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    Radiation would perhaps be better pictured with a light blue glow (Cherenkov radiation). The green glow used in pop culture has its origin in the widespread use of radium paint to …

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    Comment #40107907

    Isn't JAX the most widely used framework in the GenAI space? Most companies there use it -- Cohere, Anthropic, CharacterAI, xAI, Midjourney etc.

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    Comment #39880101

    No, I am saying, with JAX you train on G.P.U., with a G, and your training runs are >2x faster, so your training costs are 2x lower, which matters whether your training spend is $1…

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    Comment #39876975

    Or alternatively, do you want faster training runs (and thus lower training costs)? Then JAX is a good choice for you.

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    Comment #39876939

    It's all about cost and performance. If you can train a foundation model 2x faster with JAX on the same hardware, you are effectively slashing your training costs by 2x, which is s…

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    Comment #39876444

    JAX is used by almost every large genAI player (Anthropic, Cohere, DeepMind, Midjourney, Character.ai, XAi, Apple, etc.). Its actual market share in foundation models development i…

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    Comment #33006706

    This is not true, the initial Keras port of the model was done by Divam Gupta who is not affiliated with Keras or Google. He works at Meta. The benchmark in the article uses mixed …

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    Comment #20732414

    7 cubic km of olivine is a staggering amount. Makes you wonder whether the effect of deploying the olivine would even offset the energy cost and CO2 emissions of extracting and mov…

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    Comment #18610117

    If I were to divide large tech companies between "good" and "bad", the only one I would classify as "bad" is Facebook. Most are neutral-to-good. Facebook has a huge societal and hu…

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    Comment #18044789

    It's an expression I've heard sometimes in America. From the context in which I've seen it used, I believe it means roughly "I don't like brown/black people, but lately it has beco…

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    Comment #17789074

    > there isn't anyone living today that has any idea how to get to AGI Not true.

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    Comment #16659247

    When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

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    Comment #15753830

    > IMO, AssertionErrors should indicate bugs in the called API. ValueErrors indicate bugs in the caller's use of the API. Yes, I agree with this stance. `ValueError` should be used …

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    Comment #15744561

    To clarify: `tf.keras` is an implementation of the entire Keras API written from the ground-up in pure TensorFlow. The first benefit of that is a greater level of blending between …