Standard ML the programming language or standard as in conventional and ML as in machine learning?

Fuck it, we’re going back to bang paths. ficix!hetzner!awful!self please add support for this.

Now that is leaving your mark in history as an academic.

Percentages are cheating, especially percentages below 50.

I’ll predict a 49% chance Mont Blanc erupts tomorrow, covering half of Europe in chocolate.

Basilisks commuting

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Oh and you have to hang out with other Ape Holders. Oh and also may get your retinas sunburned from unsafe UV lights.

Ouch, that sounds painful. Can’t I just get the retina burn without the having to hang out with Ape Holders part?

Not with multiple slurp juices!

I’ll let you figure out the value of Ape if one Ape equals multiple Apes.

AWS is only tolerated because product managers ask for it, not because engineers like it; AWS is shit.

Yes, but the competition is hardly much better. Well, maybe Google is, I didn’t touch it much back when I still did public cloud stuff. Azure leads with “look, our VPS offering is called ‘Virtual Machines’ instead of ‘EC2’, isn’t that simple?” and then proceeds to make everything even clunkier and more complicated than AWS. And don’t get me started on the difference in technical and customer support from the two.

There is no moat.

You keep reiterating this, but I still need you to explain the implications. Ok sure, you can run a model on a home computer. Nonwithstanding that those models still amount to overhyped novelty toys, home computers are also capable of running servers, databases, APIs, office suites, you name it. Still, corporations and even consumers are renting these as SaaS and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.

The AI fad is highly hype driven, so there’s still incentive to be the one who trains the latest, biggest and shiniest model, and that still takes datacenters’ worth of specialized compute and training data. LLM-based AI is an industry built on FOMO. How long until that shiny new LLM torrent you got from 4chan is so last season?

And the OP is correct. Llama is not open source. “The neighbors” only took it from Meta in the same sense warez sites have taken software forever. Only in this case the developer was the one committing the copyright infringement.

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Nice one

Now if we could just make not mining cryptocurrency more profitable than mining cryptocurrency 100% of the time, that would be really good.

The only thing I’ve seen from Lex Friedman was his interview of Brian Kernighan. For most of it I just thought it was very kind of BWK to patiently indulge this kid, who was clearly still new and unaccustomed to public speaking or researching his interview subjects, despite the weirdly professional gear setup and production.

Uhm, actually the correct term is epheb oligopoly.

I think it’s less america-brained and more just straight up cryptomonarchist.

For what it’s worth STAR looks like something Yud wishes he would design, or would design if he could. A complicated system that assumes a highly informed electorate and allows for counterintuitive victory conditions sounds exactly like something appealing to him.

It’s not that he invented anything, even something that was already invented. He claimed he could invent a new system if he wanted to and when asked to deliver, just namedropped an existing system.

Addendum: Today I remembered Microsoft Defender for Business exists, so fuck them and the anticompetitive horse they rode here on lmao.

Also, that Musk proofread the article is just the cherry on top

Well, he is a founder of companies like PayPal and Tesla, legally speaking.

When pressed about the kind of system he could invent, he says STAR voting.

Has anyone asked Mark Frohnmayer if he also used the eating a bowl full of paper and vomiting technique when creating the STAR system?

I could invent a state of the art cryptographic hashing function after half a litre of vodka with my hands tied behind my back. Coincidentally the algorithm I’d independently invent from first principles would happen to be exactly the same as BLAKE3 so instead of me having to explain it, you can just skim the Wikipedia page like I did.

You think wood glue in your pizza sauce is great? Try prions!

I’m almost surprised Yud is so clueless about election systems.

He’s (lol) supposedly super into math and game theory so the failure mode I expected was for him to come up with some byzantine time-independent voting method that minimizes acausal spoiler effect at the cost of condorcet criterion or whatever. Or rather, I would have expected him to claim he’s working on such a thing and throwing all these buzzwords around. Like in MOR where he knows enough advanced science words to at least sound like he knows physics beyond high school level.

Now I have to update my priors to take into account that he barely knows what an electoral system is. It’s a bit like if the otherwise dumb guy who still seems a huge military nerd suddenly said “the only assault gun worse than the SA80 is the .223”. For once you’d expect him to know enough to make a dumb hot take instead of just spouting gibberish but no.