nojvek

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by nojvek 3y ago
Gotta give it to Nvidia and TSMC. In the big AI race, they’re the ones with real moat and no serious competition. No matter who wins, they’ll need those sweet GPUs and fabs.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Valuation means Jack shit for early stage startup. WeWork was valued at $50B at its peak. Until a company is consistently showing growth in revenue and a path to sustainable profitability, valuation is essentially wild speculation. OpenAI i
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by nojvek 3y ago
I really wished Israel didn’t blatantly start airbombing Gaza civilian infrastructure and blockade food, water, gas. When Russia does this on Ukraine, we call them war criminals but when Israel does it on Palestinians we call it business as
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by nojvek 3y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/technology/personaltech/a... wout paywall: https://archive.vn/Gz614
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by nojvek 3y ago
Interesting. Will take Bard for a spin.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Anyone remember the Google IO demo where they had their “AI” call a barber to book an appointment. Turns out it was all staged. Lost a lot of trust after that. Google is stuck in innovators dilemma. They make 300B of revenue which ~90% is
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by nojvek 3y ago
It’s a step in right direction to cool off demand, but the big issue is supply. Make a law that building permits can’t take longer than 6 months. No nimbysm crap. Permits can only be denied if the building plans don’t meet code and cause ma
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by nojvek 3y ago
Amazing. Truly amazing if they ship the ship. Shipping industry could use nuclear. They’re large, in water, carry 1000s of containers. If all container ships are zero emission, that makes a decent difference in global emissions.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Alexa from Amazon, Cortana from Microsoft, Siri from Apple. Erica from Bank of America, Jenn from Alaska airlines. Now Gemini from Google. What is with tech bro culture to propagate the stereotype that women are there to serve and be their
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by nojvek 3y ago
That’s different. It’s essentially using whisper model for audio to text and that inputs to ChatGPT. Multimodal would be watching YouTube without captions and asking “how did a certain character know it was raining outside?” Based on rain s
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by nojvek 3y ago
Google again making announcements but not releasing for public to validate their claims. What's the point of it? They hype it so much, but the actual release is disappointing. Bard was hyped up but was pretty shit compared to GPT-4. Th
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by nojvek 3y ago
One of my biggest concerns with many of these benchmarks is that it’s really hard to tell if the test data has been part of the training data. There are terabytes of data fed into the training models - entire corpus of internet, proprietary
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by nojvek 3y ago
CSS in JS is really a great concept to keep component logic colocated. Although I’m really in love with @emotion/css where I can still write and copy paste css-snippets instead of translating into js object syntax.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Amazing. One of my hopes with OpenAI were that they were going to be truly open. Open datasets, open code, open models, open evaluation. But it is now a Microsoft puppet running on corporate profit goals. This and HuggingFace are great to s
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by nojvek 3y ago
It’s not that AI will enable mass spying, mass spying is already there. AI enables extracting all sorts of behavioral data across decades timespan for everyone. The devils argument is in a world where the data is not used for nefarious purp
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by nojvek 3y ago
Firefox letting go of many important teams such as MDN, Rust etc was its death knell in developer community. Mitchell Baker will surely get a golden parachute even if Firefox is sold for scraps.
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by nojvek 3y ago
That chart is sad. Like most things, the decline is gradual for decades and then all at once. It doesn’t help that iPhone can have no other browser engine other than Safari. Big Tech dominance is powerful that many nation states when it com
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by nojvek 3y ago
Love that there is a test. Some of the theories like gravity waves and Higgs boson took almost half a century to be confirmed by experimentation. The hard part about this is building tools that can precisely measure mass fluctuations with e
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by nojvek 3y ago
I miss the mountains. The backdrop is gorgeous. I lived in Vancouver,BC for a few years and my god it is cheffs-kiss beautiful in summer. The hikes are serendipitous. Post pandemic, housing got bat shit crazy though.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Has he written much about the specifics of the divorce? I assume it was about 50% split of assets and figuring out who owns what that made it lengthy and expensive?
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by nojvek 3y ago
Didn't realize London is worse than Seattle.
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by nojvek 3y ago
A guy I know broke up and first got into a drinking binge. Then hated it and turned into a gym rat. He became proper swol, started reading and meditating. When he bench pressed, his mantra was "Breakups build body builders".
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by nojvek 3y ago
I don't the answer to rent-seeking publishers is Mastodon. It's sites like Arxiv and libgen. Mastadon is the answer to Twitter. In general, I think a lot about hyper efficient marketplace companies. Like craigslist which is still
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by nojvek 3y ago
I relocated to Redmond, WA for a few years to work at MSFT. Let me tell you, every winter there felt like a sadistic game show called "How Miserable Can You Get?" And boy, did I win! Thankfully, the good ol' USA is a massive
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by nojvek 3y ago
Post-pandemic, the trend of Corporations raking in higher and higher profits, while needing fewer and fewer staff scares me. The most obvious and likely outcome is it drastically separates the ultra wealthy from middle class. With rise of A
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by nojvek 3y ago
Post-pandemic, the trend of Corporations raking in higher and higher profits, while needing fewer and fewer staff scares me. The most obvious and likely outcome is it drastically separates the ultra wealthy from middle class. With rise of A
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by nojvek 3y ago
1kg of petrol/gasoline is ~48MJ. 1kg of Lithim-ion battery is ~0.25MJ/kg. Gasoline is ~192X energy dense compared to Lithium-ion batteries. Li-on is the most popular battery due to its cost and weight. In terms of weight: Tesla mo
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by nojvek 3y ago
US govt and court rooms are very very lax on large corps. Lina Khan is really struggling on anti-trust. The lawyers aint buyin it. I do think our current big tech is a toooo big. The big 5 (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, NVDA) with > 1$ trillio
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by nojvek 3y ago
Guy was a crook and had no remorse for killing millions of civilians and cozying up with dictators. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_637693... The world needs less people like him. No one should ev
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by nojvek 3y ago
Correct. What we need is intelligence rooted in math, physics, engineering, chemistry, material science (aka great grasp of reality). Then you can ask it to create designs and optimize them. Ask it to create hypothesis and experiments to va

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