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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> they’ll keep being used How? I get that many devs like using them for writing code. Personally I don't, but maybe someday someone will invent a UX for this that I don't despise, and I could be convinced. So what? That's
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Wait, what? The Manhattan project produced something --multiple somethings in fact. What has this "project" produced?
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Interesting. There's obviously been a precipitous drop in the sticker price, but has there really been a concomitant efficiency increase? It's hard to believe the sticker price these companies are charging has anything to do with
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Ah got it, that's more sensible. So is anyone making money with these things yet?
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I'm worried with a slowing housing market (demand is at a 5yr low) there could be a perfect storm of major market crash coupled with plummeting home values.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Google solved a real problem. They indexed the web and made search work, and they did it very cheaply. So cheaply, in fact, that they could give their service away to users and monetize it with ads. LLMs are not like this. They're both
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> Cost as in, cost to you? Or cost to serve? This. IIUC to serve an LLM is to perform an O(n^2) computation on the model weights for every single character of user input. These models are 40+GB so that means I need to provision about 40G
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Or just open it up to the entire Internet [1]. [1] https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/the-doge-website-is-s...
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> Lynch would author the look of Dune. This is so true. The recent films and the spinoff series all look like his Dune.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Not wasteful at all when compared to the cost of "conventional" munitions.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Correct. It's Web 3.0 2.0. You're supposed to play along to make the stock prices go up and to the right.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The American problem, speaking as an American, is the Americans. Their brains are incredibly smooth, and therefore they fear almost nothing. Famine? War? Environmental catastrophe? Societal collapse? Nah. The only thing they fear at all is
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
In that scenario civilian aircraft are all grounded.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Yeah I deleted that when I realized my misinterpretation. I was thrown by two different styles of notation in the same post.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Higher probability of success. With 1 shaving it could make it to an oil filter without lodging anywhere critical (like in a main bearing oil gallery or something). With a huge number of them the likelihood of clogging oil galleries and ove
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
1 shaving is enough to do catastrophic damage. Bigger engines don't have bigger clearances ;)
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
A trash can of metal shavings is mostly filled with air.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I assure you it isn't. I've lifted them many times. I'd say 75-100lbs is normal, depending on the distribution of metals (obviously steel is heavier than aluminum for example).
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
IME they're really not all that dense. When chips come off a lathe or mill cutter they are curled and have small serrations in them where the sharp edge cracked as it was curling. So they don't pack well. Each chip takes up a larg
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> German police were investigating an incident at a Hamburg shipyard where several dozen kilograms of metal shavings were dumped into a corvette-class vessel's engine system. Italics mine, and holy crap that's a lot of metal
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The DNA idea and the LLM idea are separate things. The DNA idea is about controlling people. The LLM idea is about hyping an insanely computationally intensive technology with tons of hype and generalized excitement but few (no?) successful
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Empathizing with someone who routinely demonstrates they have no empathy is a dead end road.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
That sounds fine by me. Hiring people is work. Managing people is work. It's a fine thing to do if they pay me and I need the money, but I certainly wouldn't seek that out if I didn't have to. I don't suspect many others
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I mean I figured that was a given.. Obviously help the people in your life (and not in your life to the extent possible).. But you should already be doing it anyway wealth or not. I just meant that if I didn't have to work for money an
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I believe the same problem is present in software. The same things that make "physical" tools good are what make computer tools good. If you don't have any experience using physical tools, you won't be easily able to app
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
"Only" is doing a lot of work there. Life is "only" hedonism for billionaires too--it's just that the things they enjoy are all about controlling other people.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
With a guaranteed salary of $300k/yr and unlimited free time I could do whatever the fuck I want. I'd plant a garden, brew beer, work on fun home/shop automation projects, build cool car stuff. All while being paid handsomely
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I was imagining high speed 4 wheel drifting and momentum preserving gymkhana turns.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It can be both things. If you can grift and scam your way to a totalitarian utopia why not?
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
If I was worth half a ten thousandth of that you'd never hear from me again, and I'd be living it up on the $600+k/yr my $10M pays me to do nothing. Put another way, what kind of a sicko keeps going and amasses 20000x &quot

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