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vonneumannstan
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Comment #49216467
But Micron is overpriced and new capacity is about to come online right? Right???
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Comment #49216454
Wow how many years of experience with Claude Code and Codex do you have? lol
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Comment #49211085
>Google is already doing this and has an experimental project on top of already having TPUs and cramming their quantized flash onto individual TPUs for inference. Google is no long…
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Comment #49174108
>He apparently had to sell every liquid thing in the portfolio. You can read in their investor letter exactly what happened and where they stand and explicitly they did not sell ev…
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Comment #49172648
Its up 80% on the year. How do your investments compare?
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Comment #49124055
Honestly I discount any company named after Tolkien lore as most likely evil and probably incompetent.
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Comment #49124043
Free ChatGPT on Chat mode.
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Comment #49124038
It's almost always a version of "I used the free version of ChatGPT 10 months ago and it couldn't code well."
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Comment #49124031
"Distillation doesn't work" lol
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Comment #49041988
You're misunderstanding my comment. The OP was amazed by people who can manipulate symbols on paper. Von Neumann would have been considered an incredibly POTENT wizard. He actually…
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Comment #49041973
His work was incredibly APPLIED. Which is precisely why he is remembered and lauded. Can anyone here not involved in theoretical math name 5 Fields Medalists? Take out Terry Tao or…
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Comment #49026100
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Comment #49000200
>Why should OpenAI (or any frontier lab) be building these systems if they can't get a secure environment / containment right? Yes why indeed. If you take it a step further and we …
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Comment #49000185
>Then where do new ideas come from? Do the muses bestow divine creativity upon artists, poets, and musicians? Apparently thats what you believe if you think "creative" ideas just f…
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Comment #48993126
>GenAI is great at combining existing things in new ways (interpolation). It's terrible at creating new things from scratch (extrapolation). I think you believe a fallacy about how…
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Comment #48993108
Short answer yes. Slightly longer answer for older text to image models you teach them how to encode images and text into the same latent space. Then you simply do a conversion, ta…
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Comment #48979383
If your entire competitive advantage is copying your rival's better product and not making any true innovation or improvement and only delivering a slightly worse product its littl…
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Comment #48947915
How Xi coded. If you just cheat off the top student in your class that's simply a way to get a good GPA.
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Comment #48939326
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Comment #48894728
Arrogance, vanity, ignorance... etc.
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Comment #48762566
You can assume they're more or less co-opted by the CCCP so how much do you trust Xi? Mistral isn't even a real player.
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Comment #48762546
>Data Centers in Space are a practical engineering impossibility, Not really, thermal radiators are well understood and the size needed aren't really that unreasonable. Radiation h…
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Comment #48752967
Its like saying Pinochet was one of the least murderous authoritarian dictators. The bar is low...
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Comment #48739372
>And the jets is a terrible example - you picked one of THE highest regulated industries where NOBODY has a problem with regulation The potential risk from serious AI disasters far…
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Comment #48739350
Ah yes all regulation is actually just performative and for capture. Give me a break.