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Can someone help clarify what it means, concretely, to make binding agreements to proceed "safely and slower" in the context of AI research (whether or not at frontier labs)? Are t…

Curious to know what people's thoughts are on this "Stop The AI Race" movement? I have not been able to find a clear objective---beyond slowing the progress on various AI fronts---…

If nothing else, Anthropic has explicitly acknowledged the threat to its moat and that the margin is thin between its models and open-weight models. I'd take that as a win for open…

Interesting. What would the incentives be for NVIDIA, for example, to opt into this? They are building their own racks now, like the NVL72 etc.

Cool tour. I haven't kept up with their developments; what kind of workloads have they been pushing for? Since they don't seem to have any specialized accelerators in the Compute S…

Go open models!

Partly serious, partly in jest: so type systems are no good?

This is super annoying and imo, really limits the usefulness of this model. It speaks volumes about what Anthropic's position as a company and its priorities will be going forward.…

I broadly agree with the premise. As a PhD student in Computer Science, I feel there are some significant upsides to my work routine. LLM access has made many new domains more "acc…

Cool post. Have you looked at slicing a single GPU up for multiple VMs? Is there anything other than MIG that you have come across to partition SMs and memory bandwidth within a si…

This seems very interesting. Timely, given that Yann LeCun's vision also seems to align with world models being the next frontier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45897271

Right now it seems legal to scrape Reddit. But given their trajectory of making the API fairly expensive to use, do you think it's likely that they would also limit/prohibit scrapi…

Even if that is the case, it does not say much about their ability to evaluate what category of users (e.g., those coming from Apollo or their first-party clients) is generating mo…

That's great! There are a few cases where `dlmopen` has issues, for example, some libraries are written with the assumption that there will only be one of them in the process (thei…

Currently it is, yes. I am not sure how fundamental it is. I tried patching glibc to support more (128 in my case) and it seemed to work fine.

> You can't load one so/dll multiple times in some sort of container I believe you can do that with `dlmopen` in separate link maps. I have worked with multiple completely isolated…

This is a great analysis; thanks for writing. I have also been working on running multiple Python interpreters in the same process by isolating them in different namespaces using `…