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The author is being equally disingenuous.

That piece by itself is insightful. Meaning, LLMs are capable of deciphering what a model can do by looking at the weights alone.

The fact that we can’t squeeze enough of them through the context is a technical limitation. However, this does not diminish the importance of this finding/discovery. This is an unexpected emergent behaviour.

If you’re still getting poor performance, point an Astra agent at it and ask it to benchmark and find the pressure points.

Also speculative decoding has changed the game completely. I’ve managed to 2-3x’d the theoretical max for my setup. Apple Silicon is a bit more limited here, and cannot deal with large DFlash block sizes. But AMD and Intel chips are game.

Good luck and godspeed!

That's a very naive view on it (now) and I'll try my best to explain why.

The bad actors can discover multiple 0-days on the fly to gain access to an employer/company infrastructure with valuable data/information, or in the case of Binance, crypto. They could chain multiple such attacks going from one-company/provider to another, to another, to eventually reach their target.

To anyone interested, this is good reading material on the topic:

(1) study the Binance hack in detail

(2) OpenAI huggingface hack - focus on 0-day chaining

The things the original commenter wants to know are exactly the things that will count in an interview. The reasons behind the decisions. Not the actual implementation.

Implementing anything, even something of significant complexity is trivial with frontier agents now. So build your experience / knowledge in a technology-agnostic way. The language/app/stack is superficial.

Each space is persistent contains persistent terminals like tmux, so disconnections do not affect them.

However, in the scenario they did, then the company would have grounds to fire them.

Not a lawyer but my intuition says there might be some legal grounds here favouring the wife.

My take is someone even higher up found out later and did not like it. Now it’s entirely possible the individuals who gave their blessings were supportive of the party the wife was standing for, and the ones above them weren’t? Still whoever blessed the campaign did so in their capacity as a senior officer of the company. A total shit show nevertheless.

To the original commenter: sorry this happened to your wife. Hope she’s able to find another job that treats her right. Also congrats on the baby, hoping parenthood makes up for all of this and more. Sending the best of wishes your way.

[1]: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

Maybe it thought the names are clear and intuitive (for an LLM perhaps).

    Luna  = Moon
    Terra = Earth
    Sol   = Sun
    Astra = Galaxy

Once AI can orchestrate and maintain a project with dozens of clients without slipping, they will be relegated to non-technical SMBs - many enterprises would just build their own shit. No contracts to sign. Full control. AI hosts and maintains. Great.

Then they might pivot to security (heck I would if I were in any SaaS business today).

I don’t condone the use of pirated content for training. But anything that was bought is above the board as far as I’m concerned. Can let the lawyers fight out the minutia and inevitable licensing specifics after the fact (book publishers are hawks).

Fun fact, did you know that every library in the world has an independent contract with every major book publisher?

In cases I am familiar with, they added a condition that a physical book can only be lent X times. After that, the library must purchase a new copy (even if the original copy is in pristine condition). Yeah, hawks.

Haha, thanks for humouring me!

It will be buttery smooth between the chops.

..or can we?

Humour me for a moment. Maybe simulating to the degree that was necessary for cutting edge work was not possible earlier, when humans had to program each and every thing in the system that could affect the result. But with current gen petaflop-on-your-desk level compute + swarms of agents that can work tirelessly to account for every known thing to humanity, maybe the threshold has been pushed far enough to produce some more meaningful discovery work in simulation?

So effectively, you would spend the first 1000 experiments inside a computer simulation and move to the physical world only when you had enough confidence.

The world exists in shades of grey my friend..

So we should rather want these people to stay on for as long as possible, and make it hard for Meta to pull off such shit.

- Apple introduces OLED and talks about deep blacks and 1200 bits

- Why do they think people care about the above and not 120hz as well?

To the average consumer, neither matters much. True. But the above did not make much sense to me.

On that front, I think DeepSeek is a dark horse. They are really odd - not chasing revenue, care more about unit profitability, are obsessed with driving down costs (like Elon back in the day). As the founder says, they are content with where they are, being the model that does 80% for a fraction of the cost.

I mention them because they are playing a different game and might be able to out-innovate everyone else.

We’ve been doing that for a while now. That led us precisely to this point where we now have MORE billionaires than ever before, and even the first trillionare.

Logic would dictate that you can’t expect different results by trying the same things over and over again.

The billionaire problem is a symptom of the system. The system was designed to enrich corporations. Socialism is at odds with capitalism.

Until there’s a reasonable discourse and agreement that capitalism does not work at a societal level if we only ever optimize for making money, the ‘people’ will remain an afterthought.

401ks are the perfect example of this tension. On one end, there is recognition that companies should contribute to an individual’s retirement plans. On the other hand, the decision to invest and grow the money is left entirely to the individual - irrespective of their aptitude. How is this equitable?

IMO - at the core lies this thinking - the state does not guarantee anything to people, it only provides the raw materials, then folks are on their own. May the best man/woman win! This is capitalism (capitalistic?) thinking applied to people.

Yes, I am greatly simplifying the reality to try and capture the gist as I see it.

(Continue down below for an amusing rant - trigger warning maybe?)

Now it’s just part of insatiable corporate greed and the current sad reality.

I wonder if Zuck lets his girls use Instagram all day long or if Andy would gift his own toddler (if he had another one) this beautiful tablet. Probably not, he’d have a full time nanny to keep the kid busy.

Alas, these folks are the symptoms and the real problem is systemic folks. Companies are chasing targets to please…drumroll…the shareholders. Yes, each one of us holding index funds are also culpable. It’s a SNAFU. We’ve been sucked whole into the system and escape is hard (especially with the newly proposed Dell bank account for kids that can only be used to invest in stocks).

I don't think the author is posing as a professional. These models are like having a 3D printer at home. Very handy in a pinch, but what they make doesn't replace the real thing.

It's even more confusing than that :)

    GB200 = 1 CPU + 2 B200 GPUs (packaged together)

    NV72 = A rack of 72 B200 GPUs (or 32 GB200 superchips)