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Having just bought a 5070 Ti (16GB) instead of a 5090 (24GB), I am sad.

I think I once read that commute distance happened to be a strong predictor of adult happiness. I don't know if the source was reputable or not.

For having a moral position on a moral topic? If he were strictly self-interested we'd have no objection to it in this culture.

Any case where someone takes a moral position is now called "virtue signaling" and "grandstanding."

> I expect the inference market to grow much faster than training costs This was my assumption as well. It's also generally true of 'traditional' deep learning models that inferenc…

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I agree, and the audience also matters too. A writer speaking to writers at a writing workshop? "I'm a writer." A writer at an independent business conference? "I'm a content creat…

I see that abstraction as the purpose of the word when viewing it from a 'business' context: when assessing businesses of the same kind, the actual thing that's being produced matt…

I agree. It's a generic word since it has a generic meaning. I know there's a big bias against 'business speak' among engineers. But a lot of the time, it's just a matter of abstra…

Turing's cathedral, on the invention and development of the earliest digital computers just before, during, and after WWII. Lots of excellent detail, descriptions of the personalit…

Everyone I’ve met personally who attended RC was insufferable. Condescending to the point they couldn’t disguise their contempt for people who they thought knew less. So extreme to…

Why would you think they are talking about an entirely different page and topic?

I'd love to see the 'AI as personal tutor' approach. Even incorporating things like spaced repetition or the testing effect, or evaluating free-written responses. A lot of potentia…

My favorite is ignoring or downplaying a problem. 95% of apparent 'problems' are best ignored in favor of solving the worthwhile 5%. Sometimes this means 'creating' a new problem b…

When I was at AWS, they famously required an extensive "CoE", correction of errors, or post-mortem, in an instance of over-charging a customer $0.26. The idea is that if we can mak…

Even if something wasn't written by ChatGPT, I'm supposing ChatGPT's influence on writing has been so strong that (1) any typical reader of text on the internet will have ingested …

Has anyone figured out why anyone would bother adopting the google 'open knowledge format'? Normally I expect a set of tooling to be build on top of any open format. Value-adds and…

I'm from the ML platforms and systems domain. I strongly recommend it if one's able. It's a bit more stable than a quickly evolving ML/DL/AI ecosystem or frontend ecosystem. The sk…

Pytorch is widely accepted as the de facto ML framework in both research and industry. TensorFlow comes second in industry. Jax is hardly used at all, but uses the same backend as …

Please read the article. You've ignored proof checkers.

I'd be thrilled with a second thread much less GPU.

You're right that "assumes" might be misleading. Maybe "implies" would be more correct. The point the author's trying to make is that if we state in a paper something like "the LLM…

Yes. There's nothing essentially new this latest round of AI has unturned that philosophers haven't turned over decades (or more ago). Nothing stopped philosophers supposing even a…

You're missing the satire. And the 'argument', which is a funny way to recast the chinese room argument, which has also been discussed to death. And you're also assuming any kind o…