svara

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by svara 11mo ago
Yes but this is incredibly competitive and undifferentiated. It's a huge market but who will it be a profitable business for? Likely a company or multiple who own some sort of platform that people are already on, so not OpenAI. What th
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by svara 11mo ago
I wrote this comment [0] very recently and when I wrote it had in mind that Cloudflare might very well end up being a key player in a more centralized Internet that has developed far away from its original architecture. Defense against thre
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by svara 11mo ago
The Internet has really been an interesting case study for what happens between people when you remove a varying number of layers of social control. All the way back to the early days of Usenet really. I would hate to see it but at the same
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by svara 11mo ago
Almost every company in Facebook's position in 2005 would have disappeared into irrelevance by now. Somehow it's one of the most valuable businesses in the world instead. I don't know him, but, if not him, who else would be r
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by svara 11mo ago
Perceived quality is relative. It's roughly linearly related to rank position along some dimension, but moving up in rank requires exponential effort due to competition.
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by svara 11mo ago
One of the great understated reasons for using 'cool' programming languages is that it allows a business to hire selectively for people for whom programming is a passion.
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by svara 1y ago
The way I remember it the Linux kernel compiled really reliably back then. It would take a few hours though.
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by svara 1y ago
Great point, you might dream of long range connections sending solar energy from the day into the night around the world. But, what exactly do you mean by fragility? In what way are they fragile?
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by svara 1y ago
In a country as conservative as yours, if you're culturally in line with the 'coastal elites' (forgive my use of this term), you can't expect a stable majority by being uncompromising.
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by svara 1y ago
Of course the business needs to work as a business too . I'm not saying that's not real, I'm saying it's reductionist to say it's only that. Put another way, you need to have an answer to the question: Why should
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by svara 1y ago
This is too reductionist. When you go to work, do you go maximize shareholder value? Were you ever part of a team and felt good about the work you were doing together? Was it because you were maximizing shareholder value?
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by svara 1y ago
I usually try not to be so cynical but just couldn't resist here: What if the future of human connection is to replace it with para social relationships that can be monetized? That said I am not cynical about mission statements like th
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by svara 1y ago
I believe I heard that argument since before jupyter became popular. Usually it was accompanied by saying that the time needed to write code is often more important than the time it takes to run, which is also often true. All that said, jup
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by svara 1y ago
The counterargument used to be, the heavy lifting will be offloaded to python modules written in C, like numpy. Which was true, but maybe not the strongest argument. Why not use a faster language in the first place? But it's different
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by svara 1y ago
It's the internal surface area. Like saying 10 grams of Swiss cheese has X surface area in its holes on average.
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by svara 1y ago
> You should also remove any students from classrooms whom routinely distract from others' learning. Might very well be the bored gifted ones...
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by svara 1y ago
This should be a good starting point: https://docs.jax.dev/en/latest/jax.numpy.html A lot of this really is a drop in replacement for numpy that runs insanely fast on the GPU. That said you do need to adapt to its
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by svara 1y ago
I don't think it's luck. They invested in CUDA long before the AI hype. They quietly (at first) developed general purpose accelerators for a specific type of parallel compute. It turns out there are more and more applications bein
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by svara 1y ago
When you look at total real returns over longer time scales, the current period in time is not unusual. https://totalrealreturns.com/s/SPY We're not far from the long term trend of 6.15%/yr on the S&P500,
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by svara 1y ago
> Deutsche Bank recently said that the AI hype is the only thing holding the US stock market together. Doesn't sound right. Russel 2000 is up ~10% YTD.
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by svara 1y ago
I'm perfectly happy reading different, well-argued cases in a magazine even if they contradict each other.
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by svara 1y ago
> I've never had any issue with Cursor Glad it's working for you but I think you might be the only one!
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by svara 1y ago
> What do you mean? Modulo is not a perfect hash function It's a perfect hash function for the case where you work with ints and know the maximal min-max range beforehand; then you can modulo by the size of the range as long as it&#
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by svara 1y ago
How will this work exactly? I think I have a pretty good idea of what AI can do for software engineering, because I use it for that nearly every day and I experiment with different models and IDEs. The way that has worked for me is to make
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by svara 1y ago
I mean, true obviously, but don't say that too loud lest people get the wrong ideas. For most practical purposes n^2 means computer stops working here . Getting people to understand that is hard enough already ;) Besides, often you&#x
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by svara 1y ago
> As was said, the engineering task is identifying the problem and decomposing it. In my experience if you do this and break the problem down into small pieces, the AI can implement the pieces for you. It can save a lot of time typing an
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by svara 1y ago
I didn't know this term but it really resonates. A general lack of seriousness in nearly everything is a defining aspect of our time, it seems.
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by svara 1y ago
> Why WOULD it be assumed to be possible to get some solid generalized output via next token prediction when we haven’t seen it yet? Because it's such a general concept that it doesn't imply any important limits in and of itsel
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by svara 1y ago
I think not having those instant answers available is a big part of why your mind wanders in that setting.
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by svara 1y ago
This is a perfectly fine line of argument imo but the GP didn't say that. LLM research is trying out a lot of different things that move away from just training on next token prediction, and I buy the argument that not doing anything e

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