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dgellow
20,440karma·5,792submissions·March 22, 2013
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Located in Hamburg, Germany.
1st Stainless engineer, 2022-26 (bought by Anthropic).
My main interest on this website is reading about VC investing, privacy related topics, and indie businesses.
https://sam.elborai.me
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recent activity (5,792 total)
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I see that I missed years of drama!
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I don’t think you understand how bad OpenAI economics are. The company is burning billions just to operate. They cannot stop the training treadmill due to competitive pressure, but assuming they do th…
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Unfortunately with the current administration there is a non zero chance that the usurpers merge with the existing government… that wouldn’t be too surprising for Thiel to push for, he’s already the o…
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Sure but a few weeks of coverage is nothing compared to OpenAI and Anthropic. Claude and ChatGPT are household names you can mention to your parents, it’s not the case (yet) for the Chinese models
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Damn, the guy was productive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frank_Lloyd_Wright_wor... Your comment makes me realize I know nothing about US architecture…
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I have no idea what that temple is or which oak park you mean but I will take your words for it
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Is that legit? That looks like vaporware scam to be honest Edit: the fact the official aptera website has a banner at the top with their stock ticker is very suspicious, I assume it was a spac that di…
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Maybe when he’s back from his visit on Mars?
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That would need to start with building the manufacturing infrastructure. But that requires to work on long term goals, something the west hasn’t been doing that well over the last 30+ years
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China has been leading in drones since a very long time. It’s not something they took from the US
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I think it’s mostly a marketing, branding thing. Most people haven’t heard of the Chinese AI companies and models, but everybody heard of OpenAI and Anthropic. The US companies have sales team, a cons…
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> High growth companies often have significant negative cashflow during the early high growth era, followed by positive cashflow in the years later down the line. Uber is the antithesis of OpenAI, …
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You think a stone building is hard to clean with a Kärcher?
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> The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says it has spent £50,000 trying to remove paint from the wall of the Grade II-listed building in Carey Street. How in the world do you spend £50k to remove a graffi…
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I know, but NVIDIA is also the main beneficiary from that whole scheme, what they get out of it is actual cash. They hyperscalers have a more complicated role though
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The author isn’t the person who submitted to HN
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HN isn’t a monolithic bloc. A good part of the HN audience is very pro AI, another part is very skeptical. You have enough of each group to promote both sides. If HN posts could be downvoted things mi…
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I literally pay for Kagi search, to keep the old school search experience. That will be my future and I’m happy with that
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NVIDIA, Micron, SK Hynix, and other hardware manufacturers, and also hyperscalers are the ones making the hard cash (unless you’re Oracle, that company is more than fucked)
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There is some gold, but it’s a fairly small amount compared to the ATM discussed by AI companies (basically software generation, software security, audio transcripts, translation, image processing, im…
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Mind sharing more details?
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They are pressured by open models to reduce prices, not increase
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Push everybody to buy hardware they don’t need to constantly run agents for pretty basic tasks, such as processing your daily emails and sending you little summaries notifications. So, the most ineffi…
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It’s not just inefficient, it’s close to not being possible in any meaningful way
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“Hi, I am ButlerianJihad, please write X in my own personal style, check my HN history for examples”
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One thing that makes me hate LLMs is that they are not even close to the powerful technology a helpful AI would be. I think we have way too low expectations for what agents should be. If I ask a model…
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I know, that’s the position Dario Amodei argues for in his essays. I did pass their cultural interview and had to consume a lot of their content to prepare, I think I have a good idea of their stated …
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You’re talking about one of the most hated person on hearth with one of the worst reputation. The literal Nazi salute guy. I don’t think he cares much about positive PR like that
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Fascinating, thanks for sharing. A candor dust guessing game would be pretty fun to play