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subygan

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About subygan

I'm Suriya Ganesh. Systems Engineer

blog: https://suriya.cc

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    Comment #49249199

    is it not open assembly? open weight models are better than open-assembly binaries (as you put it) because models are grown like plants, you can shape the open-weight model in a di…

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    Comment #49248471

    we're calling it openweights now. what is a logical push to have a completely new paradigm be compared with traditional software binaries?

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    Comment #49248060

    do you have a $100 mil worth of compute to train your own version of this? I don't understand what gripe people have with open weight models and wanting it to be purely open source…

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    Comment #49177002

    these things will be evaluated based on the net benefit such a service would provide. more people having affordable commute to dallas would end up increasing the net benefit and va…

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    Comment #49162326

    in the absence of a stalling signal. it's better to assume exponential and work backwards than hope the next bottleneck is impossible.

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    Comment #49133341

    this is one of the common conundrums of life. but for someone living in the grey, this stuff might push them over the edge to be great. that is the point of this article

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    Comment #49126137

    https://archive.ph/4b5es

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    Comment #49082588

    And the hidden, trial and error runs tweaking the hyperparams. guaranteed, it cost >$5000 in training runs alone.

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    Comment #49029078

    This does not really work well, if you don't know the complexity of the problem ahead of time and ensure all future conversations go to the same model. Else, you break the cache by…

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    Comment #48986576

    don't worry, we can get another swarm of random monkeys typing and decide what ones to eliminate . tijebs gi yo,

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    Comment #48927665

    hugged to death at 8 points and 20 minutes in frontpage. Please use AI (or anything) to fix your site.

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    Comment #48925873

    For thinking machines, they provide super simple finetuning APIs. if it is their model, they can have more lower level integrations for that. Thinking machines might be the only la…

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    Comment #48912176

    I wasn't around for the Search engine boom. Did people write about how search engines are making people dumber?

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    Comment #48906811

    This is true of truly skillful people in their craft as well. I know people, who initialize all required variables and write the logic after. which used to feel bonkers to me until…

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    Comment #48901848

    I like the narrative but the key point > A battle of two narratives > Build wealth before AI obviates our skills > Build skills, agency, taste, judgement both narratives are portra…

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    Comment #48853082

    What about human written software makes it more reliable than LLM written software? is it the craftsmanship, or the deliberate decision making of industry veterans?

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    Comment #48848710

    almost all platforms are like this now. Every active player in each of these platform is trying to get the most eyeballs in their content / profile. and the silent scrollers are no…

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    Comment #48799793

    this is awesome! incredibly useful

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    Comment #48797738

    Is this a submarine article[1] by instacart to sell their consumers data? feels like a glowing review of the data. And why would papa jhons accept to be a part of this campaign? [1…

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    Comment #48766344

    Why can't this be sent as a notification in my phone?

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    Comment #48722027

    As horrible as it sounds. For the median user, It really is impossible to have an alternative to instagram / whatsapp / facebook. It is so easy to live in a bubble and say I'll hos…

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    Comment #48712530

    i don't at all think it's that obvious / easy. i was taught cursive in 2nd grade. and my handwriting is gobsmackingly horrible. coming back to stuff I've written after I've forgott…

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    Comment #48701421

    this is just false. by any meaningful measure of intelligence. the latest models are much smarter than the bulk of the population. how would you define intelligence?