vineyardmike

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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
The answer is far more benign. They getting a higher ROI renting their TPUs to Anthropic et al instead of performing training and serving their own models. Google cloud has insane backlog, and has rapidly expanded to satisfy it. While those
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> Injecting more money into the film industry would just lead it to the same people at the top of it where they'll produce the same mediocre output as they have for ages Not necessarily, if you apply discipline and intentionality. C
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Goodwill is supposedly €1.504B.
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> Are you trying to be sarcastic or funny? I can't tell. Take a liberal arts class and your reading comprehension may improve. > knows what a partial differential equation is. I’ve met a few but tbh that’s a pretty weird way to j
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> You neither need not count on someone who wrote a thesis on 'feminist perspective of aztek dance' I like how we just make up fake arguments in incoherent grammar as a reason to criticize the humanities. There'd be irony
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Did you read the article? As it highlights elegantly, "liberal arts" is about the educational methodology and structure, not the course material. You can learn STEM subjects in a liberal arts education. > fairly easily... not s
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> The education was in learning how to learn, learning how to solve problems, and how to distinguish fact from fiction Sounds pretty close to a liberal arts education. That said, not everything is about a job or work. Sometimes (usually)
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> west points the wastefulness of western labs whether in terms of gpu clusters being ran, cost of inference. Can’t possibly be intentional media strategy by a geopolitical target, right? If its going to negatively impact valuations and
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Great reading list! They’re honestly two stories that I reflect on constantly while thinking about AI lately. Player Piano, not to spoil anything, is about a world run by engineers and machines. The machines are “optimal” and make every dec
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Anyone who says that shit publicly says crazier shit privately. Half the quotes floating around came from his resume and courses he was selling. So presumably the more polished material. (2024) > for example in private i say “fat people”
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Billionaires use Gmail alongside impoverished people across the world.
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Many tests penalize incorrect answers worse than blank answers. As a famous example, you were incentivized to leave questions blank on the American SATs (until somewhat recently).
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
They (OpenAI) also made many more deals to acquire compute before they actually had the revenue to support it. They paraded around the world making deals with everyone and anyone. By doing it earlier, they got way better unit prices. Anthro
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Most of this hand-wringing on price will go away. My assumption is that Anthropic, OpenAI, Kimi, etc all have a similar cost structure when serving models. The same size model roughly generates the same GPU usage whether you’re American o
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> How is the "world" model different from plain dependency injection? In addition to what the other comment said, this "world" model is great for hermetic testing of complex code, LLM written or not. We've seen e
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
> I just want every medical service to have this exact type of breakdown Check out the "No Surprises Act" https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-pric...
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
The goal is not for meta to take their market, the goal would be for meta to damage their competitors. If meta releases an open-weight LLM that is not Chinese made, cheaper to run than the SOTA premiums, etc, it would lower the number of pe
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
That's basically a variant of a subscription, but one where the end user churns aggressively. It's worse in many ways too - it's a lot harder to gauge interest as the developer to understand how well any update will sell, and
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
It needs to be safe (including from pollution), but you could absolutely just walk around the parking lot.
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
> Some random person discovered a 60% across the board gain in all LLMs, using an extremely simple trick that none of the labs noticed in all these years of multi-trillion dollar growth DeepSeek published a pretty well circulated paper o
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
Nah it's BS. It's American-flavored capitalism that's the issue, and it's crushing the free-market. I live in SF - the densest US city on the west coast, and the densest US city after NYC. We have city-owned "dark f
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
I only-kinda-jokingly say that I'd be willing to be the sacrifice and get a second mortgage on my house if it could buy the entire nation some new rights. Our politicians routinely sell out smaller issues for "downpayment in a coa
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
> Google was back and was going to end up ultimately beating the rest because they have their own TPUs Meanwhile Claude, ChatGPT, etc all now run at least partially on TPUs. At the same time, Anthropic, Meta, and others are buying TPU ha
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
FWIW I agree with you, but it doesn't add much to the conversation to leave a comment saying so. I also agree with the comment you're replying to as well - the vitriol and anger, along with the "this is just another blockchai
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
At my company, this was the explicitly stated and shared goal from management. "We can't know all the parts of our business that AI can do a good job automating [because it's so new] but we also don't want to be the last
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
My curiosity is not the free AI summaries (which they can opaquely tune as necessary), but instead the renting of TPUs to Anthropic and OpenAI. Many of these contracts were announced last minute and seemed to involve a very desperate Anthro
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
No. This isn’t a passive “walked by the window” thing that you might have unwittingly viewed. To actively search for open cameras by crawling every IP then creating a tool to see them, then choosing to watch the footage is a very active,
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
They have a self-test you can take to compare yourself to the models, and one of the questions ends in “…even if some economists warn about bad outcomes from this” That’s a crazy bias to throw into a question. Especially because it’s a rela
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
> What _is_ Google DeepMind doing I feel like it has been pretty visible about what’s happening, between their press and products and financial statements. It’s just not what people are accustomed to expect. First, Google has become a ma
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by vineyardmike 3mo ago
They literally had a productionized transformer model (translate) which was the inspiration for all of this. The famous paper was written about a productionized ML Model. They also had a productionized LLM in search (known as 'mums

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