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jephs

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    Comment #49177637

    Only, if he had instead fallen in love with the version of this idea in which a community acts as the principal, rather than an individual. (I would like to be known to the agent s…

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    Comment #49012243

    OpenAI hiring him as a consultant, obviously, which may well be the case.

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    Comment #48848621

    Decades ago, long enough that NDAs are long expired, I analyzed ad network traffic at Google, handling big entities with involved contracts like IAC, Mozilla, AOL, Yahoo, and so on…

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    Comment #48781580

    What on earth is the point of limiting membership to such random and specific groups?

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    Comment #48700154

    The name was given to the project when it was supposed to be a demo for nerds, not a product. They accidentally a product, and woe! Too late, the name was stuck and wouldn't come o…

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    Comment #48415238

    Scaling curves don't need to be drawn at particularly enormous parameter counts to be useful! If you can do a 300M and 1.2B run (like the authors do here), then you can do 150M, 30…

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    Comment #48406522

    I'm terribly sorry, but scaling curves or GTFO. Any random pile of linear algebra works fine-ish at small scales. Very few random piles of linear algebra push the Pareto envelope a…

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    Comment #48402882

    I've got 5 & 6 year old kids. They have a a VHS player / tiny CRT monitor with a few dozen tapes, a tiny janky mp3 player with all my ripped post-y2k era albums, and lots of books …