Neil Ferguson

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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Almost 8,000 potentially illegal spills happened on dry days during the first half of the year and South West Water was responsible for more than a quarter."

So how's that getting tough on the water industry thing working out I wonder?

https://t.co/uFHjqM5TFQ

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@StephenPiment At 6 tokens per second. To run it at a reasonable speed is at least $500k. Plus power costs. Or you could pay ~$200 per hour to run it in the cloud.

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@pmarca At 6 tokens per second, with a small context window. Seems like a bad deal to me. Might save on heating though.

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@azeem Reference for Philip Schmid’s post: https://t.co/Y17NQGGXw8

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@azeem you say in today’s post that Deepseek can “run on just two consumer-grade Nvidia 4090 GPUs (costing roughly $2,000)”. Are you sure about this? It doesn’t sound right to me.

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@azeem Thanks! I think the analysis is wrong. I’m not an expert on MOE models, but AFAIK they choose a subset of the parameters very often (every token?) during inference. So they save on compute but not on memory requirements. Phillip Schmid says 16xH100s, which seems correct to me.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org?

This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@justcookit Wondering if you’ve tried Rishright’s Yo Po Chilli? Asking because we had a conversation about a different brand of chilli condiment years ago, and Rishright is a Cambridge-based company and IMO superior to the other brand.

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@cstanley Tony Hoare called it his billion dollar mistake: https://t.co/pJXjtVqe6Y That’s an underestimate on this case I think.

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@Cloudflare Seems like a nice feature but I’m skeptical about this claim. How would you know if you got a false negative if you don’t know the ground truth?

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@raymondh Thanks! I probably don’t have any way to avoid this in my case, so I’m catching the ValueError at the moment.

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@BrianRoemmele @stevesi Are you going to tell us how you did this?

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@paulg Lots of brilliant young adult books. He should read the Cherub series by Robert Muchamore.

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@PaulWallace123 Think you mean @nfergus. I know almost nothing about inflation, or wars (I do have have GCSE in economics, but all I can remember is something about mars bars and marginal utility).

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@SparxLearning is there any way in Sparx Maths that my daughter can see the questions she has answered for completed assignments? I’d find this really useful for reviewing assignments with her, to see if there was anything she struggled with etc

[Neil Ferguson @nfergu]

@iamramiawar @GergelyOrosz What serverless GPU provider are you using?