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91.
by ctrw 3y ago
Yes and each of those costs between half a million in pure compute to a few hundred million for fine tuning/training.
92.
by ctrw 3y ago
I have sent the letter out as a perpetual motion paper plane. Please try and catch it before it causes a new big bang.
93.
by ctrw 3y ago
I too am a perpetual motion enthusiast.
94.
by ctrw 3y ago
I heard that in the 1990s. Yet all the cheap Indians who were meant to eat my lunch are now expensive Indians I have lunch with.
95.
by ctrw 3y ago
At the tips actually.
96.
by ctrw 3y ago
If the speaker can convince the listener they should find a job where they don't need to speak as part of the job description. Dishwashers and janitors give pletnly of job stability for people like those.
97.
by ctrw 3y ago
A company is like a rose bush, keeping it civilised means constant aggressive prunning.
98.
by ctrw 3y ago
The easier solution to is remove them.
99.
by ctrw 3y ago
This would be a soviet joke where the punch line is 10 years in the Gulag.
100.
by ctrw 3y ago
Now I've experienced racism I can now be racist in the name of making people more empathetic. Don't worry you n*** this is making you better people.
101.
by ctrw 3y ago
The real danger is that this anti-racism starts a justified round of new racism. By lowering standards for black doctors do you think anyone in their right mind would pick black doctors? No I want the fat old jew. I know no one put him in t
102.
by ctrw 3y ago
Plan 9 is just as free as Linux.
103.
by ctrw 3y ago
Exactly, and as we all know all ancient Greeks were people of color, just like Cleopatra.
104.
by ctrw 3y ago
Qwerty has ` and ', but for some reason we've decided that '' isn't " and " is the one true quotation symbol.
105.
by ctrw 3y ago
So are most papers.
106.
by ctrw 3y ago
Why do we need textbooks if they are just plagaries of the original papers anyway?
107.
by ctrw 3y ago
Nvidia has a monopoly on Cuda. If they decided to sell cards for x10 what they are now no one will have a choice but to pay up for the next year.
108.
by ctrw 3y ago
There are a lot more sites than that when you throw in personal blogs. The issue is that those are now impossible to find.
109.
by ctrw 3y ago
Reddit was the more popular hn replacement. Twitter has too weird a form factor to ever allow the possibly of anything but hot takes.
110.
by ctrw 3y ago
It's cute that you think this wasn't a sign of the smaller West being integrated into the larger Communist Chinese world.
111.
by ctrw 3y ago
I've found that the people who want to exclude others kill communities just as well as those who spam them. The more virtuous they want to feel the worse the problem.
112.
by ctrw 3y ago
Anyone who still talks about hallucinations today hasn't used a paid service in the last 6 months.
113.
by ctrw 3y ago
LLMs and generative AI are on par with the spreadsheet for impact on office work. It's just that most people who be obsolete are in denial, again.
114.
by ctrw 3y ago
That is type inference actually.
115.
by ctrw 3y ago
So your solution to having too many () is to have just as many {}. I'm not complaining but...
116.
by ctrw 3y ago
Women get paid 70% of what men do. So any woman who wants to be paid the same as a man has a poor understand of economics.
117.
by ctrw 3y ago
People are living past 30 with startling regularity, when you realize that for most of human history that wasn't the case. Cancers were one a very long list of things that could kill you and no where near the top.
118.
by ctrw 3y ago
That is not how being anti-competitive works.
119.
by ctrw 3y ago
It's not a theory it's literally why two projects I was on used snowflake in aws.
120.
by ctrw 3y ago
I would be leaking all social graph data and all voting data to each person using the service. So it's a no go from the start.

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