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by thundergolfer 7mo ago
The ‘brow’ standards have dropped significantly, in a process Fussell has described as the general proletarianization of culture. For a long time films that would be considered niche and arthouse were middlebrow, because film itself was at
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by thundergolfer 7mo ago
At some point, yes, they absolutely would struggle.
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by thundergolfer 7mo ago
Few things push AI bull spirits on me like seeing these kind of (pretty much correct) diagnoses of the challenges of AI in society. The proposed solutions are utterly fanciful. They rely on the presence of social and political competencies
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
Experiencing life not as living but as an anticipated memory.
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
I agree with the core premise that the big AI companies are fundamentally driven towards advertising revenue and other antagonistic but profit-generating functionality. Also agree with paxys that the social implications here are deep and tr
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
> There are no great FaaS options for running GPU workloads modal.com exists now
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
This is an absolutely beautiful personal website. Go click around it, there's so many 'wow' moments. Go to the homepage ( https://maximeheckel.com/ ) and then click 'about', the transition is :chefski
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
https://github.com/butter-dot-dev/bvisor is pushing in that direction
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
yeh of course I worked with him for a few years! Agree, smartest person I've ever worked with, and there's a smart crowd at Modal.
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
Modal engineer here. This isn’t correct. You can DIY this but certainly not by wrapping EC2 which is using the Nitro hypervisor and is not optimized for startup time. Nearly all players in this space use Gvisor or Firecracker.
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
Fair, though my guess is that the growth rate of Waymo's market cap will far exceed Google's as Waymo scales. I wish I could invest in Waymo, so I'll take that 2.7% exposure.
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
I presume if you invest in Google you are indirectly (but significantly) invested in Waymo, like it is with Anthropic? Waymo is the best service I've used in many, many years. The jump from Uber->Waymo is similar to the quality jump
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
The G stands for "Google", does it not?
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
Totally agree, and this is covered in an (identically named?) Google Research blog [1]. Just last week I was writing a demo-focused Python file called `safetykit.py`, which has its first demo as this: def praise_dryrun(dryrun: bool =
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by thundergolfer 8mo ago
Whether Nystrom realizes it or not, and I think he does, this piece is shot through with Marxist thinking on use value, exchange value, socially necessary labour time, and the general structure of capital social relations. Capitalism has be
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
It does pretty obviously read as descriptive. I think people just uncharitably read it.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
You're not misunderstanding, the PCIe does indeed outperform on the memory bandwidth tests. But it gets dominated on FLOP/s and real-world application bencharks.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Author here. That 1:50-100 ratio looks roughly right based on my research, but my numbers have GPUs faring even worse. Component Type MTBF (yrs) AFR ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Was the LLM using vision capabilities to verify the correctness of it's work? If so, how was that verification method guided by you?
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
The first 500+ words of this article are focused almost exclusively on the dynamics of corporate capitalism, not AI. Read the article.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
I definitely see what you're saying, but: > has come at everyone, equally, all at once is not true. It's obvious that certain people and certain fields are technological laggards or technological early adopters. Other computing
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Read my comment again. I deliberately did not use the word "teachers". > education academics and professionals
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
I've listened to a handful of podcasts with education academics and professionals talking about AI. They invariably come across as totally lost, like a hen inviting a fox in to help watch the eggs. It's perhaps to be expected, as
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Thought this would be a thread about the crazy offers being handed out to join AI teams at Amazon, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, or any of the massively capitalized 'neolabs'.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
Hey, author here :) I wrote this as a first step in exposing our internal GPU reliability management, inspired in large part by SemiAnalysis' focus on industry best practices in the ClusterMax report and Lepton's `gpud`. NVIDIA GP
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
"selling premade software assets" is a business, and it's the business both Tailwind and Envato were in. Both businesses got hit hard by AI. Check out Envato's homepage now. It's unrecognizable from what it was in 2
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
It is a business. Envato was a billion dollar business in 2017. I agree that AI makes these kinds of businesses vulnerable, but it's overstepping to say that these things aren't businesses.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
haha, of course it was posted by eatonphil. I doubt 47 points was enough to get anywhere near the top of the front page? To me this is way too impressive for 47 points and 6 comments.
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by thundergolfer 9mo ago
This has been posted to HN about a half dozen times now and never taken off, so apologies but this needs an editorialized title. "Dude comes out of nowhere, posts one of the most impressive tech demos/environments ever seen, refus
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The most impressive 15min tech demo you've never seen [video](youtube.com)
14 points by thundergolfer 9mo ago|5 comments

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