brandall10

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CTO @ stealth AI related startup

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Comment · 4 days ago
It's a base M6 chip. The Pro doubles that, and the Max doubles again. And the Ultra doubles yet again. This is how the entire M series has always worked.

So the theoretical Max would be 680GB/s.

Comment · 4 days ago
That's only part of the issue - prefill is horrible prior to M5 class chips.

So it depends on what you're doing. Using it for a fun oracle without feeding it too much context per turn? Sure, an older Max chip is great.

As a coding agent doing meaningful work on a sizable project? Compared to a cheap as chips cloud option, it will take an order of magnitude more time to complete.

Comment · 28 days ago
I didn't say that was the only way you get your tickets. Pretty much everything I listed above comes with pdf printable tickets as well.
Comment · 28 days ago
For sure. Just responding to the SF comment, but now I see it was more of a rural vs. big city thing.
Comment · 28 days ago
It makes sense that someone like an NFL head coach would be good at this... the sheer amount of detail in the playbooks (we're talking 500-1000 plays) is nauseating and changes significantly from year to year as NFL play styles evolve, esp. as coordinators come and go.
Comment · 28 days ago
I'm currently residing in Mexico City and Apple Wallet passes are ubiquitous here for any type of event purchased online... pretty much all the major bus lines use them, all the theater chains, museums, etc.
Comment · 29 days ago
Keep in mind that the creator of Pi has done a ton of advocacy for it... talks, podcasts, demos, etc.

Marketing really matters here. Sometimes a tool can take off on its own with just a little bit of prodding (hn/reddit announcements and the like), but in this era where there is just way too much choice that is difficult to differentiate, the S/N is just too opaque.

Think about Matt Pocock for a moment - the guy is literally famous for 'his' grill-me skill. A skill. And something he really did not come up with, as the core tenant has been a a prior-art prompt template going back to 2023, but no one seems to question or point that out as he has been so pervasive online promoting this as his invention that it just drowns out any dissent.

Comment · 1 month ago
Investors/founders are likely horrified to discover there is no industrial-scale moat in no time at all... they probably expected to have at least a 2-3 month window to capture market share and value.

I suspect Jev was intended to be an acquisition play and instead OAI said "nah, we're good" literally 2 weeks to the day after its launch. Anthropic and the Chinese labs are almost certainly soon to follow.

They're rumored to be in the early stages of a billion dollar round to value the company at $10B. Best of luck with that.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yep, no problem at all. The only drawback is sessions cannot be shared directly between accounts, so if you're in the middle of something you'll have to do some extra work. To that end I have a handoff skill to persist state to a local markdown and a resume skill to load that state into a new session.
Comment · 1 month ago
You can have multiple accounts w/ OpenAI, attached to different emails - just log out of one and log into the other.
Comment · 1 month ago
Someone made the same comment in the thread from a few days back. Yeah, it was the first time I realized it as well.
Comment · 2 months ago
From a bandwidth perspective, the ultra is like 8 M5s fused together (@ 150GB/s), that's how it gets to the 1200.

Historically the Pro doubles the base, the Max doubles the Pro, and the Ultra doubles the Max.

If an M6 ultra were released today it would be 1.36TB/s.

Comment · 2 months ago

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