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by xiphias2 3y ago
,,Sadly, this employee had to sell up his green gold to pay for losses when his broker “margined his account with another stock that fell 90%'' It wasn't just pure luck for the person who didn't use margin trading, like
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by xiphias2 3y ago
> so unless the prediction itself is uncertainty (which it should rarely be based on the training corpus, I think) Why shouldn't you ask for uncertainaty? I love asking for scores / probabilities (usually give a range, like 0.0
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by xiphias2 3y ago
At that point Netflix should just provide its own VPN / internet access for paying users
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by xiphias2 3y ago
The word scaling has multiple definitions. It's not just the same hardware getting cheaper over time, there have been many architectural improvements: - Better training algorithms for training with lower precision - fastattention
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by xiphias2 3y ago
Even if those ,,small amounts'' were 5% of net worth of some people (which was not uncommon), the same small amount would consist of more than 99% of the net worth of the same people currently. As Android wallets were the easiest
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by xiphias2 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6195493
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by xiphias2 3y ago
Talking directly to the kernel / driver / firmware. As others have said, George Hotz is doing his best in reverse-engineering and skipping layers.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
That same bug is still open, not fixed. Azure announced access to AMD GPU cloud with NDA, but the cards are unusable for compute work as they lock up randomly.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
A shortened version of what was happening: the firmware / hardware is so bad that instead of fixing it the AMD team just added some restarts when the AMD card locks up (which happens all the time with computatiins), and even those rest
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by xiphias2 3y ago
NVIDIA was confident enough to come out with FP4 cards for training, so 16 bit floats are not the best that can be done. As most hardware speedups over the years came from decreasing precision, I'm sure NVIDIA tries everything to make
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by xiphias2 3y ago
If you want to see an extrema of people being afraid to speak up, just look at the Gemini image examples in a company that in theory encourages people to speak up. There are always topics that are exceptions.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
Accoding to the CEO (Michael Saylor) most of the price premium comes from institutions like pension funds not being allowed to directly hold BTC, but they are allowed to a ratio of the money in stocks. At the same time they need exposure to
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by xiphias2 3y ago
Actually NVIDIA just took over Saudi Aramco, but they are sharing 3rd position.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
Progress is definitely not inremental, it's exponential. The same performance (training an LLM with a given perplexity) can be achieved 5x cheaper next year while the amount of money deep learning infrastructure gets increases exponent
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by xiphias2 3y ago
I see, do you think just _starting_ with payed product would have been better? (Or starting with a product + open source tools for marketing?) BTW good luck to scaling up to $60k / month, it will be fun
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by xiphias2 3y ago
For many years before that we (Googlers) were incentivized to mix work and life: Do you really think playing pool,foosball, guitar hero, eating dinner at 18:30 when work hours end at 17:00, bringing kids to workplace on weekends to play, sl
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by xiphias2 3y ago
One important thing the author got from working on open source is free feedback (issues). I don't view people taking the time to open issues as entitled people, but people offering their free time providing invaluable feedback. Those i
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by xiphias2 3y ago
James Damore spoke up and Google made an example of him. The company already changed a lot before, but it was a strong signal that speaking up will be punished no matter how good engineer you are .
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by xiphias2 3y ago
I believe radical is a better wording than extreme, as the goal of Milei's politics is trying to make life better through a non-violent manner for all non-corrupt citizens. Even Milei knows it that he's running an experiment, and
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by xiphias2 3y ago
They are using RingAttention that scales self attention computation linearly by number of devices by passing KV result blocks in a ring: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01889 (Submitted on 3 Oct 2023)
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by xiphias2 3y ago
I don't really understand what's new here compared to what SIMDJSON supported already. Anyways, it's the best JSON parser I found (in any language), I implemented fastgron ( https://github.com/adamritter/f
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by xiphias2 3y ago
It's standard protocol to take part in cancer trials after cancer stops responding to all approved treatments. Of course this article is different from organized trials.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
The ad model already went to take attribution / conversion from different sources into account (although there's a lot of spammy implementations), but it took many years for Google to make youtube / mobile ads profitable, and
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by xiphias2 3y ago
It's not always the case. US government is still holding more than 100000 Bitcoins from the 200k it seized. It's a great way for governments to hold BTC without raising suspicion of ,,advocating for'' it.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
Probably nobody knows the answer, but we will know in a year or two. Nobody will be too surprised if the medicine will be retracted, as it was a very controversial approval process.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
As there are many people working on the same code base, change should be hard, it's a good thing. As it takes a lot of time to go through the process of changing things, make sure to invest time in deciding what that change should be (
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by xiphias2 3y ago
,,Hard pass on that "settlement." Just like Craig Wright forges documents and doesn't quite tell the truth, his description of the settlement offer isn't quite accurate either - it comes with loopholes that would allow h
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by xiphias2 3y ago
The point is that OKRs are good only if anybody from the company can track if / how much they are contributing to the company goals. It only works if the key results have a clear metric.
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by xiphias2 3y ago
10-20 years ago it was always the same (before Amit Singhal was kicked out): precision +X% / recall +X% for Google search
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by xiphias2 3y ago
I would strongly support focusing on getting rid of wood / coal burning first instead of going for much more efficient gas. An import tax on coal burning countries (especially China) would push the incentives in the right direction ins

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