@PatrickBowman85@BoringBiz_ Meta is actually a very good name. You would of rather the glasses, keychain, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp all still be owned by Facebook?
GPT-6 Astra has beaten Factorio: Space Age after over 165 hours in-game time and 2 days wall-clock time.
Space Age has six planets and takes a human about 10-20x as long compared to the standard Factorio.
@levelsio@ycombinator Harnesses are still software
But just like software moved from Desktop to SaaS in 2000s, it’s a new form factor harnessing (pun intended) the latest tech to make the best possible product
@Michael65332592 i guess it challenges my understanding about science and theory of knowledge. beside many many thought-provoking args, Deutsch rejected empiricism/instrumentalism, called Occam's razor as a misconception AND he delivered a better alt explanation.
@scmallaby 2) I think you need to think in terms of margins on inference here too.
DeepSeek latest paper on getting tokens to 890bytes per 1 token is great. Because now we can roughly estimate how much RAM we use per conversation.
I think I hog ~1GB of RAM, a CPU which is shared/pm
Pretty insane PhD job market spillover problem in China.
Shenzhen Middle School has over 100 teachers with a PhD, and 150 graduates of Tsinghua/PKU, 100+ alum of Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge
You don’t need a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua to teach middle school math…. but the job market in China basically forces that lol