> It may have little to do with winning a board game, and a lot to do with seeing what people will tolerate and what the thresholds are for being called out; it’s a test of one’s intimidation factor. It’s one of the…
> My impression is that a lot, if not most, anime was always cheap. Lots of stills, few frames, and CGI as soon as it got remotely good enough (and often before). Like Hanna-Barbera cheap. That was my impression when I…
> But they do it by squeezing businesses upstream, who end up with even lower margins. I've done tech projects for supermarkets and I've done tech projects for movie studios. The thing I noticed about Disney is that…
> The expensiveness in running them will eventually be solved by cheaper faster hardware. How? * Moores Law is almost over. The 5090 improves over the 4090 mostly because of quant improvements. * even if the hardware…
> If that happens the AI companies will first try to negotiate with their creditors and after that likely declare bankruptcy with the creditors taking over what’s left of the assets. Due to the fact that we’ve already…
> The big thing is, the western world has moved so much of the manufacturing to China I built my career on Solaris and it got rugpulled by Linux. That wasn’t because of software, it was because of hardware. Linux’s cost…
> GM just did this in the last 30 days [1], and their sales are likely going to be just fine. In fact the auto industry has repeatedly automated jobs over the last 100 years, and they still make decent sales numbers. I…
> Cherrypicked dates? But I'd like to hear analysis comparing the Nixon shock to the covid shock since one was monetary and one was supply and demand. Of course! * In 1971 and 2019, the M2 money supply was flooded. In…
I vote for number 2.
> Organizing and iteration on thoughts is not trivial or easy, but it is very important! Two of the silliest things that helped me in my career: * I worked at fast food restaurants in high school. This instills a near…
> Indeed, Gemini really is incredible at image analysis. Yesterday I pointed it at some sloppy handwritten notes and asked it to add up the numbers in the right column, and it did it no problem. I've also used it to…
> A lot of industries got bitten by greed and the sudden deflation of demand and huge unsold inventory post COVID. I’m betting that the world is about to hit a wall of inflation. https://i.ibb.co/s9Mm8w2r/IMG-0743.jpg…
> You assume demand for AI stays flat. RAM has become an asset class, like real estate, or orange juice, or cattle, or collectible cars. It’s wild to see. I don’t know if there is an options market or a futures market…
> I read somewhere (don’t recall where) that Apple typically enters into contracts for RAM on a six-monthly basis and avoids longer term ones. Even in the current situation since last year, it has avoided getting into…
> If a company does something you approve of (e.g. do journalism) and something else you disapprove of (e.g. make canceling hard), is there a good way to signal both as a consumer? Leave a bad review where their social…
> Any place that allows easy instantaneous subscription by a simple web form, but makes you call and talk to a person during limited business hours for cancellation I moved into a new home. I kept the old one for a few…
I keep trying to convince people that English majors and Philosophy majors will benefit the most from LLMs. English majors in particular, have been trained to be VERY exact in how they word things. That awareness of how…
Yes, this will definitely renew interest in Stadia type products.
What if this is the lowest that prices will ever be?
I believe msrp is $2000 right?
Possibly the best deal there is I really need to shut up, or bite the bullet and by one. If you graph the tokens per second on the 5090, your jaw will hit the floor at how cheap it is
Nine years after Google's seminal paper lit the fuse on AI, a total lack of manufacturing foresight has trapped over a trillion dollars of incoming capital in a hardware bottleneck. The entire sector is now facing a…
I really don’t want to give anyone ideas, but doesn’t this make the Nvidia 5090 an unbelievably good deal right now? The VRAM in the 5090 is only made by one country in the world. The 50xx series is special, because its…
If you wanted to brute force it, it might be possible to have it generate a hundred outputs and then include a second pass to automatically select the generated model that most accurately resembles the expected output.…
> So I would really appreciate a good AI/LLM tool that I can feed my sketch and parameters and it can save me hours of searching web and watching tutorials on how to extrude a circle over a curve I think this is…
> It may have little to do with winning a board game, and a lot to do with seeing what people will tolerate and what the thresholds are for being called out; it’s a test of one’s intimidation factor. It’s one of the…
> My impression is that a lot, if not most, anime was always cheap. Lots of stills, few frames, and CGI as soon as it got remotely good enough (and often before). Like Hanna-Barbera cheap. That was my impression when I…
> But they do it by squeezing businesses upstream, who end up with even lower margins. I've done tech projects for supermarkets and I've done tech projects for movie studios. The thing I noticed about Disney is that…
> The expensiveness in running them will eventually be solved by cheaper faster hardware. How? * Moores Law is almost over. The 5090 improves over the 4090 mostly because of quant improvements. * even if the hardware…
> If that happens the AI companies will first try to negotiate with their creditors and after that likely declare bankruptcy with the creditors taking over what’s left of the assets. Due to the fact that we’ve already…
> The big thing is, the western world has moved so much of the manufacturing to China I built my career on Solaris and it got rugpulled by Linux. That wasn’t because of software, it was because of hardware. Linux’s cost…
> GM just did this in the last 30 days [1], and their sales are likely going to be just fine. In fact the auto industry has repeatedly automated jobs over the last 100 years, and they still make decent sales numbers. I…
> Cherrypicked dates? But I'd like to hear analysis comparing the Nixon shock to the covid shock since one was monetary and one was supply and demand. Of course! * In 1971 and 2019, the M2 money supply was flooded. In…
I vote for number 2.
> Organizing and iteration on thoughts is not trivial or easy, but it is very important! Two of the silliest things that helped me in my career: * I worked at fast food restaurants in high school. This instills a near…
> Indeed, Gemini really is incredible at image analysis. Yesterday I pointed it at some sloppy handwritten notes and asked it to add up the numbers in the right column, and it did it no problem. I've also used it to…
> A lot of industries got bitten by greed and the sudden deflation of demand and huge unsold inventory post COVID. I’m betting that the world is about to hit a wall of inflation. https://i.ibb.co/s9Mm8w2r/IMG-0743.jpg…
> You assume demand for AI stays flat. RAM has become an asset class, like real estate, or orange juice, or cattle, or collectible cars. It’s wild to see. I don’t know if there is an options market or a futures market…
> I read somewhere (don’t recall where) that Apple typically enters into contracts for RAM on a six-monthly basis and avoids longer term ones. Even in the current situation since last year, it has avoided getting into…
> If a company does something you approve of (e.g. do journalism) and something else you disapprove of (e.g. make canceling hard), is there a good way to signal both as a consumer? Leave a bad review where their social…
> Any place that allows easy instantaneous subscription by a simple web form, but makes you call and talk to a person during limited business hours for cancellation I moved into a new home. I kept the old one for a few…
I keep trying to convince people that English majors and Philosophy majors will benefit the most from LLMs. English majors in particular, have been trained to be VERY exact in how they word things. That awareness of how…
Yes, this will definitely renew interest in Stadia type products.
What if this is the lowest that prices will ever be?
I believe msrp is $2000 right?
Possibly the best deal there is I really need to shut up, or bite the bullet and by one. If you graph the tokens per second on the 5090, your jaw will hit the floor at how cheap it is
Nine years after Google's seminal paper lit the fuse on AI, a total lack of manufacturing foresight has trapped over a trillion dollars of incoming capital in a hardware bottleneck. The entire sector is now facing a…
I really don’t want to give anyone ideas, but doesn’t this make the Nvidia 5090 an unbelievably good deal right now? The VRAM in the 5090 is only made by one country in the world. The 50xx series is special, because its…
If you wanted to brute force it, it might be possible to have it generate a hundred outputs and then include a second pass to automatically select the generated model that most accurately resembles the expected output.…
> So I would really appreciate a good AI/LLM tool that I can feed my sketch and parameters and it can save me hours of searching web and watching tutorials on how to extrude a circle over a curve I think this is…