, it's an intensive lear
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That's essentially what a CI environment does. "Multiple tabs" and "swarms". This part should feel familiar to any developer. Having multiple things running in the background to help you is not a new concept and we&
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by alganet 1y ago
This seems like a romantization of what good developers are supposed to be. Most likely it is an exagerated take on what these individuals were able to achieve, and it downplays the role of HR. Instead of HR being to blame for missing talen
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by alganet 1y ago
It should be very clear by now that no experienced developer is afraid of AI.
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Is it going to be killer robots, rogue controlling AI, techno take over, what? I'm kind of getting all signals possible, it's confusing.
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by alganet 1y ago
I will not tolerate a "just kidding" posture, or a "I was trolling the system" posture. They're not deluded teenagers with a rebel spirit, not "a bunch of underdogs" (like a recent blog post tried to imply
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by alganet 1y ago
The idea I'm trying to convey is that there's an upwards trend in history. Until very recently, we can say humanity was doing very good (awesome hits and a few blunders). Think of a graph. Each time life unquestionably improves th
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by alganet 1y ago
Seniors being able to extract more from any new tool is a time proven constant. That hasn't changed. What happened is that companies tried to push an idea that this new AI thing would be inhospitable to whoever is already an experience
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by alganet 1y ago
> Consider, for example, this observation, conveyed by the Dutch sociologist Ruut Veenhoven: “the average citizen lives more comfortably now than kings did a few centuries ago.” > A Snickers and a power shower would blow Henry VIII’s
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by alganet 1y ago
That's a strange take. To attack the feasibility of building the datacenters. I think it can be done, and it's not that impressive if someone does it. Here, I'll explain: datacenter building seems to be a grind. Careful plann
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by alganet 1y ago
We need some action. Like a battle or something. Some really experienced programmer not using any AI tools, and some really experienced AI coder using these agents, both competing live to solve issues on some popular real world repositories
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by alganet 1y ago
> What aspects of humanity are so fundamentally human that we don't want to automate them? That's a black hole question, essentially. The artist would say it's art. The lawmaker would say it's law. The tinkerer would
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by alganet 1y ago
Reminds me of zx (the same idea but JS instead of lisp). Pros: - The new host language has more features. - Scripts written in this new thing are more instrumentable. Cons: - The new host language has more features. - I need to install it.
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by alganet 1y ago
> it’s my identity Romantizations like this are fun and the culture is cute, but it was never about this in the first place. I'm sorry, but in my opinion, you have been duped and being a programmer is not about fantasizing about hac
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The way I see it, world has too many GPUs, and they're too expensive, and it doesn't make sense by any measure. It started with crypto, which inflated the value GPUs actually have. Now, LLMs are doing that. It's still the sam
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by alganet 1y ago
That sounds so familiar. Have you ever considered that LLMs are the new PHP? - A reasonable technology that can be used to deliver great value. - People hate it. - Terrible first impression. The wrong way of using PHP is much more popular t

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