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by beng-nl 6mo ago
I found it thoughtful and thought provoking. I agree that it seems too unlikely and irrational and unnecessary - and quite rude to speculate, given Occam’s razor - that Altman actually had someone killed.
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by beng-nl 6mo ago
Tangent, but.. It must’ve picked up the faux profoundness on LinkedIn. Those posts I find truly unreadable. It half seriously makes me think anyone being able to post anything was a bad move.
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by beng-nl 6mo ago
I understand the sentiment, but.. do you realize how much more expensive that would make all these services? I don’t know the number. But personally I think using the services and ‘simply’ only use them if the disappearance isn’t catastroph
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by beng-nl 6mo ago
Back of the envelope I did one time told me i could earn more by picking up cans off the street and trading them for the deposit. Still, it would feel nice - after the initial cost- to have very cheap power (only charge when cheap).
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by beng-nl 6mo ago
Maybe you’re right in terms of true broad adoption, but I’m also curious about whether there’s a sustainable (and slowly growing) market in other market segments. Maybe vr gaming is it? I hope so because I’d like to see the platform grow fr
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by beng-nl 6mo ago
Didn’t Intel also try to brand the 64bit x86 extensions as ia-32e initially? Seemed like wasting an opportunity to me. (Disclaimer: I work at Intel but this was way before my tenure.)
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by beng-nl 7mo ago
Worse, IMO, is the never taken branch taking up space in branch prediction buffers. Which will cause worse predictions elsewhere (when this branch ip collides with a legitimate ip). Unless I missed a subtlety and never taken branches don’t
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by beng-nl 7mo ago
Oracle is also OCI, oracle cloud initiative. My understanding/impression is that oracle is betting the company on its success.
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by beng-nl 7mo ago
I agree. (And believe me, I don’t enjoy fooling myself into believing a better outcome than can be expected.) so far my experience is that AI assistants are a tremendous help, but it still feels like programming and still needs a programmer
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by beng-nl 8mo ago
Interesting. George hotz has said his motivation to start tinygrad was the worry that nvidia would be nationalized.
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by beng-nl 8mo ago
I share the instinct. but I think we might be wrong directionally. Looking at history, every time a tool automated part of our work (I’m thinking of calculators, high-level languages, libraries, frameworks) people warned that skipping funda
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by beng-nl 8mo ago
Just to add to this, people say the same about eg citizen Kane being such a classic but without the context of it having genre defining firsts, the film doesn’t stand out as much to a modern viewer.
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by beng-nl 8mo ago
I would call the USA a developing country except it’s deteriorating.
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by beng-nl 8mo ago
Finally a good definition of 10x developer!
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by beng-nl 9mo ago
Oh hey, Pim de Witte! For those unaware, this is a very interesting guy, because he stumbled on (creating, through his business Medal) a valuable AI dataset that - by offering to buy his company - reportedly OpenAI offered him 500M for. Th
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by beng-nl 9mo ago
He's building Eureka Labs[1], an AI-first education company (can't wait to use it). He's both a strong researcher[2] and an unusually gifted technical communicator. His recent videos[3] are excellent educational material. Mor
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by beng-nl 9mo ago
A new mode for fluke meters is born: the train conductor
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by beng-nl 9mo ago
This is a tangent, because it clearly didn’t pan out, but I had hope for rust having an edge when I learned about how all objects are known to be immutable or not. This means all the mutable objects can be held together, as well as the immu
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by beng-nl 9mo ago
I found references to GeoffreyPhoenix in DEMIGOD.TXT and HANDBOOK.TXT. You can send me an email to my email in bio if you wish.
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by beng-nl 9mo ago
I played a Legends MUD game on a BBS, could that be it? I’ve looked for it for years on and off and finally found it recently. With text files, and Even the executables and database to run it. Could that be it? I’ll dig it up if so..
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by beng-nl 9mo ago
I could go along with this to some degree if any country would be able to act the same way the USA is doing; then there would be a balance of power. But as it is, only a small number of powerful nations are able to act like this, without mi
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by beng-nl 10mo ago
Gosh, what an interesting canary.
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by beng-nl 10mo ago
Can you tell us more? I’m curious to hear what is behind this implication.
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by beng-nl 10mo ago
Well said. I’m often nonplussed at these calculations of some fairly high hourly rate that we seemingly all should be able to command at will at anytime in unlimited supply. Well, I can’t.
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by beng-nl 10mo ago
Tethics, Denpok.
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by beng-nl 10mo ago
Your desire to share knowledge and the pleasure of what you’re describing really shows; thank you for using your time so generously.
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by beng-nl 10mo ago
I’m not worried, wolfram is already a huge language model, adding a large one won’t make it any better/worse :-)
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by beng-nl 10mo ago
To think that the entire distro would fit in a reasonable LLC (last level cache)..
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by beng-nl 11mo ago
My opinion on this is that in mathematics the material can be presented in a very dry and formal way, often in service of rigor, which is not welcoming at all, and is in fact unnecessarily unwelcoming. But I don’t believe it to be used as g
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by beng-nl 11mo ago
Yes, I find this one of the weird things about assembly - appending (or pretending?) a number means addition?! - even after many many years of occasionally reading/writing assembly, I’m never completely sure what these instructions do

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