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by vessenes 4mo ago
In Plowing the Dark (2000), Richard Powers suggests that a globe-based visualization would give you a lot more if you could put your head inside it. Nice topological idea -- can I suggest you add it?
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by vessenes 4mo ago
I don’t know either, but I am aware that in glyph based languages (and this article makes the case that Arabic has some glyph-like features), there is considerable social discussion about the equivalents, like pinyin. Detractors worry that
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Ironically seven perfectly interleaved riffle shuffles will return a deck to its original order, so the title is spectacularly wrong for one famous result. Also the new result is cool! (14 semi bad riffle shuffles are sufficient to mix)
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by vessenes 4mo ago
The headline buried the lede -- this is a way to get some summer vacation (niiice) AND encourage enterprise support contracts, which will still have availability. I don't think I've heard of this particular open source / supp
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Oh the project seems cool, no doubt. I'm talking more about text like: > # Why It Can't Fully Work > # Wall 2 — EMDF keyed authentication (the decisive one) > coregraft = a real Dolby core + our metadata → Dolby S
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by vessenes 4mo ago
It seems to me that there’s a lot of math in the middle of this that just doesn’t matter that much: every photon hitting every part of the array is going to add energy. Whatever percent we transform into data doesn’t matter — all the energy
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by vessenes 4mo ago
These modern readmes written by claude have this unusual combination of density and lack of information at the same time that I think is pretty interesting. I’ve generated many of them myself, and they largely read the same to me, without m
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by vessenes 4mo ago
I’d invert - given their significant competition for government business, what would be a reason for not doing this?
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Trump reportedly was disinterested in SBF money. During his tenure, SBF leaned left - with Clinton and others as paid speakers for events.
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by vessenes 4mo ago
You have to be precise: the gov blocked “export” of the model (search for ITAR for a lengthy history on this), and Anthropic picked up its ball and went home. I’m willing to bet internally they thought this was a good plan from the beginnin
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by vessenes 4mo ago
The issue is that it’s fundamentally a religious organization. All religious orgs do things that seem irrational / harmful to unusual groups / off-kilter from capitalist orgs. It would be nice if they slid on over to a more typica
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Simon: s/contendor/contender/ As per usual super interesting, thank you for the write up and work!
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Ahh interesting. There are companies making good money doing private equity dd work, largely custom harnesses. A lot of open space right now.
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Yes, vastly. It’s not hard to do it ethically: “I’m short. Here’s why.”
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by vessenes 4mo ago
To be clear, nobody WANTS to have to go build all these datacenters. Well, maybe some pure-play hyperscalers do. But there's an immense amount of economic incentive to be able to do this more efficiently, capital and energy. And, what
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by vessenes 4mo ago
I like how he's started preliminarily saying "Now listen, I don't make any trades on this fine thinking. And that's okay by me." So far below the standards of public markets due diligence. Sadly credulous readers
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by vessenes 4mo ago
It's not clear that there's any sort of durable advantage to the provider here -- in fact, oAI started as the partner with apple a couple of years ago, and is reportedly unhappy with the outcomes. The hard part is not distilling a
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by vessenes 4mo ago
This is all pretty interesting. I think seeing every possible strategy compete with every other one makes for useful conversation, and his summary makes some sense to me, which is depending on ruleset, getting access to a pocket of what Ste
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Interesting. So frontiercode-IBM-Diamond is a thing you’d hope to sell the creation of and certification of? And if it’s published then you’d expect model providers to train to forntiercode-IBM-Pro or whatever and publish it so that it woul
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by vessenes 4mo ago
The reality is that the large banks running these IPOs will know, to an extreme level of granularity, how much demand for the IPO there is at the chosen price point, and will advise accordingly. None of the companies needs an IPO right no
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Yes.
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by vessenes 4mo ago
SpaceX IPO is slated to be $75-80bn — the market has size for that. We also have seen robust options and finance markets for AAPL and NVDA over the last years that make the broader ecosystem not overly worrying in my armchair opinion. I’m n
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by vessenes 4mo ago
This looks great. Well reasoned, tons of work put into eval, thanks for building it. It strikes me as kind of wild that good evals can drive tens to hundreds of millions of dollars of compute deployment in the wild — there’s something new a
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by vessenes 4mo ago
this is def alpha coded in my opinion - dad of both z and alpha types. we didn't hear about side parts -> it is not gen z
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by vessenes 4mo ago
bet
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by vessenes 4mo ago
For your own safety do not read or be advised by Ed Zitron. By all means skip the SpaceX ipo if you like: makes sense. But Ed is neither perceptive nor correct historically. Case in point: a lockup period ending matching with mandated index
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by vessenes 4mo ago
I agree the cost curve has shifted. But if we take the Mozilla team's Mythos report as a broad baseline, you need to hire something like 10 security engineers to equal the Mythos productivity. Put another way, everyone's under hir
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Yep. I'm a purist and prefer paper. Well, mostly. I do have a digital system that tries to bridge the gap, but it uses a standard-ish paper numbering system (1a2b11..) for a variety of reasons. And, yes, the keeping in order is much of
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Thanks for this. Sounds like some good required summer reading coming up :)
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by vessenes 4mo ago
Ah, interesting!

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