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by hgoel 4mo ago
Yes, I think Intel did offer that, but I recall hearing their software wasn't very good.
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by hgoel 4mo ago
It's pretty crazy that we have this entire segment of features that companies artificially restrict from the average person and overinflate the price of, for no real reason. GPU virtualization is another example of such a feature. The
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Admittedly I have had the luck of a very good PI, and then a very good lab to work at. Some of my coworkers have shared some of those horror stories from previous positions, PIs insisting on primary authorship, making students do work for p
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Putting aside all the other things I could point out, my field is one where all the major players are roughly on par. Also, this isn't about making yet another DB SaaS, it's research. AI can only help make it possible to do more t
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Versus the next obvious trap after Iran that dear leader stumbles into? The China fearmongering doesn't really work in this case, our own government wants the ability to lie to and manipulate us about everything continuously .
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by hgoel 4mo ago
I don't really think they're acting on a grudge against Anthropic here, I think it really is on Anthropic for describing the model's capabilities the way that they did. IIRC Anthropic claimed to have been working with the gov
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Last year, the mood in my field, that has been relatively isolated from many of these impacts, was still very "these are uncomfortable times, but it's still possible to pull through". Recently, you can cut the tension in a ro
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Why should that mean that Americans should prefer that TikTok restrict narratives unfavoraroble to American oligarchs?
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Fair point. I'm very close to just running a cord over or devising a way to put my machine closer to a second circuit because my rental is horribly setup and both my bedroom AC and living room desktop (that also doubles as a ML trainin
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Chaining two PSUs on separate circuits is also an option. If they're using the MaxQ versions though, the total GPU power draw is only ~1200W. The bigger question to me is how are they cooling it? Sticking an AC in that room just double
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by hgoel 4mo ago
They only did it because it lets them beat the "big pharma is stealing from you (not us)" drum.
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by hgoel 4mo ago
It's all such a self-defeating ideology, they think the government isn't doing a good enough job, so they lobby to make it impossible for them to do a good job and then pretend that it proves their point.
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by hgoel 4mo ago
$3k isn't getting you frontier model capability. It's barely getting you any capability if that's split into buying an entire PC rather than just GPUs.
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by hgoel 4mo ago
So, first you suggest that anyone that won't show loyalty to the US should be excluded, then when it is explained to you that people fear that no amount of loyalty will be enough, you accuse me of being a Chinese bot and anti-America?
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by hgoel 4mo ago
They're not loyal to the country because the country has a history of not respecting people's loyalty. It isn't about the money, it's about how Americans continue to demonize immigrants and have a tendency of treating pe
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by hgoel 4mo ago
And, if their best talent is anything like the other "leader in their field" people I know, they aren't particularly interested in becoming American citizens.
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by hgoel 4mo ago
The thought that this would also destabilize the AI bubble did come to mind, but the current government loves to crash the market on Fridays, only to backpeddle on Mondays. A related thought though, the AI boom is predicated on the idea tha
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Yeah, I'm expecting that Opus 4.8/5.5 tier will be the best models we have access to without having to provide more ID than just credit card info. If that happens, it'll end my brief stint of paying for these models instead o
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by hgoel 4mo ago
With how much foreign talent is involved in the tech world?
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by hgoel 4mo ago
But no matter how conservative they make the anti-jailbreaking, the risk doesn't go away. There are so many logic "holes" that are ambiguous and can blur the line between a jailbreak and legitimate use. If every time a jailbr
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Well, there go any such claims of dangerousness in future models, regardless of if they are true or false. No one's going to risk building anything important on these models if the government will randomly order the use of the model to
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by hgoel 4mo ago
Those are their stated ideals and not at all what they're practicing.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
This is conflating hard with unpleasant. A child just learning to read is going to find it hard to do, yet through adults pushing them to do the hard thing, they learn to read and sometimes begin to find it to be pleasurable. Building most
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Reading/writing is a much more dense and navigable way of taking in and recording information than speech. Efficient use of AI requires being very good at reading quickly and having the comprehension skills to pick up on nuances that s
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Yes, that was in part why they've had such a terrible history with GPU support. They lost me as a customer when they rushed dropping support for the Radeon VII because of the need to ship binaries for every ISA, and didn't deliver
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by hgoel 5mo ago
What exactly would you call understanding? It's a correlation matrix of concepts.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
HIP tries to be like this, almost API compatible with CUDA such that you just need to do find and replace. I think they even had a script to do this for you. But the issue remains that the actual support and debugging tools remain so atroci
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I thought that was still human-in-the-loop? The drone's onboard computing identifies a potential target from a distance such that EW isn't effective, the human confirms it, and the drone moves in closer to attack. At this point ja
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Ah so that's why the GitHub Pull Requests extension is repeatedly harassing me about needing to log in again...
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Brave has built-in blocking, it's literally one of their main selling points.

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