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Mars008··on Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality
I agree on pricing. But it includes 'free' software. Similar model Apple has. You don't buy just hardware.
Mars008··on Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality
It will be really hard to put a dozen in a single PC. Then to connect them at good speed. Add to that a few new power lines to feed it all.
Mars008··on Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality
It's a different animal. Ryzen wins on memory bandwidth and has 'AI' accelerator (my guess matrix multiplication). Spark has times lower bandwidth, but much better and more generic compute. Add to that CUDA ecosystem with libs and tools. I'm not saying Ryzen is bad, actually it's great Mac substitute for poor man. $2K for 128GB version on Amazon now.
Mars008··on Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
technically it's cheaper, but it's not an equivalent replacement.
Mars008··on AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages
> who use AI translator or worst like Google translate

It's the same. Google translate uses trained AI models.

Mars008··on Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
The other reason could be the copyright cases they are fighting in court. OAI was ordered to keep all records, including private. Not sure if it was lifted already.

And another could be EU requirements for age verification. AI can produce adult content.

There are may be other reasons, like to prevent using OAI models' output to train competing models.

Mars008··on Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits
> If deepseek and qwen are capable why ...

Of course, you can go further and run qwen locally. Or even train your own nanogpt. Why not if it's capable, right? And this 'if' is a big question.

Mars008··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
> And this isn't a uniquely Trump phenomena

Reminds of Biden pardoning his relatives without even saying for what. Just blanked pardon for everything. No democrat dropped his jaw.

Mars008··on 4000 gone: Inside NASA's brain drain
> Roscosmos and other future players can inherit your life efforts now or in coming centuries.

Roscosmos? Good joke sir. It's on brink of collapse due to sanctions, management and kremlin's priorities. A ghost from the past.

Mars008··on Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home (2023)
This article is from 2023, in 2 years something likely changed.
Mars008··on Americans Need to Be Richer Than Ever to Buy Their First Home (2023)
That value is usually calculated from last sale plus no more than some small percentage each year. I.e. if home 'went up in value' but didn't sell tax doesn't change much.
Mars008··on Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
The basics here is return for investments. If it's all just a bubble it will pop. We'll see soon. For now it doesn't look like, to me. And that creates a lot of complexity on top of 'digital divide' we already have.
Mars008··on Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking
I must say translation in Firefox is great. Now I don't have to learn Turkish...

As for article, imagine, at those times and for thousands years after in most places humans were still hunting-gathering..

Mars008··on Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
So far there is no 'plateau' in the nearest future. 'AI' as a science and its applications should develop further for the next several years. Models will get more efficient, but still the bigger the better. This is obvious. Even if models don't scale up well, they can be used collectively in parallel 'brainstorming'. This will still create demand for hardware. Stagnation is still possible in case of recession. In this case even stable businesses will suffer.

As for efficiency, replacing one programmer in group of 10 with AI already will increase productivity and lower the price. In most cases. In reality adding AI accounts to existing group works better. This is _now_, not hopes or sci-fi.

That's why I'm saying there is no way back. 'AI winter' is as likely as smartphones winter.

Mars008··on A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe
I must say translation in Firefox is great. Now I don't have to learn Turkish...

As for article, imagine, at those times and for thousands years after in most places humans were still hunting-gathering..

Mars008··on Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
AI is not going anywhere. Now everyone wants to get a piece. Local inference is expected to grow. Documents, image, video, etc processing. Another obvious is driverless farm vehicles and other automated equipment. "Assisted" books, images, news,.. already and grows fast. Translation also a fact.
Mars008··on Intel Announces Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card with 160GB VRAM
To keep investors happy and stock from failing? Fairy tales work as well, see Tesla robots.
Mars008··on Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop
> The universe evolves exactly under physical laws

Has this been confirmed already? Seems like the 'laws' we know are just an approximation of reality. 2) if none external intervention has been detected it doesn't mean there was none.

Fine details. We are talking about NN model vs algorithm. Both are approximation, and in practice model can fill the gaps in data that algorithm cannon, or does not by default. Good example would be image scaling with in-painting for scratches and damaged parts.

Mars008··on Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world
What would you like aerial robot to do? Navigation, tracking, delivery sort of done by algorithms + low level recognition
Mars008··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
> But if you can manage to be part of the "upper" class for a few years it pays so well that it becomes very appealing to a lot of people all over the world.

Unfortunately last several millions came for exactly the opposite. Free full government support, aka communism.

Mars008··on ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
It's not clear about multithreading on CPU. Without it it's hard to use modern it efficiently. Something like TBB library in C++ would be nice.
Mars008··on OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police
> As a species we are so not ready for this tech.

Talk for yourself, please. Some humans, yes, can't be trusted even with a fork. There was even a movie about it. But extending it to the whole mankind is a bit of a stretch.

Mars008··on Show HN: I built a deep research tool for local file system
Great idea actually!
Mars008··on Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)
Reimplementing it in 'proper' way with LLM assistance in development and functionality looks like a great project. Hold your breath...
Mars008··on Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS
At least not "open source"

> "open weights + open data + full training details including all data and training recipes"

Is it reproducible?

> respecting opt-out consent of data owners (even retrospectivey)

Were they notified and given an option to opt out? Owners and authors are not the same. Data owners aren't copyright owners either.

> avoiding memorization of training data

Not convincing.

Mars008··on 'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
> have it write notes for itself because of how quickly context accuracy erodes. It tends to write rather amusing notes to itself in my experience.

Just wondering would it help to ask it to write to someone else? Because model itself wasn't in its training set, this may be confusing.

Mars008··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
> What I really want is something like a front-end framework but for LLM prompting

It's not simple to even imagine ideal solution. The more you think about it the more complicated your solution becomes. Simple solution will be restricted to your use cases. Generic is either visual or a programming language. I's like to have visual constructor, graph of actions, but it's complicated. The language is more powerful.

Mars008··on The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak
> There are people with an adventure-dimension in their personality and that's a good thing

The funny thing is this behavior was observed in animals (rats, as they are commonly used in experiments) in labs. So, it's not human specific.

Mars008··on The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak
> Yes, helicopters can't fly at extremely high altitudes because their rotor blades need dense air to generate lift,

On Mars atmosphere is about 1%, or close. Still helicopter did fly. Correctly saying 'helicopters designed for dense atmosphere cannot fly in thin'.

It is possible to build a drone specifically for these cases. Which will be able to lift 200kg off Everest. With long, wide blades. It's not that expensive and not a rocket science onymore.

Mars008··on The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak
No, I'm saying she broke her leg again. Likely it wasn't fully healed from previous brake. That's all. Nevertheless she decided to go, which is challenging even for best and well prepared climbers. In other words it's not a big surprise. BTW, she is confirmed dead.
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