hooman. own your compute.
California, USA
Joined April 2011
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wide loss of purpose: lack of beauty in pursuing the craft yielding social status unless driven purely from desire to understand
strong consensus around necessity of degrees of struggle for core human development
simulations??
heat death of the universe, reversed or nah
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Being right years ahead of others isn’t nearly as satisfying as people think. Nobody apologizes for treating you like a crazy. They just come back years later, repeating what you told them as if it’s some groundbreaking revelation because they finally heard it from someone else.
Some of the most absolutely cracked distributed systems and fullstack engineers I’ve met did not have ongoing side projects.
They tended to their families and their personal interests.
When I see this, it’s difficult for me to not take it as a signal of a narrow view that is not able to consider a vast search space with various paths to winning for something so so important as hiring.
Like you’re literally placing a filter already without even considering the possibility of
how else to gauge what you gather from having side projects.
From a startup founder: “it’s now a red flag for me if I don’t see side projects on someone’s resume / application, because it signals lack of autonomy. Because it’s now so trivial to build anything on the side, vs before.”
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Bahaha.
We are gonna own OUR own compute. And we’re gonna own OUR personal data flywheels, Sammy boy.
From a global allocation perspective, it’s actually quite terrible to have you keep blabbering about a transformative technology when it’s clear there’s little to no contact with actual reality outside of the microcosm. (Really Sammy boy? Talk to a fucking computer about your kids interests instead of talking to them?)
All in due time tho.
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
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Nathan Fielder really went in there with his discomfort management superpower and probed in the right spots to help us try and understand
Just such an elite storytelling talent overall but especially being able to compress the complexity quickly down to the most adept analogy and illustrate the tension of agreeing on reality for all parties
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The swarms are now online.
And for a brief time it was just us, two or more humans, exchanging information And building underlying structure to hold data and define relationships between variables.
Now, the rate of definitions is increasing and cost of variable vetting has decreased.
-> Chapter ?: the nodes in the matrix begin their autonomous journey.
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9th gluon goes crazyyyy, thank you for not existing 😆
Mad poetic leaving the ending to play out
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And so the comprehension gulf widens as the machines start to compound.
Ef of x of ef of x except ef gets a little bit better every time.
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open.spotify.com/track/6vKVu…
Statistical outliers. Frontiers? Have you seen our trail?
Every so often, we sit down and compare our notes on reality.
Entropy. And new found worries as our roots take place.
Still, it’s always time well shared. Not spent.
Shared.
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