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1,818karma·417submissions·March 30, 2011
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Yes, there's a present shortage of usable frontier compute, but that doesn't establish that every proposed data center will earn a decent return, or that today’s hardware + model architectur…
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Ah, this from the same David Siegel who said almost 2 yrs ago (in a talk found here: https://youtu.be/0z60xUDo-NI?si=PTDe11-sn2P53qo5&t=420 ) that the AI data center buildout was p…
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> could be bladerunner, could be star trek, could be 1984. Could be terminator. It's a profound moment for sure, but let's ask ourselves: could the creative works of early last century ha…
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Anyone else have tips for how to build skepticism around this type of paper? I find myself for whatever reason more readily inclined to believe the Anthropic mech interp team's claims, but then a…
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Multiple front-page tribute posts now to Om and still no black bar. @dang can we at least get some guidance around who qualifies for the posthumous black bar? If the threshold is: "was this a per…
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> Maybe it won’t be so bad, maybe your cage will be so big you can’t see the bars, but it’s still a cage, and you can’t leave. Many people will say that this is the good ending, that they would lik…
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I don't know how successful you'll be in this, but I just want to say this is inspiring! Kind of "Voyager spacecraft"-esque in how your system will be running in perpetuity
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So, it finally happened. The Project is so thirsty for RAM that not even the world's most well-capitalized computer company could have the final word any longer. There's only so many more po…
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I feel the same, but then I have to be honest with myself that the MacBook Neo is still a sub-$1,000 solid personal computer that's broadly available. Now... if that starts going out of stock, ye…
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Black bar for Om please. Truly sad for this loss, was so grateful for his impassioned writing and storytelling about our industry. You will be missed deeply Om. May there be all the pens in the world …
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100% this. Interviewing isn't something that can compound. Striking out from company after company doesn't leave behind a trail of real work and real lessons. Starting a business is tough bu…
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Exists: https://wtfhappenedin2022.com/ and it's just a single chart of data centers shooting straight up
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Chiming in here to say that while yes, often AI/LLMs will tend to agree with you, I have also definitely had many (high context) conversations where the AI/LLM disagreed strongly with me. Th…
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> You don't really need to work for a company anymore, because a solo dev can absolutely build crazy things Don't conflate what is theoretically vs. realistically possible. In the real wo…