georgeburdell

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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
I have two elementary school aged children and I never would have imagined they’d be into the same things as I was at almost the same age, namely the subject of this article. My childhood had nothing in common with my own parents’. My Dad
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Yes, it’s a bit frightening to know what a hidden dependency NIST is on many things. In my industry, all calibrations ultimately derive from physical NIST standards for resistance, frequency, etc.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Facebook IPOd in 2012, after it was already used by hundreds of millions of people, and after it bought Instagram
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
That says little. Those providers could also be losing money trying to gain marketshare. There is a high amount of speculation in the space and it won’t be apparent for awhile who has a lasting business.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
With the serious lapses in governance being made by founders with these special shares, such as Musk and Zuckerberg, I wonder if the shares without these special rights will be substantially discounted. What rights do these other sharehold
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
There is no way Deepseek is making money even on inference
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
No, it’s consistent with what China is doing in other markets, which is dumping product to drive others out of business. I had a shower thought on how to counteract this, specifically related to the AI dumping. If China is losing substanti
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
In my experience, management is mostly pissing away the gains made by AI by either: 1. Pursuing polish and quality beyond previous norms 2. Replacing $100/mo/seat SAAS with something coded by a junior costing $200/day to de
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Seems like the booster landing burn did not light all the engines and so it crashed into the water.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Hey just wanted to say I think this fills an extremely common niche in the corporate world. There are a couple of teams at my company who switched to some variant of fancy html/javascript and away from either cloud or desktop copies o
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
With Chinese models undercutting on price, I feel like they are pretty much forced to do this to reduce the cost to users.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Stanford researchers studied the second assertion and found no change https://ed.stanford.edu/news/national-study-school-cell-phon...
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Maybe your kids. In my corner of the country, parents are actively demanding that schools back off computer usage, much less AI
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Yes, this is the story I see playing out at my employer. Software is cheap, but the know-how to host and be accountable for uptime still keeps the actual deployments consolidated among a few groups. But yes, there are a bunch of productiv
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Wasn't one of the original intents of the transformer architecture to get rid of RNN because they cannot be parallelized? Not an expert, just read a few papers several years ago.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Exactly. “Involution” will be the 2027 (if not 2026) word of the year.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
I don’t think OP made much effort to make the comment accessible to non-experts, and so it should be taken as a gauge of the fundamental difficulty of the topic.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Is that not analogous to putting up a facetuned image on a dating profile?
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Qwen will have an aneurysm if you ask that exact question. Don’t know about others as I don’t have access to them at work
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
One day in early June you’re going to need to parse an error log, and when you ask a Chinese LLM “What happened on June 4?” it will respond “absolutely nothing”
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
The Chinese are not employing some grand tactic, it’s just an extension of their cultural tendency of involution
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
I too give juniors the advice to crack open $textbook. It’s just painful to see the complex things they’ve created with horrible performance and no cohesive data model because they don’t have the requisite academic foundation to hand code
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
I’m a semiconductor expert and without seeing the details, this seems like yet another smoke and mirrors wunderkind startup that will disperse once practical considerations are made. As far as I know, Mr. Zeloof has not made any fundamenta
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
I’m with you. I shoot off small fireworks for my kids and my immediate neighbor on our quiet street, and we have a neighbor a few doors down who invariably calls the cops. This has been going on since the 2000s when she moved in. If I’m
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
SoMa Costco has the parking under the store. It’s just economics. On the other end of the spectrum, the notorious (in the Bay Area) Sunnyvale Costco actually demolished a nearby restaurant just to expand the parking lot.
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Yeah I actually avoid AI on my own time to keep my skills sharp. I do not like using LLMs but I do realize it’s a necessary tool for my dayjob. At home, I do make an exception if I have to Google an API example but I transcribe by hand ra
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by georgeburdell 3mo ago
Anecdotally it's true for me. I can code all day with an agent and never went above $50, but the second I need to ingest a pdf doc to figure out a command I need to use it's easily $20-30 for 10 mins of work
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
This is $currentyear. Jobs are 10 years tops
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
I work in a related field and “inverse” design is what this is called. Such designs usually are not manufacturable. I’m not too worried about my iob. That said we’ve had some success internally having Claude do parameter sweeps
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by georgeburdell 4mo ago
Tell me where I said they didn’t have fabs

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