Roger Frigola

Engineer for America's Cup and Formula 1 teams. Machine Learning PhD @Cambridge_Uni. From Barcelona. Flat-sixes and four-cylinder transaxles (sic).

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@mitchellh What happens if you ask it to improve your hand-written renderer?

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@SebastienBubeck Love the baguette

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@paulg "First, make the requirements less dumb." @elonmusk

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@CUdudec Something similar happens to humans working near the edge of their capabilities. When I work on a hard (for me) problem, success is elusive: a breakthrough day could have been an unremarkable one if something had slightly disturbed my chain of thought.

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@liyzhen2 @JzinOu That was my first reaction too. But how could Bayesian optimisation freely modify a 600-line python file and fix bugs, add features, test ideas from recent literature, etc.?

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@Dan_Jeffries1 @grok On a large datacentre for AI workloads (>1 GW), what is the ratio of electricity cost vs the total cost including equipment amortisation, personnel costs, etc.?

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What is my long-term goal as an engineer? In what direction will I aim all the intelligence that I can harness? I have a tentative answer: develop the tools to design an optimal vehicle in simulation that performs as expected when built.

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@tobi Time delta trace does not seem consistent with speed differences. Something for the agent to check!

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@yishan @Morris_Monye @grok @grok if the value of money is logarithmic and my net worth is almost zero, how far is Gates from Musk, and how far is Gates from me?

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@fchollet There's also a 230 metre one:

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@BorisMPower It did a search to find who had solved them.

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@AndrewCurran_ @dwarkesh_sp @karpathy 1.75 is the 3e-4 of YouTube playback speeds.

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@EigenGender less salt, fewer tricks

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@revenergetica ¿Hay alguna estimación de cuánto se genera en autoconsumo?

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@AniC_dev This perfectly describes programming for me, even before AI tools.

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@CalumDouglas1 Really interesting points, thanks.

Re: "These were astonishing people, I`m not sure people like that are still alive today, certainly not in enough numbers to do that again without computers."

Modern engineers grow to be complementary to computers. Which is great.

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@elidourado Do you think current cabin pressure is dictated by the cost of titanium?

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@beffjezos N+1 redundancy

https://t.co/mt0LBwq3To

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@bobmcgrewai Getting context into LLMs is the key to make them useful!

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@AlexiGlad @polynoamial From “zero to one” there is a big change but what’s the upper bound?