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I always find it really weird when somebody on the anonymous internet talks about local places as if we're all neighbors or something. Googling "Richmond Hill" gave me multiple pag…

> In my view a spinor is even more familiar than a vector Okay... Pauli and Dirac both received Nobel Prizes for discovering spinors. Nobody needed to discover pointing in some dir…

Same. I rarely use mine and find that they just about always still have battery. And even when they don't I'll just plug them in and go find something else to do for a few minutes …

> It fixates on one particular basis and it results in a vector space with few applications and it can not explain many of the most important function vector spaces, which are of c…

> I own an M4 iPad Pro and can't figure out what to do with even a fraction of the horsepower, given iPadOS's limitations. Literally everything you do gets the full power of the ch…

The difference in usefulness between ChatGPT free and ChatGPT Pro is significant. Turning up compute for each embedded usage of LLM inference will be a valid path forward for years…

That's a JIT. It uses the same compiler infrastructure but swaps out the AoT backend and replaces it with the JIT backend in LLVM. Notably, this blog post is targeting on-device us…

Because the usefulness of an AI model is reliably solving a problem, not being able to solve a problem given 10,000 tries. Claude Code is still only a mildly useful tool because it…

Without reading an entire novel's worth of text, do they explain why they picked these dates? They have a separate timeline post where the 90th percentile of superhuman coder is la…

Only gripe I have with the tool is that once you've gotten a country right a few times it zooms in too far. I still had no clue where Eritrea was after getting it right like four t…

> I really don't understand what their endgame is here. To not lose. History is full of stories of incumbents not wanting to cannibalize themselves and dying because of it.

> Nobody up to this day has been able to give a formal mathematical definition of intelligence, let alone a proof that it can be reduced to a computable function. We can't prove th…

> The argument is that, instead of hiring a junior engineer, a senior engineer can simply produce enough output to match what the junior would have produced and then some. ...and t…

> Llama 3.1 405B can currently replace junior engineers lol

When shopping for a new car to take to the race track on the weekends did you stop and point out that the Honda Odyssey's suspension is too soft?

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If I see a single ad I'm uninstalling it and switching to Apple maps.

I guess this is the new "Be maximally evil" Google. Visual ads while driving that force you to look at your phone.

Ditto. They'll use it now while they stand to benefit and in 3 years they'll be lambasting OpenAI publicly for not being private enough with data and pretend that they never had an…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

It's in the earnings. It was $5.2B this quarter against $15.7B repurchased.