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by choppaface 2y ago
Larry Page was an ardent supporter of Levandowski and this evidence illustrates Waymo’s core safety culture: that they’re above regulation and above the law. Same mindset illustrated in Google’s anti-trust trials.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Larry Page knew about the crash and tried to retain him
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by choppaface 2y ago
Waymo has notably escaped any investigation of the "Prius vs Camry" crash induced during unsafe testing done in pursuit of a demo https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...
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2024 GitHub Accelerator: Meet the 11 projects shaping open source AI(github.blog)
35 points by choppaface 2y ago|7 comments
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by choppaface 2y ago
Call / put spreads work
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by choppaface 2y ago
Options strategies also become more accessible and the leverage of one-cent differences increases dramatically
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by choppaface 2y ago
And Google is a pretty good counter-example to “The Stanford startup has developed no new technology”
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by choppaface 2y ago
Does the article draw on “worse is better” ? https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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by choppaface 2y ago
Harvard is also exceptionally greedy to charge tuition, but also it wouldn’t be fair for legacy admits to get the brand and network without paying what is peanuts to most of those families. LLM trainers need to pay for Wikipedia to help bal
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by choppaface 2y ago
Should be in jail for Worldcoin which has pilfered people of their biological identity. I guess you could literally delete Worldcoin and in theory make people whole, but that company treats humans like vegetables that have no rights.
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by choppaface 2y ago
sama gets to farm out much of the lobbying to Microsoft’s already very powerful team, which spends a mere $10m but that money gets magnified by MS’s gov and DoD contracts. That’s a huge safety net for him, he gets to steal and lie (as dem
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by choppaface 2y ago
Altman doesn’t want to be part of regulation. sama wants to be the next tk. he wants to be above regulation, and he wants to spend Microsoft’s money getting there. E.g. flying Congress to Lake Cuomo for an off-the-record “discussion” htt
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by choppaface 2y ago
StorageReview plays with 2PB flash machines all the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQMKtlIjeuk 1PB in a rack with spinning rust + flash buffer has been easy for years now.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Yes but since revenue is growing at over 70% due to squeezing out the drivers, there's more money to spend on fighting Amazon over the DynamoDB contract https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2023/01&#x2
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by choppaface 2y ago
Gaussian Splatting creates an "approximation" of a 3D scene (captured from a video) using hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of tiny gaussian clouds. Each gaussian might be as small as a couple of pixels, and all these 3D g
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by choppaface 2y ago
The vast majority of users use NVidia’s own kernels versus optimize their own. And those who do write custom kernels are typically not trying to compete with NVidia’s own GMM.
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by choppaface 2y ago
“NVidia’s LIES.. On kernels such as flash attention, TMA and the L2 cache are both fast enough so as to hide these problems reasonably well. But to make the full use of the hardware, memory request must be coalesced and bank conflicts avoid
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by choppaface 2y ago
I like this prediction. Apple Maps version 1 was a huge flop and Siri’s capabilities have been quite conservative despite their investment, and despite Apple getting caught recording users to try to improve it. It makes a lot of sense for A
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by choppaface 2y ago
golang is a Google technology, so protobuf is going to be there, right? Moreover golang is compiled and protobuf interoperates best with compiled languages. Now just wait for golang packages that have conflicting editions requirements!
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by choppaface 2y ago
Quora and SO are rather different communities. In Quora's best days, there were celebrities or quasi-celebrities making interesting posts, just like on Twitter or Google Plus in top times. Also Quora used to have very active and tale
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by choppaface 2y ago
On “privacy”: If Apple owned the Search app versus paying Google, and used their own ad network (which they have for App Store today), Apple will absolutely use your data and location etc to target you with ads. It can even be third party s
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by choppaface 2y ago
It’s easy to see as a pet project given the metaverse failure but their aim is more towards beating Google Search, which looks more plausible after OpenAI’s traction.
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by choppaface 2y ago
And also for perspective: if ad spend globally hits $1T in 2027 then Facebook has put down about 3% today to perhaps own 30%.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Eventually these models will need to run on mobile devices, so commodity desktop GPUs are a good stepping stone. Alexnet / Caffe got traction because they could be run on commodity desktop machines. Then a few years later phones coul
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by choppaface 2y ago
In many applications like especially Google's display ad targeting market, the "accuracy" of the clusters isn't so import as the lift in key metrics (e.g. click rates or revenue) and the overall efficiency of the method.
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by choppaface 2y ago
Also under-rated feature of 2010-era search was Matt Cutts, author of the article. He was an outlier at Google in that he did real community engagement as well as anti-spam, which is a huge contrast to today’s Google and how the internet h
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Apple Hired AI Experts from Google for a Secretive Zurich Research Lab(macrumors.com)
2 points by choppaface 2y ago|0 comments
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by choppaface 2y ago
And might it even end up that Apple pays? Now that Google is spending over $10B per quarter on datacenter capex, as well as trying to lock up a similar deal with Apple for Bard / Gemini, perhaps Apple ends up effectively paying Google
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by choppaface 2y ago
The key difference here is that Google really wants the DoD contract and doesn’t care who’s on the losing side of the real battle. The Google Walkout in the wake of Andy Rubin, David Drummond etc was far more disruptive to their business ye
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by choppaface 2y ago
But translation units / small .cc files can build in parallel and cached, and with multi-core thus it's desirable to have many small translation units. Except of course when there's eventually one large translation unit that

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