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Something poignant about the knowledge in this paper staying lost behind a paywall.

"A founder-engineer driven company. Facebook is one of the few Big Tech firms whose founder is an engineer, and still is the CEO. Netflix is the other one where founder and co-CEO …

I have been in an SF muni car with someone actively smoking something that was not marijuana or a cigarette. I think it was fentanyl but I’m not sure. This was about two years ago.…

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Nemotron has two reasons to exist, both of which are strategic to NVIDIA. 1. Help NVIDIA design future systems for AI by more deeply understanding what it takes to build AI. 2. Kee…

Some of these concerns are precisely why we are building Nemotron at NVIDIA. We want to make it possible for people to invent and deploy AI in all sorts of new and unforeseen ways.…

AI is a mirror. If you are boring, you will use AI in a boring way.

sadly, disembodied brains are not very useful. embodied brains require a civilization's worth of energy consumption and environmental impact in order to do their work. so we really…

As I said - anything surprisingly gluten free or surprisingly vegan is going to be UPF. Sometimes I wonder if the gluten free trend is a ploy by food processing companies to whitew…

Agreed. Which makes the statement “ultraprocessed foods should be treated more like cigarettes” seem wrong. I guess “bad foods should be treated more like cigarettes” is too obviou…

Most of the things on sale at “Whole Foods” are ultra-processed these days. Anything that requires effort to make gluten free or vegan for example. Like impossible burger. Extreme …

The Nano model isn’t pretrained in FP4, only Super and Ultra are. And posttraining is not in FP4, so the posttrained weights of these models are not native FP4.

I had a similar experience. The "Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus" written in stone was not an aspiration or a motto for me when I visited, it was a statement of fact.

I've often wondered if Intel would still be a dominant force in computing if it had kept engineering in Silicon Valley. I worked at Intel both in Hillsboro and in Santa Clara and I…

Yes, but Italy had to centralize its language in order to accomplish this. 1000 Italian dialects were suppressed in a very heavyweight process. (And probably some people didn't lik…

English pronunciation does vary quite widely and it would be difficult to rewrite all the books and websites into all the different accents. It's also decentralized - there's no au…

I'm curious about the False Positive/False Negative rate of the battitore. Do they open up some wheels to double check?

It means “envy” in Latin and Spanish etc. Which is why the logo is an acid green evil eye. And why NVIDIA’s headquarters are two buildings named “ENdeavor” and “Voyager”.

I almost want to read it as satire. Especially juxtaposed against his death. Because the ideas of "What I cannot create, I do not understand." and "Know how to solve every problem …

So surprising to me that GM’s most successful EV in some ways is sold by Honda.