qayxc

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by qayxc 3y ago
I mostly agree - too vague, no substance. Regulations are OK IMHO, as long as they're targeting monopolies and don't use a shotgun-approach targeting every single product that has "AI" in the name.
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by qayxc 3y ago
In the end it all looks like classical programming with extra steps to me :)
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by qayxc 3y ago
Good point about the workload. On the other hand, typical GPU tasks seem to be scalable basically ad-infinitum as graphics moved from fixed-function pipelines to per-pixel shaders to raytracing and path tracing. So maybe GPUs still have som
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by qayxc 3y ago
Much of Apple's success in the area seems to stem from the fact that they're simply buying other parties out of the latest manufacturing processes, e.g. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/15&#x2
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by qayxc 3y ago
The problem is that many algorithms simply cannot be parallelised well and that ever since the 90s the iron is cheap whereas the programmer's time is expensive. So instead of spending weeks or even months on trying to squeeze the last
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by qayxc 3y ago
> I think this is part of why GPU power is skyrocketing and why Apple, Qualcomm, and the like are trying to shift towards services. IMHO it's only a very small part of why GPU power consumption is going up. The main reason is the co
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by qayxc 3y ago
The main reason is that no heavy lift rocket in history (not a single one in the last 60 years) has been launched without mitigations that prevent a launch pad from being destroyed during a successful lift-off. SpaceX (or rather Musk in par
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by qayxc 3y ago
I consider this to be another great argument against the existence of "galactic civilisations". Every colony would necessarily become a the seed for a different civilisation and species in a comparatively short amount of time. Iso
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by qayxc 3y ago
Or maybe it's just too impractical. Communication alone is a pretty compelling argument against "galactic civilisations". If the speed of light is indeed the ultimate limit for information exchange, then it would be completel
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by qayxc 3y ago
The question is what's faster - finishing an adequate launch platform or repairing/rebuilding a destroyed one? I'm convinced that a 2 month delay followed by a less destructive test flight and a quicker turnaround time for th
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by qayxc 3y ago
"Wasn't ready in time" - yeah, the memes (4/20 and all that nonsense) are more important than waiting for things to be ready...
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by qayxc 3y ago
> Obviously they didn't anticipate the booster eating through the entire concrete pad and boosting the beach into the atmosphere. I'm pretty sure there were voices at SpaceX who predicted this outcome. We've been launching
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by qayxc 4y ago
Bad example - PayPal was the fruit of the (then) massively underdeveloped banking system in the US. Europe has SEPA and there was simply little to no need for something like PayPal. Whenever I hear that cheques are still in use in the US, I
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by qayxc 4y ago
Which begs the question what the added benefit would be from such an approach, i.e. what could we even learn from that compared to other methods? To quote from an article in The Royal Society: > [...] bird song evolution can also be unde
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by qayxc 4y ago
Careful with anthropomorphising. Communication is much more than vocalisation of abstract thought (i.e. the way humans mostly use it). Animals don't communicate the same way we do and it might be very misleading to associate concepts s
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by qayxc 4y ago
I like that idea a lot. "General reasoning engine" sounds much more sensible than "AGI", especially given that the "I" in AGI is so poorly defined.
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by qayxc 4y ago
Isn't that overthinking it big time? Biologically humans have evolved to walk roughly 10-15km a day. You really have to overdo it to get to negative consequences of light physical activities such as walking. Just talking a one hour w
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by qayxc 4y ago
CPU inference runs perfectly fine, though.
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by qayxc 4y ago
I think you vastly underestimate both the energy requirements and logistics of heavy industry. This is not something you'll see deployed on Mars for a long time.
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by qayxc 4y ago
PCs sales aren't tied to GPU sales, though. Gamers switch GPUs way more often than CPUs (which makes sense, since CPUs often aren't the bottleneck). PCs have simply become fast enough over the past 10 years and there's been n
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by qayxc 4y ago
> PCs are usable for much longer these days. 100% this. If my motherboard hadn't started to slowly fail (been running on the backup BIOS for the past year), I'd still use my 2013 Xeon system. It's still fast enough for dai
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by qayxc 4y ago
Ah, those youngsters have no idea what expensive means :) Back in the early 90s a half decent SVGA card could set you back $900 easily (e.g. ATI's 1MB Graphics Ultra from 1991). And that's 1992 dollars, mind you. So about $1,900 a
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by qayxc 4y ago
You poor souls. I couldn't imagine going back to 1080p for dev work.
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by qayxc 4y ago
> Took 20-30 follow-up messages, telling it to add things, remove things, fix things, make things compatible with the versions of software it was running etc. So in other words you basically spent just as much time and effort as if you d
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by qayxc 4y ago
How so? It's not a clue at all, as the training data is inherently biased anyway. LLM's are magical and can only work with the data corpus they have. "Objective truth" simply doesn't exist outside the realm of mathe
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by qayxc 4y ago
It is strictly true. a<b,c>(d) is only valid JavaScript iff a, b, c, and d are values . The TypeScript expression a<b,c>(d) where b and c are types is NOT JavaScript, since JavaScript doesn't have type expressions. The sta
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by qayxc 4y ago
Nope. It's an end-to-end solution that doesn't have the ability to classify tokens into separate categories, such as maths vs. text. There's no way for it to separate calculations from other transformations and thus it cannot
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by qayxc 4y ago
But how would that even work in a VM not connected to any network? I hear this allegation a lot without anyone being able to explain how an offline installation would even be able to do this...
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by qayxc 4y ago
I'm a bit puzzled by this. You can install Windows without having to buy it. You can even run it forever if you want to - other than a watermark and some personalisation options being locked, nothing is different from an activated copy
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by qayxc 4y ago
Google results(plural!) give you alternatives and references, i.e. you know where each answer is coming from and SEO spam is easily identifiable. ChatGPT just gives you an answer that's confidentially wrong sometimes.

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