djoldman

30 分前議論

"The Anti‑Forbes List"

Other possible titles:

  "List of Founders by Uncaptured Equity Value"
  "List of Most Regretful Founders"

Logic fully breaks down when looking at ratios. If you have 1 cent, your ratio explodes.

Reed Hastings may be the most regretful. He kept just 1.4% of the eventual value:

https://anti-forbes-list.vercel.app/founder/reed-hastings

djoldman

13 日前議論

> This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy League schools).

These news articles are just tiresome at this point. Obviously folks cheated previously, obviously it's easier now, obviously the answer has been to not have take homes all along.

djoldman

26 日前議論

Follow the Nordic model has never been anything but a fantasy.

All the Scandinavian countries put together have slightly more people than the NYC metro area and are extremely homogeneous in terms of ethnicity, religiosity, etc. as compared to the USA.

In short, it's never been a good policy testbed for the much much larger and more diverse USA.

djoldman

27 日前議論

> So you can imagine how astonished I was last month when an American politician said that it was impossible to earn a billion dollars.

> She wasn't saying, of course, that it's impossible to become a billionaire.... What she meant was that it's impossible to get that rich without doing something bad — without cheating in some way.

> But now you at least understand, from having done the math yourselves, that you don't have to cheat to become a billionaire. You've seen for yourselves that there are only two numbers in the calculation, the growth rate and how long it continues. If it's impossible to make a billion dollars without cheating, which of those two numbers is impossible?

AoC quote:

> There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.

Come now @pg.

$2 million * 9.45 months * 93% growth rate = earning a billion dollars, ok. Does that really address what AoC was saying? She wasn't saying that the math doesn't math.

djoldman

先月議論

What's rarely addressed in these articles is the question: if the product/service is so bad relative to the cost, where's the competition? Specifically in this article about fire trucks, they say that margins have tripled... ok, why isn't anyone jumping on that?

djoldman

2 か月前議論

> Society gains massively from future workers/tax payers

It seems to me that, all other things equal, future workers/tax payers will lead to economic increases proportional to their costs.

A reasonable forward looking plan / budget scales with the population size. Therefore there would be no need for these special one off exceptions and nudges.

All these little bandaids add up to complexity that necessitates more bandaids.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

> Under the US Cloud Act, American companies are required to hand over all information they store to the government if requested to do so, even if it is stored abroad.

Hrm. It's my understanding that a US company is required to give almost no data to any government without a warrant.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

Non-paywall:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-is-starting-to-see-...

djoldman

2 か月前議論

> Replace ‘CTF’ with ‘high school’ or ‘university’ and you’ve described the total slow motion collapse of education; the only saving grace is that most of it requires in person presence.

So something like, "Frontier AI has broken the 'high school' or 'university' format"?

The hype surrounding AI is just pervasively exhausting: you've got the folks talking about an entire new age for humanity where we're shortly going to take over the entire universe. And you've got the folks talking about how our entire society is crumbling.

Education is one place folks seem to throw up their hands and say nothing can be done.

The fix is simple: students are to be evaluated on their performance in person. That's it.

Any other "collapse of education" isn't due to AI, it's something else.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

I would love for the standard to be to ALWAYS report the required amount of memory to load and run a model in bytes of RAM alongside any other metrics. I'd love to see time to first token, token throughput, token latency as well but I'd settle for memory size as described above.

Essentially, many people want to know what the minimum amount of memory is to run a particular model.

Parameter count obscures important details: what are the sizes of the parameters? A parameter isn't rigorously defined. This also gets folks into trouble because a 4B param model with FP16 params is very different from a 4B param model with INT4 params. The former obviously should be a LOT better than the second.

This would also help with MOE models: if memory is my constraint, it doesn't matter if the (much larger RAM required) MOE version is faster or has better evals.

I'm waiting for someone in anger to ship the 1 parameter model where the parameter according to pytorch is a single parameter of size 4GB.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

Not to support or attack the rationale behind the css or html standards but these have exact real world SI unit meanings:

   CSS  |                    | Exact Size | Exact Size    
   Unit | Name               | (Inches)   | (Millimeters) 
  --------------------------------------------------------
   cm   | Centimeter         | 50/127     | 10            
   mm   | Millimeter         | 5/127      | 1             
   Q    | Quarter-millimeter | 5/508      | 1/4           
   in   | Inch               | 1          | 127/5         
   pc   | Pica               | 1/6        | 127/30        
   pt   | Point              | 1/72       | 127/360       
   px   | Pixel              | 1/96       | 127/480

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimetre

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-3/#absolute-lengths

djoldman

2 か月前議論

Could you share your thoughts about neuralink? Is there enough signal for this to really work?

djoldman

2 か月前議論

> Have you never met a bad doctor? A shoddy lawyer? A barista with a PhD?

I presume the implication is that bad doctors and shoddy lawyers exist and just because they have advanced degrees doesn't make them good at what they do. This seems reasonable.

BUT, I find it fascinating that people who aren't doctors or medical experts think they can spot a "bad" doctor or people who aren't lawyers or experts in law think they can spot a "shoddy" lawyer.

A good doctor/lawyer makes good decisions and executes beneficial actions given the facts surrounding a situation. It's pretty hard to judge whether those decisions and actions are good or bad if one isn't an expert.

That's a huge motivating factor for professional licenses.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

I came across a comedy clip where the employees are fighting over how many billion tokens they were using and assumed it was a joke.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

Unfortunately, it's probably not worth your time to read 99% of arxiv papers, LLM generated or otherwise.

Ever pick a random one and really dive in?

djoldman

2 か月前議論

Just a reminder from January: "California completely drought-free for 1st time in 25 years after winter storms"

https://abc7.com/post/california-has-zero-areas-dryness-firs...

djoldman

2 か月前議論

Is anyone actually at a company that is purposely trying to use a ton of tokens? It gets expensive really fast.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

> Runo extracts by meaning, not DOM position. Site redesigns and HTML changes won't ever break your pipeline.

Bold claim.

djoldman

2 か月前議論

TIL:

> eCall was made mandatory in all new cars approved for manufacture within the European Union as of April 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall

djoldman

2 か月前議論

France.

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John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines

Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler

No one can force me to have a secure website [pdf]

When Should AI Step Aside?: Teaching Agents When Humans Want to Intervene

Primesieve: Fast Prime Number Generator

US, Iran say they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire

Stack Overflow (Beta)

100 Prisoners Problem

Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence [pdf]

Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States

The Robotic Tortoise and the Robotic Hare

Special Commitment Center

US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement

Anthropic sues Trump admin. seeking to undo "supply chain risk" designation

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

Project Maven

Apache Otava

Project Pele

Visible Spectra of the Elements

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