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> The moat of the frontier folks is just compute. This is not really true. Google has all the compute but in many dimensions they lag behind GPT-5 class (catching up, but it has no…

Satya saved Microsoft by doubling down on Azure and Cloud. Something that Balmer failed to do with Mobile.

There are many different classes of problems that are affected by tokenization. Some of them can be tackled by code.

Solving the strawberry problem will probably require a model that just works with bytes of text. There have been a few attempts at building this [1] but it just does not work as we…

It's interesting how all focus is now primarily on decoder-only next-token-prediction models. Encoders (BERT, encoder of T5) are still useful for generating embedding for tasks lik…

> Cows are treated very well in all the ranches I've been on. Unfortunately the entire premise of your argument is based on a personal anecdote that's a gross generalization of vas…

For JIT-ing you need to know the sizes upfront. There was an experimental branch for introducing jagged tensors, but as far as I know, it has been abandoned.

Can you give some examples of problematic C idioms in C++?

Every billion dollar idea is a million dollar idea. Every million dollar idea is a 100K dollar idea. There are always smaller segments within large segments that you can go after.

Yes, you can get a waiver if you apply for something called the "Letter of Undertaking" which allows you to not pay anything for exports. This was not available at the start.

No, they usually are very brazen about that, but this time they are generally clueless.

Back when GST was introduced, they asked all exporters of software services to pay the 18% GST and then claim a refund because exports are exempted. This was before they introduced…

Here's the 2022 edition: https://twitter.com/mrohanshah/status/1579829414916784128

What are some ways in which they are bad/broken?

Yes, we plan to do that, but we will start off with first supporting raw vector data type and search on that.

To offer a counter view: paper ballots were a huge source of fraud in India's elections until electronic voting machines were introduced. I don't wish to ever go back.

Have you looked at TinySeed? But they don't operate at a Series A scale in terms of cash deployed per investment. I suspect that the power law of returns in VC model requires reall…