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murtio | 11 months ago | on: But what if I want a faster horse?

All creative content-based products face a similar fate once they receive VC money or go public. In both cases, it places pressure on them to grow at a rate that is not sustainable for creative content. This is one of the main reasons why Ed Catmull of Pixar backed selling the company to Disney. He realized that even if Pixar produces a blockbuster every year and is a profitable company, the fact that it's publicly traded will require them to always deliver increasing growth year-over-year. Selling to Disney helped shield them from the fate that has befallen many other studios.

murtio | 1 year ago | on: DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls

> DeepSeek isn't a typical startup - they're backed by High-Flyer, an $8B quant fund. Their CEO Liang Wenfeng built High-Flyer from scratch and seems focused on foundational research over quick profits

How is that useful?

murtio | 1 year ago | on: Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race

I'm starting to believe that these articles are commissioned. I asked their public model questions related to branding and marketing, instructing it to come up with a brand identity based off the apps functionalities. It kept talking to itself for more than 5 minutes in Chinese! Then finished up with a very bad answer!

murtio | 1 year ago | on: $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

Enjoyed the article and I was ready to try the promoted featherless.ai. I signed up and spent 15 minutes trying load or chat with Llama 3 models. All attempts failed. Naturally I would ask, if it's so cheap to run GPU's, why I would need to sign up to try a model?

murtio | 2 years ago | on: Tarkovsky's films online for free

Time for some rewatch! He was my favorite filmmaker, and he's a really good one. I considered his films a form of arts. I still consider them arts, but now I think that arts should not be boring.

murtio | 2 years ago | on: Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

I agree that both Google and OpenAI are losing the race to open-source in AI research. However, a more critical issue to Google is their struggle to compete with OpenAI in LLM-based search engines. Google's entire business model mostly relies on ads (77.6% in Q4 2022). OpenaAI is developing LLM-based products that people apparently love (100M users in 2 months) and seem to use it as search engines. This poses a greater risk to Google than just losing ground in research since it could ultimately lead to the loss of their ad-generated income.

murtio | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Math books you recommend just for the way they are written?

Came here to add Strang's. In the same spirit of Jaynes', a very good exposition for self-study students.

In logic, "Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences" - Tarski.

I wish that I started studying these three books before college, in order: 1) Tarski's 2) Strang's 3) Jaynes'

murtio | 6 years ago | on: Face-touching may reflect unconscious hand-smelling [pdf]

Very interesting topic. I've noticed that whenever I wear my favorite perfume on my beard, I'll spend the following 4 hours touching my hands to remember good memories attached to that smell.

For people looking into the effect of self-face-touching with virus spreading,

"We note that this behaviour offace-touching may be responsible for transferring nearly 25%of respiratory illness."

murtio | 6 years ago | on: Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops

Still, you'll get a machine that's not pleasant to look at. Funny that GNU/Linux OS has been advancing greatly the past decade, outperforming Windows and Mac, but without proper hardware match. Lenovo laptops are so ugly and battery performance usually not more than 6h. My work laptop used to be Dell 7000 series, which is perfect on Fedora but with one drawback: calling Dell support to change motherboard every 6 months. Now some companies come to fill the gap, one of them is Purism. I was so happy to see them operating. Well, after paying 1300$, for a really modest processor, the whole laptop fell apart in less than 6 months. It was even worst than any Ascer laptops I've used!! You finally, with all the shame, go back using a Macbook. Fedora on MacBook is the future; but long way to go to get everything working properly.
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