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New comment by anvuong in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

anvuong — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:02:00 +0000

$10,000 is only enough for CPU cost (2x AMD EPYC 9754). The rest of the servers (mainboard, RAM, storage, power supply, network card, rack, cooling, etc.) can easily triple or quadruple the cost.

New comment by anvuong in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

anvuong — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:56:48 +0000

I was blocked as well, so did my wife.

A quick google search shows thousands of complaints on, ironically, Reddit itself. So it's probably not just an A/B test, more likely a gradual rollout.

New comment by anvuong in "Grok 4.6"

anvuong — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:45:11 +0000

because you can always make up your own language and ask the model to use it, no filters would catch that

New comment by anvuong in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

anvuong — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:12:58 +0000

Alphabet is only a holding company. I wonder what kind of authority he has over scientists at Google, Waymo, Deepmind, etc. Probably close to none, so a huge demotion in everything but in title and compensation.

New comment by anvuong in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

anvuong — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:48:32 +0000

But Alphabet is just a holding company, what does Chief Scientist of Alphabet even mean?

New comment by anvuong in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

anvuong — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:23:35 +0000

Yeah, I think people who really want to learn will very quickly grow out of this.

This is for people who don't want to learn but actually have to for some reasons.

New comment by anvuong in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

anvuong — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:37:54 +0000

This is at the driver level, just like when you plugin new webcam, keyboard, gpu, etc. Windows will automatically install a default driver for that device. Now, instead of a driver, Windows will happily install some random craps that the hardware asks it to without needing any input from the users. Totally BS from Microsoft.

New comment by anvuong in "My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents"

anvuong — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:51:14 +0000

This is the dude who ushered in the age of nonsensical boilerplate-ridden OOP code where you need to go down a bajillion of abstraction layers to see the actually implementation. Makes sense that he doesn't care about the bajillion lines of code AI produces as long as it looks good (on the surface).

New comment by anvuong in "Fields Medals 2026"

anvuong — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:35:26 +0000

Well, how many humans do you think are able to prompt this to the LLM?

"The homogeneity in x is an intertwining between a dilation (x,r,u) to (lambda x, r,u) and a dilation (P,Q,R) to (lambda^-2 P, lambda^-1 Q, lambda R) which seems to collapse the 3d jacobian to a sort of twisted 2d jacobian. Is there a general theory of such twisted jacobians and do you have any sense why those particular dilation weights were used?"

"I can see why the five-dimensional Jacobian has a nice monomial form in rho. Why does this make the three-dimensional Jacobian after restricting to c_2 = rho = 1 and eliminating the delta, eps variables also a monomial (now in x)? Is there some block-diagonal structure or something in the 5D Hessian that allows for a nice reduction? I would have expected some sort of Schur's complement type operation to appear."

I, and probably most people on here, won't be able to get the LLM to write such a detailed conversation, because we are not experts in this field. They are tools.

New comment by anvuong in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

anvuong — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:29:36 +0000

Simple. If they put your company on something like the entity list that Huawei is on, nobody is going to work with you, public or private.

The US government can even force non-US banks from other countries to report oversea US citizens' income to the IRS, what makes you think they don't have the power or enforcement method to stop US-based entities from working with you?

New comment by anvuong in "Fields Medals 2026"

anvuong — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:24:34 +0000

It's like saying:

- winners in the 30s were the last time we have pure human to win (before computer)

- winners in the 70s were the last time we have pure human to win (before internet)

- winners in the 90s were the last time we have pure human to win (before search engine)

Why can't we treat LLMs as just another tool like computers, search engines, computing libraries? Why do people keep trying to anthropomorphizing these binaries?

People in the 1800s used to win awards and acclamation by simply hand-cranking numbers for popular calculations (Pi, error functions, etc.) and printing them in a book. This will just be the same thing.

New comment by anvuong in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

anvuong — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:57:09 +0000

I once borrowed a technical book from my school library, and the previous owner who donated that book in the 90s circled the phrase "proof is left to the readers" commonly found grad math book and wrote a big "W.T.F?". It made me laugh so much hha

New comment by anvuong in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

anvuong — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:52:10 +0000

There is nothing wrong with scribbling in your own books.

There is also nothing wrong with donating such books with clearly written disclaimer on the front page about the condition of the book.

Repackaging as 99% likenew and selling them should be a crime though.

New comment by anvuong in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

anvuong — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:08:15 +0000

Is it only me or the titles of top books from History, Nature, and Politics sound very click-baiting? I'm really taken off by these titles.

New comment by anvuong in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

anvuong — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:05:42 +0000

Not really. The gpt-oss models were notoriously hard to remove the built in safety. It totally depends how it was trained.

New comment by anvuong in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

anvuong — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:03:30 +0000

DeepSeek series are open weights models. Assuming you have enough compute at hands you can always download their weights from https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai

New comment by anvuong in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

anvuong — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:00:58 +0000

Most (probably all) open model providers implement OpenAI-style API. If your app's already using OpenAI models, it's as simple as swapping the endpoint and the key to switch to these models.

New comment by anvuong in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

anvuong — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:48:24 +0000

2-3 years ago MAIR was on a roll with Llama 1 2 3, Zuck was on his rehab tour to be a cool guy, and Meta as a whole was pumping record numbers after record numbers. I can't believe how that falters so quickly after the addition of Alexdandr Wang.

New comment by anvuong in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

anvuong — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:23:56 +0000

Biden kept a lot of Trump's policies inact, he just wasn't loud about it.

New comment by anvuong in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

anvuong — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:19:53 +0000

No chance the world powers (US, China, France, UK, etc.) will allow something like that unless they are the one who create and enforce it. It's basically the first line of defense for homeland security: don't let terrorists into your country.