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New comment by pellucide in "America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back"

pellucide — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:16:54 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAOtMaXVVjA

New comment by pellucide in "Updates to H-1B"

pellucide — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:59:28 +0000

I am genuinely curious. Do you have a link to the publicized finances

Deep Biosphere

pellucide — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:38:15 +0000

Article URL: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-deep-biosphere/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747328

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pellucide in "Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team"

pellucide — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:11:46 +0000

Everyone on HN were predicting death of X.com under similar layoff news. But it is still ticking.

Seriously, whats different this time?

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Llama 3"

pellucide — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:53:25 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Llama 3"

pellucide — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:22:04 +0000

Someone who has run this locally, what kind of hardware is needed to run this locally, with a reasonable budget ?

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Llama 3"

pellucide — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:17:26 +0000

Somewhere I read that the 8B llama2 model could be undertrained by 100-1000x. So is it possible to train a model with 8B/100 = 80M parameters to perform as good as the llama2 8B model, given enough training time and training tokens?

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Llama 3"

pellucide — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:23:45 +0000

From the article

>We made several new observations on scaling behavior during the development of Llama 3. For example, while the Chinchilla-optimal amount of training compute for an 8B parameter model corresponds to ~200B tokens, we found that model performance continues to improve even after the model is trained on two orders of magnitude more data. Both our 8B and 70B parameter models continued to improve log-linearly after we trained them on up to 15T tokens. Larger models can match the performance of these smaller models with less training compute, but smaller models are generally preferred because they are much more efficient during inference.

Can someone experienced please explain this. Does this mean, a lean model with more training time and/or more (or better) training data will perform better than a fat model?

New comment by pellucide in "Video generation models as world simulators"

pellucide — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:44:48 +0000

I am a newbie to this area. Honest questions:

Is this generating videos as streaming content e.g. like a mp4 video. As far as I can see, it is doing that. Is it possible for AI to actually produce the 3d models?

What kind of compute resources are required to produce the 3d models.

New comment by pellucide in "It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]"

pellucide — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 23:14:45 +0000

Lets say that the owner of the capital wants to fund hardworking individuals like "Shuji Nakamura". At the same time, most individuals seeking capital for research are just pretending to work hard, how does capital-owner identify the true warriors.

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results"

pellucide — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:35:11 +0000

www.meta.com -> For investors(it is at the bottom). It will take you here[1]. There should be a presentation, short form earnings release.

[1]:https://investor.fb.com/home/default.aspx

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results"

pellucide — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:12:55 +0000

The 10-q is there in the SEC website[1]. The summery is a quick read[2]. Just read it like you would read a textbook. Read the same for APPL, GOOG, AMZN. Do the same for two other sectors. In total about 20 companies. Very quickly you see the patterns emerge.

In the context META, here is a quick summary Besides the sequential increases of MAU, DAU, DAP, MAP, One thing that stands out to me is:

"We anticipate our full-year 2024 capital expenditures will be in the range of $30-35 billion, with growth driven by investments in servers, including both non-artificial intelligence (AI) and AI hardware, and data centers as we ramp up construction on sites with the new data center architecture we announced late last year."

Thats a lot of investment mostly in NVDA hardware. Expect NVDA to rise. This also means good for other suppliers, AMD, INTC, TSMC. The benefit for META will be apparent in a few quarters.

Good Luck!

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/ixviewer/ix.html?doc=/Archives/edgar/dat... [2]: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_earnings/2023/q3/e...

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results"

pellucide — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:24:02 +0000

About a decade ago, when facebook(after IPOing at 38) came down to 20, I was in a bus speaking with a friend about buying a bit and holding it forever(like Buffet). He laughed at me. A lot of folks in the bus gave me strange looks.

So far it has been the best decision(investment wise) for me.

The only effort I did was to read their IPO prospectus and the latest 10q(at that time).

New comment by pellucide in "Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results"

pellucide — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:16:08 +0000

Stop listening to anything else other than your own. Just read the 10Q. After cutting the fat, its about 8-10 pages, every 3 months. Lets say you follow 20 companies. That about the size of one book every three months. Not an entertaining read, but definitely enriching one.

New comment by pellucide in "Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory"

pellucide — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:21:46 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RStZ73GpU8E

New comment by pellucide in "ISRO successfully conducts landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle"

pellucide — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:47:35 +0000

If you have to ask...

Elite vs Expert “Innovation”

pellucide — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 05:00:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/elite-vs-expert-innovation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34876844

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pellucide in "Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes"

pellucide — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:01:08 +0000

Folks with Tesla FSD, please find an empty parking lot and drive all you want. It helps Tesla's mission. Please don't test it on real roads. At least not on busy roads

New comment by pellucide in "Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people"

pellucide — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:20:47 +0000

I have been a Yahoo mail user since 1997. I like it better than gmail. Both the mobile experience and browser experience is better than gmail

New comment by pellucide in "Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately"

pellucide — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:20:15 +0000

I am in the minority here. But for me, google's presentations were always like this. The presentation always seemed so rehearsed with artificial excitement.