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by samspenc 3y ago
And Wall Street firms were fined $2 billion for their employees using non-corporate communication methods for trading https://fortune.com/2022/09/27/wall-street-fines-employee-us...
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by samspenc 3y ago
Also, as other comments have pointed out, Epic makes most of its money from Fortnite, their revenue from UE licensing fees are tiny in comparison.
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Nvidia software update doubles performance of H100 GPU(techradar.com)
2 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Still? :) Don't get me wrong, I used to use CakePHP as my primary framework 10-15 years ago and loved it, but even then it was starting to lose traction as competition heated up in the PHP space. How's your experience with CakePHP
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Would love to learn more about this - were they created in a similarly expedited timeline? What did that look like?
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Full title is: "Microsoft-backed AI startup beats Nvidia H100 on key tests with GPU-like card equipped with 256GB RAM"
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AI startup beats Nvidia H100 on tests with GPU-like card with 256GB RAM(techradar.com)
4 points by samspenc 3y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
+1 this is the original source https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-tec... EDIT: and I see the original was also posted and discussed on HN as well here https://news.ycombinator
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by samspenc 3y ago
Related tweet from Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1699021936573940154 "If you go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy you can turn off the spyware that got inserted into the latest ver
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Or for anyone interested in a concise summary based on the transcript: https://subsip.io/summary?youtubeUrl=hixwIOd_C44
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by samspenc 3y ago
I think comment OP was referring to the viral news piece that came out just a few weeks ago that stated that OpenAI's expenses were $700K a day and it would go bankrupt by 2024. https://www.wionews.com/science/open
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by samspenc 3y ago
Yeah for a second, I thought it was VS Code for Mac being discontinued and was surprised - but this is Visual Studio which is really only used for C# and .NET development. Looks like VS Code is safe :)
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by samspenc 3y ago
I'm trying to understand this as well based on the code you linked to and other comments - so the secret sauce of this implementation is the Rama library / framework / database? And that's closed source? Also looks like
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This is actually a dream of mine - to work at a FAANG company and be paid to work on open-source software, I hope it happens :) but I'm not holding my breath though.
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Summary of the video from https://subsip.io/summary?youtubeUrl=3R3cvbLsbAk Why do animated characters wear gloves? The reason why animated characters often wear gloves can be traced back to the early days of hand-drawn anim
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by samspenc 3y ago
Per the Llama 2 license, companies with "greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month" must get approval and permission from Meta to use it. For OpenAI - that is very interesting though. The 700M c
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by samspenc 3y ago
At first I thought I was missing something and had to look at the plots a second time to realize that only 1 of the graphs was correctly labelled and the others are all missing legends :( which means you have to guess what each series corre
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by samspenc 3y ago
Note that while this allows you to create realistic humans in Unreal Engine, at the end of the day they're still just regular 3D models or meshes that you have to use 3D software to manually take actions on. Basically you have to do al
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by samspenc 3y ago
Folks on Reddit's /r/pcmasterrace have been discussing this for years - the consensus seems to be that Nvidia could add more VRAM to its GPUs without too much additional cost - but they don't want to, in order to pus
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by samspenc 3y ago
I think both this comment and GP comment are true in their own ways. Nvidia is still pushing the gaming / 3D industry faster than its competitors and I would still recommend an Nvidia card for reliability and performance over others. B
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Thanks, didn't realize Verge was also paywalled these days.
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Summary of the video at Subsip: https://subsip.io/summary?youtubeUrl=AKMuA_TVz3A These are the main topics: - Understanding Unsupervised Learning and Distribution Matching - An Unsupervised Learning Framework Using Co
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I had the same question initially, was a bit confused by the Umbrel reference at the top, but there's a section right below it titled "Install LlamaGPT anywhere else" which I think should work on any machine. As an aside, Umb
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by samspenc 3y ago
Ah fascinating, just curious, what's the technical blocker? I thought most of the Llama models were optimized to run on GPUs?
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Yeah was surprised to see Computer Science and some other 'hot fields' in the list of programs getting downsized as well, wonder if there just wasn't that much demand for these majors in this particular college?
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Ha ha nice that the links actually work ... and lead to more GPT-4 generated content :D
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Ha, thanks for sharing this, I played with it and it was a nice fun demo, glad the Refine team had a sense of fun while putting together working demos :)
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by samspenc 3y ago
> - OpenAI: you can host an OSS model if you want to Just to confirm: you mean models like Facebook's Llama 2 and variants right? Since OpenAI hasn't released any OSS models.
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Grinding to $1M in revenue over 6 years (2021)(jasonmccreary.me)
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Is Laravel (PHP) the happiest developer community on the planet?(github.com)
5 points by samspenc 3y ago|1 comments

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