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by oersted 2mo ago
I agree that the connection to OpenAI is very speculative here. It's true that Pangram is also very unreliable, and the match is pretty weak anyways: "69% came back flagged as fully AI-generated, with another 28% flagged as partia
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by oersted 2mo ago
Check their R&D expenditures and profit margins they are quite poor. Their revenue has always been sustained by the fact that their technology needs to be constantly replaced because it keeps getting better. The moment it stops getting
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by oersted 2mo ago
Of course, but such a theory doesn't pop out of nowhere. Like in any technical field, new paradigms are always inferior to the incumbent on key metrics, and need room to be nurtured for long periods. My perception is that there's
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by oersted 2mo ago
It's never that simple, that's not the only possible endgame. We have seen plenty of examples in other industries where you can never really stop investing a ton on R&D with diminishing returns (like in semiconductors or pharm
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by oersted 2mo ago
And then everyone would stop using their inference as soon as a better model for a reasonable price came out. The R&D expenditure is a critical requirement for the inference profits, to the point where we should probably lump their fina
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by oersted 2mo ago
I'm reticent of falling into this endless conversation again, but it's a bit addictive. I believe the point is that the Standard Model is still built on Quantum Field Theory, but looking into what's really going on under quan
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by oersted 2mo ago
Well, it seems that the question still remains somewhat open. There are theories that fit the data as well or better than the black-hole model. My naive intuition is that this is mostly just physicist publishing papers and throwing some exo
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by oersted 3mo ago
I understand that certain segments of the population have remained completely disassociated from videogames, and that's fine, but that doesn't make it a niche or an expert topic. Games make significantly more money than movies and
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by oersted 3mo ago
It’s not an unusual username, it is actually quite unoriginal, there are probably thousands of users with variations of the same name. It is the name of the headline magic ability in Skyrim, which is probably among the top ten most popular
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by oersted 3mo ago
I found The Republic really quite entertaining! And it is surprisingly readable for such an old text. It is written like a play where characters with real personalities have fierce and witty debates. It is rather fun!
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by oersted 3mo ago
I find his earlier works a bit too bizarre and quirky. Although Snow Crash is the essence of cool. Seveneves is probably my favourite, I guess I prefer harder scifi. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. were pretty good
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by oersted 3mo ago
I don't understand why, that is not HBM nor a real GPU. Fine the model might fit in RAM, kinda. And it a bit like a server that you can keep on all the time, which must feel nice if you only ever had a MacBook. But it can still not run
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by oersted 3mo ago
Railway tycoons were the real beneficiaries, and the Gold Rush led to broader organic economic development in the West, so railways remained relevant. Not sure what that means for the metaphor, but there you go.
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by oersted 3mo ago
Very Crusader Kings :)
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by oersted 3mo ago
Frankly, it sounds like you are being a bit short-sighted with the whole endeavour. The lowered production costs enabled by AI should to a degree insulate you from the usual financial risks, and should allow you to be more authentic. It mig
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by oersted 3mo ago
I must admit, the short sample for “How Asians Pay the Bill” was kinda fun :)
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by oersted 3mo ago
That’s a good visualization, although I am a bit mistrustful of Arena’s scores. It does get around the fact that models are getting trained for the benchmarks, but the methodology of letting random people compare outputs side-by-side is a
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by oersted 3mo ago
I was confused too, but I believe that it refers to the Pareto Frontier: the best set of solutions to a multi-objective problem. Look it up, it’s a bit difficult to explain concisely in words but it is intuitive visually. If we are thinking
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by oersted 3mo ago
I liked this comment from that thread :) > I think you should spin up a whole bunch more instances, and try to cause an integer overflow so they they owe you $978 Trillion.
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by oersted 3mo ago
You can use tokio::spawn_blocking to separate compute-heavy stuff, it gets handled in a separate thread pool. You shouldn’t need two tokio runtimes, that sounds problematic. > How do you properly mix IO/compute (in any language)? Go
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by oersted 3mo ago
That does clarify some things, but still. Say you have an Isolate pinned to a core and it's doing some long compute. In the meantime some background IO finished and an Isolate in the same core needs to handle the result. That will not
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by oersted 3mo ago
Yes I do agree. It's not that Tokio has taken over just due to community momentum. There's a certain subtle lock-in that happens due to how the Rust type system and dependency system work together. It's a hard problem to addr
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by oersted 3mo ago
I was looking forward to checking out Project Tina until I realised it was a completely different language. Classic story. Surely you can build a thread-per-core message passing concurrency framework in Rust, the language is designed to all
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by oersted 3mo ago
I agree that a request-response model can be quite ergonomic for concurrency. I've used this pattern in quite a few Rust projects in a somewhat ad-hoc manner. It's a bit like having a system composed of microservices (nanoservices
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by oersted 3mo ago
To be fair, the Rust async model itself was intentionally designed not to be prescriptive in the way you describe. You can build, and there exists, different task executors that can handle things like priority and many other execution model
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by oersted 3mo ago
We are creating an AI for science and engineering: https://vicena.ai It's connected to all papers of course, and all kinds of scientific simulators and specialised models. But I'm currently in Shanghai talking to labs
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by oersted 3mo ago
I initially quite liked it, particularly when the references are a bit more obscure, generally from classic scifi/fantasy. You can end with a nice sounding name and a small wink to fellow nerds. But it is such a shame that it has start
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by oersted 3mo ago
As a founder who has gone through scaling processes, I am quite impressed at Zuckerberg's ability to remain relatively competent and relevant at the top role throughout the whole journey. The skillset required changes quite a lot in ea
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by oersted 3mo ago
Yes I think it’s a linguistic confusion more than anything else. To me, consciousness is not generally that you can be aware (conscious) of things around you and can react to them, lots of things can do that. Consciousness is a shorthand fo
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by oersted 3mo ago
I’m sure there will be a ton of unexpected complexities that arise only when you are trying to push the limits, like in all engineering domains. And it’s all a highly interconnected system, you cannot expect to dramatically change the water

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