Sir a a random city mayor is dropping SOTA models while we are spreading FUD about how training models is expensive

Nice reference to Sanskrit by the ACM!

the FUD on training economics in India is borderline harmful You don’t need multi billion clusters.. american open source leader has trained their 400B model by raising ~$50M (they have since then raised a bigger round) we should celebrate competence not jingoism

We have a Fable 5 in India. It's called Panchatantra.

The universe provides for those whose strategy is to fake it till they make it.

This is a good rumination on sudden wealth (as someone who's also seen its impacts firsthand), and the cast of characters rings very true. You have the relentless striver who stays in the game out of competitive FOMO. Money is what those without talent use to keep score. They'll keep futilely striving, and then disappear one day. Whatever. The bigger pity is those (and there are a few) who go off to become artists or writers or some other thing, untethered to financial constraints. Well, where are they? Because we're not exactly seeing a cultural Renaissance from this massive wealth creation, as we saw in 16th-century Florence, or even the early 20-century US. The only guy from the FB pre-IPO crop who did anything interesting with his life (far as I can tell) is someone who was hellbent on making it to the Olympics as an athlete (starting off as very much not an athlete), and he actually made it! I followed his arc, and it was incredible. (Elon, on this of all days, is the exception that proves the rule here.) But how about the rest? SF is mostly an unchanged one-industry town, the same misgoverned mess that greeted me in '99, and that almost everyone in this cohort bails on. There are no great monuments or works of art or institutions dating from this period...other than venture funds producing more startups. SF will not reflect this time of glory like Amsterdam and Paris still embody their golden ages. To invert the Churchillian phrase: never has so much been given to so few, who seemingly did so little with it.

Forget what % of "Gifted and Talented" kids become "Eminent". The point of the program is to identify and encourage kids NOW because of how COMPOUNDING works. Earlier the better. Only good for nothing journalists think only "Eminent-capable" kids should be given extra attention.

I’ve been to Lawrence, KS - the birthplace of Django framework, and it is a cool place.

Just a fancy way of saying derooted pidgin mongrels who lost the habit of reading literature in their own languages.

Should give this one a try. Have been using rtk

Goodbye cmelly nerds!

These guys get it @zeddotdev > Increasingly, the conversation that generates the code is becoming the true source of our software. That conversation unfolds continuously and must be cross-referenced to the code as it changes.

UCSD advanced math.

every good outcome I’ve seen has been from finding a secret and doubling, tripling down on it in a way that compounds over time. not necessary that it even remains a secret because nobody ever believes you anyways; if it was something easy to accept it wouldn’t be available

You don't need $2000/mo to do programming with AI. Unless you have tried firsthand 1. coding models running locally 2. cheaper hosted models (e.g. openrouter/opencode) AND have specific experience of them not measuring up, borrowing someone else's idea of "$$$$/mo" is silly

Retraining people is harder. If you starting from zero, then lean in to building your own (maybe).

Bird is the word. Homegrown lettuce. Tomato soon.

It’s alright. She is going to be a Spacemacs user. Right? Right!?