Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

Post by dcsan » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 2:00 AM UTC

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React made quite a mess of the web just so we couldn't browse with JavaScript disabled, thereby allowing Facebook to track us through those like buttons that popped up everywhere. Are there hidden barbs in llama and pytorch too? I'm not close enough to them to know.

Not a fan of Facebook or React (though React Native is IMHO the one eyed among the blind for cross platform mobile development), but I think that's a bit far fetched. I do think Facebook has (or had?) genuinely an engineering culture that wants to give something back.

Post by andytratt » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 2:15 AM UTC

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i don't know Alex directly that well but i believe his "freshman year" skipped all GIRs and was spent polishing off the most advanced graduate courses in CS theory (18.404), machine learning (6.867), algorithms (6.854), etc. so basically he did MIT at the PhD level in 1 year. As a classmate myself who did it in 3, at a high level too (and I think Varun - of Windsurf - completed his undergrad in 3 years also)... Wang'…

That courseload is completely unremarkable for a first-year with experience in competitive programming (like Wang had). I know a dozen people who did the same.

Post by andytratt » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 2:21 AM UTC

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i don't know Alex directly that well but i believe his "freshman year" skipped all GIRs and was spent polishing off the most advanced graduate courses in CS theory (18.404), machine learning (6.867), algorithms (6.854), etc. so basically he did MIT at the PhD level in 1 year. As a classmate myself who did it in 3, at a high level too (and I think Varun - of Windsurf - completed his undergrad in 3 years also)... Wang'…

Not trying to diminish his academic accomplishments, but it isn't that uncommon for experienced freshman students to just jump straight into advanced topics. If you're the type that has been coding since you were 10, been active in Olympic teams, or whatever, you can probably do just fine in such courses. If anything, you'd be bored with some undergrad courses.

Post by paulddraper » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 3:14 AM UTC

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I've been in the tech industry a quarter century, I've never heard this "pretty common saying" before, and most importantly I don't think it makes any sense. If anything, tech excels at disruption, where smaller competitors and new ideas are able to solve problems where "just throwing money at it" has failed.

I challenge you to name a tech unicorn who's biggest advantage wasn't the ability to hemorrhage money over a period of time that would've killed any normal business stone dead.

Post by beering » Sat, Jun 14, 2025, 3:31 AM UTC

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It's not a 2 year cliff: it's 6 months before vesting, then 2 years before you can sell.

Effective cliff. What use is vested “equity” (ppus aren’t even equity) that you cannot sell?