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by sinenomine 4y ago
What changed since v1?
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Maybe the right way of approaching this is setting up a crypto fundraiser to opensource the hardware once some threshold is reached. This could implement a kickstarter-like mechanics of fund returns for underperforming fundraisers at the sm
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Secure your career, isn't it obvious?
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by sinenomine 4y ago
No offense meant, but maybe you "see in-office interaction as being such a compelling experience" because you enjoy wielding power over people? Well, many people don't enjoy being on the other side of this interaction, and pr
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by sinenomine 4y ago
The resources required are peanuts compared to funding of moderate silicon valley startups. There are estimates of GPT-4 training run priced around 10e6$ There is no culture of trusting engineers with this kind of money almost everywhere ex
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Without assuming an answer, the social status of physical labor should be elevated compared to where it is now. Ideally, the social status of the "email class" should be lowered as well, and no, I'm not talking about just pro
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by sinenomine 4y ago
That's why opensource AI is trailing behind proprietary implementations. Sad!
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by sinenomine 4y ago
> I find it to be a useful heuristic for general software engineering competency. So, like an IQ test without naming it an IQ test?
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Open competition would still provide a better outcome for us, commoners, than a quiet race to supremacy by any one given team.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Unimpressive post, we need a better and honest treatise of this topic. The impending replacement is real.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
> I think modern over-parenting by high income / HCOL area / high status couples takes sort of the worst of these approaches and produces a lot of precocious, stressed out, cardboard cutout, downwardly mobile youth. The exceedi
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by sinenomine 4y ago
There is Spyder which is pretty similar: https://www.spyder-ide.org/
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by sinenomine 4y ago
TPU is a pretty conservative design, there are 2x...5x speedups available with full-stack optimization, and then some.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
> Even the mere suggestion of renting a dedicated server provokes scorn from devops teams. There is a method to the madness, here it is called "job-security-driven development".
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by sinenomine 4y ago
The amount of disdain academically inclined people express towards reductionist engineering-first paradigms is hilarious and depressing. The denial of obviously fertile paradigm feels like such a useless self-defeating loss to indulge in an
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by sinenomine 4y ago
At a moderate distance, assuming LAION OpenAssistant and/or Carper.ai deliver.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
"The entropy-pool, a reservoir of dumped complexity"
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by sinenomine 4y ago
It is impressive that we seem conditioned into attaching good sentiment to low birth rates in our considerations, while in reality it's going to make us suffer later in life. Life in a society with high dependency ratio will be necessa
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Regardless of the potential nootropic effect discussed in the blogpost, the circulatory system (heart) benefits are pretty well studied and proven: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22370-2 though require cons
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Regardless of personal reports you mention, choline is a very interesting substance due to demonstrated long-term attention benefits in children after being administered to their mothers during pregnancy: https://faseb.onlineli
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Blue zones of longevity are likely more related to zones of pension fraud than to longevity, but still, the paper in question needs double-checking. Even if it turns out to be false, thanks for posting. Longevity is an underappreciated topi
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by sinenomine 4y ago
This could be precisely the reason various groups seek representation not just in parliament, but in important three-letter agencies as well. In the end, the amount of power in the world is finite, and natural power-strivers participate in
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Now this is so tiring and old ... I know it is too much to ask, but perhaps try to reflect a bit on the real sources for these kinds of thoughts? Are you sure this is not an elaborate coping mechanism to stay away from realizations that
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by sinenomine 4y ago
https://themotte.org has a decent standard of discussion.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Big Tech vs Big Government vs The Intelligence Community vs NGO blub to be more precise.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Surely various gentleman agreements are in place.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
There is Reason who runs a successful biotech company, and his corpus of writing at https://fightaging.org His commentary on new papers in ageing is pretty good, in my opinion. He has a good coverage of NIA ITP trials as well:
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by sinenomine 4y ago
Sinclair's media pull given his tarnished reputation in biotech https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sirtris-compounds-... is truly something to witness.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
The model is large and every instance likely (not sure about the absolute degree they optimized the model) requires several GPUs (or high-grade accelerators) to run at a moderate speed. Read the papers.
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by sinenomine 4y ago
If you really measure what is being run, it is more likely well-optimized CUDA GPU assembly kernels - or, at this point - might be already some exotic TPU-like accelerator assembly. This hubris over the top-level language in the system is s

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