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1,818karma·417submissions·March 30, 2011
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Furthermore, I’m left wondering why Karpathy jumped to a wiki-style approach versus something more akin to “version control but for LLM notebooks”. I have no doubt that using LLMs as a notebook, which…
4mo ago·view thread
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I’m surprised Karpathy thinks this is a viable solution for a quasi-continual learning system. Yes, it’s cool to experiment with these sort of ‘intermediate knowledge systems’, but the real goal withi…
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Would be useful to know which of these overlap with the Claude Cowork desktop app.
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I'm surprised that neither this article nor any of the comments have thus far mentioned the fact that rarely do tombstones, eulogies, and the like mention or emphasize much a person's occupa…
4mo ago·view thread
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This post ( https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/ ) covers this well already. > This sounds like the Loss Disguised as a Win concept from gambling addiction. Cons…
5mo ago·view thread
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This person needs to study Ronald Coase's Theory of the Firm in order to not make incorrect assertions like 'the only moat left is money'. There's many other criticisms to level at…
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I agree on the importance of anonymity for social discourse. But if a tool/platform like Polis is some equivalent of a local 'town hall meeting', where there is no anonymity (and you as…
6mo ago·view thread
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How is this different from Little Snitch or Lulu?
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At what point does something like this make it onto world leaders' daily briefing? "Mr. President, outside of the items we've just discussed, we also want to make you aware of a new kin…
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Just want to say this is a really good description of our brain's simulation, and I have experienced the same catching-the-misread-word phenomenon, and it's a subtle reminder about how this …
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Not to be glib, but how can people witness this and still shovel countless billions into GPU data center buildouts? Are there just two vastly different approaches supported here by the market?
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Anyone else surprised by how the actual training content doesn't seem to cover true fundamentals (even for a broad, non-technical audience) that would include basics like pre-training, post-train…
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Read your blog post and agree with some of it. Largely I agree with the premise that the 2nd and 3rd order effects of this technology will be more impactful than the 1st order “I was able to code this…
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