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New comment by bcatanzaro in "The Closing of the Frontier"

bcatanzaro — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:53:17 +0000

Some of these concerns are precisely why we are building Nemotron at NVIDIA. We want to make it possible for people to invent and deploy AI in all sorts of new and unforeseen ways.

Nemotron is:

1. Not just open weight, but open data (to the limits of what is feasible), open recipe, open technique

2. In the future built by a coalition of organizations coming together to build great openly developed AI.

Nemotron 3 Super is our most successful model yet. [1]

Ultra is coming soon. And then Nemotron 4.

We can afford to do this because when AI grows, NVIDIA's opportunity also grows.

[1] https://kaitchup.substack.com/p/the-fastest-and-cheapest-120...

New comment by bcatanzaro in "AI makes you boring"

bcatanzaro — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:39:37 +0000

AI is a mirror. If you are boring, you will use AI in a boring way.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "I was insulted today – AI style"

bcatanzaro — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:35:38 +0000

sadly, disembodied brains are not very useful. embodied brains require a civilization's worth of energy consumption and environmental impact in order to do their work. so we really need to take the world's power/water/carbon impact (divided by the world population) to talk about how much power it takes for a human brain to solve a problem.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study"

bcatanzaro — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:22:01 +0000

As I said - anything surprisingly gluten free or surprisingly vegan is going to be UPF.

Sometimes I wonder if the gluten free trend is a ploy by food processing companies to whitewash expensive proprietary processed foods as “whole”.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study"

bcatanzaro — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:19:41 +0000

Agreed. Which makes the statement “ultraprocessed foods should be treated more like cigarettes” seem wrong.

I guess “bad foods should be treated more like cigarettes” is too obvious.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study"

bcatanzaro — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:30:47 +0000

Most of the things on sale at “Whole Foods” are ultra-processed these days. Anything that requires effort to make gluten free or vegan for example. Like impossible burger. Extreme ultra-processed. Or gluten free bread.

Please don’t tell me impossible burger patties are like cigarettes.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models"

bcatanzaro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:06:19 +0000

The Nano model isn’t pretrained in FP4, only Super and Ultra are. And posttraining is not in FP4, so the posttrained weights of these models are not native FP4.

Nvidia Nemotron 3

bcatanzaro — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:20:27 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-nvidia-nemotron-3-techniques-tools-and-data-that-make-it-efficient-and-accurate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46274875

Points: 2

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New comment by bcatanzaro in "The Sagrada Família takes its final shape"

bcatanzaro — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:56:36 +0000

I had a similar experience. The "Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus" written in stone was not an aspiration or a motto for me when I visited, it was a statement of fact.

Nvidia Nemotron Nano v2

bcatanzaro — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:04:14 +0000

Article URL: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44943524

Points: 8

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New comment by bcatanzaro in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

bcatanzaro — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:23:12 +0000

I've often wondered if Intel would still be a dominant force in computing if it had kept engineering in Silicon Valley. I worked at Intel both in Hillsboro and in Santa Clara and I feel that Intel's decision to put so much engineering in Oregon was done to insulate them from the pressures of Silicon Valley. They didn't have to pay very well, and they had a very insular culture - because they could afford it. They didn't have to work very hard to keep engineers at Intel because their engineers were basically trapped in beautiful Oregon and generally wouldn't consider moving back to expensive California.

Housing costs in the Bay Area are soul-crushing, but they do motivate people to work on the highest value projects because complacency just doesn't usually work if you're trying to buy a house. And so I wonder, if Intel had kept their workforce mostly in California, could they have stayed a dominant force in computing?

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Why English doesn't use accents"

bcatanzaro — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:11:28 +0000

Yes, but Italy had to centralize its language in order to accomplish this. 1000 Italian dialects were suppressed in a very heavyweight process. (And probably some people didn't like speaking Florentine, which became modern Italian.)

English is complicated because it's decentralized and there is no authority to regularize it. Which is a feature, not a bug.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Why English doesn't use accents"

bcatanzaro — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:04:34 +0000

English pronunciation does vary quite widely and it would be difficult to rewrite all the books and websites into all the different accents.

It's also decentralized - there's no authority to tell the English-speaking community how to spell things or how to say things.

I think these are both advantages that outweigh the phonetic inconsistency.

Nemotron-H-47B-Reasoning-128k

bcatanzaro — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:22:19 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-h-reasoning-enabling-throughput-gains-with-no-compromises/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203053

Points: 1

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New comment by bcatanzaro in "Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?"

bcatanzaro — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:25:29 +0000

I'm curious about the False Positive/False Negative rate of the battitore. Do they open up some wheels to double check?

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Jensen Huang – Nvidia GTC 2025 Keynote"

bcatanzaro — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:32:40 +0000

It means “envy” in Latin and Spanish etc. Which is why the logo is an acid green evil eye. And why NVIDIA’s headquarters are two buildings named “ENdeavor” and “Voyager”.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death (1988)"

bcatanzaro — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:47:29 +0000

I almost want to read it as satire. Especially juxtaposed against his death. Because the ideas of "What I cannot create, I do not understand." and "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved" seem profoundly unwise and endlessly futile.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed"

bcatanzaro — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:53:13 +0000

So surprising to me that GM’s most successful EV in some ways is sold by Honda.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers"

bcatanzaro — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 14:30:34 +0000

“The team looked for a fermenting agent that could remain reactive in substances with a temperature of up to 370 degrees Celsius and alcohol of the recommended 16 percent per volume.”

My guess is that the reporter forgot a decimal point and meant 37.0 degrees Celsius. Because finding a yeast that actively metabolizes sugar at 370 degrees Celsius might be somewhat challenging.

New comment by bcatanzaro in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

bcatanzaro — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:07:10 +0000

They often flew mail on it as their cargo. But the plane was more a matter of national pride than something that made sense.