Terence Tao on GPT-4

Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by blowski on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:46AM (#35539571)

Perhaps they've optimised for the normal levels of traffic they receive, not unanticpated spikes. That's hardly an embarrassing choice.

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Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by endisneigh on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:03AM (#35539827)

I'm not talking about the administrator of this instance, I'm talking about how mastodon is fundamentally designed. Even an iPhone could probably serve the (static) text of Tao's post to a million people on a 5G connection. Computers are fast.

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Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by blowski on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:10AM (#35539947)

I run Mastodon on a $5 VM. If I hit HN homepage, my site will probably be slow as well. I don’t see how that reflects on Mastodon though.

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Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 by endisneigh on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:25AM (#35540239)

what am I saying is that there's a way to design a site on a $5 VM that serves static text that wouldn't be slow even if it was #1 on HN.

if you disagree with that then we'll have to agree to disagree.

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