The sooner the USG figures out a standard process for approving releases the better. There are many differing opinions on how much to regulate AI, but I think we can all agree ad-hoc policy sucks.
Tim was a great CEO. I'm just pointing out product velocity slowed. I'm far from the first person to say it, it's just a fact. In the five years before Cook we got first generation Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and MacBook…
I'm quite curious what Tim Cook's legacy will end up being. There is no question many of Apple's business experienced significant, impressive growth during his tenure. Amazing capital efficiency. There is also no…
The "rent" in "rent-seeking" does not refer to "rent" it refers to "economic rent." Totally different concept. But don't take my word for it: > "Rent-seeking" is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of…
Methinks this post conflates “rent seeking” with “return on investment” just a tad. Economic rent is the extra money you can charge for owning a scarce resource. ML models are not waterfront real estate, they are IP.…
I always understood this to be why Tesla started working on humanoid robots
> Model A consistently outperforms Model B under identical conditions, that tells you something meaningful about the model. Not really! Sorry to harp on this, but there are two ways one model could outperform another:…
I suspect this sort of thing starts to happen when UX decision-making gets decentralized. No single god-king would allow six or more different new icons; the lack of uniformity is obviously nonsensical to anybody, but…
If your "impossible" designs are manufactured by non-exclusive suppliers it isn't much of a moat.
…so? A realistic stay-at-home subsidy would max out around $30k. Your proposal only meaningfully shifts incentives for the bottom income quintile. For everyone else: - Upper-income families can already afford to choose…
Do you have any evidence for that? From what I’ve seen, the research leans the other way. For example: Children from more advantaged families were actually more likely to view unfair distribution as unfair, while poorer…
The most obvious example is the children of addicts. It’s hard to imagine a kid is better off stuck at home with druggie parents than spending the day in daycare.
Hate to break it to you, but many kids actually do better away from their parents than with them. It's extremely sad, but a consistent finding in early childhood education is that the children who thrive most in…
Another day, another person not getting discounted cash flow. Models trained in 2025 don’t ship until 2026/7. That means the $3bn in 2025 training costs show up as expense now, while the revenue comes later. Treating…
I've been annoyed for a while people don't use a common parameter weight/compute budget for benchmarking papers. That said, it does make it easier to claim progress...
Their FOSS local inference service didn't go anywhere. This isn't Anaconda, they didn't do a bait and switch to screw their core users. It isn't sinful for devs to try and earn a living.
You don't need the analogy. If you have a tool that does a job for you your capacity to do the job degrades alongside other associated skills. Tools that do many things and tools that do a small number of things are…
It's worth noting this is the exact argument people used against adopting electric calculators.
+1, this is the exact reason I started using uv. Extremely convenient. For some reason uv pip has been very slow, however. Unsure why, might be my org doing weird network stuff.
I suspect its something to do with the following: When humans get stuck solving problems they often go out to acquire new information so they can better address the barrier they encountered. This is hard to replicate in…
They have a deal with Cerebras for inference. https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/mistral-le-chat
It did buy them a hell of a lot of marketing, Telegram has a billion users and those users are mostly in countries where Musk's brand isn't as toxic.
I don't like Grok that much, but there's nothing particularly new or interesting about this deal. Telegram has a big international audience, it makes sense someone would pay to be the default for user adoption reasons.…
I hate hate hate putting Deep Think behind a paywall. It's an ease-of-use tax. I fully expect to be able to get it over API through Poe or similar for way cheaper. Just have usage limit tiers!
You wrote "culture." If you meant "politics," then write that. I'm not capable of reading your mind. Accusing me of projecting when you invoked "culture" to explain poverty in a state like Mississippi is hilarious. It's…
The sooner the USG figures out a standard process for approving releases the better. There are many differing opinions on how much to regulate AI, but I think we can all agree ad-hoc policy sucks.
Tim was a great CEO. I'm just pointing out product velocity slowed. I'm far from the first person to say it, it's just a fact. In the five years before Cook we got first generation Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and MacBook…
I'm quite curious what Tim Cook's legacy will end up being. There is no question many of Apple's business experienced significant, impressive growth during his tenure. Amazing capital efficiency. There is also no…
The "rent" in "rent-seeking" does not refer to "rent" it refers to "economic rent." Totally different concept. But don't take my word for it: > "Rent-seeking" is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of…
Methinks this post conflates “rent seeking” with “return on investment” just a tad. Economic rent is the extra money you can charge for owning a scarce resource. ML models are not waterfront real estate, they are IP.…
I always understood this to be why Tesla started working on humanoid robots
> Model A consistently outperforms Model B under identical conditions, that tells you something meaningful about the model. Not really! Sorry to harp on this, but there are two ways one model could outperform another:…
I suspect this sort of thing starts to happen when UX decision-making gets decentralized. No single god-king would allow six or more different new icons; the lack of uniformity is obviously nonsensical to anybody, but…
If your "impossible" designs are manufactured by non-exclusive suppliers it isn't much of a moat.
…so? A realistic stay-at-home subsidy would max out around $30k. Your proposal only meaningfully shifts incentives for the bottom income quintile. For everyone else: - Upper-income families can already afford to choose…
Do you have any evidence for that? From what I’ve seen, the research leans the other way. For example: Children from more advantaged families were actually more likely to view unfair distribution as unfair, while poorer…
The most obvious example is the children of addicts. It’s hard to imagine a kid is better off stuck at home with druggie parents than spending the day in daycare.
Hate to break it to you, but many kids actually do better away from their parents than with them. It's extremely sad, but a consistent finding in early childhood education is that the children who thrive most in…
Another day, another person not getting discounted cash flow. Models trained in 2025 don’t ship until 2026/7. That means the $3bn in 2025 training costs show up as expense now, while the revenue comes later. Treating…
I've been annoyed for a while people don't use a common parameter weight/compute budget for benchmarking papers. That said, it does make it easier to claim progress...
Their FOSS local inference service didn't go anywhere. This isn't Anaconda, they didn't do a bait and switch to screw their core users. It isn't sinful for devs to try and earn a living.
You don't need the analogy. If you have a tool that does a job for you your capacity to do the job degrades alongside other associated skills. Tools that do many things and tools that do a small number of things are…
It's worth noting this is the exact argument people used against adopting electric calculators.
+1, this is the exact reason I started using uv. Extremely convenient. For some reason uv pip has been very slow, however. Unsure why, might be my org doing weird network stuff.
I suspect its something to do with the following: When humans get stuck solving problems they often go out to acquire new information so they can better address the barrier they encountered. This is hard to replicate in…
They have a deal with Cerebras for inference. https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/mistral-le-chat
It did buy them a hell of a lot of marketing, Telegram has a billion users and those users are mostly in countries where Musk's brand isn't as toxic.
I don't like Grok that much, but there's nothing particularly new or interesting about this deal. Telegram has a big international audience, it makes sense someone would pay to be the default for user adoption reasons.…
I hate hate hate putting Deep Think behind a paywall. It's an ease-of-use tax. I fully expect to be able to get it over API through Poe or similar for way cheaper. Just have usage limit tiers!
You wrote "culture." If you meant "politics," then write that. I'm not capable of reading your mind. Accusing me of projecting when you invoked "culture" to explain poverty in a state like Mississippi is hilarious. It's…