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Comment · 3 hours ago
This can still be true, but it will be in a language divorced from registers and stacks.
Comment · 1 day ago
Personal consumption is vastly different than corporate ladder climbing.
Comment · 17 days ago
Big E Engineering vs little e engineering.

IMO the barriers to entry are just much different, and it’s reflecting in the workforce. There’s cultural differences too, but I think the education differences is the biggest cause.

Comment · 20 days ago
Palantir guy would say neurodivergence
Comment · 22 days ago
AIaaS
Comment · 24 days ago
What latencies were you targeting?
Comment · 24 days ago
I feel like the better value will be in physical sciences where you are also solving problems, sometimes concretely and sometimes abstractly, or even philosophy.
Comment · 26 days ago
Did you learn english or C first?
Comment · 1 month ago
4.8 at 10k tokens a second would be more groundbreaking than a Opus 6 IMO.
Comment · 1 month ago
Terence Tao did NOT say that. Amit Sahai did. Maybe you are just being less careful?
Comment · 1 month ago
I’d happily take Opus 4.8 xhigh at a reliable 10k tokens per second over oversubscribed SOTA models.

At some point this will probably happen, but we’re not quite there yet.

Comment · 1 month ago
a few things are global (login service) to some extent, just as AWS places several such things in us-east-1
Comment · 1 month ago
We’re talking about ~’94 here…
Comment · 1 month ago
Not just gamma rays, cosmic rays too, although they filter the UV and are targeting nitrogen fluorescence and catch the cerenkov overlap. I’m sure there’s many people here who have worked on them.

I worked on HiRes/Telescope Array in Utah (Not CTA).

Comment · 1 month ago
Not sure the thrust of your comment, but what is really going on is just novelty seeking to get a bit of a dopamine rush, which slides into creativity.

It all comes down to dopamine at the end of the day.

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