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High-energy particles detected falling on Earth(news.sky.com)
1 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
This is a bit odd since Adam D' Angelo, the remaining board member from the previous group, is the CEO of Quora which builds a competing LLM, Poe. This came up a lot during the drama a few weeks ago. But Sam Altman went to bat for Adam
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by samspenc 3y ago
This is a great technical analysis of AWS' custom chips and how it can compete with NVidia in the future, at least for AWS services. But: don't all the general points mentioned about AWS also apply to other cloud providers? Micros
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by samspenc 3y ago
This makes sense, let's say that R&D per unit is a similar amount, that would totally explain how Nvidia is able to generate insane 50%+ net profit margins (74% gross margin), higher than FAANG and unheard of for hardware companies
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by samspenc 3y ago
Doesn't add too much more to the official company blog post from a couple of hours ago - but interesting that Sam keeps saying he can't talk about what exactly happened during the board coup. One example from the interview: "
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by samspenc 3y ago
Thanks, I've been trying to find this information - Mac shared memory vs Nvidia VRAM performance differences - for the longest time and your answer and the Reddit link were both super helpful!
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by samspenc 3y ago
For Blender, you can actually check crowd-sourced public benchmarks for basically any CPU and GPU you want to compare https://opendata.blender.org/ That site is a goldmine for perf benchmarks, I actually use that site if I
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by samspenc 3y ago
While true that it's not directly linked to OpenAI or Q, this paper is probably going viral now since it is somewhat related to what people know of the Q algorithm, and maybe folks are trying to figure out what it is and how it works,
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by samspenc 3y ago
I initially thought this was his older video, but I see this video was published just an hour ago (from the time of this comment). I was thinking of this other video he had published early this year: "Let's build GPT: from scratch
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by samspenc 3y ago
I'm guessing they did file their Form-990 for 2022, but it's not available in public data sources yet. Probably will be available in a few more months. OpenAI's Form-990s from previous years are all available at https:/
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by samspenc 3y ago
'Only a Sith deals in absolutes' - Obi Wan to Anakin
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by samspenc 3y ago
My understanding is that this was the sequence: - Board posts publicly about Altman's lack of candor - US regulatory agencies start asking about what this lack of candor was - Board refuses to reply
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by samspenc 3y ago
https://archive.ph/oZA2d
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by samspenc 3y ago
"The negotiations stretched late into the night, as multiple rounds of takeout were delivered to the Mission District offices and reporters from multiple news outlets staked out the scene like a papal conclave. Inside, employees gather
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by samspenc 3y ago
https://archive.ph/oZA2d
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by samspenc 3y ago
"Murati and Sutskever led an all-hands meeting at 2 p.m. Employees peppered them with dozens of questions, many of which were some version of: what did Sam do? One employee asked if they would ever find out, to which Sutskever replied,
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by samspenc 3y ago
This article has some info not reported elsewhere: "This article is based on interviews with more than a dozen insiders at OpenAI and people around the company’s hectic weekend." "Sam Altman was in Las Vegas for the biggest p
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Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman's Showdown at OpenAI(wsj.com)
4 points by samspenc 3y ago|9 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
It's possible he was played. But fact of the matter is that now after the 'coup', the board has been reduced to 4 from the prior 6. All 4 were against Sam, now Ilya has switched allegiance. So it's still 3-1. 2 more boar
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by samspenc 3y ago
Good read, just wanted to say I appreciate author's candor in publishing his full numbers, including total salary / compensation over his entire career. A lot of posts like this lack these details.
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by samspenc 3y ago
This interview itself was done last week right, before the drama this weekend? But published today.
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Ask HN: Who would represent OpenAI board in a lawsuit?
1 points by samspenc 3y ago|2 comments
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Microsoft CEO Signals Willingness to Have Altman Rejoin OpenAI(bloomberg.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
I think because OpenAI and LLMs are the most interesting piece of technology news at this point in time? Plus add all the drama right now. I'm not saying its right or not, but this is probably why people are upvoting anything new about
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by samspenc 3y ago
> One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project. Have these people never worked at any other company before? Probably every company with more than 10 employees does something like this.
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Investors are souring on OpenAI's nonprofit governance model(techcrunch.com)
2 points by samspenc 3y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Likely trending on home page since this is directly relevant to LLM costs, i.e., questions like "how much would it cost to rebuild ChatGPT from scratch".
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Poe: A ChatGPT Competitor from Quora (Posted by Adam D'Angelo)(quorablog.quora.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Dang I completely forgot that D'Angelo and Quora have a product that directly competes with ChatGPT in the form of Poe. Wouldn't that make this a conflict of interest, sitting on the board while running a competing product - and m
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by samspenc 3y ago
The OpenAI employees who are planning to resign en-masse for exactly this reason.

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