voidspark (u/voidspark)

voidspark commented on The Dawn of Nvidia's Technology blog.dshr.org/2025/05/the... · Posted by u/wmf

I'm excited about this too, but it's a little concerning there's a brand in the title. There's no shortage of those from ati, intel, amd, apple, ibm, the game gaggle, etc to interview. The fact that nvidia succeeded where others failed is largely an artifact of luck.

voidspark · 10 months ago

Concerned about a "brand in the title"? What do you expect?

The author is David Rosenthal, who was employee #4 at Nvidia (Chief Scientist).

He's not some random historian or interviewer. That's his life experience.

voidspark commented on xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure techcrunch.com/2025/05/19... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

scuol · 10 months ago

It still seems to have the problems most other LLMs suffer with except Gemini: it loses context so quickly.

I asked it about a paper I was looking at (SLOG [0]) and it basically lost the context of what "slog" referred to after 3 prompts.

1. I asked for an example transaction illustrating the key advantages of the SLOG approach. It responded with some general DB transaction stuff.

2. I then said "no use slog like we were talking about" and then it gave me a golang example using the log/slog package

Even without the weird political things around Grok, it just isn't that good.

[0] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol12/p1747-ren.pdf

voidspark · 10 months ago

The paid version "SuperGrok" has a larger context window, but nothing beats Gemini for that.

I tried your question with SuperGrok. Here's the result.

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_d298dd12-9942-411c-900c-2994...

I use Grok for similar tasks and usually prefer Grok's explanations. Easier to understand.

For some problems where I've asked Grok to use formal logical reasoning I have seen Grok outperform both Gemini 2.5 Pro and ChatGPT-o3. It is well trained on logic.

I've seen Grok generate more detailed and accurate descriptions of images that I uploaded. Grok is natively multimodal.

There is no single LLM that outperforms all of the others at all tasks. I've seen all of the frontier models strongly outperform each other at specific tasks. If I was forced to use only one, that would be Gemini 2.5 Pro (for now) because it can process a million tokens and generate much longer output than the others.

voidspark commented on If nothing is curated, how do we find things tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-n... · Posted by u/nivethan

CityOfThrowaway · 10 months ago

I mean... Taylor swift is literally the biggest musician in history... right now...

There's still enormously mainstream culture. Even more enormous in the fat tail than before.

There's just also a shocking depth in the mid tail now too.

The problem with movies is that Hollywood killed itself and tech helped. Movies and TV just suck now, for the most part.

Music, fashion, and visual culture are still alive and well.

voidspark · 10 months ago

Michael Jackson was the biggest in history. Global megastar before the internet. Taylor Swift has a lot of sales but in terms of global significance and cultural impact there is no comparison. Not in the same league.

Taylor Swift has relatively niche popularity in India.

Chinese are blocked from accessing any western social media, and no access to YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, etc. Taylor Swift is popular there but the Chinese have their own version of the internet separate from ours.