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by vessenes 11mo ago
Boy I'd like to see some hard numbers here - there are lots of estimates of more efficiency, but the press release didn't have any experimental results. Which is too bad, because anything that lowers energy burden of water harvest
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by vessenes 11mo ago
For sure. And, to quote the Systems Bible: Any complex working system is only the result of the growth of a simple working system. It works. It worked then, and it works now. That doesn’t mean we have to like it. Replacing it is likely impo
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by vessenes 11mo ago
It was definitely on the order of hours for large code bases - the Microsoft Excel team passed out punishment “suckers” for those who broke the build - causing 100+ people to not have a new working build to look at and test. Linux kernel co
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Quick note that JavaScript was written in ten days by Brendan Eich. Ken Thompson built Unix over a 30 day period. Youth - go forth and build us something cool! It might work out.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Cool. My one concern with this is that it has no horizontally scannable note/chord mode. It’s super common for humans to read a sequence of notes left to right, or write it that way, but it’s also just more efficient in terms of scanni
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Their hyper scale data centers are super compelling. And they get OpenAI IP for some time. I don’t think we’ve really seen what they want to launch on the product side yet. Satya mentioned recently that computer use agents use like 5x the w
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Thanks for the post - it's work to write and synthesize, and I always appreciate it! My first reaction was "replace 'AI' with the word 'Cloud'" ca 2012 at MS; what's novel here? With that in mind, I&#
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Unless you're a benefit corp, this is true for private companies as well. Quick q - which of the AI companies are benefit corps?
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by vessenes 11mo ago
You did not parse that article properly. It regurgitates only what everyone else keeps saying: when you conflate R&D costs with operating costs, then you can say these companies are 'unprofitable'. I'd propose with a prop
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by vessenes 11mo ago
https://www.vulture.com/article/mad-men-hbo-max-4k-rerelease... has more. Some finger-pointing going on here right now - HBO claims they got 'incorrect files' from Lionsgate. Either way we had clankers doing
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by vessenes 11mo ago
The moment you knew they were serious was when they pulled Jeff Dean in and paired him with Demis. That was, I imagine, a very expensive move to make internally, (rumors are Dean had wanted to retire / move on), and Demis had nearly un
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by vessenes 11mo ago
From the paper, this is a research model aimed at dealing with the runaway error common in diffusion video models - the latent space is (proposed to be) causal and therefore it should have better coherence. For a 7b model the results look p
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Oooh. This is the first Android device that's tempted me in a long time - this is a credible tablet with DeX and a phone. Then I read the rumored price - $2500 - too much for something I'd use only casually. But, I bet this thing
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Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model(starflow-v.github.io)
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by vessenes 11mo ago
As of August, 18A yield was reportedly in the 10% range. I would be surprised if anybody committed to 14A purchases right now.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
I mean.. true. Also, DeepSeek has good cred so far on delivering roughly what their PR says they are delivering. My prior would be that their papers are generally credible.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
I thought your question was great. I read the Dwarkesh post as scratch space for working out his thinking - so, closer to a shower thought. But also, an attempt to do what he’s really great at, which is distill and summarize at a “random en
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Counterpoint: much of academia is creating and learning these shorthands. They are genuinely useful - humans have limited context space in their heads, so this compression allows them to work in larger problem spaces. Classic example: Einst
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by vessenes 11mo ago
So grumpy! Please pick up the torch and educate the world better; it can only help.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
No state infrastructure available to protect them, among many other considerations.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
"If they had a perfectly normalized database, no NULLing and formally verified code, this bug would not have happened." That may be. What's not specified there is the immense, immense cost of driving a dev org on those terms.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Oooh, this is very interesting and timely. Thank you, reading it now. Out of curiosity, what's the motivation for Bitcoin-Core? Is it comparing mempool txs?
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by vessenes 11mo ago
I’ve only used the playground. But I think they are actual meshes - they don’t have any of the weird splat noise at the edge of the objects, and they do not seem to show similar lighting artifacts to a typical splat rendering.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
So I think this backs my point - when she's referring to Opera, she's referring to a modern conception of opera, not an 18th century concept of opera. I agree that's more normal sounding.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Hmm. Interesting; that surprises me. Enough that I did some googling: here's a quote from reddit that sounds more like what I'd expect: > Japan has by far the best combat sports audience in the world. Most of the time they
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Thanks for the detailed response! I completely missed the band division / similarity plan - I’ll read more thoroughly next time. I thought about geo largely because it radically changes the order of magnitude of work necessary; it lets
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by vessenes 11mo ago
Nice idea! Both for woven goods and I guess parts.
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by vessenes 11mo ago
She talks for a while about how the Circus Maximus was really where the fun was (250k spectators, chariot races, betting, mixed seating). That sounds super fun. However, she also pitches that the Coliseum was like going to the opera - forma
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by vessenes 11mo ago
There are a couple of difficult cryptographic-type problems with this plan. (Which I like, by the way). I don’t think it’s privacy preserving, and I also don’t think it works well for finding shared locations as currently specified. Also, t
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by vessenes 11mo ago
I believe Google Maps on iOS can tell you where you are on the Underground. But I presume it’s not using GPS, as you say.

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