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ctrw··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
Yes and each of those costs between half a million in pure compute to a few hundred million for fine tuning/training.
ctrw··on CRE vet says 30% of office buildings are 'basically worth nothing'
I have sent the letter out as a perpetual motion paper plane. Please try and catch it before it causes a new big bang.
ctrw··on CRE vet says 30% of office buildings are 'basically worth nothing'
I too am a perpetual motion enthusiast.
ctrw··on CRE vet says 30% of office buildings are 'basically worth nothing'
I heard that in the 1990s. Yet all the cheap Indians who were meant to eat my lunch are now expensive Indians I have lunch with.
ctrw··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
At the tips actually.
ctrw··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
If the speaker can convince the listener they should find a job where they don't need to speak as part of the job description. Dishwashers and janitors give pletnly of job stability for people like those.
ctrw··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
A company is like a rose bush, keeping it civilised means constant aggressive prunning.
ctrw··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
The easier solution to is remove them.
ctrw··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
This would be a soviet joke where the punch line is 10 years in the Gulag.
ctrw··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
Now I've experienced racism I can now be racist in the name of making people more empathetic. Don't worry you n*** this is making you better people.
ctrw··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
The real danger is that this anti-racism starts a justified round of new racism.

By lowering standards for black doctors do you think anyone in their right mind would pick black doctors? No I want the fat old jew. I know no one put him in the hospital to fill out a quota.

ctrw··on The Successor to Research Unix Was Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 is just as free as Linux.
ctrw··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
Exactly, and as we all know all ancient Greeks were people of color, just like Cleopatra.
ctrw··on Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)
Qwerty has ` and ', but for some reason we've decided that '' isn't " and " is the one true quotation symbol.
ctrw··on ChatGPT went berserk
So are most papers.
ctrw··on ChatGPT went berserk
Why do we need textbooks if they are just plagaries of the original papers anyway?
ctrw··on OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation
Nvidia has a monopoly on Cuda. If they decided to sell cards for x10 what they are now no one will have a choice but to pay up for the next year.
ctrw··on A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
There are a lot more sites than that when you throw in personal blogs.

The issue is that those are now impossible to find.

ctrw··on A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings
Reddit was the more popular hn replacement. Twitter has too weird a form factor to ever allow the possibly of anything but hot takes.
ctrw··on "Rabbit Test" Unwins the Hugo
It's cute that you think this wasn't a sign of the smaller West being integrated into the larger Communist Chinese world.
ctrw··on The Early History of Usenet (2019)
I've found that the people who want to exclude others kill communities just as well as those who spam them. The more virtuous they want to feel the worse the problem.
ctrw··on "Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom
Anyone who still talks about hallucinations today hasn't used a paid service in the last 6 months.
ctrw··on "Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom
LLMs and generative AI are on par with the spreadsheet for impact on office work. It's just that most people who be obsolete are in denial, again.
ctrw··on We need to talk about parentheses (2020)
That is type inference actually.
ctrw··on We need to talk about parentheses (2020)
So your solution to having too many () is to have just as many {}. I'm not complaining but...
ctrw··on What it was like working for Gitlab
Women get paid 70% of what men do. So any woman who wants to be paid the same as a man has a poor understand of economics.
ctrw··on The meathead margin: how lifting weights might have saved my life
People are living past 30 with startling regularity, when you realize that for most of human history that wasn't the case. Cancers were one a very long list of things that could kill you and no where near the top.
ctrw··on Cloud Egress Costs
That is not how being anti-competitive works.
ctrw··on Cloud Egress Costs
It's not a theory it's literally why two projects I was on used snowflake in aws.
ctrw··on Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
I would be leaking all social graph data and all voting data to each person using the service. So it's a no go from the start.
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