cmdrk

depends on the framing.

if the chinese models have this aura of inferior quality around them, then sure.

if they manage to frame it instead as open source, sovereign AI, the calculus changes.

YAML abstracting YAML abstracting YAML abstracting..

The high volume site-to-site data transfers for running simulation etc reminds me strongly of the high energy physics computing world. no wonder so many HEP folks ended up at HRT!

Apple has reinvented cycle scavenging about 40 years later.

I'm hardly AI-pilled but these are lovely parent/child apps. Kudos

when I was a student in the waning days of Sun, the SPARC/Solaris machines were impenetrable Big Iron guarded closely by the greybeards -- not to be touched by the likes of mere undergrads. Never really did get beyond noodling around with cast off gear from eBay, though I did get to enjoy a bit of it via the Sun DNA in SmartOS years later.

Drat, I was hoping this article would be about outlawing Kubernetes.

The invisible guardrails are a test run for the invisible enshittification. Just wait til they start dialing down ability to better absorb peak demand or simply to have more profitable inference

IIRC, this is the same lab who created Glaze.

Do you think this will be a trend for larger companies as well?

The decadal move to all-cloud-all-the-time killed off in-house hardware teams while the C-suite chased their OpEx dreams.

It would be interesting if we come full circle on this.

My observation is that the true believers really don't want to think of models as an inert pile of weights. There's some mysticism attached to imagining it's the ship's computer from Star Trek, HAL-9000 or C-3PO. A file loaded into memory and executed over is just so... _pedestrian_.

100% the same problem here.

I have to show people extremely zoomed-in screenshots of how $VENDOR default monospaced fonts get rendered compared to Terminus at the correct size in order for them to understand my pain. The hinting is just blurry bleh.

These days, because I am also old, I want a comparatively large pixel-perfect font. I've yet to find a good one but haven't looked much beyond Terminus honestly. Maybe I can render it an acceptable integer multiple without it being too large?

Bellringing, specifically change ringing. It’s a type of church bell ringing that is rather algorithmic in nature. Tends to attract mathy types. Religion not required or expected!

If you have English-style tower bells near you, it's worth checking out, even if only to listen.

> Their only original idea was Metaverse

surely you must be joking.