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You probably shouldn't train an LLM in the browser - here's how

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3 points·by FL33TW00D·hace 8 meses·1 comments

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FL33TW00D
·hace 26 días·discuss
Some of the talent at Cursor is second to none. E.g Less Wright, Sasha Rush, Stuart Sul.

Google paid 2.5B to bring Noam back into the fold in 2024 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FL33TW00D
·el mes pasado·discuss
The guy who uncovered this, Sholto David, is basically just awesome?

Watch him cycle from Wales -> China in 90 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgHZPfivVA

This isn't his first fraud rodeo either. For his discovery of serious fraud by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2024, he received $2.6 million.

Be more like Sholto, exercise your free will!
FL33TW00D
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Anyone have recommendations on books that can rival the first part of Accelerando in number of prescient ideas about how the near future, pre singularity might look?

My own list is:

  Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon
  Counting Heads by David Marusek
  Nexus by Ramez Naam
  Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
But I'm always on the look out for more! The more predictive the better!
FL33TW00D
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Hasn't fMRI as a whole been called into question? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02132-9
FL33TW00D
·hace 3 meses·discuss
In a country with a national health system, why should you be able to internalize the benefit of smoking whilst externalizing the cost?
FL33TW00D
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Why ruin good work by letting Claude write it all? Full of em dashes, riddled with Claudisms.
FL33TW00D
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Unreadable Claude slop
FL33TW00D
·hace 5 meses·discuss
This was mostly down to enormous pressure from his father, causing him to have a breakdown in his early twenties.

Not to say the results weren't incredible, but certainly required sacrifice.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10378/10378-h/10378-h.htm#li...
FL33TW00D
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.
FL33TW00D
·hace 5 meses·discuss
How many of these are due to going outside the normal envelope of what birds do?
FL33TW00D
·hace 5 meses·discuss
It takes a different code path for efficiency.

e.g

if (batch_size > 1024): kernel_x else: kernel_y
FL33TW00D
·hace 5 meses·discuss
But why is FSD "failing" is the key question.

Hint: it's not the sensor inputs that are the bottleneck!
FL33TW00D
·hace 5 meses·discuss
I like the comparison, but with aviation on a fundamental level we made it simpler (removing actuation), not added more (senses we dont need)
FL33TW00D
·hace 5 meses·discuss
How can you say camera only navigation won’t work with such finality when humans manage just fine every day! You literally have an existence proof of it working.
FL33TW00D
·hace 6 meses·discuss
I love this, the interday variability in my intelligence is extremely annoying.
FL33TW00D
·hace 7 meses·discuss
Mr Kwok already analysed these deals and gave them a nice little acronym: HALO

https://kwokchain.com/2025/07/15/the-halo-effect/
FL33TW00D
·hace 7 meses·discuss
He did not "create" the TPU. He contributed to the creation of the TPU.

There are 66 authors on the original TPU paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3079856.3080246
FL33TW00D
·hace 7 meses·discuss
He went from being unable to eat many foods, to eating a full cheese pizza on camera. Pretty sure it worked.
FL33TW00D
·hace 7 meses·discuss
The paternalistic state does not allow you autonomy over your own body.

e.g the amount of backlash thought emporium got when he genetically engineered himself to remove lactose intolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

Risky, but it's his body!
FL33TW00D
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Very interesting data point