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woah woah... a bartender becomes the head of engineering at a high flying start up? This isn't the .com. Did the bartender also go to MIT? Drug fueled founder parties? Orgies? I've…

Google abandons a piece of software into decaying crap but their scale and 'free'-ness is so large that we don't get a good replacement for years and years... On a sidenote, is the…

Ghosting is rude. Companies should at least politely reject you. Chances are if they ghosted you, you didn't do as well as you think. You nailed a tech interview, but you only nail…

My experience is mostly around either ensembles of weak learners that are bootstrapped to create a strong learner, or around boosted learners where you're training on residuals. Wi…

I'm curious if there is measurable value in diversity of thought, and if there's diminishing returns on a single models thought pattern. For example, compute X tokens with model A,…

Okay, I skimmed the article. Is creatine safe to supplement for children?

Just pay your bill Elon.

Do you feel like lobste.rs is a better version of HackerNews?

I'm talking about the Watts used to power the GPUs, not the GPUs themselves.

No, the public utilities aren't the ones taking the debt to fund the power generation for some direct data centers. Companies like Bloom Energy are putting up power plants right ne…

At least if the datacenters usage crashes, we'll have cheap power from all the infra that got built.

I am have an old Pentium 4 with RDRAM, think I could sell it to them? I think it has like 256MB. Haven't turned it on in awhile. Hope the first 640KB still work.

I never played this game! I didn't realize there was a RTS after Crescent Hawk's revenge. I'm looking at the MC2 source code now... it looks like there is a Linux port, meaning cou…

madwifi lives on...

How does llama.cpp use the GPU efficiently as opposed to MLX? Is there any way to use MLX and GPU at the same time? Or does memory become a big problem? TBH, I never understood App…

What happens when you find the models are terrible? The claimed results don't match? My dev cycle tends to be write a test for blah blah, add feature to satisfy test, make sure tes…

Great, and here I thought my job was safe.

As someone currently exploring grid searches of encodings + compressor combos, and currently looking at neural compressors that reduce size almost half that of a traditional compre…

If Apple knows it's been overpaying, you can be sure that they will leverage that in future negotiations.

Yes it did, but you are not your job. Your current state may be based on a fraud, but the fraud is not you.

What for... ?

The Homer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRBDLE06qNY&t=210 "What does this monstrosity cost?" ...

Matt is a great guy to explain this kind of stuff. He's very helpful.

Tech companies have basically just milked advertising dollars from trad media, and centralized malls into websites. Now we have dystopian warehouses and cars driving all over. We g…

Have you tried optimizing for MLX? It seems like a waste to have neural cores and not use them. I've often wondered why the hype around apple neural core when 99% of software doesn…