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by fooker 3mo ago
> that's independent of whether business models and broader economy is going to explode. It's independent of the former, but not the later. That is my point. Businesses and business models fail all the time, does not mean the &
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by fooker 3mo ago
False equivalence, the writing is always closely related to what you are thinking about. The unicycle and FizzBuzz is (hopefully!!) not related. A better scenario with FizzBuzz would maybe be writing down a sequence of numbers at the same t
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by fooker 3mo ago
It's not the exact same bet, but it rhymes. It worked out for Uber, they are wildly profitable now after spending a decade losing money. Also worked out as Amazon managed to outlast all the dotcom era e-commerce competitors while being
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by fooker 3mo ago
You're making a classic philosophical error here by accidentally anthropomorphizing companies :) A company losing out on a risky bet and failing, letting a new upstart rise up is pretty natural. A large fraction of experts from the fai
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by fooker 3mo ago
Because there's no supply, data centers with these GPUs are running reasonably well.
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by fooker 3mo ago
Economies of scale. You need a cluster of 8-12 H100s to run the largest models locally. It doesn't make sense to run these locally yet unless your use case also involves making it available for several dozen concurrent users.
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by fooker 3mo ago
Of serving a (approximately) gpt4 sized model.
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by fooker 3mo ago
H100 is nearing five years and costs more to buy a used one now than a new one when it was released :) You are completely missing the bet these companies are making. They think can outlast their competitors and capture a larger portion of t
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by fooker 3mo ago
IMO this ruling will be the inflection point that kills either the book publishing industry or the US big model frontier lab industry. It's trendy to say it'll be the later, but I see a credible case for the former. I see no reaso
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by fooker 3mo ago
Hah this article is from April. I'm sure the number has only gone up.
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by fooker 3mo ago
Saying things colloquially gives everyone an intuition about it. You'd think intuition is great, but no, about half of the important things are counter intuitive. That makes intuitive thinking about complex technical topics you don&#x2
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by fooker 3mo ago
Any implications for discrete/integer optimization?
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by fooker 3mo ago
You're missing out on 37 different unrelated things being named copilot.
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by fooker 3mo ago
They have a pretty seamless workaround nowadays. Build the data centers in middle eastern and other asian countries. Access it remotely. There's no real way to restrict this without turning the internet into a draconian locked down she
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by fooker 3mo ago
The intersection of software developers and people who like audio interfaces for controlling computers has to be pretty small! I don't want to hear my voice all day, nor my coworkers. You know who does? Designers, product managers, and
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by fooker 3mo ago
AI is no match for rapidly shifting goalposts ;)
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by fooker 3mo ago
Great, now use some functions. From the library or your own, and see this complexity become manageable. That's what abstraction is about.
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by fooker 4mo ago
> Why supply underspecified requirements in the first place? Because you'd not want to forever loop outside your home when asked to "while you're out, grab some eggs" :)
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by fooker 4mo ago
It's not a 'general sentiment' or tangent though, it's specifically THE technology that has the potential to make privacy nonexistent. Funded by the company that in the recent past, got exposed trying to track employees
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by fooker 4mo ago
Not sure if I'm out of touch, but this looks like such a minor difference in cost that I'd expect people to not even take cost into consideration while making the EV vs gas decision. Factors like the (perceived) environment friend
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by fooker 4mo ago
@dang How is this offtopic? Meta has shown remarkable disregard to users' and employees' privacy. Why should that not come up when discussing an entirely new dystopian technology that allows them to invade privacy at scale?
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by fooker 4mo ago
Coming soon to a Meta office near you: brain-scanning to make sure employees are focused, happy, and productive! There are no layoffs in Ba Sing Se.
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by fooker 4mo ago
> some future technology that doesn’t exist yet This is not usually how technology progression works when you see it play out. More likely, it would be something like a 2% more efficient refrigerator. These advances stack up for a hundre
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by fooker 4mo ago
We can't define consciousness well enough to make claims like this.
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by fooker 4mo ago
I wonder if we are finding structure here because we are looking for structure. Similar how you can find human faces in random pixels or rocks.
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by fooker 4mo ago
The negative long term effects are unlikely to be worse than the negative long term effects of obesity.
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by fooker 4mo ago
Windows API and ABI has always been more portable than anything else. This is why Microsoft is a tech giant. You can take a windows binary from 1995 (actually even older) and run it reliably today. If it doesn't run and you are a comme
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by fooker 4mo ago
Well, be prepared to be extraordinarily surprised. Most games are tested on a steam deck nowadays.
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by fooker 4mo ago
It's funny to see the downvotes here. Maybe people don't realize that this is very much within the capabilities of modern AI nowadays? At $dayjob we have encountered people reverse engineering our driver with Claude and creating G
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by fooker 4mo ago
> offers no benefits over non-humanoid factory machines. The value proposition is being able to fit in and navigate spaces built for humans without complete overhauls. Stuff like small elevators, workbenches, server racks, etc. > func

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