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151.
by baq 3mo ago
This is true, but my priors say it’s much less likely to get a thief or a drunk in a digger than in a group of a hundred folks with shovels.
152.
by baq 3mo ago
I'm saying I'd rather have a dude in a digger than a hundred folks who need to be supplied, some of them drunk, some of them thieves, some of them just plain bad at digging and only making a mess of the dig site.
153.
by baq 3mo ago
The customer can absolutely tell the difference between a Caterpillar digger and a dude in it vs 100 dudes with shovels
154.
by baq 3mo ago
They want to bankrupt the US AI industry and lock down the future development (and the substantial financial gains from more capable models). Essentially the China car manufacturer playbook, but for LLMs which are ~software, so much faster
155.
by baq 3mo ago
Certainly for their IPO, anyway
156.
by baq 3mo ago
Good luck hosting 2.8T params yourself. A box capable of this at a useful performance level is at least $100k.
157.
by baq 3mo ago
not much reason to think this won't happen except unconfirmed gossip, but I fully expect the next one to not be released. actually I won't be surprised if even this release was withheld and the announcement withdrawn.
158.
by baq 3mo ago
If you got it popular you could license it to AWS and sell it as an Elastic Lisp Machine or something
159.
by baq 3mo ago
lisp can do things that make the currently accepted as standard best practice software engineering processes redundant, but it needs a different set of processes which I’m not sure are written about anywhere since apparently nobody is runni
160.
by baq 3mo ago
It’s scaremongering, you can learn all this stuff. However! If you don’t want to learn and want to get rich quick instead, stay away.
161.
by baq 3mo ago
Au contraire if typescript and rust didn’t steal the whole show it’d be a great time to be a lisp LLM pilot: agents can explain pretty much everything without any confabulations nowadays, so the understanding problem essentially goes away,
162.
by baq 3mo ago
The market can also be quick and brutal to punish mistakes, especially when leverage is high. We can be in 1998, but we can be in 1995; you stand to make a ton of money if you know which one we’re in
163.
by baq 3mo ago
I was getting paid doing django in 2005-2006
164.
by baq 3mo ago
...but very bullish NET. who wouldn't want to be the toll booth where you collect money both ways
165.
by baq 3mo ago
This post is ultimately complaining about a build step consisting of an automatic translation from technically irrelevant language A to technically slightly less, but still substantially irrelevant language B. I don't care what Anthrop
166.
by baq 3mo ago
…and in effect tuition would go down.
167.
by baq 3mo ago
Extremely optimistic take IMHO that anyone will be allowed to own a powerful box of artificial intelligence
168.
by baq 3mo ago
The elephant in the room would be an ‘employee salary surcharge’
169.
by baq 3mo ago
You may find some bits of culture are easier to change than others and I wager this one falls squarely in the ‘surprisingly easy’ category.
170.
by baq 3mo ago
It’s still 20W. We have living proof what is possible within 20W. The message has always been clear - try to get silicon computer to be as power efficient as the brain is as it is obviously possible.
171.
by baq 3mo ago
> The person who specified this most likely was aware that this is turing complete and it's the rules author's responsibility not to write infinite loops Software developer’s job description: prove that this instance of the hal
172.
by baq 3mo ago
> The first language I could "just write" in was C. I had internalised the language and its standard lib and didn't need the internet to work with it. I bet $4.20 you didn’t write C. You wrote something C-like which the co
173.
by baq 3mo ago
The industry accepted way of handling circular dependencies is to not have them and heavily lint against them in languages which permit them in compilation or runtime.
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by baq 3mo ago
It’s just a build step now.
175.
by baq 3mo ago
haven't seen this flamewar in a while. can't say I missed it. surprised people still argue about it, having written my first Python around 1.5. for the record - I agree completely. (glad people are over the unicode thing!)
176.
by baq 3mo ago
Fable needs more... ambitious tasks than Opus to tell the difference and let me tell you the difference is there. Simple tasks are simply saturated just like simple benchmarks. There's a level of intelligence where you simply don&#x2
177.
by baq 3mo ago
It follows directly from the bitter lesson - a frontier model can be relatively cheaply distilled into anything you need to run quickly (and a frontier model like Mythos will help you distill it quickly), decidedly not true the other way ar
178.
by baq 3mo ago
I expect the bitter lesson to continue to be bitter. Mistral must at least attempt to catch up to SOTA 6 months ago.
179.
by baq 3mo ago
I prefer ‘my usage subsidized by investor money’ but yes it’s a sea change
180.
by baq 3mo ago
$200/mo is the new ‘free’ in the area

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