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This is super cool, but at least by a quick glance, I think the coverage for China is very incomplete.

One of the horses on a ball is very recognizably a James Baxter[1]! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baxter_the_Horse

Why are macOS and OS X listed separately? Is it to delineate pre-2016 Macs from post-2016 Macs, when the rename to macOS happened? But in that case, I have a hard time believing th…

Is anyone else amused that the car shown on the landing page looks a lot like a Tesla Model Y, which famously does _not_ use any Nvidia chips (Tesla onboard computers have been AMD…

AWS Bedrock is other companies’ models running on separate dedicated AWS hardware, metered through AWS billing. AWS owns and operates all of the infrastructure and the client inter…

If you've used AI coding models in a large corporate setting, you'll know that a lot of big corporate deployments basically require using AWS Bedrock for two simple reasons: 1. Lar…

Ha, from the title alone I was hoping for a Derek Lowe article, and it is!

A medium-spicy take of mine is that a bytecode VM in a GPU kernel is not as bad of an idea as one might think, and in some cases it can actually be the most reasonable solution. So…

This assumes that everything outside of the convex hull can already be described using existing language. If you need new language to describe what is outside of the convex hull, i…

I was a little muddy in my original post on distinguishing between what I think LLMs might be able to do and what AI broadly might be able to do. I'm skeptical LLMs can expand the …

I think of most things you can get to by guess and checking as definitionally inside of the hull; most forms of guess and checking are you take some existing thing, randomize a bun…

I like to think of it as: Imagine every bit of human knowledge as a discrete point within some large high dimensional space of knowledge. You can draw a big convex hull around ever…

At the time of the announcement IIRC the deal was only for Colossus 1. Is Anthropic also leasing Colossus 2 new? At the time the consensus narrative was that SpaceX no longer neede…

I wonder how many other people do this: when my wife and I do long roadtrips, we use Costcos as waypoints. Need to refuel? Costco gas is always cheaper than whatever other fill up …

Something I really like about this post is that I think the high-level takeaway from this post is generally applicable far outside of the India AI industry. Sure, the specific appl…

At least for me Claude Code is still working on my Pro plan. I don't know if that's because the change simply hasn't propagated all the way through their systems yet (the change is…

I'm really hopeful about John Ternus stepping into the CEO role. Pretty much everything he's done leading Apple's hardware engineering has been an enormous unqualified success, and…

No, it’s not. MLX is Apple’s NumPy more or less.

No, MLX is nothing like a Cuda translation layer at all. It’d be more accurate to describe MLX as a NumPy translation layer; it lets you write high level code dealing with NumPy st…

Wouldn’t “insanely great”/“it’s shit” be more Steve than “genius”/“it’s shit”?

That is not just your opinion, that is the opinion of multiple United States Court of Appeals circuits in many many cases, and by its declining to overturn these cases, that is als…

If you aren’t familiar with the Amen Break, here’s a now classic 18 minute documentary on the Amen Break and its origins and evolution: https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac?si=J99_Sh9x3fIB…

Yeah, it used to be true that server GPUs at least somewhat resembled their gaming counterparts (i.e. Nvidia Tesla server components from 12+ years ago); they were still PCIe cards…

I hadn't seen arun.is before; I really like this one! Thanks for the share!