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by cm2187 4mo ago
PC enthusiasts aren't exactly sentimental when in front of a spec sheet and a price list. Plus where else are you going to go. All manufacturers are hiking up their margin if you believe their stock prices.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Why? Part of the problem is that chip manufacturers (from tsmc to to memory makers) are reluctant to ramp up production as the AI bubble may pop and they would find themselves with huge over capacity, a scenario they have gone through many
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by cm2187 4mo ago
The article says a large part is paid upfront.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
In fact any application where the task is stable and the model good enough to address that task. As you suggest, industrial applications where a robot must deal with variants of the same repetitive task. Or a military drone which needs to b
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Stupid question: I was under the impression that these models were trained on PB of data. Surely the amount of questions/response they can extract from querying a bigger model (Claude) is fairly modest. How is it not a drop vs the trai
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Random thought. Once models stabilise, could you possibly hardcode the model in gates? Or are they too large for a single chip?
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by cm2187 4mo ago
But I understand the admin has gone up significantly. Though I presume AI is pretty good at generating the boiler plate bureaucratic work (privacy policy, anti slavery statements, etc).
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Say what you want about their business practices, their products are top notch.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
A bit premature I think. Right now it is employees making room for AI investments
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by cm2187 4mo ago
I have news for you. That burger is the McDonald's commercial? It's most likely made out of plastic. That happy lottery winner? Probably a stock photo from one of the major visuals providers. And I am ready to bet my bankers don&#
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Today yes, but 40 years ago someone made the decision that a string was a char array and that every string manipulation going forward would require manipulating arrays. Talking about costly decisions. It’s actually interesting to compare th
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by cm2187 4mo ago
A lot of pain and suffering to avoid having a string datatype.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
The drive internally usually stores data in blocks larger than the 4k blocks it pretends to use to the OS (say it uses 16k blocks internally). So if your writes are sequential, it will most likely write the same 16k block in one go. If you
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Sequential vs random writes make a world of difference.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
That’s why SSDs have overprovisioning, more so for enterprise drives. And why TRIM is important. That being said most workloads are sequential, particularly retail usage. Much easier to deal with for the controller than enterprise workload
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Plus if AI is indeed a bubble, investors are already up to the neck in it. Think of all the key stocks of the S&P and Nasdaq that are lifted by AI: nvidia, microsoft, amazon, oracle, micron, intel, amd, etc. And add their lenders and th
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by cm2187 4mo ago
There are some european success stories in high speed rail too (France). China doesn’t let itself entangled in planning restrictions. US and European countries love over regulation and litigations. That’s a choice, and it comes with a steep
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by cm2187 4mo ago
VS the cost today yes. Nuclear wasn’t seen as a prohibitively expensive form of energy, quite the opposite. South korea and China are making it work. But if you build a new prototype every time and get bogged down in decades of environmenta
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by cm2187 4mo ago
But if you define a new type, how is that breaking backward compatibility?
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by cm2187 4mo ago
But what I don’t get reading the original article is that they present how to insert struct in an object oriented language as an intractable problem, whereas a good implementation with .net (as far as I can tell) has been out there for near
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by cm2187 4mo ago
I don’t think it can. Nuclear is cheap at scale, not when you build a single prototype every 20 years. You need large countries with large programmes to be successful.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
I can't tell the difference between a 5 years old smartphone model and the latest generation.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
There was a very interesting podcast that went into all the details of the AI supply chain shortage [1] The key takeaway for smartphones isn't so much that iphones will cost $150-200 more, which apple customers have shown they can stom
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by cm2187 4mo ago
The computer is not exposed to the WAN (behind a firewall), the main way it could get infected is via a vulnerability in a browser, but these do get updated. And OS updates don't really protect you from malware in executables you insta
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by cm2187 4mo ago
I enjoy windows 10 hugely now that it is out of support. It became way better when microsoft started tormenting the users of win11 instead of win10, and now that windows update doesn't bring new catastrophes and unexpected reboot, the
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by cm2187 4mo ago
How is that going to help him? "Our models are so inferior they are not deemed a threat unlike anthropic's"? I think it is either a missile directed at anthropic, as retribution for not giving the DoD what it wants, in which
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by cm2187 4mo ago
The other thing is what this will do to 1) the valuations of these companies, 2) their potential revenues and therefore the viability of the current datacenter buildout. Looking forward to the reaction of the market on Monday.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
To be honest lots of developers think they don’t need to learn machine code. They just need to learn a language which once compiled will produce machine code.
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Doesn't libel require to be deliberate? Ie you can't sue for libel if the author admits a mistake and corrects it?
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by cm2187 4mo ago
Plus the sync results in so many errors and duplicates even on a personal drive with one machine that it is not fit for purpose.

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