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esmy | 1 year ago | on: Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies

Wait you took a repo and started typing it into the IDE? Could you please expand on what benefits you noticed and how it affected your understanding of the language? It sounds like a fascinating way to force attention to the code simply reading it wouldn't.

esmy | 1 year ago | on: Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned

I see why they would want to try and enforce this, but it isn't something they'll succeed at.

Especially questions that have one correct code solution. Unless proven otherwise, everything is now written by an AI, the targh is out of the bag.

esmy | 1 year ago | on: A look at Apple's technical approach to AI including core model performance etc.

The last time I remember this happening, the shovel-making machines lost a lot of value and got amortised out to the second hand market. When the prevailing coin still mined on GPUs switched algorithms the bottom of GPU prices fell out on eBay.

I expect at some point a) the training and the inference will move to even more specialised hardware and the current existing silicon go to either hobbyists or some other market that requires the current cards b) the way in which we do AI may fundamentally change in ways we can't predict, causing the required hardware to also change (move to FPGA or favouring some other aspect than VRAM)

In both scenarios NVIDIA isn't the one who win, because the sudden influx lifts a secondary market nv don't profit from directly.

I personally don't think they'll be able to sustain their current valuation past the current AI rush, and will compact back down to somewhere their levels pre-chatgpt.

That said I'm just a guy on the Internet who wouldn't mind some beefy ex-datacentre gear if I could make it work for video editing workloads.

esmy | 6 years ago | on: FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

Amazon logistics is very much a thing in Europe, the UK at least. I would say about 2/3rds of my parcels in London are handled by actual Amazon contractors rather than the other options, such as Royal Mail which would be the closest USPS equivalent.
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