ColdFusion has been maintained by Adobe since 2005. Apparently, they think there is future for it: ColdFusion Next is evolving into an AI-powered, cloud-native platform designed for modern business automation. See…
For what it’s worth, this article cites a longitudinal study done by German researchers. They basically installed a bunch of bird feeders outside nursing homes to see if watching birds improves the health of the elderly…
I'm curious about your perspective on the impact of LLMs on physics. My impression is that (theoretical?) physics is increasingly becoming a branch of abstract math. It has somewhat reached a practical limit for…
It seems that Meta assigns a unique hostname to each shared conversation. For example: > fiscal-review-b4a5ff.cf.metaaiusercontent.com So when someone opens the link, the DNS resolution exposes the unique hostname. The…
I'm curious why such a large gap exists between our numbers. My hypotheses are: A. The average utilization rate of inference GPU cards is not that high (i.e. it peaks during the daytime, but is idle at night). So the…
Your estimation feels too high. It implies >1000% ROI on a GPU card (= $300k gross revenue per annum on a $30k card). As a reference point, Z.ai is operating at 26% gross margin as of 1H26. So assuming ~90% gross margin…
Zebrafish have retinas very similar to mammals. For whatever reasons, they are able to regenerate their retinas when injured, while we mammals can't. Scientists hypothesized that the presence of a certain protein is the…
What’s more interesting to me is the fact that these two kernels (con-leche and con-ron) were actually implemented by Claude (with “human supervision”). Programming as a hand-crafted art is really diminishing fast.
They created an implementation of a Lean kernel in Lean (con-leche) and verified it as consistent. Since there can be bugs in its compiler and runtime, they translated the code into Rust (con-ron), and verified the…
Yeah. I experimented with a random Japanese news article. Scanning it with my eyeballs, I found: Correct .. 80 chars Missing .. 12 chars Wrong .... 8 chars So I guess the accuracy is roughly 80%. Maybe useful, but not…
Reading your comment, I’m most curious if AI models will eventually “fork” mathematics. (Sorry for beating the same cranky analogy) Like, not expecting human experts to review and merge their results, but developing…
Do you think it’s possible to operate math research in a fully autonomous way (i.e. with no human expert involvement)? As a software engineer, my mental model so far is that OpenAI made a gigantic (but potentially…
It’s simple: Because Jim Simons (who founded RenTech and Simons Foundation) was a prominent mathematician himself. He was also a major backer of autism research, because his family member had it. People spend money to…
I’m curious: why isn’t a “second opinion” included in the standard medical protocol? As an engineer, embedding such a check step (basically a PR review to your body!) in the standard workflow feels very natural. But in…
What jonas21 is stating is correct. If you have the absolute best performance, you are automatically on the Pareto frontier because you’re the most cost effective one (or the only model) on that performance tier.
It seems to me that the biggest winners of the financial sector automation, circa 1990-2010, were (1) a small group of sophisticated prop trading firms and (2) the general public, while the biggest losers were…
My impression is that the top 0.2% are spending a lot on LLM subscriptions, but they’re struggling to turn those perceived boosts into economic bargaining power. At best, they’re earning the same amount while paying…
That’s a great point! > Actually we bet the other way around. History always under estimated technology. To throw a few more nuggets, being pessimistic about aviation actually paid off. As Buffett famously pointed out…
The author uses airplanes as an analogy. I want to add a few historical facts here: - First, airplanes in the first 30 years were extremely rough and dangerous. When Dole hosted a contest for the first transpacific…
I’m curious what that blight red smoke flickering around the star is. Some kind of interplanatory gas?
This discussion reminds me of “Only the Paranoid Survive” by Andy Grove (Intel co-founder). In this book, he talks about “a technological inflection point”, which is a time in the life of a business when its fundamental…
What happened to 15,625 shares you did exercise? I guess they are worth over $1.5 billion as of today?
Full text of the treaty: https://corum.ktb.gov.tr/EN-61494/kadesh-war-and-peace-treat... It reads more like a military alliance agreement between kings: 1. Reamasesa-Mai-amana (King of Egypt) and Hattusili (King of…
This isn’t correct. For example, when Edmond Halley created the world’s first life table in the 1690s, he estimated that approximately 5% of his city’s adult population was >70. Getting old is not new.
People also underestimate how dangerous these humanoid robots are. If we comply with the OSHA standards, we would need to place these robots in an enclosure with distance monitoring. Mind you, because contemporary…
ColdFusion has been maintained by Adobe since 2005. Apparently, they think there is future for it: ColdFusion Next is evolving into an AI-powered, cloud-native platform designed for modern business automation. See…
For what it’s worth, this article cites a longitudinal study done by German researchers. They basically installed a bunch of bird feeders outside nursing homes to see if watching birds improves the health of the elderly…
I'm curious about your perspective on the impact of LLMs on physics. My impression is that (theoretical?) physics is increasingly becoming a branch of abstract math. It has somewhat reached a practical limit for…
It seems that Meta assigns a unique hostname to each shared conversation. For example: > fiscal-review-b4a5ff.cf.metaaiusercontent.com So when someone opens the link, the DNS resolution exposes the unique hostname. The…
I'm curious why such a large gap exists between our numbers. My hypotheses are: A. The average utilization rate of inference GPU cards is not that high (i.e. it peaks during the daytime, but is idle at night). So the…
Your estimation feels too high. It implies >1000% ROI on a GPU card (= $300k gross revenue per annum on a $30k card). As a reference point, Z.ai is operating at 26% gross margin as of 1H26. So assuming ~90% gross margin…
Zebrafish have retinas very similar to mammals. For whatever reasons, they are able to regenerate their retinas when injured, while we mammals can't. Scientists hypothesized that the presence of a certain protein is the…
What’s more interesting to me is the fact that these two kernels (con-leche and con-ron) were actually implemented by Claude (with “human supervision”). Programming as a hand-crafted art is really diminishing fast.
They created an implementation of a Lean kernel in Lean (con-leche) and verified it as consistent. Since there can be bugs in its compiler and runtime, they translated the code into Rust (con-ron), and verified the…
Yeah. I experimented with a random Japanese news article. Scanning it with my eyeballs, I found: Correct .. 80 chars Missing .. 12 chars Wrong .... 8 chars So I guess the accuracy is roughly 80%. Maybe useful, but not…
Reading your comment, I’m most curious if AI models will eventually “fork” mathematics. (Sorry for beating the same cranky analogy) Like, not expecting human experts to review and merge their results, but developing…
Do you think it’s possible to operate math research in a fully autonomous way (i.e. with no human expert involvement)? As a software engineer, my mental model so far is that OpenAI made a gigantic (but potentially…
It’s simple: Because Jim Simons (who founded RenTech and Simons Foundation) was a prominent mathematician himself. He was also a major backer of autism research, because his family member had it. People spend money to…
I’m curious: why isn’t a “second opinion” included in the standard medical protocol? As an engineer, embedding such a check step (basically a PR review to your body!) in the standard workflow feels very natural. But in…
What jonas21 is stating is correct. If you have the absolute best performance, you are automatically on the Pareto frontier because you’re the most cost effective one (or the only model) on that performance tier.
It seems to me that the biggest winners of the financial sector automation, circa 1990-2010, were (1) a small group of sophisticated prop trading firms and (2) the general public, while the biggest losers were…
My impression is that the top 0.2% are spending a lot on LLM subscriptions, but they’re struggling to turn those perceived boosts into economic bargaining power. At best, they’re earning the same amount while paying…
That’s a great point! > Actually we bet the other way around. History always under estimated technology. To throw a few more nuggets, being pessimistic about aviation actually paid off. As Buffett famously pointed out…
The author uses airplanes as an analogy. I want to add a few historical facts here: - First, airplanes in the first 30 years were extremely rough and dangerous. When Dole hosted a contest for the first transpacific…
I’m curious what that blight red smoke flickering around the star is. Some kind of interplanatory gas?
This discussion reminds me of “Only the Paranoid Survive” by Andy Grove (Intel co-founder). In this book, he talks about “a technological inflection point”, which is a time in the life of a business when its fundamental…
What happened to 15,625 shares you did exercise? I guess they are worth over $1.5 billion as of today?
Full text of the treaty: https://corum.ktb.gov.tr/EN-61494/kadesh-war-and-peace-treat... It reads more like a military alliance agreement between kings: 1. Reamasesa-Mai-amana (King of Egypt) and Hattusili (King of…
This isn’t correct. For example, when Edmond Halley created the world’s first life table in the 1690s, he estimated that approximately 5% of his city’s adult population was >70. Getting old is not new.
People also underestimate how dangerous these humanoid robots are. If we comply with the OSHA standards, we would need to place these robots in an enclosure with distance monitoring. Mind you, because contemporary…