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I sometimes get vague ideas for solving maths/science problems. They never pan out but i can talk in detail on group theory and advanced maths and science topics due to investigati…

But it's literally not cheaper than it was ~15 years ago? Right now RAM is the same price per GB as it was in 2007 and prices per GB look to continue to rise. https://www.tomshardw…

You might have heard of the x86 cpu the AMD K5 that competed against the Pentium? Well that was basically an am29000 but with an x86 instruction decoder front end. The architecture…

OTOH my wife's friends got drunk and made "tinder for horse purchases". They prompted to read typical horse advertisements (we're all horse people) and create an app with mock tind…

I got to the same conclusion another way. There's ~2.6million seconds a month and this is getting 0.5tok/s which is 1.3million tokens a month. Give some room for overhead and a rea…

Writing an implementation of a board game and one of the cards is called "microbes". Instantly knocked down to a lower tier model whenever it encounters that keyword because clearl…

Chinas solar rollout is absolutely pathetic. Netherlands is a close second to Australia in case anyone wants to argue latitude or population density alone is a cause. Germany’s up …

The have hardly any solar per capita compared to Australia. They are occasionally held up as an example by misguided westerners as if what they’ve achieved is an example of good po…

Quite simply put this is what they ask you to do. To the point that the Australian government will heavily subsidise (30%) home battery installation. Remember Australia has over 10…

But surely you can do a booster shot?

It's easy to believe if it's 5x $200 subscriptions. Paying by the token is insanely expensive. Only the 5̵ ̵R̵i̵c̵h̵e̵s̵t̵ ̵K̵i̵n̵g̵s̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵E̵u̵r̵o̵p̵e̵ Biggest Tech Co's can aff…

>A distribution over strings has entropy. You have to limit yourself to each string being independent for that to be true which is a limitation that leads to the impossibility of c…

You always include the measurement of things needed to run the program too. It's a bit like how benchmarks of compression utilities should always include the size of the utility it…

This is under-taught in comp sci so I'll say it in all caps for visibility. THERE IS NO KNOWN GENERIC WAY TO MEASURE INFORMATION ENTROPY!!!! Seriously. There isn't. You might say '…

I agree, i don't think it is the core problem. Meta doesn't seem to be able to produce anything close to a frontier model. The selling of compute capacity seems to be acceptance of…

I'm guessing this is specifically about Avocado which everyone at Meta would acknowledge is terrible.

Compression can be defined as reducing uncertainty. If you can predict the next sequence you can compress it to 0 bytes using arithmetic coding. Reliable prediction is what enables…

I appreciate the note on virtual memory not being reliable. This is what Windows task manager reports by default and it's terrible. Resident size is the most reliable metric. Anyth…

It’s also amazing how bad delivery services are in general. The incentives for third party delivery services don’t align well with the other parties. A retailer is judged on the qu…

There's 'sourcing agents' whose job is to coordinate the garages. They don't work for any of the garages but as a westerner you'll get in touch with the "electric motor guy" who kn…

This is from someone that has observed Shenzen. A location where much is made in garage sized factories (usually literally a garage space at ground level where people will bang out…

I think your post is a very good example of goal post moving. We currently have debates around whether content online is human or ai generated and instead of acknowledging the mile…

Even that line's very debatable though. Passing always under every circumstance? No. Passing specific tests to the point that the internet is now full of "Is that content AI genera…

But the author acknowledged times that someone said something stupid about AI? He's not claiming there's no flaws or that there aren't CEOs claiming more than is possible right now…