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by cavisne 1y ago
Definitely not true for these workloads. TPUs are interconnected, one dying makes the whole cluster significantly less useful.
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by cavisne 1y ago
There is a difference between supporting the stated aim of a policy (infrastructure, healthcare) and the implementation. Biden’s “infrastructure” bill was just an insane grift to all the Democrat special interests, see Ezra Klein talking ab
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by cavisne 1y ago
http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/20140047261 Is tape even cost competitive anymore? The market would be tiny.
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by cavisne 1y ago
The interviewer is just another engineer trying to understand if you are someone who they can have a design discussion with. Dismissive answers that assume they are needlessly over complicating things tells them exactly what they need to kn
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by cavisne 1y ago
The author would still be wrong in the tool-calling scenario. There is already perfect (or at least superhuman) chess engines. There is no perfect "coding engine". LLM's + tools being able to reliably work on large codebases
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by cavisne 1y ago
I think their complaint was it was falling back to resistive heating for most of winter (so basically a space heater)
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by cavisne 1y ago
Is this true? I don't agree with the point of view of Seattle politicians but I've never seen even a hint of them acknowledging problems with their approach to anything. If anything the politics seems to be moving further left, af
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by cavisne 1y ago
I have a similar experience with a heat pump saving a lot less money than I expected. Poor insulation does not explain it, a heat pump should still be heating that poorly insulated space at much higher efficiency that space heaters. The phy
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by cavisne 1y ago
They have actually become less politically activist with their money. Of the 9 families in previous election cycles Zuck - wanted to run for President as a Democrat Laurene Powell - huge left wing donor Google Founders - huge left wing dono
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by cavisne 1y ago
A lot of cross pollination between employees. Smart people who like maths and getting paid a lot of money used to go to HFT firms. Now they go to AI labs.
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by cavisne 1y ago
Thats always the claim, but they have stolen SSN's to get those jobs in the first place (those without SSN's aren't paying income tax). Not to mention states like California which explicitly spend federal money on illegal imm
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by cavisne 1y ago
In every country there is a $ income level where you move from a net drain on the government to a source of tax revenue. The sort of job that looks the other way to employee illegal immigrants would not be the sort of job that pays enough m
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by cavisne 1y ago
Vibecoding is an excellent term, its communicates that the output and process is not entirely serious. I think without this term we would have even more PM types announcing that programming is dead and you just need a business person with s
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by cavisne 1y ago
A lot of these apps are peer to peer so they aren’t paying for storage or bandwidth.
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by cavisne 1y ago
Seems a bit off. Big tech interviews are very structured, the recruiter should tell you exactly what will be assessed. Might be a fake post.
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by cavisne 1y ago
Instead they are paying 2.4B to "license" windsurfs IP. Still a loss vs OpenAI but at least the employees will get cash not openai stock.
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by cavisne 1y ago
Campaigning for renewables is a literal Russian priority. https://www.dw.com/en/former-chancellor-schr%C3%B6der-sworn-... Solar & wind need to be backed by dispatchable power. Nuclear & Coal are not a good fit
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by cavisne 1y ago
Just like with Character I'm assuming the employees get something. Whatever nonsense "licensing" fee Google is paying to not cause an antitrust investigation should be paid out straight to employees
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by cavisne 1y ago
Are there any rules for what can be uploaded to arxiv? This is a marketing page turned into a PDF, I guess who cares but could someone upload like a facebook marketplace listing screenshotted into a PDF?
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by cavisne 1y ago
"Do you think police have too much funding?" No. "For context, the US federal government spent $53 million on public education in 2022" Hilarious, the federal government probably spent more on photocopiers for the depart
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by cavisne 1y ago
Doesn't seem that confusing, they import most of their hydrocarbons so its a domestic security risk if/when they invade Taiwan. The US navy can blockade oil tankers but they arent going to be chasing fishing vessels around the oce
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by cavisne 1y ago
Right, Microsoft did this, Google did this for character AI. I don’t really understand the purpose of all this, Scale is not an ai research lab, it’s basically Fiverr. Why would bringing people over from there make Meta more compelling to A
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by cavisne 1y ago
Its a good read but are his intentions unambiguously good? He had a windfall from crypto (ie contributing nothing to society). Then he was desperate to avoid paying the tax he owed on that windfall. Is there any actual need for this Solar F
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by cavisne 1y ago
Hilariously there was a story how Google could not train on Youtube data due to their TOS, so they changed it for new videos. Meanwhile everyone else was scraping Youtube as much as they liked and training on it.
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by cavisne 1y ago
Some API's (Gemini at least) run a search on their outputs to see if the model is reciting data from training. So for direct copies like what you are talking about that would be picked up. For copying concepts from other libraries, see
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by cavisne 1y ago
Nothing compared to the NDIS rort in Australia. There is literal gang warfare over providing "services" to people with high payouts.
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by cavisne 1y ago
Anyone who thinks the VA is well run should watch a few episodes of the “financial audit” YouTube channel. The most financially irresponsible people in the world (and generally bad people in general). Almost all are cashing a “disability” p
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by cavisne 1y ago
My theory for these PM's is its basically a cheap way to take potential entrepreneurs off the market. Its hard to predict if a startup will succeed but one genre of success is having a Type A "fake it till you make it" non te
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by cavisne 1y ago
"knowing why a model refuses to answer something matters" The companies that create these models cant answer that question! Models get jailbroken all the time to ignore alignment instructions. The robust refusal logic normally sit
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by cavisne 1y ago
Only one person in the groupchat needs to be using Telemessage, ie. a CIA agent can use a government device with Telemessage to talk to sources on Signal. Signal has a great protocol & robust clients, and getting caught with Signal on y

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