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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
Please don't be childish. I have no love for communism and I get that you probably have some personal grudge against communism because of what your family has gone through. But the way you are expressing your hatred of communism is dim
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
"Christian nationalist" is a term that on the one hand, insults Christians, and on the other hand flatters these power hungry grifters. Why would you use such a term?
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
There is obviously a huge difference between fascist-aspiring westerners and communist-aspiring westerners. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Tankies are crazy and I don't approve of their ideology, but they also do not dehu
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
> and communists Communists left the chat in 1989, grandpa. There are multiple factions competing for power but communists aren't really in the ring right now. It's mostly different flavours of establishment factions and alt-ri
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
AlexNet was only released in 2011. The progress made in just 14 years has been insane. So while I do agree that we are approaching a "back to the drawing board" era, calling the past 14 years a "failure" is just not righ
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
If NVIDIA is blocked in China and China keeps developing AI models of comparable quality using home grown chips, it puts into question the dominance of NVIDIA in the market. If NVIDIA is allowed to continue operating in China, it doesn&#x27
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
There are a few "optimization startups". But in this context I find it a bit ironic that pretty much everyone is working with the same architecture, and the same hardware for the most part, so actually there isn't really that
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
> When I look around, I see hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on hardware – GPUs, data centers, and power stations. What I don’t see are people waving large checks at ML infrastructure engineers like me and my team. That doesn&
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
Does anyone know why they brand it an "inference chip"? Is it something at the hardware level that makes is unsuitable for training, or is it simply that the toolchain for training is massively more complicated to program?
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by numbers_guy 10mo ago
Nothing in principle. But Huang probably doesn't believe in hyper specializing their chips at this stage because it's unlikely that the compute demands of 2035 are something we can predict today. For a counterpoint, Jim Keller too
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by numbers_guy 11mo ago
European countries are willing to make big bets. The issue is with incompetent leadership. For example they made very big bets on quantum computing and particle accelerators for HEP, both of which have close to zero ROI. Meanwhile, up till
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by numbers_guy 11mo ago
IQ by its own is not enough. A higher than average IQ is probably the result of a larger than average working memory, and maybe also some ability to make more "long-range" connections between concepts in the brain. That's raw
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by numbers_guy 11mo ago
They provide containers to cater to those needs: https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/search
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
> however simultaneously are unaware that the cushy "European" lifestyle they love only exists because of the US Why do so many Americans believe this? I would like to see some real accounting of the US-EU relationship. America
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
This is the chief reason I don't use integrations. I just use chat, because I want to physically understand and insert code myself. Else you end up with the code overtaking your understanding of it.
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
> This technology demos incredibly well You just summed up machine learning, not just AI/LLMs. My domain is very far from LLMs, but even in my domain, you can build a really cool demo, that is entirely misleading.
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
Interesting. I am experimenting with different ML ecosystems and wasn't really considering Julia at all but I put it on the list now.
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
What makes Julia "great" for ML?
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
There is nowhere to run and hide. Europe is worse than the US on this front. China also demands party loyalty. In a sense this is just the human condition. The ruling faction demands loyalty. Only a very advanced human civilization could mo
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
No the Pope is not infallible and you can disagree with the Pope. Sure. But you cannot use that as a cop out to turn Catholicism into an arbitrary Protestant sect where you make up moral values as you go based on your political inclinations
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
If you look at my other posts, I acknowledge this and I am only replying to posts who pretend to speak for the whole worldwide Church.
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
Said political inclinations were written in the Catechism before any of us knew who Pope Francis was.
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
Please stop talking in such general terms. No Catholics I know have been shaken by anything Pope Francis did. I have been educated in a Catholic school, which also served as a Catholic seminary, and I never heard Pope Francis say anything t
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
That female clergy is only a thing in dead Protestant churches exactly illustrates my point.
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
The real (non theological) reason why women are not allowed to be priests is because if you take a random mass of humans and you let them elect a leader, in 100% of the cases that leader will be a man. So don't blame Catholics for the
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
Only American Protesting Catholics had issues with him. The same ones that post Deus Vult memes on Facebook.
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
Since I see a lot of people commenting on this topic, I would like to offer a different perspective. Pope JPII was for my southern European social democratic Catholic family much more polarizing than Pope Francis. Pope Francis had politics
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
I guess the author is mentioning public funding to try to make a political point, but it does not fit the narrative, because publicly funded research is the norm worldwide. The glaring difference in how the US approached R&D is rather t
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
"Caught us" implies that the capitalists, the people who own the manufacturing plants, did something immoral, or illegal or under handed, but in the economic system that everyone championed in America, especially at that time, thi
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by numbers_guy 1y ago
I would not necessarily say that the envy is unjustified. If you live in a rich country you ideally want all citizens to become wealthy. Else, irrespective of income, you will be lorded over by those who are magnitudes richer than you.

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