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In the long run China will most likely prevail, in the short run they are definitely feeling the pinch. Nothing wrong with complaining about the situation.

China will almost definitely be on par or even cross the USA/Taiwan capability in chip manufacturing.

The only loser in this scenario is the US, both short & long term.

20 years ago, I wouldn't be so confident about china prevailing. But I don't think any reasonable person will bet against China.

The fall of China has been greatly exaggerated for more than a decade or so. Yet they are still here, doing mostly fine.

I don't have to agree with their political/human rights situation to marvel how far they have come and still going strong.


I'm not predicting the fall of China, I'm predicting its technological stagnation.


Why not. Put it behind cloudflare and you are good to go. Even if you don't put it behind cloudflare you should be good. There are many entry level vps that are not nearly as powerful as a podern smartphone, and people host plugin heavy WordPress on then.


I can't stop someone help me please.


This is what I got.

https://imgur.com/a/qeKr3VJ



If you think 100,000 square feet is a large data center, you obviously do not work in the industry.


Ad hominem much?


like this:

  sudo apt install pandoc wkhtmltopdf
  npm install -g readability-cli
  pandoc -s https://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html -o output.html && readable output.html -o readable.html && wkhtmltopdf readable.html output.pdf &&  open output.pdf
going even further using bash script to prompt for url.

  #!/bin/bash

  # Prompt the user for a URL
  read -p "Enter the URL: " URL

  # Use the URL in the pandoc command
  pandoc -s $url -o output.html && readable output.html -o readable.html && wkhtmltopdf readable.html output.pdf && open output.pdf


  chmod +x web2pdf.sh
  # add an alias to bashrc
  alias web2pdf='/path/to/your/web2pdf.sh'
  source ~/.bashrc


Or you could just import weasyprint and readability in python!

Which is pretty much what OP did, with a few nice additions like nice output and some custom css and fonts. Which is nice and OP hope brings value to people.

If you add a few printf:s and include a nice template for pandoc* it would be more along the same thing.

*) Neither pandoc, wkhtmlpdf or weasyprint have (in my opinion) bad default templates.


Pandoc can also output to pdf if you have latex installed. You can use tectonic if you want a single binary solution than a full latex toolchain, it downloads necessary packages on the fly.


Pandoc can also do epub output: https://pandoc.org/epub.html


wkhtmltopdf seems to be archived on github[1]. Can't say I want to run an unpatched, outdated browser engine for this.

[1]: https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf


You know I have been hearing this and its many incarnation debt related doom scenario for atleast 20+ years, when I first started following it. Probably longer. Every few years, when debt related doomed future story pops, I feel lile no one really knows what is going on, or even worse what they are talking about.


Nobody that is serious about the topic believed in some kind of doom scenarios. Indeed people who are actually in this topic pretty much agree on the general numbers on the topic. The 'doom' talk is from people who don't know shit. However that doesn't mean there is no problem.

There are plenty of people who know whats going on, its not even very complex. What people disagree about is the long term implications.

The reality is this, the US getting to the point where the debt servicing costs as much as the military. And future spending is known to be high simply by the already promised social benefits.

And the debt servicing could go much bigger if interest on debt goes up even slightly. Ever 1% of increase debt might result in a whole US military worth of extra debt serving per year.

So, eventually the US will either have to raise taxes broadly on the whole population, or cut social spending by a large amount. Both are politically untenable and thus have a high potential of not happening or resulting in a serious political crisis.

As long as neither of them happens, the situation is getting worse, and critically getting worse with ever increasing speed. And that simply isn't possible to go on forever.

So its easy to go into an exponential curve of things getting worse and worse. All the other countries that ran into problems also had people say 'wouldn't happen here'.

So this isn't a doom for the next couple years, even decades but even until then, spending large parts of your GDP with debt servicing isn't really great way to spend money either.


Personally, I don’t think @aryehof is wrong, it’s just that governments do really well at pushing the ball down four more years, until they can’t. It’s like that with all Empires.


Yeah, I've been hearing it since the Clinton administration.


You were literally bullying this person and being very condescending and then turn around and accuse him of bullying you. Why is it ao hard for you to accept that some people might different opnions?


> Why is it ao hard for you to accept that some people might different opnions?

you're passing over a very crucial detail here: this person's opinion consisted solely of

> Have you looked at the team?

they themselves finally admitted it at the end. this isn't so much an opinion as hero worship at best and fanaticism at worst.


That was not an opinion it was an honest question. People use past performance as an indicator for future performance thats not a very unusual concept and not really "hero worship at best and fanaticism at worst."


I gave you two examples of past poor performance and you either blithely ignored them or dismissed them as unimportant because it's "totally outside what you do". Then at the end you admitted you don't pay attention to the details. So we're either back to why are debating things you don't understand or why are you fawning.

The thing that always gets me in these pissing contests is some random decides to wade in based purely on ____ and then when I point out ____ I'm the asshole. Like isn't it clear you just shouldn't have started making claims? Why am I in the wrong for knowing/understanding and demonstrating that understanding but you're not in the wrong for just guessing?


Could you give me an example of a "claim" I made ?


To be fair mathisfun123 was originally responding to someone who tried it out and was somewhat disappointed by the state of things given the hype. It's a valid point.

Responding with only "have you looked at the team?" with nothing to say about the current state of things, which was what the sidethread was about, is what probably set them off since it is actually a pretty patronizing thing to say.

You want to give more leeway to the team because you think they earned the cred. mathisfun123, not impressed by the details of certain past projects, is not going to hold their breath until the current state justifies the current hype.

Both are reasonable positions.


I had 0 intention of it to sound patronizing as you prob noticed english is not my native lang.


how many more tedious questions are you going to ask?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning


this is literally 2nd question I have asked 1) Have you looked at the team 2) Based on your postulate that I should not be making claims wanted to see an example of claim I should not make. As I don't think I actually made any claims. I am not sure why this is tedious 1) is pretty much yes or no 2) is just copy paste of a "claim"


I would guess those are the big 4. I am pretty sure they scraped most of the internet.

"Sentiment Analysis" & "Emotion Lexicons" are part of the training process for all major LLMs.


> I would guess those are the big 4.

What are your thoughts on the whole narrative of "Google was asleep at the wheel innovation wise" because obviously they had Twitter/Reddit/Wikipedia/StackOverflow indexed as well as anybody else on the planet (at least I think they did... maybe not individual tweets?)

If both OpenAI and Google "index" the same content, why is a random-word-generator (LLM) able to outperform Google (who can actually cite sources, etc.)


Since you are "judging a book by its cover", or this case a name. This might interest you, that karpathy was co-founding developer of OpenAI, left to work at Tesla to head their AI development for 5-ish years and now back at OpenAI.

I can understand that you might be interested in book form only, I was lile this for the longest time, until I bumped into some really high quality video series that changed my mind to be a bit more flexible.

Also Important to note that LLM development is moving at a very fast pace recently so a book form might not be ideal. The basic ideas might be same, most of it might be out of date 6-12 months from now. I dont see how anyone could write a quality book that covers everything on this.


I realise that; also that it doesn't help that afaiui it's been more industry-led than academia.

But I truly am starting from pretty much 'zero', and maybe I wasn't clear but I'm not looking to be 'hero' in the sense of up to date with the cutting edge, or even necessarily putting anything in to practice at all, I'm more interested in the background theory, and fine with that missing the absolute latest extra technique, just want to understand the meat of it better.

A refresher on SVMs & PCA (which I barely remember - I think I could convincingly explain SVMs to someone numerate but non-tech/mathematician, but not otherwise) and then a catch up to roughly what's going on with LLMs & image/video as mentioned would be great.

> I can understand that you might be interested in book form only, I was lile this for the longest time, until I bumped into some really high quality video series that changed my mind to be a bit more flexible.

I enjoy videos for many things, but mostly entertainment, I don't personally find I can learn that well from them, especially more technical/theoretical stuff, sure to some combination of screen fatigue, it being harder to skip around and reference something, and distraction - something seems obvious briefly so my mind wonders, check something in another tab 'just quickly', and before you know it ten minutes have passed, I've been hearing the speaking but suddenly realise I haven't been listening, have no idea what's going on any more.

Obviously they work for some people, that's fine.


Karpathy has flash attention of Pytorch in his repo. I understand that is fairly recent (in human weeks, maybe not AI dog weeks)


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