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Rochus, a huge thanks for the comment and discovering your fascinating site. I was blown away by how musical the recent Suno covers of your funk songs are. I would not have been ab…

I love it when people push back like this without suggesting the real reason. Can't think one can you? That too from a new sock puppet.

Bro, are we reading the same book? The book is totally uncritical of the subject and paints him like the second coming of christ. It feels like GDM wanted a canonization of Hassabi…

I'm not sure I agree. They're just essay prompts. One could write a bad essay that takes itself too seriously given the prompts, but one could also write a powerful essay starting …

Is anyone surprised? I'm reminded of how I felt during the NFT craze. LLMs are extremely powerful when used with deliberate care. Gas Town is the exact opposite of what is needed t…

So to verify their claims and see how strong these models are, the answer is "believe us"? Note: I'm expressing some skepticism here largely due to how recent rollouts from Meta fl…

"Muse Spark is available now, and Contemplating mode will be rolling out gradually in meta.ai." How does one get their hands on these models? They are not open-source, right? I go …

No. Read the book "Careless People". Meta leadership tried to downplay it by saying the stories are exaggerated. It seems doubtful to me.

I hope "OpenAI" gets the proverbial sword in the nuts once we get a change of government in this country. Probably unrealistic to hope for. Can a company be more hypocritical after…

How does Brockman sleep at night? These guys used to seem like standup ethical guys. It seems no amount of intellectualism is enough to ward off the poison of wealth.

Are you a professor at a R1 school? All the faculty I know at R1s (see CMU, MIT, etc) are doing quite a lot of teaching in addition to their research.

Let me use the discussion of coffee to plug what I believe is the most beautiful and long-lasting espresso machine currently out there (you'll hand it down to your grandkids): http…

This is a bad take. The article makes it clear that most of them will lose money on the venture, and the reason the prices are high are due to status-mining chinese elites and trad…

The point stands that it's less about the language than doing said hard work in any reasonable programming language.

This is a very real worry for the AI rollout for the general population. But are folks here using AI to blow smoke up their asses as a sibling comment stated? I'd like to believe w…

Napkin math is how you avoid spending several weeks of your life going down ultimately futile rabbit holes. Yes, it's approximations, often very coarse ones, but done right they do…

You can do that by mowing, fyi.

You're entitled to your own opinion, but imo the point of posting anything on HN is to subject yourself to feedback. That's what I gave. Feedback.

How about not killing the weeds? One doesn't need to live a perfectly manicured pesticide-ridden hellscape.

Do you know of important real-world use-cases where cache-oblivious data structures are used? They are frequently mentioned on HN when relevant discussions like this one pop up, bu…

You clearly did not look at the proposed cuts for the coming years---it guts the NSF.

Giuseppe, any interesting comments from inside the tent? From the outside, spending 100M+ on a single researcher seems like a wild idea. It's also not clear what spending that much…

It looks like just a wrapper around the data from plasticlist for now. One can fund other products, but I searched and could not find any others that were funded as a result of thi…

Yes, but that can be done once at ingestion time. Then retrieval is done over the pre computed FDEs using MIPS.