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I don't have insider information, but: if one of the AI companies really wants their models to become really good at this and publicly available datasets are scarce, they can proba…

Recently I was at the doctor for a very minor sports injury ("tennis leg"). The doctor — who was in his 50s — was explaining the degrees of the injury to me, and quoted ChatGPT as …

This is well known, old news. I would not call him a crank, he's just an "independent physicist". He is a very successful and wealthy businessman thanks to Mathematica, with $100Ms…

Maybe I'm an oddball, but I've always thought this: if a cool company wants to hire me but isn't sure, give me a 3-6 month fixed contract and LFG. There's zero doubt in my mind it …

" .. the smartest mathematicians for running these scenarios .. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann > Claude Shannon called him "the smartest person I've ever met", a …

I don't get this. Models have become a commodity, hardware not so much; why would Nvidia care? It's the models who are competing primarily, not hardware manufacturers. Also, models…

This would be interesting if each of them had a high-level picture of the NN, "to scale", perhaps color coding the components somehow. OnMouseScroll it would scroll through the mod…

I'm a big fan of Amazon (UAE), in the sense that I buy stuff from Amazon almost every week. Having said that, in the last year or so, I found myself returning items more and more o…

Some thoughts, feedbacks, well-meaning critcism: - on non-supported browsers (eg. mobile) don't render the app, show a message instead - Shift + Home/End for selecting text doesn't…

> where 3 years ago they would have had to buy Photoshop and learn how to use it This seems to imply that a significant fraction of Adobe revenues is from private individuals who p…

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Quake book incoming from Fabien?

Working at a non-tech regional bigco, where ofc cloud is the default, I see everyday how AWS costs get out of hand, it's a constant struggle just to keep costs flat. In our case, t…

I strongly think this is the wrong attitude. After a point, money does not buy happiness, job satisfaction or sanity.

Promotions are always discussed in the context of "How to get promoted?". In my opinion, an important angle is left out of these discussion and conversations: do you really want to…

> This repo contains a version of Anthropic's original performance take-home, before Claude Opus 4.5 started doing better than humans given only 2 hours. Was the screening format h…

Great point, thanks for making it. Following onward, NumPy has a non-profit called Numfocus who is behind it: https://numfocus.org/ https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organ…

> the most popular UI system (especially for AI models) Like others earlier in the thread I'm symphatetic to this company/project, but your code/project being referenced often in A…

#zeraw on DALnet in the 90s, those were the days..

This blog post is not inevitable.

Manufacturing vulnerability submissions that look like real vulnerability submissions, but the vulnerability isn't there and the submitter doesn't understand what it's saying. It's…

Ferenc Krausz has almost the same degrees as me: ELTE Physics, BME EEng/Comp.Sci. Katalin Karikó went to the same University as my sister (Szeged). But yes, we have to leave the co…

We're on fire! 2025 - László Krasznahorkai - Literature - for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art. 2023 - Katal…

This is false: "There are no hungarian intellectuals over 40 who aren’t openly racist." Yes, there is a fair amount of under-the-grass (sometimes over) anti-semitism in Hungary (an…