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coralreef commented on How Meta trains large language models at scale   engineering.fb.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
mike_d · 2 years ago
Posts like this underscore why the smart money is betting on Google as the long term AI winner. Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, etc. are trying to address problems with consumer video cards and spending billions to try and out bid each other to win Nvidia's favor - while Google is on their 6th generation of custom silicon.

Literally the only thing that can stop Google now is the fact they keep bringing Microsoft and Oracle flunkies into leadership positions.

coralreef · 2 years ago
How do TPUs perform compared to GPUs on LLMs and image generation?
coralreef commented on The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest   lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n... · Posted by u/pseudolus
landemva · 2 years ago
> interest is what causes ups and downs in economies.

That is an extraordinary claim.

If government set or controlled allowable interest rate or set it to zero there would be no business cycle? The downturn in 2020 was caused by interest?

coralreef · 2 years ago
Possibly.

Who would be more efficient at pricing money: the market or the government?

coralreef commented on Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models   twitter.com/gigaj0ule/sta... · Posted by u/flinner
bfrog · 2 years ago
Amazing if true, and can't be released soon enough. In the US this will likely be a million dollars or something insane, because its the US.
coralreef · 2 years ago
Medical tourism
coralreef commented on AI: Nvidia Is Taking All the Money   seekingalpha.com/article/... · Posted by u/TradingPlaces
awaythrow483 · 3 years ago
> There is essentially infinite demand for better AI,

New paradigm stuff. Infinite demand. It will be able to create a perpetual motion machine easily.

coralreef · 3 years ago
And 640k memory is enough for anyone!
coralreef commented on SEC asks for emergency order to freeze Binance US assets anywhere in the world   cnbc.com/2023/06/06/sec-a... · Posted by u/jb1991
make3 · 3 years ago
it's not because you disagree with them that the quality is bad. Saying that crypto is very heavily linked to scams is an empirical fact at this point
coralreef · 3 years ago
I feel like this is a weak point. There are countless spam/scam websites out there, because anyone can spin up a page and publish something. That’s why you exercise a bit of caution and skepticism.

That’s the tradeoff of an open web. When you have a limitless design space, you get lots of trash.

But saying “websites are a scam” is just disingenuous to the fact that some websites are very legit and very useful.

coralreef commented on FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident   coindesk.com/layer2/2022/... · Posted by u/mcone
oldgradstudent · 3 years ago
> very much against the advice of his lawyers

According to Sam Bankman-Fried. Not the most reliable source.

coralreef · 3 years ago
What self respecting lawyer would ever advise their client, whom is probably being investigated for criminal charges, to tell their story to the media?
coralreef commented on The NFT market hasn’t crashed – it was never not crashed   amycastor.com/2022/05/14/... · Posted by u/legrande
whateveracct · 3 years ago
A physical object with provenance is of significantly more historical significance.

A minted basketball card is actually even more anti-fragile than crypto. The crypto network may flop and cease to exist or be relevant. A card is a true artifact of sports history.

coralreef · 3 years ago
> is of significantly more historical significance

Hmm, maybe, or maybe a video representation of the moment, endorsed and co-branded by the league and the athletes, will come to be as valuable or more valuable than a physical photo print of that moment as represented by trading cards.

A trading card doesn’t survive a house fire or flood. How can a card be a true artifact of sports history when its also just a derivative product?

coralreef commented on The NFT market hasn’t crashed – it was never not crashed   amycastor.com/2022/05/14/... · Posted by u/legrande
bravetraveler · 3 years ago
I recognize the distinction, but I don't believe it makes it particularly valuable.

The concepts are so abstract I have a hard time even discussing it. I'm not a collector or market person at all.

I'd be hard to convince buying anything of this sort of novelty. No judgement against those who do, I just grew up poor and protect my disposable income like a dragon.

The 'pointer' tells me the thing I reportedly own exists as a part of the chain, it doesn't certify any particular uniqueness or rarity, for example.

As long as it's affordable to mint, could I not could lob a personal attack and 'devalue' an NFT by cloning it? I suspect given the amount of speculation around these, it may even prove profitable for some time.

coralreef · 3 years ago
Yes, you could go and mint NFTs claiming to be authentic.

The same way you can try selling fake Rolex’s or picasso’s.

Any serious buyer would attempt to vet the items provenance to make sure it’s authentic. You might be able to pull a quick one on some, but that’s not unique to crypto.

coralreef commented on The NFT market hasn’t crashed – it was never not crashed   amycastor.com/2022/05/14/... · Posted by u/legrande
whateveracct · 3 years ago
That's like calling an Andy Warhol a piece of paper with acrylic on it. Provenance is a thing.
coralreef · 3 years ago
And cryptographic proofs are not a form of provenance?
coralreef commented on The NFT market hasn’t crashed – it was never not crashed   amycastor.com/2022/05/14/... · Posted by u/legrande
bravetraveler · 3 years ago
No, but I'd be more amenable to the price for the verifiable cardboard than infinitely numbered unauthoritative pointers
coralreef · 3 years ago
You realize it’s not the pointer to a jpg that makes an NFT valuable, it’s the provability of the artist that published it?

u/coralreef

KarmaCake day1519August 28, 2013View Original