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Index funds are market cap weighted. As companies fail, as they always do (median lifespan of S&P companies is about 15 years), you have less of it.

I hope AI can one day confer a great benefit to mankind, perhaps at an award-winning level.

My standard advice: For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift you …

Why’d they give up? They should have just made a 1/5 pound burger.

OP, listen to this. You may be giving lots of nonverbal signals. It’s not necessarily a simple conversation hack that can be described in text.

At this point, anyone calling AI a trend sounds like someone calling electricity a trend. Believe it or not, there are paradigm shifts in technology every now and then. Not everyth…

Similarly, in every thread there’s an AI skeptic who says LLMs are “useless” for coding, and never provides an example query for what they were trying.

Thank you for sharing. For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift y…

Even then, brokers just show a percent loss of -100%. Our buddy would never see the cool infinity symbol. It’s too bad they aren’t a fan of dollar cost averaging into broad index f…

> How much VRAM and inference compute is required to run 3.1-70B vs 2-70B? We aren’t trying to mindlessly consume the same VRAM as last year and hope costs magically drop. We are n…

X to 0 is an interesting definition of unlimited.

Take a look at the latest Llama and Phi models. They get comparable MMLU performance for ~10% of the parameters. Not to mention the cost/flop and cost/gb for GPUs has dropped. You …

It’s wild, are people purposefully overlooking that inference costs are dropping 10-100x each year? https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/ Look at the log scale slope, esp…

The zero fee total market funds are almost identical to S&P https://portfolioslab.com/tools/stock-comparison/FZROX/SPY Unless you have a very good reason, just go for the cheapest.…

Rent out/airbnb a room in your house?

You’ve subconsciously altered your search behavior to avoid categories that Google is horrible at. Any product reviews will be SEO garbage (blogspam too 10 lists). Anything travel …

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-relea...

Imagine you’re running a physics simulation. With conservation of energy: if energy shows up somewhere, it went down somewhere else. We shouldn’t assume a balance changed on its ow…

I think Your Money or Your Life (Vicki Robbins, 1992) predates it and helped inspire Mr Money Moustache, but Collins’ book is great too. For everyone reading this, pursuing FIRE wi…