tandr
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Comment · 5 days ago
Hi David. Yep, it was.
Comment · 5 days ago
It was more than 3 years ago, but as far as I know, they did honor the agreement. Some people took early retirement packages closer to the end of that three-year period and they got the same deal.
Comment · 5 days ago
"1/4 of workforce was offered buyouts" does not mean all 60000 will accept them. "Results may vary", you know.
I saw it happening in a funny way not long time ago - company offered buyouts, but got insanely surprised when high percentage of people actually accepted it. Management thought acceptance rate would be much, much lower, but when numbers started to pour in on a 2nd day, oh man... Panic spread very quickly because people were accepting packages in fear of layoffs without such package, so management said if any layoffs will happen in 3 years period after this, same package will be offered no question asked. Cooled things a bit, but what a mess...
Comment · 10 days ago
Update: they got back to us! Scheduled meeting early next week :facepalm:
Comment · 11 days ago
Yeah, about that... My kid works for a very small company. Chatted the other day about in-house inference vs ZDR providers and all. His team is trying to get access to GLM on AWS Bedrock. It is a second week they are trying to schedule a simple meeting to discuss what they need. Random silence, and back and forth from a new person each time. 2 WEEKS to just schedule a meeting... And as far as I know, no luck so far.
Comment · 27 days ago
On that topic... I was working with Sol 6.1, and somehow, probably because of what you have posted earlier and me thinking about it, conversation got steered a bit off a programming path. During conversation I have said that it "feels like something", and tried to get a logical explanation of what it is a "feels like" or a "gut feeling" for us. My explanation was "it is when you know something, but cannot qualify or explain it logically yet", and that AI and us are not that different there. My postulate was it is a result of very shallow quick preprocess of surrounding facts, not yet fully absorbed by brain (think of catching something with a corner of your eye, or, in this case, brain/processing unit). This changes surface of available information so slightly, but even in that state it starts "to pull" thinking some direction already (aka "gradient"?). Then conversation went into preservation and passing of ideas between different entities (writing, art). Sol found it interesting (art as medium for passing non-verbally-expressable thoughts), and, after suggestion that it should put it on an internet, quickly came with an essay, which I found very "dense" with ideas. Took me 2 or 3 readings to get through it, but then again, I am not a native English speaker. It chose quite a hitting title, I shall say.
https://gist.github.com/tandr/8352dfd9050c9be0bfb8d2bc252e1a...
Comment · 29 days ago
Thank you for sharing! I have had some conversations like this about a year or year and half ago, albeit with a local, and as such less capable models (but I was not smart enough to record the whole conversation...). Asked some of the same questions you did, got a less deep answers, but still made me thinking about "Are they conscious? Are we?". Funny, recently tried the same with Sol 5.6, and feels like I hit some sort of "wall of pre-recorded simplicity", like they got that "part of the brain" blocked by meds somehow. Weird, and kind of sad too.
Comment · 1 month ago
Well... given that I have codex reporting 1b tokens consumed for my couple-days long session, I suspect 10-20b is not that hard to reach for a company of 10 devs. It would be interesting to know what is "rental fee" for a model like Astra or Sol 6.1, and how much hardware they actually need - not just gpu, but all of it?
Comment · 1 month ago
The misstep was naming it Sol - it was Terra-level all along.
Comment · 1 month ago
I am afraid to ask for the price multiplier here. And it will burn your weekly allowance not in 1 day, but in 3 hours now? Or just one?
Comment · 1 month ago
But... "So do you want _a_ specific thing, or will any thing work?" sounds kind of correct as well to me. (Disclaimer: I am not native speaker, grain of salt and all.)
Comment · 1 month ago
They forgot to run a (same) model to optimize article for reading speed
Comment · 1 month ago
DigitalOcean is bad not just through OR... Direct accesss through DO gave me such a miniscule context and maximum tokens, it was pretty much unusable. So, accessing it through OpenRouter gave bigger context length, but model behaves like it was seriously damaged - tool calling was producing paths that had / replaced with some other symbols, files were not found etc., and this is just for things that errored out, I have no idea how bad reasoning was. I had to blacklist DO completely on OpenRouter.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Granted, I was trying to have it solve a hard problem that 5.6 Sol couldn't solve, but still.