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I would think that many of these defects should show up clearly in service-side analytics as well. For example, the bug that repeatedly re-cleared thinking for old sessions would cause a substantial drop in token cache hit rate for sessions > 1hr for the affected claude code versions. Session age & claude code version seeeem like obvious dimensions for analytics. But perhaps only in hindsight.


I don't believe this list was curated as the title suggests. It's just a semi-random list of popular-ish GPUs with LLM-generated descriptions.

The site looks nice, which fools us into thinking thought and effort was put into this.


It does start with the Voodoo, so I got what I came for.


They do which is fine.

Where's my Matrox?

Matrox Mystique was a combination 2D/3D consumer card, which at the time, was still something that mattered. Sure a Voodoo addon card mattered more, very soon, but then quickly things shifted back to combination 2D/3D card with Nvidia!

Also, how is a "first $2000 consumer card" something that "matters"? That's precisely the kind of thing that doesn't matter. My entire laptop cost less than that and I play games with it. What matters much more is that I can play quite a bunch of games that are even pretty recent with a laptop that cost less than that, all with an integrated graphics chip from a company that is precisely known for having abysmal 3D performance: Intel (I have an Iris Xe)


Indeed. It was, sadly, more important than popular. Which, to my eyes, comfort the generated content theory.


It didn't start with the Verite, so I didn't get what I came for. :(


Should have started with ANTIC - the very first programmable video chip I'm aware of...


They had great box art


Considering they list multiple version of the same generation of card, like the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080TI. This list is just a list of popular cards over the last 30 years


Dystopian future where AI pumps out slop and uses human feedback and comments to correct the output.


  > uses human feedback and comments to correct the output
tbf, lots of saas have a similar attitude with things like "give us feedback" on their pages; like i'm paying you money to figure this stuff out so why are you asking me if its good or not? with more and more "vibing" i feel this kind of attitude is going to infect everything at some point...


Isn’t this a bit like spell-checking a Nigerian Prince email? The valuable eyeballs are the ones that don’t notice or don’t care.


Sure, If ranking is done purely based on clicks and not quality. I'm just thinking of it as a meta "loss" function in the AI context. So I'd say its the passionate enthusiasts who care enough to provide feedback on such topics.


Dystopian present


Yesterday, I resumed a former claude code session in order to copy code it had generated earlier in that session. Unfortunately, when resuming, it only prints the last N hundred lines of the session to the terminal, so what I was looking for was cut off.

I think that for this sort of _interactive_ application, there's no avoiding the need to manage scroll/history.


That conversation should still exist in the Claude Code log files. Just give Claude some context on how to find it, and it will pull whatever you need. I use this to recall particularly effective prompts later on for reuse.


"Manufacturing Content" is such a stupendously fabulous multi-faceted pun, someone please make this real.


> someone please make this real.

But it already is.


"sexually explicit content" and "child sex trafficking" are rather different things. Connected? Maybe? If you want to claim that Mark was lying, you've got to demonstrate the connection as part of the claim. Otherwise, it's a non sequitur.


Are you making the argument that child sex trafficking is not sexually explicit?


Obviously they're saying that sexually explicit content isn't child sex trafficking.


That's what I thought as well at first, but I've come to think that is just the cover story. While some of his base likely did buy in, I expect that _most_ of the inflows were from individuals or groups looking to influence the administration (aka bribes).


Yet he didn't feel the need to hide the plane he received from the Saudis, or the gold bars he got from tech companies. Hell, he even bragged about those. Because there's no one able and willing to stop his naked corruption, he has zero reason to hide it. Shamelessness is his signature, after all. No, his coins were organically fed by people who believe his lies.


He doesn't have any shame, but some of the people bribing him may not want to be so public about that. His bribecoins gave them the ability to funnel money without having to worry about any fallout (legal or reputational).


> Yet he didn't feel the need to hide the plane he received from the Saudis, or the gold bars he got from tech companies.

You are willfully obtuse if you believe these are equivocal examples.

And not that it matters, but the plane in question was 'gifted' from the Qatari royal family, not 'the Saudis'.


Clearly a human, or a human running a bot. Doesn't matter which.


We should not buy into the baseless "autonomous" claim.

Sure, it may be _possible_ the account is acting "autonomously" -- as directed by some clever human. And having a discussion about the possibility is interesting. But the obvious alternative explanation is that a human was involved in every step of what this account did, with many plausible motives.


Not 24/7 in low earth orbit, but perhaps at an earth-moon or earth-sun L4/L5 lagrange point. Though with higher latency to earth.


There are Sun-Synchronous Orbits, and those are what SpaceX plans to use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit


Well, that's neat. TIL. Thanks for the link!


But since building a datacenter almost anywhere on the planet is more convenient than outer space, surely you can find some suitable location/government. Or put it on a boat, which is still 100 times more sensible than outer space.


> since building a datacenter almost anywhere on the planet is more convenient than outer space, surely you can find some suitable location/government

More convenient. But I'm balancing the cost equation. There are regimes where this balances. I don't think we're there yet. But it's irrational to reject it completely.

> Or put it on a boat, which is still 100 times more sensible than outer space

More corrosion. And still, interconnects.


> More corrosion

Surely given starlinks 5ish year deorbit plan, you could design a platform to hold up for that long... And instead of burning the whole thing up you could just refurbish it when you swap out the actual rack contents, considering that those probably have an even shorter edge lifespan.


Starlinks are built to safely burn up on re-entry. A big reusable platform will have to work quite differently to never uncontrollably re-enter, or it might kill someone by high velocity debris on impact.

This adds weight and complexity and likely also forces a much higher orbit.


Hopefully a sea platform does not end up flying into space all of its own, only to crash and burn back down.

Maybe the AI workloads running on it achieve escape velocity? ;)


I can’t wait for all the heavy metals that are put into GPUs and other electronics showering down on us constantly. Wonder why the billionaires have their bunkers.


Yeah, "burn up safely on reentry".

100 years later: "why does everything taste like cadmium?"


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