fossa1

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Capitalist hypocrite.
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Comment · 10 months ago
The real question isn't whether the market is saturated, it's whether it still exists once Docker gives away the core value prop for free.
Comment · 1 year ago
Very cool, this feels like a missing piece for integrating structured tool use into local LLM workflows without building everything from scratch
Comment · 1 year ago
Glad to see JAX featured alongside PyTorch. JAX still feels like the best-kept secret in deep learning
Comment · 1 year ago
I think hatchling or setuptools are still better options (for now). Would be great to see a clean, declarative hook system in the future
Comment · 1 year ago
This kind of work reminds me of early WSL1-era hacks
Comment · 1 year ago
We’re being told AI will “augment” workers, but it increasingly looks like it’s augmenting them right out of a job. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s stock is near record highs. Shareholders win, employees lose.
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s ironic: for years the open-source community was trying to match GPT-3 (175B dense) with 30B–70B models + RLHF + synthetic data—and the performance gap persisted.

Turns out, size really did matter, at least at the base model level. Only with the release of truly massive dense (405B) or high-activation MoE models (DeepSeek V3, DBRX, etc) did we start seeing GPT-4-level reasoning emerge outside closed labs.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Welch was just very good at understanding that some invisible boundaries didn’t apply anymore, and that the zeitgeist was shifting in that direction

Agreed, Welch didn’t invent shareholder primacy, but he industrialized it. What makes him so consequential isn’t that he played the game better, but that he normalized a playbook that treated human capital as expendable

Comment · 1 year ago
This is a textbook case of micro-architectural reality beats theoretical elegance. It's fascinating how replacing 5 loads with 2 loads + 3 vextq_f32 intrinsics, which should reduce memory pressure, ends up being slower due to execution port contention and dependency chains.

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