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Interesting challenge. 1 - I worked abroad and wasn't really familiar with the systems there. Gemini made me aware of a kind of pension account that I could withdraw from when I le…

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Yes I was very surprised after the whole "scandal" around ChatGPT becoming too sycophantic that there was this massive change in tone from the last preview model (05-06) to the 06-…

https://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/ covers some of this (overlapping with the topics the person you responded to mentioned, but not covering all, and including some others)

If the only moat really will be the scale of computation resources, that's great news for users, because it will be an extremely competitive market where prices will be driven down…

How did you go about learning this? It's something that I've been thinking I might be interested in picking up.

I can't tell if you're insinuating that Singapore is a pass-through for H100's heading towards China or whether there is some significant development taking place in Singapore that…

What's happening definitely makes me nervous, but "at best a WW3-event and at worst an extinction-event" seems a bit much. Mainly because there are a _lot_ of unknowns. Better try …

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I'm trying to parse the idea of "a collective agreement" but can't fully wrap my head around how that would work. It seems to me more like the lack of a "Walmart Law" is a result o…

For me the excitement is that around the o3 announcement I had a feeling like we were heading to an OpenAI / Sam Altman controlled dystopia. This resets that - you can run the mode…

Given what we just saw in terms of the DeepSeek team squeezing a lot of extra performance out of more efficient implementation on GPU, and the model still being optimized for GPU r…

I don't think the part about the market reaction is too surprising, for COVID it took a while for the market to react as well. Seeing that DeepSeek-R1 has benchmark scores like o1 …

It crashed all the way back to June 2024 levels, eons of progress wiped out

My interpretation is that yes in the long haul, lower energy/hardware requirements might increase demand rather than decrease it. But right now, DeepSeek has demonstrated that the …

A bit like humanoid robotics - not the most efficient, cheapest, easiest etc, but highly compatible with existing environments designed for humans and hence can be integrated very …

What kind of preparation are you suggesting?

I followed the drama. The point I was (somewhat unsuccessfully) trying to make was that while, sure, there were groups who wanted him back (mainly the groups with vested financial …

Define everyone. I was delighted when they fired him. I don't believe he has humanity's best interest at heart.

The first few years out of university I consistently had Now I have a child and feel completely different. The moment she arrived I immediately felt way behind on retirement saving…

What does issues with relationships mean in this context? Also, it sounds like they were traveling for 5 years? Yeah, that does sound like a very long time - I imagine if it had be…