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New comment by v4dok in "Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

v4dok — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:31:58 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing

This is what they are doing. Search implementations of this to understand more technical details.

New comment by v4dok in "Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

v4dok — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:31:05 +0000

This is Confidential Computing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing

with another name. Intel, AMD and Nvidia have been working for years on this. OpenAI released a blog some time ago where they mentioned this as the "next step". Exciting that Apple went ahead and deployed first, it will motivate the rest as well.

New comment by v4dok in "BYD's new EV, starting under $10K, is stoking fear among rivals"

v4dok — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:15:47 +0000

I'm looking to get a car these days in EU. The government gives out subsidy for electric cars and even without it, there is simply nothing almost as good in Teslas range. EU makers are either too expensive or try to sell you shit for gold

New comment by v4dok in "Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models"

v4dok — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:14:21 +0000

I wonder where this would be practical. How big would the teacher model need to be?

New comment by v4dok in "Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's?"

v4dok — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:57:01 +0000

Do you have any research you can point for that, its quite interesting.

New comment by v4dok in "RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python"

v4dok — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:54:31 +0000

I feel like the current meta on finetuning LLMs is random accounts at X/Twitter. Google results are littered with SEO garbage or some kind of guides that fail to work the moment you need something slightly different.

New comment by v4dok in "Mixtral of experts"

v4dok — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:56:41 +0000

Niche market?? You have no idea how big that market is!

New comment by v4dok in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

v4dok — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:40:12 +0000

I agree. 10B is peanuts for MSFT but its Satya's miscalculation. He didn't anticipate that and the board wouldn't be too happy about it.

New comment by v4dok in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

v4dok — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:39:06 +0000

He was a marketing person I believe when Bill was in MSFT. To become the CEO of MSFT is a huge political and competence firewall already. Then to do the most spectacular transformation of a mega-corp is next-level. MSFT is now the leading player in AI, while before it was still fucking around with office and Windows licenses. People who are young (not saying you are), and don't remember what MSFT was before Satya, don't really get that MSFT would be like Oracle and IBM if not for Satya.

New comment by v4dok in "Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation""

v4dok — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:23:29 +0000

There would be no way to find out if that would be true however. The person in the vat might say they are the same person but you don't know if they really are. Also what happens if you create a copy? Is that two people or is there some kind of shared consciousness? If it is, how do they communicate?

New comment by v4dok in "Finland's ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well"

v4dok — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:12:02 +0000

This is important work. And think about African or southeast Asian languages, they are even more screwed. We need to make sure that AI multilingual to avoid total English domination of culture.

New comment by v4dok in "Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear"

v4dok — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:09:41 +0000

That would be awesome.

New comment by v4dok in "Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear"

v4dok — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:05:30 +0000

Grey area depends on if you have the option to deny I think.

New comment by v4dok in "NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa"

v4dok — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:24:22 +0000

To solve your dillema as a Greek. Both the continent and the planet have the same name. Europeans it is.

New comment by v4dok in "Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials"

v4dok — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:18:58 +0000

I think value-based care is the only real incentive on this. Otherwise, there is simply no reason for anyone to care enough. Even the insurers, they found a way to make money by making sure their premiums factor in these things. In the expense of the patient. As long as the drug doesn't kill people, who cares if it works if I make money off it as a pharma? Unfortunately, value-based care can only be pushed top-down. Patients are not in a position of power against pharma companies on this matter.

New comment by v4dok in "First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan"

v4dok — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:41:40 +0000

Can you suggests some names? Unbiased (or some kind of polyphony) information on dental is so scarse its crazy

New comment by v4dok in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

v4dok — Wed, 31 May 2023 08:58:59 +0000

It became faster and worse. My definite proof is its ability to generate greek content. The early API was generating good or at least passable content. It was really on the edge of "this is good". Now its completely garbage, it makes up words and even fails at basic translation, doing it literally. I think its less the RHFL and more the effort to scale it and make it faster.

New comment by v4dok in "Albert Camus"

v4dok — Tue, 30 May 2023 21:16:36 +0000

I spent a time reading camus and existentialism in general which heavily impacted my view as well. I really liked the paradigm of sisyphus because it very clearly illustrated the concept of the absurd.

I like to think that it doesn't really matter. Do i move rocks, do I write software, or fall in love in the end we will die.

Maybe our existence amounts to nothing since the outcome is the same, but then, everything matters as much as we care for it to matter. The rebellion against the absurd is to live a full life as we enjoy it. For me it may be helping others, or smelling trees and tending to my children, for someone else it may be organizing a world dictatorship, or rebeling against one. There is no inherent better way to live because the result is the same. As Tolkien also said after living through the horrors of war "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us"

For me this kind of life stance also helped me get off the hamster wheel of always chasing more and aspiring to things that society/capitalism tells us are important and virtuous, but instead focusing on what makes me happy , releasing this feeling of longing for the greener grass

New comment by v4dok in "Meta preps new social app"

v4dok — Mon, 22 May 2023 11:48:35 +0000

I guess that is why its a separate app. Its not turning instagram to twitter, but it offers an additional space.

New comment by v4dok in "Meta preps new social app"

v4dok — Mon, 22 May 2023 08:57:44 +0000

I want to offer a counterpoint to the current consensus in the comments from (my) real-world interactions. In many countries outside of US, Twitter is occupied by a minority audience which is usually in its own bubble. Instagram is much more popular especially in Millenials who are now in the age group where they start to be more politically active and less motivated by the "pure entertainement" side of the social media.

Facebook, is dead for them in terms of engagement because its the "old people" place and discoverability is quite bad outside of groups. I know many people who use Instagram for social/policy commentary in their stories, and its very inefficient because its one-way. Pictures do not allow for proper discussion or easy discoverability of comments.

Even tiktok has better interaction via duets and pushing up new content all the time but conversation is limited.

I believe that instagram is mainstream enough to entice this group into a forum-like experience and drive insane engagement. Currently, if you are not traveling or doing some kind of beauty influencing, instagram is dead and its successor (tiktok) is limited to short videos. There is a legit market for more long-form/term discussion place in that (very important) age group outside of the US especially.

I am bullish on the offer, especially since Twitter seems to be prioritising US.