kristjansson

That's the way it should be? Donations to a candidate's reelection committee are for the benefit of that candidate and severely limited by law ($3300 per donor per candidate per election). …

Not to be too conspiratorial, but these gripes about the primaries seem too uniform and unipolar to be entirely genuine.

I mean this is literally their 'AI, but for TLAs' product. I'm kinda shocked there's a public announcement at all.

Far and away the most entertaining of the possible root causes.

Big threads draw a lot of people; we regress toward the mean

Something like zero_output_file(fh, len(file)) flush() fill_output_file(fh, data) with an oops in line 3?

The prevalence of the issue makes it seem unlikely to have been caused by site-specific configurations

Terminal running Windows? Someone is going to make it run Crowdstrike too.

> If nothing else you’ll have invested 600k into your 401k 10 * ~20k (individual max contribution, rough avg.) * 1.5 (1:0.5 match) = ~300k?

There is also https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#eager-ta... if you want your task to start on creation.…

Ach, I posted before I saw the rest of your thread, apologies. Totally agree, concurrent.futures strikes a great balance. Enough to get work done, a bit more constrained than threads on their own. Asy…

You don’t? concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor can get a lot done without touching async code.

I mean they're building an API to abstract away some of the SKU-to-SKU differences, but the broader point cuts the other way, I think: > In fact, more broadly we believe we should really reori…

I think the right analogy for FA is high-quality cache-aware BLAS kernel implementations. The algorithm(s) is (are) clever and (as you note) completely independent of hardware. However, a hardware-n…

FlashAttention's algorithmic improvements is mostly just splitting/combining the softmax part of attention, and is itself not totally novel. The overwhelming contribution is implementing th…

It's surprising because these models are pretty ok at some vision tasks. The existence of a clear failure mode is interesting and informative, not embarrassing.

Solved for this benchmark... and at what cost to the rest of the system? These tasks are interesting because they're existence proofs of generalization failure. Like the haystack problem, direct…

I’m joking a bit, but I do think it’s important to articulate the purported harms of claims of anti-competitive behavior. What did they do with this capability? How did that harm their competitors? …

yes the resource monitoring and alerting on meet was instrumental to my decision to cancel all other software subscriptions and give all my money to google

[does relatively innocuous, relatively boring things]

Totally, I think we're making the same point. The average water intensity of livestock does not matter; what does matter is how much of that demand is met by water that could otherwise be withdr…

Yes. "the price of ag water in CA should be higher to discourage uneconomic uses" is a valid policy prescription; its impact on the price of beef, and consumption thereof is less foreseeable…

If the water is uphill of where it's needed? Sure, and we've already done that. If the water is net uphill of where it's needed? Maybe, but requires enormous energy inputs, and infra…

At a base level, the claim that water intensity of livestock is more to blame for CA water issues does not seem to be supported. Water use for livestock, feed, and silage is about ~27% of total applie…

Irrefutably. The problem is people prefer to eat the cow. And while it's nice to imagine a different world, "everyone should just want different things" is not really a valid policy pr…

The stat GP is alluding to isn’t even about drinking water, it’s mostly about the water required to grow feed.

A calorie of beef requires more total input water than a calorie of grain, sure, but that input water is mostly embodied in their feed, not their drinking water. The question for California a what to …

The market sets a clearing price for the ticket as commodity (i.e. for a single event). However, the iterated game that is the spectator-performer relationship, the seller may _strongly_ prefer yield…

per Zuckerberg[0], ~half of their H100s were for Reels content recommendation: > I think it was because we were working on Reels. We always want to have enough capacity to build something that we c…

Roberts attempts to address this in the majority opinion: > JUSTICE BARRETT disagrees, arguing that in a bribery prosecution, for instance, excluding “any mention” of the official act associated w…