vikramkr (u/vikramkr)

vikramkr commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember

> It's not nessessarily the best benchmark, it's a popular one, probably because it's funny.

> Yes it's like the wine glass thing.

No, it's not!

That's part of my point; the wine glass scenario is a _realistic_ scenario. The pelican riding a bike is not. It's a _huge_ difference. Why should we measure intelligence (...) in regards to something that is realistic and something that is unrealistic?

I just don't get it.

vikramkr · 12 days ago

If the thing we're measuring is a the ability to write code, visually reason, and handle extrapolating to out of sample prompts, then why shouldn't we evaluate it by asking it to write code to generate a strange image that it wouldn't have seen in its training data?

vikramkr commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember

thatwasunusual · 13 days ago

> If a model draws a really good picture of a pelican riding a bicycle there's a solid chance it will be great at all sorts of other things.

Why?

If I hired a worker that was really good at drawing pelicans riding a bike, it wouldn't tell me anything about his/her other qualities?!

vikramkr · 12 days ago

The difference is that the worker you hire would be a human being and not a large matrix multiplication that had parameters optimized by a a gradient descent process and embeds concepts in a higher dimensional vector space that results in all sorts of weird things like subliminal learning (https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/).

It's not a human intelligence - it's a totally different thing, so why would the same test that you use to evaluate human abilities apply here?

Also more directly the "all sorts of other things" we want llms to be good at often involve writing code/spatial reasoning/world understanding which creating an svg of a pelican riding a bicycle very very directly evaluates so it's not even that surprising?

vikramkr commented on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy github.com/jackdoe/pico2-... · Posted by u/jackdoe

protocolture · a month ago

>If I am eating a delicious meal but the people preparing it had a miserable time, or it was prepared entirely by robots controlled by nefarious people using the profits to harm society, I don’t want it.

So much infrastructure is built by people having a less than good time.

An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont.

The goal is to give lots of people happiness from not having to drive 100km out of their way.

If we solve a lot of problems for a lot of people and all it costs is the happiness of a few software engineers, well I am not convinced they were happy to begin with. Fund it.

vikramkr · a month ago

And why should the workers who work on the bridge be denied happiness and satisfaction from their work? Building and creating physical stuff is incredibly rewarding in concept for so many people - especially in a culture that values/glorifies physical and manual labor like parts of the US. I mean bob the builder is a popular kids show and "all boys are fascinated by big trucks and construction projects" is both an incredibly common stereotype and to a significant extent just a true statement.

vikramkr commented on Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/... · Posted by u/mlissner

barrenko · 2 months ago

Where do I learn how to set up this sort of stuff? Trial and error? I kinda never need it for personal projects (so far), which always leads me to forget this stuff in between jobs kinda quickly. Is there a decent book?

vikramkr · 2 months ago

If you want to learn it the best way is probably to come up with a personal project idea that requires it specifically? Idk how much you'd get out of a book but you could always do a side project with the specific goal of doing it just to learn a particular stack or whatever

vikramkr commented on AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024) johnquigginblog.substack.... · Posted by u/hirpslop

vikramkr · 3 months ago

And what about the predictions of energy use that did pan out, like air conditioning and stuff? Also in 1999 how many personal computer companies were restarting nuclear power plants to fuel their projected energy consumption? Feels like a weird argument to make when the investments into AI I fra are literally measured in gigawatts. Feels like a weird argument in general - ai consuming lots of energy isn't some weird degrowth conspiracy theory

vikramkr commented on The Framework Desktop is a beast world.hey.com/dhh/the-fra... · Posted by u/lemonberry

syphia · 4 months ago

> The Framework Desktop with 64GB RAM + 2TB NVMe is $1,876

And it's ~$1000 to build a PC with a similar CPU, somewhat larger form factor, and fans. Unless the AI processor is actually useful for AI, and you need that, this is silly.

Framework desktop dimensions are 20.6 x 9.7 x 22.6 LWH. My IM01 case is 37.2 x 18.5 x 28.7. It won't be going in my bag, but it fits nicely on a desktop.

Pre-builts are so expensive these days...

vikramkr · 4 months ago

The memory on chip that's shared between CPU/GPU is the main thing, for AI stuff it's more competing with gpus and apple silicon than comparable CPUs.

vikramkr commented on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? · Posted by u/superasn

0cf8612b2e1e · 4 months ago

During times of high utilization, how do they handle more requests than they have hardware? Is the software granular enough that they can round robin the hardware per token generated? UserA token, then UserB, then UserC, back to UserA? Or is it more likely that everyone goes into a big FIFO processing the entire request before switching to the next user?

I assume the former has massive overhead, but maybe it is worthwhile to keep responsiveness up for everyone.

vikramkr · 4 months ago

In addition to stuff like that they also handle it with rate limits, that message that Claude would throw almost all the time when they were like "demand is high so you have automatically switched to concise mode", making batch inference cheaper for API customers to convince them to use that instead of real time replies. The site erroring out during a period of high demand also works, prioritizing business customers during a rollout, the service degrading. It's not like any provider has a track record for effortlessly keeping responsiveness super high. Usually it's more the opposite.

vikramkr commented on Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny techcrunch.com/2025/08/02... · Posted by u/bingden

wat10000 · 5 months ago

Why don’t more IPOs do an auction to set the price? Trying to determine the “right” price ahead of time seems like a really bad way to do things.

vikramkr · 5 months ago

People like it when an IPO pops. It's a good news story and it makes all the banks who participated happy. If it was priced perfectly it'd get reported as the stock was flat, if it's a bit underpriced then you get headlines as the hot new stock that's taking off

vikramkr commented on Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals theregister.com/2025/07/3... · Posted by u/rntn

vikramkr · 5 months ago

The bit about smaller facilities being exempted in the current proposals does seem like a genuine issue and a great way to end up with hundreds of unregulated inefficient small data centers exploiting loopholes and causing all sorts of issues.

vikramkr commented on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300% science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/sxv

afiori · 5 months ago

That is how I like to think about human lives, as a cost, to be minimized.

vikramkr · 5 months ago

Humans, as resources