subygan

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I'm Suriya Ganesh. Systems Engineer

blog: https://suriya.cc

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Comment · 2 months ago
completely anecdotal. my earliest childhood memories in india were of asthma, sinusitis and constant cold. this was consistent until i was 26 and since then I've moved to the US and lived in New York with 0 days of sinusitis or breathing trouble. and i fallback to trouble breathing when i go home again.

even New York is so much more better than Bangalore or my small village in the middle of coffee farms

Comment · 2 months ago
you're right. it coincidentally solves cancer and infectious diseases as well.

the ultimate utopia

Comment · 2 months ago
a lot of life is transactional and businesslike (even if at times it doesn't feel that way.)

and just like in business, a lot of opportunities and outcomes are depended on being in the right place right time & knowing the right person.

hard work tips the balance a little bit. not much

Comment · 2 months ago
lovable is not aimed at devs though
Comment · 2 months ago
wouldve been nice to see a video of what theyre talking about. words are so ambiguous in what the product is
Comment · 2 months ago
Ai is a tool in the same way an employee is a tool. very unlike a hammer.
Comment · 2 months ago
is it not open assembly?

open weight models are better than open-assembly binaries (as you put it) because models are grown like plants, you can shape the open-weight model in a direction you want by feeding it more data and compute (aka finetuning).

which is something that is impossible in a binary.

embrace the new paradigm and it's tradeoffs. without scoffing at semantics and criticising from an armchair.

Comment · 2 months ago
we're calling it openweights now. what is a logical push to have a completely new paradigm be compared with traditional software binaries?
Comment · 2 months ago
do you have a $100 mil worth of compute to train your own version of this?

I don't understand what gripe people have with open weight models and wanting it to be purely open source. the training dataset is only going to be a copyrighted set of contents you don't want to touch with a 10 feet pole. let alone have a publicly traded company host it for you, even if they internally are training on it.

Comment · 2 months ago
these things will be evaluated based on the net benefit such a service would provide. more people having affordable commute to dallas would end up increasing the net benefit and value that dallas has.

cities grow in capabilities in direct proportion to the number of people who have access to it and their capabilities. it might be cheaper labour leading to better roads, plumbing etc

Comment · 3 months ago
in the absence of a stalling signal. it's better to assume exponential and work backwards than hope the next bottleneck is impossible.
Comment · 3 months ago
this is one of the common conundrums of life. but for someone living in the grey, this stuff might push them over the edge to be great. that is the point of this article
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
And the hidden, trial and error runs tweaking the hyperparams. guaranteed, it cost >$5000 in training runs alone.

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