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typon

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About typon

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    Comment #48998184

    I am using a model that runs on a 100 GB300s, near AGI, all bets are off, $10B training run on a 1GW cluster, and it can't realize that when I told it to "please implement v2 of fe…

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    Comment #48986897

    If there really was a "simple" solution to Fermat's Last Theorem, Andrew Wiles wouldn't have achieved the important result he did, ending up making connections across disparate fie…

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    Comment #48943849

    Yes that's called Mythos 2 or GPT 6

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    Comment #48930135

    There is ton of room for improvement "down there". * Software inference optimizations * Heavy quantization * Chips with hardcoded transformer architecture * Much cheaper HBM * Much…

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    Comment #48926180

    By early 2028, major players like Intel, AMD, QC will ship accelerators in consumer laptops capable of running ~1T MoE models at ~100 tok/s

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    Comment #48852652

    DinoV3 paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10104#page=36 "we use a rough estimate of a total 9M GPU hours" From CoreWeave, at current prices (~$2.46/hr spot to ~$6.16/hr on demand) w…

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    Comment #48669985

    I remember saving up for a year to buy the ATI Radeon 9600 XT (I think it was $200 MSRP) so I could play the game on high settings. Now we can play it inside a virtual machine on a…

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    Comment #48373394

    Always pains me to see all this innovation and cool software work being applies towards making a machine that extracts money from retail investors and makes a few people extremely …

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    Comment #48290093

    Actually I think AI will largely automate software and math and really not much else in the short to medium term. (speaking as a computer/math person)

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    Comment #48281828

    Next time there is a fire at your house I will say "he's an adult who should have been careful playing with dangerous things like fire, we shouldnt waste society's money and resour…

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    Comment #48098753

    That part should be non negotiable - the tech companies should be funding the energy infrastructure. My bet is that they'd happily do it. They are starved for space and energy, not…

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    Comment #48091452

    Can someone explain to me why local governments are so against datacenters? It seems like a golden opportunity to build electric infrastructure that's paid for by corporations and …

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    Comment #47907456

    https://imgur.com/a/dV8gk3R can you find curves like this for any other power source? also batteries are getting exponentially cheap too

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    Comment #47907103

    What is the point of building energy outside of solar farms? I'm sincerely asking

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    Comment #47725389

    And the reason for _that_ is because of the callous way American society accepts the deaths of thousands of people who die due to the Healthcare Industrial complex (of which Brian …

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    Comment #47469724

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    Comment #47421943

    You will be forced to watch Firefly for eternity. Millenials will rule the internet for a 1000 years (a millenia).

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    Comment #47292766

    Like an oasis in a desert of LLM slop. Thanks I enjoyed this README

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    Comment #46962685

    We will be old, not boomers. Boomers are a special generation at a special moment in world history - they made decisions based on the limited amount of knowledge they had about how…

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    Comment #46955533

    Even though it feels depressing right now, I think the post-boomer world is going to be an amazing place.

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    Comment #46620499

    Is this why Google Search has been getting better and better every year?

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    Comment #46572820

    The website design and content are much nicer than the "ideas" here. Just standard LLM slop once if you actually have read some of these books.

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    Comment #46201319

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS_Office 500 million users. Just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean an alternative doesn't exist.

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    Comment #46116838

    ideally you should get a deduction in later years

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    Comment #45989464

    have you considered not all ideas are good and maybe they shouldn't see the light of day?