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My irritation is that it's not till 7th paragraph until they tell us what the drug is.

It's almost like that's not the important thing.

Kinda like how political hit jobs just mentions "emails were hacked"; whether the emails had nuclear codes or the target's dry cleaning receipts is not important...

granted, my ghost will be darkly amused at ChatHK47. Death to meatbag scum!

Another reason to question the judgement of Meredith Kopit Levien / the younger Sulzberger...

They definitely were sponsoring ML conferences before 2017, but symbolically, having Jensen/the CEO actually show up at a dedicated session and demonstrate detailed technical knowledge of the conference proceedings in my mind was a turning point. Albeit I remember his words to the crowd of grad students and post docs at the time: "Only Nvidia would announce their flagship card...to an audience who is completely broke!!"

to their credit, there was a lot of work behind "luck". Jensen showed up in person in 2017 in NEURIPS and he and likely a lot of his top brass basically sat down and read the entire conference proceedings/abstracts; there was likely a lot of work behind the scenes to behind the ML research pivot.

oh man, just as I upgraded to the debian TrueNAS

The Smithsonian might be next… https://folkways.si.edu/this-machine-kills-fascists-sticker/...

How sure are we that OpenAI wasn't deliberately scraping Hugging Face and this isn't just an elaborate way to avoid criminal fines etc?

it depends, there are certain farmers markets here in LA that have strict minimum criteria in terms of food handling, organic label compliance and food safety before they give a vendor a spot. Also, you can definitely tell just by looking at the quality of the produce of these places vs. the average Vons/Pavilions supermarket

granted when I fire up Cyberpunk 2077 nowadays I'm not sure if I'm playing a computer game or a documentary

This may be true (not perceptible w/ my apple silicon Macs), but the important thing is that they get slower more slowly than my wintel gets slower (I blame disgruntled Windows and/or nvidia drivers devs....)

the other side of this is the science behind the NS5B protein and the meds behind the new hep c cures. This is pretty fascinating stuff. In medicine, it's not often we see a cure like this.

hep c antibody basically if positive they will probably do hep c viral load

https://www.labcorp.com/tests/144050/hepatitis-c-virus-hcv-a...

granted one should really look at the LFP output from EEG electrodes before getting too gung ho on this sort of thing...

I suppose that's one way to measure, but would a "real world measure" i.e. cost of the amount of ram to realistically run the apps/software/OS of the time be more relevant?

I wonder why so many ex apple followed this particular path of Kool Aid? or maybe this says more about how the rank and file are just as susceptible to kool aid as any average Silicon Valley schmuck

they should've just given Hegseth the Producer Button

"1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software)"

doesn't sound so different anymore...the VCs have managed to go back to the future...

I feel like if it gets a malignant company out of the country, probably. Royal Dutch Shell does not really have a sterling record throughout its history...former biomedical engineer colleague who transitioned over from petroleum engineering mentioned one big reason was all random environmental abuses in Africa he'd see and that his RDS colleagues would dismiss casually every time they'd send him on a business trip over there...

I propose going forwards that we refer to all distilled models as "moonshine"

There's one of this that is a language model; are the rest reinforcement learning models?

The need for transportation grows but the margin is likely terrible bc of the fuel prices. Hence why you can have "the most flights etc etc" but Spirit and other airlines are going under

I propose from this point forward we refer to these Chinese distilled models as "Moonshine" and the newest ones as "White Dogs"

It's sad that this is true and yet their software is filled with bugs...

most importantly, is Ian Cutress' blog basically the new Anandtech? I miss that site...

I mean, I sure as heck can't buy a nVidia one, at least not the founder editions which are the one that fit in my case...

distillation of wheat, barley and malt is delicious, though!

honestly if they did what he said they did, it seems like it would be cheaper just to train your own model from the get go

paranoid me feels like the artificial gpu/ram/ssd shortages are a plot by the VCs to forcefully reclaim central control via new age mainframes

one certainly cannot buy a PC for cheap anymore

sadly, this is happening more as medicine and healthcare become more and more corporate. Seeing this as hospitals all get acquired into these mega health systems (ostensibly to fight the now merged mega health insurance companies), that then like to throw their weight around.