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by lumost 3y ago
I'm using a simplistic and quantifiable measure of wealth - capital assets. I'd also admit to using a short-hand of wealthy people as equal to billionaires. I don't see the purpose in comparing billionaires quantifiable wealt
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by lumost 3y ago
The definition of "Earn" is what most genuine observers would debate. By definition, any interest/dividend bearing asset is a claim on a portion of societal output. As the majority of wealth in the US is now inherited, a rati
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by lumost 3y ago
I believe that these issues were handled by retainers historically. You would employ someone, then that persons children and so on. Thus some knowledge of these problems was built-up over time. Unfortunately, if wealth inequality continues
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by lumost 3y ago
Other possibility is that they claim they spent the non-profut funds prior to going for-profit? It would be dubious to claim damages if the entity was effectively bankrupt prior to for profit creation.
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by lumost 3y ago
Perhaps the regular charity version of this should also be challenged. This case looks somewhat egregious as the for profit arm was able to fire the board of the non-profit parent. Likewise, openAI is selling "PPU" units, it'
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by lumost 3y ago
it would not be clear that modern caribou have not been selectively bred for this purpose. Likewise, it's not clear that ancient humans would have understood this behavior. The invention of the "animal pen" would have involve
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by lumost 3y ago
I had this experience with 3D printing. In 2010 Google/Meta were transitioning to Mobile. It was not at all clear at the time that Mobile would turn them into multi-trillion dollar behemoths. To have bet the farm on FANG at the time
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by lumost 3y ago
They actually use a relu to represent the model weights. But I'm not convinced that this can't be avoided. We do gradient boosted decision tree training without this trick.
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by lumost 3y ago
When the latter group gets big enough, they may command enough sway to ensure the opposite occurs at chopping time. There is no guarantee that a business optimizes for the correct metrics, that the business has any ability to influence thos
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by lumost 3y ago
There are very few businesses which can add 1+ Trillion to a companies market cap. To grow at pace with the S&P, Apple needs to find a new 1 Trillion dollar business every 2-3 years. Cars were a good candidate, but it sounds like AAPL n
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by lumost 3y ago
The funny thing about being tied to a product/revenue at a megacorp, is that people can hold you accountable - in fact because hundreds of teams depend on your team's revenue to survive, you may be forced to work ungodly hours.
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by lumost 3y ago
I'm not certain that Cisco, Oracle, or other vendors ever took there crazy valuation to invest in web companies. There is a unique connection between NVidia investment and NVidia revenue. This effectively makes NVidia a leveraged inv
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by lumost 3y ago
This is true, however at the end of the day - this would work out to a per kwh cost of overbuilt infrastructure. Is there a reliable study of what this kwh cost is? In New England we pay upwards of 14 cents per kwh or higher. My understandi
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by lumost 3y ago
This is kinda the nature of life. I struggled with depression until my mid-late 20s. At 35, my high school years seem like a blur - my college years are starting to feel the same. I'm pretty ok with this.
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by lumost 3y ago
The problem may be in the relative value contribution. A senior eng that rights a project on 3 days which had been going on for 6 months is incredibly high value/he work. A Sr eng who spends 6 months coaching a junior engineer has muc
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by lumost 3y ago
For small values of N, the linear terms of the transformer dominate. At the end of the day, a double layer of 764*2048 is still north of 3.1 MM flops/token/layer.
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by lumost 3y ago
It depends on ones trust in public markets. If a large firm is only held by a few parties, then the public markets provide little benefit to the firm or stakeholders as any significant share movement would require a private deal anyway.
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by lumost 3y ago
Unfortunately, this is where micro and macro economics diverge. If you take the position that housing will likely always be underbuilt and any new construction in your area will lead to higher rents. Then supporting construction just mean
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by lumost 3y ago
If the only places that get built are up-market. Then wherever they get built rents will rise… this makes it challenging to support blanket construction proposals unless you as an individual own, or can afford top-of-market rent.
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by lumost 3y ago
I'm not so certain, I grew up in a (modular) sfh in a nice suburb. My experience with sfh as a child was that it meant being far from any other friends I could interact with. The only time where this wasn't the case was a brief pe
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by lumost 3y ago
There's also ring trades where the us donates surplus gear to European countries to get them to donate hardware to Ukraine - somewhat inflating tallies. Greece got several c-130s in expectation that they would donate 152mm ammunition.
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by lumost 3y ago
They are almost certainly using some form of sparse attention. If you linearize the attention operation, you can scale up to around 1-10M tokens depending on hardware before hitting memory constraints. Linearization works off the assumption
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by lumost 3y ago
Actually a really interesting idea. Not sure why we don't see this in major cities. Effectively this becomes a minimally with apartments. Do residents/businesses simply dislike this arrangement due to lack of foot traffic and nois
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by lumost 3y ago
Ultimately, this is because employers and grad schools care about the GPA, and schools want to ensure that most of their student body is above the arbitrary thresholds set by those institutions. Otherwise, students and alumni would devalue
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by lumost 3y ago
huh, today I started hitting moderation errors asking for code samples from OpenAI. e.g. does datafusion or polars support partial reads of parquet files in s3? I wonder if they've rolled out some draconian restrictions.
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by lumost 3y ago
This reminds me of the game "SPORE" in the last stage, you flew around in a spaceship conquering planets. The game had a balance problem, but while the space combat was difficult - it was rather easy to fly around a planet really
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by lumost 3y ago
I recently wondered if AI could reasonably help with the awkwardness of such interactions. Could AIs do the awkward "is this a match" chatting anonymously and asynchronously? At least enough to conclude that a) If matched, these t
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by lumost 3y ago
Big companies are weird. There are probably 10 teams each at intel, arm, and amd claiming that they can beat the h100 or build a better compute runtime. Half those teams are full of crap, a quarter will take the funds and try to do somethin
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by lumost 3y ago
This also may be a wise reaction to the observation that the middle class is vanishing. My father started his career as a decently paid factory worker, he moved into corporate as factories were going away. My parents emphasized college as t
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by lumost 3y ago
Yeah, I’ve been debating the utility on that one. From observation, my daughter does better with a group of strong peers. While she’s still young (3) nothing motivates her to do something like seeing another kid do it.

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