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by shrimpx 3y ago
No. This paper is not about returning a copy of the database with the updates applied. It is about a "normalized join" query type. Edit: clarification.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I don't think it's talking about returning a database per se. Their contribution seems to be a new type of query that, instead of using joins to join together results from many tables into a single denormalized output "table,
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by shrimpx 3y ago
There's also the race to "AGI" -- companies spending tens of billions on training, hoping they'll hit a major intelligence breakthrough. If they don't hit anything significant that would have been money (mostly) dow
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by shrimpx 3y ago
The valuation is meaningful in the sense of "Mistral sells 22.5% of company to VC firms."
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by shrimpx 3y ago
It’s true. “Making the worlds knowledge accessible” is in tension with driving traffic to ads. It would be astonishing if a company can succeed at scale with charging subscriptions for search and AI services, instead of ads. Google would be
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Google is pretty good at short-answer questions (the occasional summary at the top can do a good job, and "people also ask" section can be pretty good) but if you ask something like "What are all the tax implications of movin
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Good point. Something else that occurs to me is that Google may be between a rock and a hard place with their advertisers. Currently advertisers pay a lot of money for top of the page "sponsored" results, and there's probably
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Google is kind of becoming a "System for double-checking if GPT is hallucinating". IMO Google should convert their search box to a Bard chat input, and you get a hybrid of Bard conversation with real links from their search engine
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Same here. I also built a few web backends using Apache mod_perl, which was insanely fast compared to CGI.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
It was my first language, too, that I learned to write “serious” programs in. I just didn’t think a prominent modern company would choose Perl as their main language. Props to them.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> If you're curious, we mostly use Perl. Holy crap, really?!
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by shrimpx 3y ago
It doesn't have doors that open "like this" though.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
That paragraph sounds like Ilya is in a gray zone of being fired or quitting.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I’m with you. The (apparently, very highly coordinated) employees should sign a public letter explaining why they wanted Altman back so badly.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Auto formatting tools like prettier and black didn’t use to be essential but they’re quickly becoming essential. Just look at the growth curves for pip and npm installs. I for one feel like my editor is broken if it doesn’t auto format on s
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by shrimpx 3y ago
It's "foundational" in the sense that it gets 30M weekly `npm install`s which is up 500% from 4 years ago and growing. Js/Ts projects depend on it heavily.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> You may not be aware but thanks to all those donations, we've been able to pay two people $1.5k/month for the past two years to keep shipping. Fisker Cheung and Sosuke Suzuki have done an incredible job! It's incredible
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by shrimpx 3y ago
The market has become fairly predictable, with the big tech companies being agile enough to hop on every new trend and expand their monopoly power in there. Until there's a massive disruption, the trend will continue. Disruption would
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Andrej Karpathy's "Zero to Hero" series on YouTube is the ultimate guide to building LLMs. Extremely information-dense but as complete as it gets: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs..
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Things can be really complex and fully explainable at the same time. A program could have millions of variables and you could zoom in on a variable and explain its purpose exactly. In a neural net, the creators of the neural net in general
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by shrimpx 3y ago
From now on we need to actively lash back/keep eyes wide open whenever a SV exec/founder starts spreading their cynical PR about “benefiting humanity”, “connecting humanity”, “opening things up for all of humanity to enjoy”, “maki
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> AI has already evolved to the point where it is impossible to predict with any accuracy it's answers to inputs. Btw neural nets have always been black boxes, with ppl scratching their heads wondering what’s in those weights.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
The crazy thing is people at large didn’t know anything about “AI safety” until these very companies started peddling the concept in the political sphere and media. The very companies who were doing the opposite of this concept they adverti
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by shrimpx 3y ago
This reminds me of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where the protagonist realizes there is no "truth" and everything is rhetoric.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
That doesn't sound credible or revealing. It's regurgitating a bunch of speculation stuff that's been said on this forum and in the media.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Hard to defend this level of flex, though: > Mr. Altman, the chief executive, recently made a move to push out one of the board’s members because he thought a research paper she had co-written was critical of the company. It's like
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by shrimpx 3y ago
5% annualized on 4% inflation is a joke. I don't consider "high yield" savings to be any kind of strategy.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I'm just saying that they should stop talking about "safety", while they are releasing AI tech as fast as possible.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Shipping broken product is a typical strategy to gain first mover advantage and try to build a moat. Even if it's mostly broken, if it's high value, people will do sign up and try to use it. Alternatively, you can restrict signups
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by shrimpx 3y ago
He went full-bore on commercialization, scale, and growth. He started to ignore the 'non-profit mission'. He forced out shoddy, underprovisioned product to be first to market. While talking about safety out one side of his mouth,

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