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1. At this scale, we’re not just talking about buying GPUs. It requires semiconductor fabs, assembly factories, power plants, batteries/lithium, cooling, water, hazardous waste dis…

I have an interesting anecdote about that. I was consulting for a very large tech company on their advertising product. They essentially wanted an upsell product to sell to adverti…

> code is not literature One thing I’ve thought about is how AI assistants are actually turning code into literature, and literature into code. In old-fashioned programming, you ca…

This is an awesome development. I don’t want to take anything away from the credit due to the product. But I really dislike these bloviated corporate press releases. It reads like …

This is the bigger reality. It’s turned almost all business and academic writing into long-winded meaningless trash. Well, more than it already was I guess. It seems that the way p…

This is a ridiculous take on espionage. “Technology” would be the lowest priority for collection at Google.

Andy Grove flew in Clayton Christensen to let him talk for about 15 seconds before deciding that Intel would disrupt themselves by taking huge losses on Celeron. But Celeron did no…

I think you need higher algorithmic intensity. Gradient descent is best for monolithic GPUs. There could be other possibilities for layer-distributed training.

No. If you had 51%, you could revert one block of history for every 49 blocks of attack time. In addition, you have no ability to create transactions that were not already signed b…

“Bitcoin security” is a different notion than almost all other popular chains. A prolonged 51% attack on bitcoin implies the ability to double-spend, but not at all the ability to …

Mostly because there is a MASSIVE oversupply of people that can’t and won’t do anything useful, and insist that their technical incompetence makes them uniquely qualified to be in …

Remember the “Terminator” movies? SkyNet, according to the story, was a lot like CrowdStrike. This makes me think about how it could have broken out of its sandbox. Everybody is us…

The original idea behind passive investing was to use the pooled intelligence of many traders guessing the value of cr I think we’re beyond that. Most traders are just trying to ge…

“Why don’t big profitable companies (and government agencies) innovate?” This was Clayton Christensen’s thesis, the most preeminent management academic of a generation, and still i…

We always hear about the benefits, but never the etiology. One theory suggested here is insulin sensitivity of muscle mass. Here is another. Leg muscles help to pump blood to your …

Please don’t propagate clickbait titles on HN. “inflammatory bowel disease linked to gene”

Seems like it could be done with mode-locked fiber. It’s just easier to get high-Q with a tabletop setup. I’m bullish on hollow core to solve that too.

I get the nonlinear upconversion part, but what about the optical system? Are they saying that this preserves the direction of the incident photon so that it doesn’t require optics…

The fundamental problem here is investment cash flows eclipsing operational cash flows. This invalidates basic economics of supply and demand price equilibrium. In this case, it me…

Is there a reasonable case to be made for excluding citations entirely? They seem frivolous and arbitrary, and most of the genuine ones are discovered by search, so maybe we could …

Can you elaborate more on how this fund or the startups are connected to OpenAI money or technology, and how he profits from the association, aside from the name? Seems like there …

“the rise of leisure time” I don’t think it’s actually leisure time. It’s a lot of non-productive required micro-tasks that like trying to find a place to live and scrolling an app…

I think early 20s are a very powerful time for many people because naïveté can be quite convincing, and they have a lot of time to learn without unreasonable expectation. People wi…

Would you rather hire someone with poor grades who struggled to find answers on their own, or someone who had excellent grades utilizing superior resources and teamwork? The realit…

So just tell us your deepest secrets, desires, and insecurities and we’ll train an AI to extract as much money from you as possible.