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> says Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist who sold an AI startup to Uber in 2016

for context, Marcus has a quite bearish view on AI and lots of others, most prominently Yann LeCun, disagree with Marcus.

I agree with both of these takes but want to add that the tool might not have been tested on all the languages spoken outside of the US. Can't be too careful with kids in the target audience.

> the MS ecosystem makes making all documents cloud documents and sharable and collaborative within your enterprise a total snap.

Same for Google Sheets, they're fairly interoperable with the MS formats too.

> The only that I think is given that will expand its global market share is China.

That doesn't make sense given that all the other big blocks are cooperating across borders while China is subject to stiff export controls in an area with real technological chokepoints.

Apple vision pro integration ;-)

> I really believe the primary reason is that Europe is not one culturally homogeneous area that speaks one language

There are likely several reasons at play, culture being a big one. However, there are other reasons at play such as differences in law, financing, immigration, the job market. Bert Huber, an entrepreneur in the EU has given this some thought:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-just-not-good-at...

While I agree that there is lots of innovation and talent in the EU, I think there is also an "innovation gap" with other developed economies. Here's a take from the Economist [0] but you can find similar articles from the Financial Times, Blomberg, and other similar outlets.

[0] https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/europe-is-the-fr...

> maybe we should start with the Supreme Court...

sounds like that's going to be more of a textualist than living document LLM ;-)

Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947654

no training on the data; more requests per hour.

> Blast them for forbidding competing browsers on iOS.

They allow competing browsers but they have to use the OS-provided JavaScript engine. I guess one could make an argument that allowing third-party engines would encourage innovation in the browser space but at the same time, there is a strong security argument for very narrowly limiting the JIT-code execution entitlement.

> is it worth it to invest time to get some idea about this whole AI field? I'm from a compE background

Might be worth thinking about how it will specifically affect your field of expertise. Jensen Huang says your job won't be taken over by an AI but by a human using an AI.

> It sounds absurd that the biggest social media company would pivot from its golden goose. But when you peek into Meta's egg basket, you see it's empty.

Lost me there. Meta made $34B on digital advertising in Q3, if that's not a golden egg (from the investor perspective), IDK what is.

The paper on copy-and-patch compilation [0] may give you a general idea although they didn't apply their technique to CPython.

[0] https://fredrikbk.com/publications/copy-and-patch.pdf

Norway is one of the countries with the highest GDP per capita. I think this puts the norwegian consumer in a better position to by an EV even if it costs more than a comparable ICE vehicle. Not sure that is true all over the world.

I think that's oversimplifying things. The acquired podcast has covered Nvidia's different growth periods in depth. I highly recommend anyone interested to give them a listen:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993...

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-machine-learning...

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-dawn-of-the-ai-e...

AV1 is parallelizable at the thread and SIMD level. Other formats too I’m sure but I’ve only looked at AV1.

AFAIK the cost of producing semiconductors on a leading-edge node are so high you are forced to aggegate demand across seveal chip designers. Intel offering foundry services is evidence of this dynamic.

Edit: grammar.

> Are you telling me the EU, the richest block in the world, has less money to spend on fabs than TSMC

That could very well turn out to be the case in practice, not for lack of money, but inability to provide the promised subsidies according to Financial Times:

https://www.ft.com/content/898454ba-8fc2-4b00-a14f-5f9ee152d...

> The Barcelona Supercomputing Center [...] presented on Wednesday the new Sargantana chip, the third generation of open source processors designed entirely at the BSC.

> Researchers from other universities and research centres such as the Centro de Investigación en Computación del Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México (CIC-IPN) [...] have participated in the development of Sargantana.

So this was designed entirely in Spain but it is also joint work with a university in Mexico ;-) Nice project though; I've visited BSC and they do a lot of cool work there.

> Is the answer computed on a single NVidia GPU?

Most likely given that one of their open positions for a GPU programmer includes

> high technical competence for writing custom CUDA kernels and pushing GPUs to their limits.

Edit: only narrows it down to NVidia hardware, IDK if single GPU or not.

> they are probably well-placed to answer some proposals from European governments

That's true but I wonder how they stack up against Aleph Alpha and Kyutai? Genuinely curious as I haven't found a lot of concrete info on their offerings.

Microsoft, Apple, and Google also have more resources at their disposal yet Linux is doing just fine (to put it mildly). As long as Mistral delivers something unique, they'll be fine.

This.

You even need to self-host if you want to test code that uses AVX512 outside of an emulator since the default runners do not support that. Same if you want to test aarch64-specific code paths on Linux, Windows, or macOS.

A startup doesn't have the same target of its back as a large publicly traded corporation. It also has a different culture and is expected to take risks that non-startups aren't. In other words, not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Edit: grammar.

we all play by the rules of physics and nowhere is that more evident than in leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing ;-)

Thanks for backing up your point with a link. I agree that Galileo is more accurate than the much older GPS system. On the other hand, the GPS system became fully operational in 1995 as far as I understand, and the Galileo system is yet to be fully operational almost a decade after the original target date.