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by jmalicki 3mo ago
> We will figure out what we want to build later. Once the automator automates itself fast enough, we won't have the ability to opine what gets built. The LLM will decide. Just like right now sometimes LLMs delete tests so they pa
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
> If you call FIOS the "bare minimum", what is an acceptable connection to you? Sonic in the Bay Area. An old mom-and-pop ISP that just never sold out but kept growing organically, that now has a large share of the Bay Area fi
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
There was a case of a climber (David Sharp) that was having issues and found shelter in the vicinity of green boots, and the theory was that part of why he died is that the 40 climbers who passed by him without stopping just assumed he was
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
> without creating a huge rift between a big population and years of literature, material etc etc Sometimes, that is the point.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
You are really making me want to move! I've been to Franklin BBQ, but am happy to settle for Rudy's for shorter lines. But if I can get that quality at the grocery store? That changes the equation.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
It's not a scientific experiment if you don't have some form of control, just an observational study. The lack of training physicians get in the scientific method is probably one of the biggest things holding humans back today.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
> I think one of the best things about the new HEBs is the attached BBQ store. Not a Texan, just visited occasionally. This sentence more than anything has just made me want to become a Texan. I did not know this was a thing, but that s
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
I love the counterfactual approach, thank you!!! I've done plenty of this in pure math and stats, but this is the first time I've seen it applied to physics, and I love it! Thank you! If I saw your derivation when I was 18 years o
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
> our velocity has only gone up That is super curious - using more low quality cheaper models increased your velocity? My prior would have been slightly reduced velocity but massive reduction in token costs made it worthwhile. Is that d
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
Extrapolating the progress in both hardware and model efficiency, that will take decades
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
> with no noticeable differences in quality or velocity. Have you done any A/B tests on this with evidence? (That's one thing I'd be very interested to see for claims like this - I'm not necessarily doubting you, it
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
For $400/mo I can run multiple continuous sessions of frontier models.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
I find that with a lot of the cheaper models, I end up spending a lot more time correcting the easy stuff. If I am 100% spot on on the architectural stuff, I have anecdata that some of the frontier models might actually be cheaper than &quo
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
I practice medicine everytime I take a Tylenol then. Am I guilty of a felony for not having a license? Practicing law and the practice of applying legal regulations are quite different, just as practicing science and the practice of
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
I've been in a startup that was operating at ~breakeven and did layoffs to actually be profitable, and at ~10 years in the VCs forced an acquihire since they wanted out.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
EDIT: I was completely wrong, I have mostly worked with GGUF and related quantizations that are LUTs, thank you for correcting me.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
While the GP might be technically wrong in a narrow sense, GPUs are built for FP, and that's what you want to be doing if you're using them as accelerators.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
An MD does not practice science. Science is a process of discovering new knowledge through experiments. An MD is much more akin to an engineer that applies scientific knowledge (and yes, some proportion of both MDs and engineers do create
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
> water usage, a small data center, and a swimming pool Swimming pool? The cooling can be for a hot tub!
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
There is a larger question of "do I need a frontier model for this" - knowing the cost/benefit tradeoff using frontier vs. e.g. local models is extremely valuable and takes skill to do!
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
You can teach a dog to drive a car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
Banks are the inversion where a Director is higher than a VP! An ED w/o reports is actually moderately impressive though!
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
One can be a VP of 0 people. Look into what the title means at banks!
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
Sure, but Meta is developing AI for its own use. That it doesn't have external customers is irrelevant when you look at the total use of its models.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
Journalism is not my field, so I can't deeply judge how effective the reviews are. In software, the reviews for generating things that only exist as training data are far more rigorous than anything I've seen for things going into
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
Meta at least is an AI giant just from its internal use. Even if Alphabet didn't have Gemini, it would also be a giant from its internal use.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
It was something that took me 8 hours of very hard intellectual work. It was, like some of the higher level contracts, something where I had to create a training example for AI out of whole cloth and prove it was roughly at the boundary of
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
That's where the review process comes in. I've found the review process for these things to be far more vicious and demanding than in the real world.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
I cannot give examples. For the more interesting contracts, I create examples from whole cloth.
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by jmalicki 4mo ago
Eh, maybe 20% of my ML career earnings has been showing that active learning works out. shrug

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