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by dachworker 1y ago
I mean, trivially true, if you consider that AI-enhanced programming requires 1000% more code written, deleted and rewritten, countless times, by AI itself in it's feeble attempt to "reason" about the problem.
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by dachworker 1y ago
I agree with you that tech stocks are overvalued. However, there is no free cake that I can think of. You can invest in bonds but in the short to medium term they under perform compared to equities by a lot. And most industries have their
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by dachworker 1y ago
Actually you must be thinking of the most reputable banks. Because most of them will absolutely try to fleece their older customer demographic by trying to make them invest in high expense funds that perform terribly. For them to advice you
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by dachworker 1y ago
NVIDIA put a lot of effort into making their hardware and accompanying software useful and usable. CUDA by itself might have never got any attention if not for the effort that NVIDIA puts into helping their customers use their technology, e
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by dachworker 1y ago
Maybe they also do that, but I work with a class of problems* that no other model has managed to crack, except for R1 and that is still the case today. Remember that DeepSeek is the offshoot of a hedge fund that was already using machine le
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by dachworker 1y ago
The "I trained a trillion parameter model" club is a very small club.
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by dachworker 1y ago
I'm not at all familiar with this whole field, but why would you publish a trading strategy if it has potential? Why not sell it to a hedgefund, at least? Or is this research formally publishing what industry is already doing?
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by dachworker 1y ago
No expat means expat and immigrant means immigrant. Immigrant implies that the intention is to settle in the host country, whereas expat implies that the reason for staying is temporary and hence the intention is not to stay permanently. Fo
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by dachworker 1y ago
Regulation is a complete red herring. The reason the EU cannot compete in tech, is because its market is way too tight with the US market. Any founder has a choice (if you can raise this insane level of seed capital you have the choice). Th
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by dachworker 1y ago
Politically, we need economic growth. It is what made us "civilized". Before we had ample economic growth, the human ambition to get more wealth and power used to mean, to go to war and take all that your neighbour has. And peopl
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by dachworker 1y ago
The job is too niche. This means there are very few employers worldwide that can make use of your experience. That actually puts downwards pressure on your salary (the employer is a quasi monopsony), not to mention that you are tied to a fe
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by dachworker 1y ago
The whole hype about AI safety is to some extent a shrewd marketing ploy. It's the whole, friends holding back their buddy who is amped up and ready to start throwing punches, act. That is not to say that Hinton, Sutskever and others a
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by dachworker 2y ago
It's a matter of degree. The average Joe cares about privacy and tech sovereignty too, but not to the extent that he would sign off a platform where the rest of his friends are.
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by dachworker 2y ago
"Progressive" is not how I would describe it.
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by dachworker 2y ago
I don't think people care AT ALL about FOSS, however, they do care somewhat about privacy and sovereignty. But at the end of the day, they need to have the network of people they care about already on the platform and they need a smoot
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by dachworker 2y ago
Because he is backed by a bunch of billionaires and everyone is trying to figure out why they are shooting themselves in the foot.
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by dachworker 2y ago
There is nothing wrong with protectionist measures per se. These tariffs are just not set in reality. They demand the impossible, based on false premises. This won't happen. Therefore an economic recession will unfold.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Two things. 1. The tariffs have not yet been felt. This is all projection. Once people feel the tariffs things are going to get much worse. 2. China has already retaliated. EU will announce retaliatory tariffs next week. Trump is likely to
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by dachworker 2y ago
More informative than the article: https://xcancel.com/blelbach/status/1902113767066103949 cuTile seems to be the NVIDIA answer to OpenAI Triton.
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by dachworker 2y ago
You are free to come to Germany. Pretty sure you can get a VISA to do an Ausbildung at the end of which you will be working in some factory or another. Getting a German VISA is much easier than getting an American VISA and Germany is active
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by dachworker 2y ago
OK, let's put it this way. You would struggle to buy a house if you worked at VW assembling cars. You would be able to rent an apartment and have a relatively good if modest existence. Nothing close to what Americans are able to afford
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by dachworker 2y ago
Americans should study Germany and Japan. Do their economies look healthy? Are those manufacturing jobs attractive? Are the Germans and the Japanese richer? Do Germany and Japan have good economic prospects? I'll spare you the research
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by dachworker 2y ago
The "how" is completely missing, but if they can get this to work semi reliably it will be ChatGPT x100 in terms of impact.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Another possible reason might be outreach. NVIDIA spends big money on getting people to use their products. I have worked at two HPC centers and at both we had NVIDIA employees stationed there, whose job it was to help us get the most out o
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by dachworker 2y ago
I do not think we have enough historical evidence for such an extrapolation. Human societies have been getting more and more complex, necessitating more and more complex governance. We are at a point of crisis, where the electorate is suppo
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by dachworker 2y ago
What strikes me is how much of these current geopolitical events are driven by singular individuals whose current inclinations were shaped by their very arbitrary past encounters. For example, if you take the current US administration'
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by dachworker 2y ago
I think people are being a bit too negative and maybe that is because they are not used to pg's style of slogans in baby talk. I think the gist of what pg is saying is that you should have some agency and initiative and not spend your
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by dachworker 2y ago
There is a weird attitude among European elites where on the one hand, they point out how European countries have always been in a subservient position within the American sphere of influence, but then, instead of cheering that this era is
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by dachworker 2y ago
Bankruptcy law is a big one. Another big one is the reputation hit that you are going to incur if your startup fails. Europe does not believe in learning through failure. It is puzzling to a European, that there could be serial entrepreneur
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by dachworker 2y ago
I don't think there is any connection between lack of VC capital and whatever "social democracy" you have in mind. I think it is actually just culture. Europeans are risk averse, pessimistic and cynical. And society is still

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