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by kurthr 2mo ago
But why does the high density housing have to be where the SFH are? Why does it need to share the parking, facilities, retail, roads, schools, etc. of something that was built and has been maintained and evolved for 50-100 years? Why not bu
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by kurthr 2mo ago
I'll note CoreWeave didn't commission the very first Blackwells until ~Jan 2025 so it hasn't been very long for RMAs. Furthermore, for training even when the NVL backplane can use the remaining GPUs a ~20% drop in performance
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Since the current NVL72 are still at the ~15%/yr failure rate it's not clear your new data center is going to have half it's compute in 3 years. If you're still running H100s they draw >10x kWh/Mtoken as new desi
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by kurthr 2mo ago
The metal masked ROM is basically only 2 metal/contact layers. It's not a full new design and tapeout. You could roll a new set of parameters every ~2-3months. It's not an architectural change. See statements below. https:&#
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Contractors are commonly net30/net60/net90 or paid on completion and inspection of work done. This isn't a union job with biweekly paychecks.
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Yet strangely, we imprison people based on their intent all the time. For years a woman ran around in traffic and was killed by a car to protect her from the state. Nothing could be done? She had to die? https://www.sfchronicle.c
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by kurthr 2mo ago
He didn't didn't want to be the SECOND person squatting with boots!
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by kurthr 2mo ago
There is an oral PCSK9 treatment (enlicitide) was recently released that provides a 30% reduction, and of course you can't get insurance coverage without the test. And there are 2 drugs with 90%+ reduction in Lp(a) in phase3 trials wit
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Yeah, (Optane) 3D XPoint from Micron would have a decent density speed trade-off. I don't know whether it makes the margin they can get from RAM though. Or whether CiM for masked ROM with a 3mo wait for parameter update (and much lower
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by kurthr 2mo ago
They must each have 20mm customers paying $10 a month to have 50% margins in profit. Or are they just VC funded? Are there 100 of them? That would be 2 billion customers.
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by kurthr 2mo ago
So thinking this through to come up with your numbers, total investment through 2027 is ~$2T and interest on debt is over 7%, which makes servicing this ~$140B/yr. However, failure rates on H100-B300 installed HW have been over 12%&#x2
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Yes, but that is the point we don't anthropomorphize stochastic outputs even when they are dangerous. Obligatory quote: "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you
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by kurthr 2mo ago
It does give you the option to change cards when you double tap, before you pay. But I think the real reason is that people would walk around with card readers and scan peoples watches to collect cash. I can only guess it doesn't happe
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by kurthr 2mo ago
You know the other killer feature of the Apple Watch? Find my phone! See someone with an Apple Watch on frantically looking for something, just say "Hey you know your watch knows where it is". Just press the button, DING.
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by kurthr 2mo ago
I've read a lot of these, but many that I've never considered masterworks. I mean, I'm a Dick head, but that's a lot of representation on the list.
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by kurthr 2mo ago
What's really interesting is that if you scale it to higher densities (eg 3nm and stacked die) with ComputeInMemory for fp8 you can reasonably start to fit 30B-70B models. With MoE and multiple stacked die, just like HBM, you could fit
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Good food, good meat, good god, let's eat!
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by kurthr 2mo ago
What do you consider complex? This might do basic anatomy, or maybe the ~200 bones in the skeletal system, but would you even cover the circulatory system this way? I sure wouldn't try to do liver function with all the feedback systems
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by kurthr 2mo ago
I am greatly disturbed by the idea that any of the demonstrations involve "complex topics". Whether it was the silicon workflow, LLMs, or EUV, I saw nothing complex. Are these supposed to be freshman undergrad or even high school
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by kurthr 2mo ago
In the US deaths peaked at >450k in 2021 and then fell <80k in 2023. They have roughly halved each year since (on track for ~10k this year. There are about 30-40k deaths each year due to influenza so this isn't really news any mo
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Who solved FLT.
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Crime is legal (if you're in the right group).
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by kurthr 2mo ago
It's only a fraction of the effect (and of course there was also over financialization), but 20% of the US population was farm labor in the 20s, that fell substantially (and there was the dust bowl) up through the 40s as tractors repla
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by kurthr 2mo ago
I worked on the early iPod scroll wheel, before there were advertisements for it and it was in common use. I found the UI interaction odd and unintuitive, particularly the "menu" button and the dead end you hit when "playing&
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by kurthr 2mo ago
Yes, I set a calendar notification then. Don't mind the dup, though.
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by kurthr 2mo ago
The solution to pollution is dilution. It might not always be true, but it is here.
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Longer to write and generally a numerical rather than symbolic representation.
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Yeah, bra-ket is arbitrary tensors (inner and outer multiplication) rather than the nice 4D of space-time (with derivatives). I will say that seeing transformers written this way gives me a bit more intuition for what is going on (being abl
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by kurthr 3mo ago
bra-ket is the (most?) general form of tensor manipulation. Raising and lowering operators for summation notation are the beginner tools for covariant derivatives of the metric tensor. Christoffel symbols are where it's at, if you need
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by kurthr 3mo ago
Yeah, came here to say this. There are a lot of things that will affect efficiency and how clean your panels are is only one of them. How dirty your panels get is also highly sensitive to both location and installation. All of this gets hor

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