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by fooker 2mo ago
It's literally a nonsense idea ;) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
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by fooker 2mo ago
The reason is that these edge cases often expose where the current models can break down. If the current accepted theory is predicting negative mass or infinite mass, it doesn't really mean that a physicist deeply believes we are going
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by fooker 2mo ago
This is how language works, things mean what people using language want it to mean. Not the more precise version you want it to mean.
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by fooker 2mo ago
I think this indicates we are eventually going to stumble upon much more efficient ‘intelligence’. Probably not through what we call distillation now. There’s some magical technique hiding there, go find it!
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by fooker 2mo ago
> By and large China is not malicious and really just wants peace China can and will sabotage western economies at every possible opportunity.
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by fooker 2mo ago
> Manufacturing is still declining Do you have evidence for this?
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by fooker 2mo ago
This sort of nonsense has to be intentional. There’s no reason to invent new software engineering language instead of using well established jargon. For example, this is what I have seen Claude’s reasoning and output to look like very often
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by fooker 2mo ago
One can draw opinions from first principles reasoning sure. Conclusions, no. Especially if the data does not agree with your reasoning. Which is almost always the case for unknown unknowns. What first principles reasoning (by experts on a t
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by fooker 2mo ago
The floating point expressions needed to represent the math library functions with decent precision and performance becomes significantly more weird and complex with turns. Please stick to radians.
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by fooker 2mo ago
Your analogy is great. What happens when it's the cats who get to decide what's published? Not an ideal scenario, but that's exactly the situation here. Mathematicians decide what gets reviewed and published in a a top journa
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by fooker 2mo ago
If you are making a decision to spend 50B on hardware, would you use the proven tech stack or rely on engineers taking an unspecified amount of time vibecoding your software stack while the hardware sits idle? How about in a month or so whe
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by fooker 2mo ago
We'd need analog solutions for this simulations, and slowly these solutions will start to resemble biology in a dystopian way.
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by fooker 2mo ago
> bunch of matrices multiplications What these matrix multiplications are doing is approximately solving pretty high order differential equations. The approximation is not very analog, sure. But neither is nature.
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by fooker 2mo ago
What you said is not wrong, but also is completely unrelated to what I said. > "bank is not using somebody elses money" Did I say the bank was using someone else's money?
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by fooker 2mo ago
I wonder if we'll eventually find that Darwin style evolution gets us close to the global optima of intelligence given constraints like size and energy. We don't really have the tools to reason about this stuff yet. Exciting times
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by fooker 2mo ago
Your claim was about frontier intelligence and midrange consumer GPUs. That's a pretty specific constraint. Sure, there could be some point between a midrange consumer GPU and a pocket calculator where you can't fit enough 'i
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by fooker 2mo ago
You're right. This is more like a real estate cash grab. I'd guess that it'll only get more and more difficult to obtain permits to do this in future. And expensive. Similar to how if you want to buy land and build a house, i
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by fooker 2mo ago
Car manufacturers, famously, have a pretty decent fraction of their revenue coming from their financing subsidiaries. > I am vetted for my ability to pay the loan Exactly! Now see the article we are commenting on. Nvidia reduced the loan
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by fooker 2mo ago
I'm a little bit disappointed that vision seems to fall before language at scale. It seems pretty counter intuitive that we can't do vision significantly better with specialized techniques.
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by fooker 2mo ago
H100, almost a five year old GPU, costs more to buy used now than it was to buy brand new at release. Of course, everything has a lifespan. Consider a simple arithmetic problem, and this mania will start making sense. An H100 costs approxim
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by fooker 2mo ago
Our currently accepted models of macroeconomics are based on exactly the opposite assumption - that scale reduces issues. It could be wrong, sure. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. For what it's worth, I agree wi
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by fooker 2mo ago
Great you brought that up, if you look at Apple's website you can now 'lease' a MacBook for 30-60$ per month :)
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by fooker 2mo ago
It's a problem when there's 10x leverage AND the underlying asset massively deprecates in value. Neither of those look likely yet.
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by fooker 2mo ago
It was not a "prove it" challenge. I'm pointing out that there's no known information theoretic constraint about the impossibility of frontier AI models being improved to fit/run on a small GPU. Please do not make u
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by fooker 2mo ago
Again, this is how all of economics works. A Toyota dealership arranges a loan for you. Through a bank for a used vehicle, sometimes through Toyota itself for new cars. A house builder will routinely take on part of the loan providing burde
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by fooker 2mo ago
There's no information theoretic constraint we know of that prevents this. You will almost surely win a Turing award if you can prove this. It's almost a given that whatever is frontier intelligence today will run on a potato in a
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by fooker 2mo ago
> on an RTX 5070 RTX 5070 prices go up ~N times. Nvidia makes more money because it's easier to make these things than it's to make a GB300.
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by fooker 2mo ago
All economics is circular financing, that's how it works. You pay Apple for a MacBook, Apple uses it to develop a better MacBook. What goes wrong is leverage. We haven't seen much hint of the 10x leverage kind of deals that brough
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by fooker 2mo ago
You don't, at least traditionally in math research. This will almost surely change with AI.
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by fooker 2mo ago
Just in case people didn't know - Flock is a YC company

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