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New comment by snake_doc in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

snake_doc — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:54:57 +0000

> We can now generate a single 15-day forecast in less than a minute on a TPU, empowering forecasters to quickly evaluate the probability distribution of potentially devastating tail-risks.

Crazy

New comment by snake_doc in "Qwen 3.8"

snake_doc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:10:19 +0000

Not directly, relevant, but Alibaba (maker of Qwen) actually owns about ~20-30% of MoonshotAI (the maker of Kimi K3).

New comment by snake_doc in "Google limits Meta's use of its Gemini AI models"

snake_doc — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:48:41 +0000

Image/video understanding still quite cost effective from the Gemini flash series models?

Image generation and veo models I’d imagine quite effective for creators; new Instagram accounts with AI content that are garnering millions of followers in spans of weeks are quite common now

New comment by snake_doc in "2025 Letter"

snake_doc — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:54:01 +0000

> That’s not change unique to America though. Why would I be thinking of changes that have affected almost every country, when talking about whether Americans recognize how America has changed?

Hahahaha, this is like saying, the world wars didn’t impact Europe, because it also impacted the whole world! Europeans, the war didn’t happen!! Anyways… this entire thread is more evidence that European stereotypes are valid for the most part

New comment by snake_doc in "2025 Letter"

snake_doc — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:43:30 +0000

> Most Americans have no sense of how very different their country is now from say, the country that launched the Apollo missions.

You cannot be kidding right? Those that remember the Apollo missions will undoubtedly agree their country is different, first but not least they are most likely using a smartphone assembled and designed with technology unimaginable by NASA planning the Apollo missions; not only that, the smartphone is assembled half way around the world by a country previously in such dire poverty and famine that over 30M died due to Marxist central planning.

New comment by snake_doc in "2025 Letter"

snake_doc — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:06:43 +0000

What exactly is wrong with Americans or for the most part the rest of the world valuing economic performance as a measure of prosperity and progress?

Your comment is again another anecdote confirming European stereotypes. It’s not a “trap”, it’s a different world view.

New comment by snake_doc in "2025 Letter"

snake_doc — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:53:38 +0000

Would you be able provide some evidence to the contrary when it comes to the topics discussed in the letter?

On industrial infrastructure

On technology innovation

On internet regulation

On central planning

Otherwise, your comment becomes an anecdote supporting the common stereotypes (assuming you’re from Europe).

New comment by snake_doc in "Lessons from the PG&E outage"

snake_doc — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:56:50 +0000

Cell towers just need power to keep functioning, starlink adds no utility in an urban dense environment with fiber.

New comment by snake_doc in "GPT-5.2"

snake_doc — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:24:44 +0000

> Models were run with maximum available reasoning effort in our API (xhigh for GPT‑5.2 Thinking & Pro, and high for GPT‑5.1 Thinking), except for the professional evals, where GPT‑5.2 Thinking was run with reasoning effort heavy, the maximum available in ChatGPT Pro. Benchmarks were conducted in a research environment, which may provide slightly different output from production ChatGPT in some cases.

Feels like a Llama 4 type release. Benchmarks are not apples to apples. Reasoning effort is across the board higher, thus uses more compute to achieve an higher score on benchmarks.

Also notes that some may not be producible.

Also, vision benchmarks all use Python tool harness, and they exclude scores that are low without the harness.

New comment by snake_doc in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

snake_doc — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:25:41 +0000

China added ~90GW of utility solar per year in last 2 years. There's ~400-500GW solar+wind under construction there.

It is possible, just may be not in the U.S.

Note: given renewables can't provide base load, capacity factor is 10-30% (lower for solar, higher for wind), so actual energy generation will vary...

New comment by snake_doc in "Modular Manifolds"

snake_doc — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:54:01 +0000

Wot? Is this what AI generated non-sense has come to? This is totally unrelated.

New comment by snake_doc in "Modular Manifolds"

snake_doc — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:28:29 +0000

Aren’t they all optimization techniques at the end of the day? Now you’re just debating semantics

New comment by snake_doc in "Modular Manifolds"

snake_doc — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:30:46 +0000

Hmmm… http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

New comment by snake_doc in "Modular Manifolds"

snake_doc — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:28:59 +0000

Um.. the model is tiny: https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/manifolds/blob/main...

FT: Nvidia's $100B deal with OpenAI: an Alphaville FAQ

snake_doc — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:23:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7f1426ab-9f70-44e0-bb06-d83df348b64b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354127

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by snake_doc in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

snake_doc — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:38:56 +0000

Oh? And taxes can’t be used to buy influence and votes? How naive… Money is fungible… one pocket into another

Exhibit 1: Tariff revenues to bail out American farmers: https://www.ft.com/content/0267b431-2ec9-4ca4-9d5c-5abf61f2b...

New comment by snake_doc in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

snake_doc — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:30:20 +0000

SCMP is owned by Alibaba, which is subject to the purview of the Chinese Central Government [1].

[1]: https://www.cecc.gov/agencies-responsible-for-censorship-in-...

New comment by snake_doc in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

snake_doc — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:15:53 +0000

Mafia behavior continues… (not my observation, but the Texas senator’s Ted Cruz[1]).

$100k is a big pizzo (protection fee)!

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/ted-cruz-...

> “That’s right outta ‘Goodfellas,’ that’s right out of a mafioso going into a bar saying, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it,’” Cruz said, using the iconic New York accent associated with the Mafia.

New comment by snake_doc in "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade"

snake_doc — Sun, 04 May 2025 13:33:20 +0000

Are you querying from an EC2 instance close to the S3 data? Are the CSVs partitioned into separate files? Does the machine have 500GB of memory? It’s not always duckdb fault when there can be a clear I/O bottleneck…

New comment by snake_doc in "We built a modern data stack from scratch and reduced our bill by 70%"

snake_doc — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:12:06 +0000

These just seems like over engineered solutions trying to guarantee their job security. When the dataflows are so straight forward, just replicate into pick your OLAP, and transform there.