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About georgeven
georgev uoregon edu
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Comment #49078752
What are you building if you dont mind sharing? I am moving and all these online applications and such are so annoying.
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Comment #49074636
No! because they did not release GPT-2 XL until analogs appeared a year later. So the SOTA model during GPT-2 days was closed weights.
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Comment #48750077
PCIE 16 gig is <300 dollars these days a piece
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Comment #48750070
on eBay you can buy 4 of them for 1000. PCIE 16 gigs.
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Comment #48722637
I have a 1500 dollar machine that can run it at 50 tok/s (3 V100s)
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Comment #48595680
innovation requires monopoly is a Theil one liner -- probably true too
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Comment #48373892
I wonder if you can sue him in civic court, could teach him a lesson.
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Comment #48269275
The issue then becomes it writes insane one liners that are impossible to read. Would be difficult to set up an RL environment where the goal is correctness and readability.
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Comment #47621100
the codex limits are actually pretty high too. You might want to check it out.
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Comment #47621047
I have known about TBPN since early summer last year. They are widely known about in Cali startup culture at least.
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Comment #47094747
its probably not even a conscious decision from dwarkesh to be hyperbolic. pod casters who are hyperbolic are just simply watched more
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Comment #47094725
he was not sure, but if i recall correctly, he put the probability at something like 90 percent of being able to do non verifiable tasks.
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Comment #46917396
it's 20,000 in 2026, with the price of tokens halving every year (at a given perf level), this will be around 1,000 dollars in 2030
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Comment #46904417
Interesting. Everyone in my circle said the opposite.
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Comment #46859998
It was actually nearly 5 years ago!
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Comment #46772707
dude you are spinning up my models! Emailing you!
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Comment #46738545
I found codex cli to be significantly better than claude code. It follows instructions and executes the exact change I want without going off on an "adventure" like Claude code. Al…
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