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by ssivark 1mo ago
If you're worried about the markup for loading your digital wallet, what is the markup for any tourist trying to get cash from eg. Thomas Cook? I doubt any tourist could get currency at a significantly cheaper rate.
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by ssivark 1mo ago
Perhaps the authors might have originally been going for "rejection" (of transplant) which then got translated into "disappointment".
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by ssivark 1mo ago
To expand on this: rent is a manifestation opportunity cost for a gated resource. So one person lounging around drinking coffee is no more judged on their activity in and of itself, but compared to the other "industrious" person
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by ssivark 1mo ago
But what does it mean to say "in a world where 0+ strings occur more often"? Typically that's not some immutable fact of nature. It might be merely an artifact of the current state of the world, that could change next year. E
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by ssivark 2mo ago
But your definition of compression as prediction is tautological. How would you operationalize that into a measurable metric of compression? The crucial idea is that once you do that and start optimizing for compression, at some point more
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by ssivark 2mo ago
Nope; there is a bit more nuance and the distinction is important. Compression is functionally equivalent to prediction when the data distribution is exactly representative of all future problems . The story changes drastically if you want
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by ssivark 2mo ago
Here's a thought: once could derive the spectrum of the Markov transition matrix, and assign an entropy to each of the eigenvectors. The dominant eigenvector (highest entropy) would be the ergodic / stationary distribution, but it
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by ssivark 2mo ago
If you want something that's like every other harness then what's the point of considering pi? It's specifically for people who are dissatisfied with other harnesses. Also, you can version control your tweaks and easily sync
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by ssivark 2mo ago
It's already in that minimal but useful state so you can just start and ask it to write code. If you want a more tricked out "starter pack" there's oh-my-pi or lazypi and maybe a few others. But worth being careful what
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by ssivark 2mo ago
Every once in a while I see some feature like app XYZ getting dark mode or spell check pop up on the HN front page. I don't understand why. These are absolutely basic features ever since the turn of the millennium, so why are these bei
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by ssivark 2mo ago
> people only look at the form and ignore the substance of the content. This is largely because most people are incapable of thinking critically and evaluating substance. So they regress to indirect markers of good writing, and the whol
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by ssivark 2mo ago
The core thesis of this essay is reminiscent of the Lisp Curse [1] / Bipolar Lisp Programmer [2]. It's been a few years since I read these, but if I recall the argument there, it was that Lisp makes it so easy to build stuff and
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by ssivark 3mo ago
> All I can say is skill issue I know nothing about you or your code, but till you make your code + workflows public and have all of it reviewed / critiqued (so that other can replicate the performance), it's hard to accept it
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by ssivark 3mo ago
Imagine I want to attend a conference in a different country. Google maps might give turn by turn navigation but that is an overwhelming and largely irrelevant mess of details for most planning purposes. Eg: all I might want to know is the
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by ssivark 3mo ago
Ha, interesting. I wasn't aware of Sutton's blog post, but if I might make a shameless plug, we demonstrated [1] exactly this problem (see section 4.4.3), and how multi-step world models (using diffusion models as the substrate) c
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by ssivark 3mo ago
It'll get paid from revenue , not by redirecting employee salaries. All that AI+compute is literally what customers pay Anthropic for. Big AI labs are not software companies where payroll dominates expenses. They're capex-heavy i
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by ssivark 3mo ago
I doubt they're the first solution to use coordinate based editing, or even the best one right now. Eg: Check out hash-anchored editing. The first place where I recall seeing this was the oh-my-pi coding agent, but I wouldn't be s
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by ssivark 3mo ago
The analysis and synthesis approaches to understanding systems have respectively been the driving forces for two major breakthroughs in 20th century physics: reductionist and emergent phenomena. Reductionism aims to understand a system by r
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by ssivark 3mo ago
If density is the primary factor, why doesn't an American city like NYC have faster/cheaper internet than Switzerland?
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by ssivark 3mo ago
> Without the price cut, Deepseek V4-pro tokens would have cost more than resold Opus 4.8 tokens. You mean it's functionally as if American tokens are being price dumped in China and Chinese model providers are being forced to compe
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by ssivark 3mo ago
Qualcomm seems to be assembling a whole portfolio of technologies/products aimed at 1. Moving beyond ARM to RISC-V 2. Being competitive for AI/could needs instai of just chips for phones and other edge devices. Interesting to see
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by ssivark 3mo ago
I don't understand the justification for local hardware with cost as the motivation. The same (or bigger/better) open weights models can served by third parties at much higher resource utilisation, and will therefore be much cheap
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by ssivark 3mo ago
You need a full ring of sensors to be receiving at all times. The Caltech design has a rotating element that emits once at each location on the ring. The Midjourney design instead uses the same receiver elements to also emit one at a time,
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by ssivark 3mo ago
When we measure the average experience, it's crucial what we are sampling/measuring uniformly to construct that experience. The service provider is choosing to weight all requests uniformly, and average over requests -- some have
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by ssivark 3mo ago
I did a tech deep-dive into the Midjourney tank, and this is basically the origin of that (the first author David Garrett worked at Midjourney for a while) so I have some thoughts on the tech. A ring of devices at 60cm (70cm for Midjourney)
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by ssivark 3mo ago
Yes. IIRC David Garrett (the first author of the Nature paper) also worked at Midjourney in the intervening period.
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by ssivark 4mo ago
When doing auto regressive inference, how often do you do a CUDA kernel call? What is the main bottleneck at the throughputs you're operating?
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by ssivark 4mo ago
When aiming for 100k tok/s, you would still have CUDA overheads (on the order of microseconds) -- which might become the bottleneck, even if you do everything else right with the inference architecture. How are you planning to overcome
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by ssivark 4mo ago
My apologies... I was responding to the above comment / ranting about the general trend and got carried away. Wasn't directed at specifically at your post. I love your second graph; hope the trend catches on as the main graph, ins
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by ssivark 4mo ago
I don't specifically care about Claude -vs- GPT, but comparing models at different amounts of test time compute is a gaping hole. It also means that any unreasonably-expensive token guzzling white-elephant model can top all the benchma

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