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Exactly, they put a lot of money into engineering and it does give results

Just keeping it up to date with competitors is much cheaper, by copying better ones like Qwen did with Claude. Also a bunch of research is trickling into open source / arxiv so cat…

maybe you can preselect good ideas, build up guidelines describing most common pitfalls, extrapolate from ideas you already vetted etc and run on autopilot on a safe-ish subset

But what if it's a bubble driven by speculation? It wouldn't pay off. Starting a futures exchange on RAM chips, on the other hand...

Nvidia's parakeet dropped recently with better performance and 0.6B params, so the rate of progress here looks good, probably next year (or mby the year after) they'll be running n…

Not really answering your question, but: One completely imo unnecessary category of sloppy software is electron apps. It's totally ridiculous how little resources are put into alte…

I read this comment first and thought: "oh come on, how bad can it be". So then seeing this really being so bad(-ly overdesigned) was quite amusing.

I'm not disagreeing per se, but in my experience my tests are so disposable they're never worth investing that much engineering effort in past getting them to pass

The author makes an argument that at least looks like people choose YT over Nebula because YT is free. I, for example, already pay for Nebula, so I can watch it for free, but I sti…

If they do some decarbonization real estate SaaS and need connections with both regulators or whoever issues certificates and REITs etc, then it makes sense. I don't think they nee…

To expand upon the other comment: Indexing and multiplying with one-hot embeddings are equivalent. IF N is vocab size and L is sequence length, you'd need to create a NxL matrix, a…

I'd be more concerned about the size used being 70b (deepseek r1 has 671b) which makes catching up with SOTA kinda more difficult to begin with.

In a 20-person office you'll pass by like 2 people on the way with the card, so it's not a problem. If the office was bigger, and it was a problem, you could just designate a spot …

Ahh, I see, thank you (and other commenters) I was a bit surprised by the change in tone in a way I probably wouldn't've been if I'd read chronologically.

Why not start with Colour of Magic? For context, I started with it, then Light Fantastic and I'm finishing Sourcery now.

His argument is that it's effectively a legal moat now that protects monopoly. Like we shouldn't accept that you need to break the law to have a chance to compete with them.

I thought about it for a full day, and I have one idea for how to handle copyrighted data training. It would need to be open / regulated and training till double descent would need…

I think this was overly self-critical - what would researching fully even mean? They can have however many sheep they want hidden within one-mile distance from Trafalgar square, no…

The compound: state hate crime victim numbers Translated into Polish is: liczby ofiar państwowych zbrodni nienawisci Which translates back into: numbers of victims of governmental …

Reminds me of Go being released without a package manager because at Google they didn't need it lol What codebase size do you have?

Actually, only today I noticed that Cursor's Agent Composer now can properly respond to linting errors. In my typescript codebase case, it solves a lot of problems, it probably hel…

Exactly, especially when the clouds are so low you can't even see where the sun is shining from (common here in late autumn)

reminds of me of this quote from the Tao of programming: https://farosaves.com/375baf1e-cc1c-4f02-8a7c-35eaba25d94d

Oh, on the reversible webpage it's written that categories are by users so it's like wiki - At first I thought that it's done by any user and not pages authors. But now I'm interpr…

I do web dev now, but it reminded me of good times coding in Julia. Like I once wanted to have my own syntax for querying a SQLite, so built my own ORM. The query syntax is defined…