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by malux85 2y ago
Would you like some chips with that salt?! I think your characterisation above of AI companies as either entrenched, nepotism or snake oil speaks a lot to how you perceive the world. Yep! I could see the rise of AI so I put my personal mone
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Yep, so profit off it then? (The following is a general comment not directed at you OP) The human trait of disconnected intellect always fascinates me. People will predict something very publicly, never shut up about it, and then loudly pro
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Surely not with GPUs? Could you direct me to them please?
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As I said in my response - Even if one doesn't have an ideal answer, the next best thing is to keep searching for a good solution - rather than make an immediate terrible decision that is going to cause all of your best talent to leave
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Flogging an aging population is only going to cause the small amount of talent you have to leave. The same thing happens with companies - good people have options, crappy people don’t. If you make the conditions worse the good people leave
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by malux85 2y ago
> but there are a lot of people who just aren't going to be comfortable with that. Actual LOL - who? I’ve worked at enormous orgs, Google, to medium sized orgs, to startups over my 20 year career, as a senior dev, engineering lead,
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by malux85 2y ago
Capitalist societies where the alternative to employment is destitution can force people into working at huge online gambling companies due to the need for employment and their responsibility (kids, aging parents, etc) While I agree in an i
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Having some idea of the task will guide the choice of model, which will be an enormous factor in memory use (I.e. whether it will startup or not) Do you need a 70b param model or a 7b model? Theres thousands and thousands of dollars hardwar
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by malux85 2y ago
It’s frustrating when people ask for hardware requirements without stating what they are trying to do, do you have 100,000,000 books to index or do you have 5 articles? What are the context lengths you need? What about latency? How can some
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by malux85 2y ago
I agree that mental fortitude is not necessarily correlated with fine grained muscle control, but speaking clearly is a pretty freaking basic requirement for A PRESIDENT
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Well, what's more important is which devices compared to how many, because many many many consumer home PC's are running windows, and not all machines are equal. A windows server running a train station != grandmas PC, so when the
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"even if" is generous, I am kill -9 crazy if stability is even slightly threatened
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Eric Schmitt doesn’t mind all this being out in public, right? I mean, he was a huge supporter of surveillance and dismisser of privacy advocates saying “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” I’m not arguing that this puts a
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by malux85 2y ago
Heres my digital pensieve - Daily running log of what I have done Dynamic todo list where things move up and down freely remarkable tablet where I watch lectures and write notes (writing things down slows my mind and focuses as you say) Dai
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by malux85 2y ago
What are some good places for a technical / programming hangouts on IRC? Can you point me at some materials please?
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by malux85 2y ago
I agree with you, but hey, money is useless to you after you die, so if you’re super wealthy why not spend 0.001% of your wealth on something with a very small but non-zero chance of working
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SUM($) ?
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by malux85 2y ago
If you use shaders and are smart about GPU data structures you can do it, I have got 5-6 million particles running smoothly (60fps) in my own testing which is just a hacky weekend mash with no optimization, here's a blog post of someon
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by malux85 2y ago
This is awesome, I love using 3D engines for visualisation and I’m already writing my own GPU shaders to visualise electron density grids for example - having a high performance runtime I can hook into would be such a big help. Especially i
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I fondly remember seeing the integral symbol and having no idea what it meant, and no internet to check. I remember thinking to myself “This must be important if it’s in this book” and just memorising without understanding. I still write x^
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by malux85 2y ago
When I was about 14 years old, my parents saw my interest in electronics and computers and went to a university professor they knew and purchased 6-7 books on various topics. (Mostly electrical engineering and some programming) They were de
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by malux85 2y ago
Oh that’s a good point, I have my own GPU rack and run locally because it’s cheaper to do so, so I hadn’t considered that…
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by malux85 2y ago
It depends on your latency requirements, not every RAG task has a user waiting for an immediate response, for my use case it doesn't matter if an answer takes even 10's of minutes to generate
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by malux85 2y ago
I’m the creator of https://atomictessellator.com While building the backend of this, I have focused on building a composable set of APIs suitable for machine consumption - i.e to act as agentic tools. I was looking for a good RA
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I suspect that this is a proxy for what is really going on - I find that I am most creative /when not under pressure/ I have spoken many times in the past with senior programming friends, some are creative just before sleep, some
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by malux85 2y ago
Ah ok, didn’t know the moon formed that quickly, thank you for your detailed answer, very interesting :)
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by malux85 2y ago
Why not? (I don’t know this field)
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* and that work transparently - Don’t put a button that says “suggest a title for this note” - make the LLM create a title, put it in a placeholder that the user just has to press “TAB” (or something) to confirm
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Me too, about same time as you. Life-changing productivity increase and focus/deep work extension!
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I’ve tried to build https://atomictessellator.com a little bit sci-fi because why not?! While I’m working on computational chemistry simulations I like to be inspired by the idea that I am working on cool future tech Of course I

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