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maxlamb··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
France corporate taxes are not that bad, but the corporate paid social charges are massive (40-45% of employees gross salary)
maxlamb··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
A better one: When Jeff Dean leaves Google, Google’s value drops by $200 billion (the actual market cap drop right after the news).
maxlamb··on Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
But that park was probably created as a result of a vote or other political process.
maxlamb··on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness
The study you linked is for instant coffee, widely considered the least healthy form of coffee. There is no study showing filtered coffee has negative health effects for most people, actually the opposite: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/whats-the-hea...
maxlamb··on Effective harnesses for long-running agents
Roughly how much per day do these multi-week run end up costing?
maxlamb··on AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
Why would they not define what adoption rate mean? And why is “Ramp AI adoption rates” 3-4x just “AI adoption rates”?
maxlamb··on Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms
Mosquito-heavy regions of northern Canada are actually warmer than Iceland in summer. Iceland averages 10-15°C (50-59°F) in July, but Canada’s boreal forest regions where mosquitoes thrive regularly see temperatures of 20-25°C (68-77°F) in the summer.
maxlamb··on Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
So you’re telling me this clip isn’t even satire: https://youtube.com/shorts/64TNGvCoegE
maxlamb··on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
Meta keeps making more and more bafflingly horrible product decisions. Tens of billions into the Metaverse and now “let’s put gen AI into everything” even if it goes against the one thing that is arguably the most responsible for FB’s success - real identity. “Let’s put fake bots everywhere, because GenAI, need I say more?”
maxlamb··on UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)
One of the bullets had “deny” engraved in it.
maxlamb··on ChatGPT Pro
Most consultants with more than 3 years of experience are billed at $150/hr or more
maxlamb··on What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?
Ok true but that boat was much much heavier and bigger. So the ratio of mast height to weight/size on the Bayesian was extreme
maxlamb··on What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?
People have not been making vessels with 237ft masts for thousands of years. That boat literally had one of the tallest mast ever to exist on a boat. You combine the “extreme” nature of this boat with an extreme weather event and you get an extremely outlier outcome
maxlamb··on Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Right but what if you enjoy your job and don’t want to retire?
maxlamb··on OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic
GPT-4 is way more powerful than GPT-4o for programming tasks.
maxlamb··on Vision language models are blind
No it’s not, it’s a multimodal transformer model.
maxlamb··on AI's $600B Question
What’s a 2048 clone?
maxlamb··on The Dinner Party That Served Up 50k-Year-Old Bison Stew (2018)
Permafrost, and prob with geological evidence it's been similar or colder climate in that region in past 50k years.
maxlamb··on Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications
What’s FTS?
maxlamb··on Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
Sounds like a data engineer job to me
maxlamb··on One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence
The downdraft could actually make the plane accelerate downwards faster than free fall (even just for a second or so), hence everything unattached hitting the ceiling
maxlamb··on Malleable Software in the Age of LLMs (2023)
Maybe it's getting into semantics but clarity of thought does not necessarily mean accurate understanding of reality (which is usually messy and complex), so moronic people could ironically have more "clarity of thought" than non-moronic people because they tend to have simple beliefs (these X people are good, but those Y people are bad).
maxlamb··on Meta Llama 3
Meta has products that are used by billions of people every week and has been extremely profitable for over 15 years, with no sign of obvious downward trend. I don't see how it can be described as a bubble.
maxlamb··on Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/25/elon-musk-...
maxlamb··on SXSW Tried to Silence Critics with Bogus Trademark and Copyright Claims
So the whole argument/protest is based on SXSW having “ ties to weapons manufacturers supplying Israel” but they don’t provide a single source or evidence for it?
maxlamb··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Does it say he found him anywhere? All I see in the article are emails to him from 2016
maxlamb··on Sergey Brin says in rare appearance that company 'messed up' Gemini image launch
I think this article explains the situation at Google better than anywhere else: https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear
maxlamb··on Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it?
Which model did you start with?
maxlamb··on $3M Annual Recurring Revenue from a simple GPT wrapper product
It would be nice to see the costs as well since GPT API can get very costly. Profits is what matters...
maxlamb··on Alexei Navalny has died
Sadly it will have as much of an impact on the Russians as any political martyr in any past dictatorship. And that is, almost certainly nothing.
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