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vonneumannstan
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2mo ago
Whats the criteria for getting included on the map? The few I clicked seemed to be clustered at Railyards but were also pretty high quality.
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>The scientific basis for this statement is unclear. Is it? Actually this seems like one of the MOST clear aspects of LLM performance we can measure.
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2mo ago
Idk about other people but the way I usefully use llms to help with study is to treat them as a good tutor. If you are stuck on a problem or need an explanation of a concept it helps greatly. Much of the actual process of studying Math, Phy
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2mo ago
But Micron is overpriced and new capacity is about to come online right? Right???
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2mo ago
Wow how many years of experience with Claude Code and Codex do you have? lol
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2mo ago
>Google is already doing this and has an experimental project on top of already having TPUs and cramming their quantized flash onto individual TPUs for inference. Google is no longer a serious player in frontier AI. I doubt they will eve
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2mo ago
>He apparently had to sell every liquid thing in the portfolio. You can read in their investor letter exactly what happened and where they stand and explicitly they did not sell every liquid thing nor did they sell all their public equit
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2mo ago
Its up 80% on the year. How do your investments compare?
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2mo ago
Honestly I discount any company named after Tolkien lore as most likely evil and probably incompetent.
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2mo ago
Free ChatGPT on Chat mode.
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2mo ago
It's almost always a version of "I used the free version of ChatGPT 10 months ago and it couldn't code well."
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2mo ago
"Distillation doesn't work" lol
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3mo ago
You're misunderstanding my comment. The OP was amazed by people who can manipulate symbols on paper. Von Neumann would have been considered an incredibly POTENT wizard. He actually impacted the world.
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3mo ago
His work was incredibly APPLIED. Which is precisely why he is remembered and lauded. Can anyone here not involved in theoretical math name 5 Fields Medalists? Take out Terry Tao or Andrew Wiles or Gigori Perelman and can you name any Pure M
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>Why should OpenAI (or any frontier lab) be building these systems if they can't get a secure environment / containment right? Yes why indeed. If you take it a step further and we reach a point with superhuman systems then ther
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3mo ago
>Then where do new ideas come from? Do the muses bestow divine creativity upon artists, poets, and musicians? Apparently thats what you believe if you think "creative" ideas just float into brains somehow.
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3mo ago
>GenAI is great at combining existing things in new ways (interpolation). It's terrible at creating new things from scratch (extrapolation). I think you believe a fallacy about how human cognition works if you think we actually do s
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3mo ago
Short answer yes. Slightly longer answer for older text to image models you teach them how to encode images and text into the same latent space. Then you simply do a conversion, take a text input, put it into latent space and then extract t
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3mo ago
If your entire competitive advantage is copying your rival's better product and not making any true innovation or improvement and only delivering a slightly worse product its little different than cheating, yes. >Distillation is not
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How Xi coded. If you just cheat off the top student in your class that's simply a way to get a good GPA.
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3mo ago
Arrogance, vanity, ignorance... etc.
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3mo ago
You can assume they're more or less co-opted by the CCCP so how much do you trust Xi? Mistral isn't even a real player.
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3mo ago
>Data Centers in Space are a practical engineering impossibility, Not really, thermal radiators are well understood and the size needed aren't really that unreasonable. Radiation hardening the GPUs is probably the single hardest pro
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Its like saying Pinochet was one of the least murderous authoritarian dictators. The bar is low...
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>And the jets is a terrible example - you picked one of THE highest regulated industries where NOBODY has a problem with regulation The potential risk from serious AI disasters far far outweighs anything the Airline industry has ever don
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Ah yes all regulation is actually just performative and for capture. Give me a break.
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4mo ago
Not blaming anyone just pointing out how the idea that that generation is actually focused on living more meaningfully is farcical.
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4mo ago
https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics
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4mo ago
Lol what performative shite. Chinese astroturfing 101. You're either mentally ill or a shill.
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4mo ago
90% of them would take an APM position at Google in a heartbeat. This is totally performative.
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