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by qcnguy 11mo ago
The explicit stated goal of Grok is to seek out the truth. A lot of the internet doesn't do this. Wikipedia doesn't! As far as Wikipedia is concerned, if something is said by "authoritative sources" then it goes in, and
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Against the spirit of the contributors? You know Wikipedia's founders have heavily criticized Wikipedia's blatant political biases, right? Having LLMs edit encyclopedias, moderate forums and do everything else we rely on user mode
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They weren't heavily involved and to claim otherwise is historical revisionism.
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We're talking about academia, not hobbies. Academics expect to get paid in both money and social status. As do churches and community theaters, by the way. They tend to expect donations. If nobody ever donated money they'd shut do
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
I didn't claim otherwise. It should however be self evident that courts have no solid basis on which to make such a call. Judges don't know anything about running power plants, hiring employees, or really anything on that matter.
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> My guy, the EU is not founding companies, it is giving existing companies subsidies. The profits of those companies will not be public, they are private. I can vouch forst hand that research money is being funneled to startups and oth
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
People can't say no to the EU. That's such a common misconception on HN. The EU has a body it lyingly calls a parliament, which doesn't get to decide what laws are proposed or passed. It's more like an upper house that c
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Spamming EU employees (the correct term to use) is useless not because it requires 24/7 attention but because there is no reason for any EU employee to care. The EU is constitutionally designed to eliminate democratic mechanisms. And a
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> where public funding programs for research has begun to be funneled to startups instead of research groups. It is darkly amusing that in one post you claim "the left has not been popular since the 70s" whilst admitting that
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They worked at a power plant, a place where dumb mistakes can cause explosions and kill people. The power plant wasn't racist and hired blacks into the labor department, but because it was just manual labor that department paid worse t
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
How has the existence of the computing industry depended on baristas with Women's Studies degrees? Because the history I know has it being 99% created by men with engineering skills doing paid work for large corporations.
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That's a very ideological take, especially this part: > It’s peanut butter and chocolate that has served democracy and its people well Most people are now saying in polls it didn't serve them well! You're disagreeing wit
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
How valuable YouTube really is depends a lot on several things the article didn't discuss: 1. To what extent scaling laws hold. 2. To what extent adding more amateur video data increases quality. 3. To what extent Google can stop other
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Research any history of the flu vaccines, Hoskins effect, why there's no vaccine against the common cold etc.
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It does solve the problem! That's the entire reason we have such a thing as a tech industry. Tech industry startups are often just regular industries where everyone from the board down is technical. Uber is a "tech company" a
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
The reason they said it wasn't possible wasn't that making a vaccine was physically impossible. They said a vaccine might never arrive because vaccines have such a poor track record against respiratory viruses. The assumption the
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
But for research you often don't have to max out the hardware right away. And the question is what do programs that max out Ironwood look like vs TPU programs written 5 years ago?
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Portable doesn't normally mean that it runs on arbitrarily old hardware. CUDA was never portable, it only runs on Nvidia hardware. The question is whether old versions of Whisper GPU run on newer hardware, that'd be backwards comp
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
The US government isn't a business and isn't selling its services to Ethiopia.
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A datacenter GPU has next to nothing left related to graphics. You can't use them to render graphics. It's a pure computational kernel machine.
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Same way cloud hardware always risks becoming useless. The newer hardware is so much better you can't afford to not upgrade, e.g. an algorithmic improvement that can be run on CUDA devices but not on existing TPUs, which changes the ec
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
CUDA is just a better dev experience. Lots of training is experiments where developer/researcher productivity matters. Googlers get to use what they're given, others get to choose. Once you settle on a design then doing ASICs to a
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
Not vibes. TPUs have fallen behind or had to be redesigned from scratch many times as neural architectures and workloads evolved, whereas the more general purpose GPUs kept on trucking and building on their prior investments. There's a
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Could argue there are more. Lots of loss making SOEs in China.
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The problem is, if you want to reduce suicide, the best place to start would not be by banning AI (very neutral tech, responds to what you want it to do) but by censoring climatologists (who constantly try to convince people the world is en
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
There was just the longest federal shutdown in history exactly because the Republicans were trying to control healthcare spending. You can't claim they aren't trying to touch the big ticket items. They theorize that the ICE fundin
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
> And if it is in Botswana, you have to then actually ask "what is this mission, and is this in the interests of the USA taxpayer?", which needs specialists. Specialists in what? Asking whether something is in the interests o
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by qcnguy 11mo ago
https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918 Apparently "not a serious person" is the new insult of choice with you guys, huh. What a ridiculous reply. Of course they should be cut. The slogan
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It's not a highly specialized role. Look at the contracts they were cutting. A lot of it could be done by an LLM. > $191k USAGM broadcasting contract for “broadcast operations and maintenance in Ethiopia, Africa” > $1.3M State De
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Nope, can't all agree. DOGE was great and you should expect to see a lot more of it in future, even more systematized. Look at it like this: > About half of the rehires, Kamarck estimated, “appear to have been mandated by the court

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