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> IPC is increasing, not flat. Benchmarks going up is not IPC increasing. These are separate things. Please look IPC for the latest GPU's from Nvidia, the latest CPU's from AMD. The IPC is flat. See intel loosing credibility wi
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> Your accountant is not responsible for knowing all the intimate details of your business. You need to tell them! Your accountant as a 3rd party might have this issue. Your accountant that you hire as an employee to help you run your bu
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1y ago
Stack 3 models together, then 4... Congratulations you just have a very expensive simulation of a Baysian function (ish, close enough that one should get the point).
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> BTW, have you tried out your challenges with a LLM? I have they whiff pretty hard. > getting quite good at code synthesis There was a post yesterday about vibe coding basic. It pretty much reflects my experience with code for SBC&#x
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1y ago
> In a way, this is being done. If you look around a little you'll see a bunch of jobs that pay like $50+/hr for anyone with a hard science degree to answer questions. This is one of the ways they're collecting data and tr
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1y ago
> Why wouldn’t 3rd party hardware vendors continue to work on reducing costs of running models locally? Every one wants this to happen they are all trying but... EUV, what has gotten us down to 3nm and less is HARD. Reduction in chip siz
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1y ago
> Model efficiency is outpacing Moore's law. Moores law is dead, has been for along time. There is nothing to outpace. > That's what DeepSeek V3 was about. This would be a foundational shift! What problem in complexity theor
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1y ago
> Once it becomes economical to run a Claude 4 class model locally you'll see a lot more people doing that. Historically these sorts of things happened because of Moores law. Moores law is dead. For a while we have scaled on the bac
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> Those in the agi camp will argue that the alterations are mostly what makes the ai so powerful. And here is a group of people who is painfully unaware of history. Expert systems were amazing. They did what they were supposed to do, and
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> every time, finding the right design partner felt like a black box I just scrolled through your offering and the line "And they're all made out of ticky-tacky. And they all look just the same." From Little Boxes By Malvi
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1y ago
> But given under 0.001% can self-host, I don't see how that can work The place where the web is still great is where you have to be invested to be a real participant. Everyone can yell about politics in a text box on twiter/F
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1y ago
> According to a 2024 report by the software company Salesforce, 62% of these services in Spain are already automated. Today, it’s easier to converse with a machine than with a real person. Whats adorable is that the author thinks this h
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1y ago
> fluid intelligence How about basic intelligence. Kids logic puzzles. https://daydreampuzzles.com/logic-puzzles/ LLM's whiffing hard on these sorts of puzzles is just amusing. It gets even better if you change
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1y ago
I will give you an example of where you are dead wrong, and one where the article is spot on (without diving into historic artifacts). I run HomeAssistant, I don't get to play/use it every day. Here, LLM's excel at filling in
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1y ago
> without the borrow checker ... golang... concise error handling syntax Except both of these things are that way for a reason. The author talks about the pain of having other refactor because of the borrow checker. Every one laments hav
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> But Lua? Lua, Bash ... these are birds of a feather. They are the glue holding things together all over the place. No one thinks about them but if they disappeared over night a LOT of stuff would fall apart.
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> Some people/organizations send signals about things that we're not ready to fully drop it on the world. This is called marketing. > When my wife tells me there's a pie in the oven and it's smelling particularly g
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> dismissing any claim from employees of large tech companies Me: I have a way to turn lead into gold. You: Show me!!! Me: NO (and then spends the rest of my life in poverty). Cold Fusion (physics not the programing language) is the best
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This is an interesting take. Cause all an LLM is, is a reflection of its input. Garbage in garbage out. If we're going to have this rule about AI, maybe we should have it about... everything. From your mom's last Facebook post, to
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1y ago
It's nice to see a home lab on HN. Hardware has become a lost art for many. If you dont have a home lab, start one. Grab a 1l pc off of ebay. Think center m720q or m920q with an i5 is a great place to start. It will cost you less than
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> Apollo program: 4% More than a decade long. The technology and industry here was broadly shared. They did things like highjacked bra manufacturers to make space suits. > Railroads: 6% (mentioned by the author) We're still using
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1y ago
I will leave it to others: https://noyaml.com
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1y ago
I spend a fair amount of time tinkering in Home Assistant. My experience with that platform and LLM's can be summed up as "this is amazing". I also do a fair amount of data shuffling with Golang. My LLM experience there is &q
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1y ago
> You're implying that all reality is cultural, Let's look at two examples of cultural reality: Fan death in South Korea. Where people believe that a fan running while you sleep can kill you. The book "Pure, White and Dead
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1y ago
Soham got 5 jobs. More than 5 jobs... He kept them for a while too. We didn't lie to comp sci grads, they have the skills to DO the job, but the interview is a whole other skill that they have to learn. There is a gauntlet to be run of
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> We are seeing diminishing returns on scaling already. LLMs released this year have been marginal improvements over their predecessors. Graphs on benchmarks[1] are hitting an asymptote. This isnt just a software problem. IF you go look
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> or if it has, it's too recent to be visible yet It's very visible. Silicon Valley, and VC money has a proven formula. Bet on founders and their ideas, deliver them and get rich. Everyone knows the game, we all get it. Thats h
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1y ago
Human interventions. High speed connectivity and off vehicle processing for some tasks. Density of locations to "idle" at. There are a lot of things that make all these services work that means they can NOT scale. These are all so
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> There is a housing shortage of between 3.5M and 12M units; The problem with this stat is that the historic data does not support it: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSAHORUSQ156S The supply is just fine, more s
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After spending the last few years doing deep dives into how these systems work, what they are doing and the math behind them. NO. Any time I see an AI SAFETY paper I am reminded of the phrase "Never get high on your own supply". S
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