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by plaidfuji 1y ago
Surprised there’s no mention of Google Workspace here. I’ve been using Workspace exclusively for probably 5 years now. It’s obviously faster to open, the interface has remained clean and simple, and they’ve steadily closed the feature gap w
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by plaidfuji 1y ago
> Every time I use Google Drive or the G Suite admin console, I feel lost. Neither experience nor intuition helps—I feel like an old man seeing a computer for the first time. I’ll do you one better: try making a chart in Google Sheets.
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by plaidfuji 1y ago
Yep
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by plaidfuji 1y ago
I don’t think it’s necessary for an AI to operate in the physical world to achieve the dystopian-level impact people expect. After all, the most powerful people in the world operate only by talking to other people. An AGI would solve a plum
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by plaidfuji 1y ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro is certainly a tipping point for me. Previous LLMs have been very impressive, especially on coding tasks (unsurprising as the answers to these have a preponderance of publicly available data). But outside of a coding assistan
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
This is why LLMs are so helpful in writing research proposals. If I’m writing a proposal, I basically need to vibe on a concept without worrying about it sounding entirely professional / buttoned-up and concise - otherwise I get bogged
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
Correct take. Any attempt to find a rational objective behind the tariffs is foolish.
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
> Rodriques: Many people assume we’re focused on wet lab automation. There are certainly opportunities there and we are exploring them, but the biggest opportunities are actually on the cognitive side. Wet lab automation is very difficul
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
Is part of the problem not that people don’t actually want to use voice commands on their phone for most things? Using my phone is a private activity. I don’t want to yell at my phone in public about doctors appointments, work emails, setti
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
(1) that delta will decrease quickly, and (2) corporations will gladly pay for compute over headcount to maintain fragile data pipelines
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
This is where things are headed. All that ridiculous busywork that goes into ETL and modeling pipelines… it’s going to turn into “here’s a pile of data that’s useful for answering a question, here’s a prompt that describes how to structure
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
Here’s a take I haven’t seen yet: If training and inference just got 40x more efficient, but OpenAI and co. still have the same compute resources, once they’ve baked in all the DeepSeek improvements, we’re about to find out very quickly whe
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
This is such a great read. The only missing facet of discussion here is that there is a valuation level of NVDA such that it would tip the balance of military action by China against Taiwan. TSMC can only drive so much global value before t
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
I’m not arguing for/against the altruistic ideal of sharing technological advancements with society, I’m just saying that having a great model architecture is really not a defensible value proposition for a business. Maybe more accurat
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
I mean, I think they still do have an edge - ChatGPT is a great app and has strong consumer recognition already, very hard to displace.. and MSFT has a major installed base of enterprise customers who cannot readily switch cloud / prod
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
The part of this that doesn’t jibe with me is the fact that they also released this incredibly detailed technical report on their architecture and training strategy. The paper is well-written and has a lot of specifics. Exactly the opposite
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
My partner is trying to start a career in intensive care research and submitted for a major NIH grant a few months ago that was given a high score (= would probably be funded). Because of the “pause” we’re now unsure if it will get funded a
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
> As I wrote in the book, “If creators are speaking their authentic truths, how can they also be accountable to audience feedback? I am personally bemused to see “authenticity” invoked as a criterion for what is ultimately and obviously
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
At this point why wouldn’t a slightly crazy treasure hunter investor offer to front tens of millions to like, buy the landfill from the city?
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
I don’t think people fully appreciate yet how much of LLMs’ value comes from their underlying dataset (I.e. the entire internet - probably .. quadrillions..? of tokens of text) rather than the model + compute itself. If you’re trying to pre
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
Over the past year+ I’ve developed a litmus test for whether a new AI feature is valuable or not: If it were presented to me without using the words “AI” or “Intelligence”, would I give a s%!t about it? Can it even be described without usin
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
Do you just pay the bill for the resources indefinitely?
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
I’m not sure I would call this a failure.. more just something you tried out of curiosity and abandoned. Happens to literally everyone. “Failed” to me would imply there was something fundamentally broken about the approach or the dataset, o
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
Oh wow, I’ve always thought this would be a good way to do it but I’ve never bothered to actually look up the key of the songs I can “hear” in my head. If the “Hello” of Comfortably Numb is an F#, that’s all I need :)
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
I suppose what this illustrates is that, while the CPI does include rent (or “owners equivalent rent”) in its calculation, the equivalent rent is either not representative of the median home, or house prices have grown much faster than rent
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
Bitcoin is partially an index of political instability. Anything that has potential to significantly accelerate global divestment from the dollar is a positive for crypto. Trump winning the White House would do that. Even a protracted vote
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
> I suspect we’re at least five years away from those rather ordinary capabilities in robots. I agree, and I think it will be even longer before people are comfortable with a clothes-folding robot in their home even if the capability is
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
This is a pretty big realization and one that resonates strongly with me. As an engineer, parenting can be frustrating, of course for the usual reasons, but also because you realize there’s really no way to “hack” it. I feel like we as a so
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
No, they go on to say > With four kids, the kids can feel like kids; if there were forty kids, they’d probably feel like they were cattle. The point of the article is that you’ll never achieve economies of scale (10, 100, 1000x) for situ
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by plaidfuji 2y ago
So basically, you’re seeking super low-risk arbitrage opportunities of low-moderate complexity, but like, really high throughput and with really low latency trading?

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