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Most bank runs tend to be driven by vibes, not numbers though.

The good news is that these folks seem to be in possession of a vibe-rator.


> bank runs

Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI are not banks. (Also, we had the largest bank runs in American history three years ago. The ordinary American barely noticed.)


They're not profitable either, so the money has to come from somewhere, no?

> the money has to come from somewhere, no?

Yes. Equity investors. The ones who buy hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars of American stocks a quarter.


And these equity-investors, do they use their own money to buy the (presumably non-voting) stocks?

Cause if that's the case, I see no reason for a government bailout should things go south. Nobody's pension would be affected by some private investor losing money on a bad investment.

But if that's not the case, then someone somewhere along the chain is acting as a bank, subject to a vibe-driven run.


> these equity-investors, do they use their own money to buy the (presumably non-voting) stocks?

Yes [1].

> Nobody's pension would be affected by some private investor losing money on a bad investment

...pensions also invest in the stock market.

> if that's not the case, then someone somewhere along the chain is acting as a bank, subject to a vibe-driven run

You're confusing deeply unrelated concepts. Whether or not someone who loses money is politically sympathetic has nothing to do with whether they're at risk of a bank run.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/20260319/html/f22...


I made no mention of anyone being politically sympathetic or otherwise. A private investor is _private_ and thus not subject to a government bailout. The argument for government bailouts used to be that "grandpa would lose his pension", I merely stated the terms that would make this non-applicable.

If pensions invest in the stock market, then they are de-facto acting as a bank. And last I checked, in the land of the free, you get to withdraw your 401k should you vibe with the decision to do so [please don't do this based on this post alone].


> A private investor is _private_ and thus not subject to a government bailout

What does this mean? Who do you think benefits from a bailout?

> If pensions invest in the stock market

Pensions are private investors. And pensions invest in all kinds of things. Plenty are already shareholders in these companies.

> last I checked, in the land of the free, you get to withdraw your 401k should you vibe with the decision to do so

This is a non sequitur. Nobody disputed this. And 401(k)s are not pensions.


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It’s an important difference. Pension funds direct their investments. 401(k)s are self directed. Again, these words have meaningful differences you’re ignoring.

If much of the money comes from passive funds, presumably the other stocks in those funds will need to be sold?

I'm not a systems guy, but you're probably right. A mutex requires an atomic variable which triggers the same cache coherency mechanism under contention.

What Justine probably meant was an apples to oranges comparison: in userspace, you can sometimes add constraints that allow for a faster algorithm whereas the cpu generally has to assume the worst.

That being said, if you look through this thread you'll find similar issues with OP's phrasing. A fine engineer / hacker, but too much 4chan troll in my book.


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> There is a theorem that (...) multiplication requires unbounded memory

What theorem is that?

The multiplication of any two integers below a certain size (called "words") fits in a "double word" and the naive multiplication algorithm needs to store the inputs, an accumulator and at most another temporary for a grand total of 6*word_size

Sure, you can technically "stream" carry-addition (which is obvious from the way adders are chained in ALU-101) and thus in a strict sense addition is O(1) memory but towards your final point:

> Theory is important, but engineering is also important.

In practice, addition requires unbounded memory as well (the inputs). And it's definitely compute-unbounded, if your inputs are unbounded.

I dislike the term "we muddle along". IEEE 754 has well specified error bars and cases, and so does all good data science. LLMs do not, or at least they do not expose them to the end user

So then, how exactly do we go about proving that the result of chaining prompts is within a controllable margin of error of the intended result? Because despite all the specs, numerical stability is the reason people don't write their own LAPACK.


The size difference between the local LLM and all of the above is about... the size of the local LLM.


> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change...

... the answer would depend on which street corner you asked.

> people seem so unaware of how idiosyncratic their preferences are

Yes, they are. They also tend to state that "most people" agree with them. This is called subjectivity.


The video is about a 2x1 link, which the author hopes to eventually scale up to 3x4 using 40 gig transceivers. I'd say thunderbolt is probably safe in the near future.


Just to put some context into what _never_ means here:

If a website offers me the choice between "accept cookies" and "more options", I'll manually edit the DOM to remove the popup from the offending website. Some sites disable scrolling while such a "We value your privacy" popup is shown, so I wrote a js bookmarklet to work around most common means of scroll hijacking.

Google is currently waging a war against adblockers, especially on youtube. I currently have a way around that too but should they start baking ads in the video bytes, I'll stop using youtube altogether (though I am willing to look the other way for content creators shouting out their curated sponsors).

There is simply no universe in which I pay for certain types of digital content, and while I can't stop the data collection that ultimately pays for it, I can at least make damn sure that it's unlawful.

With respect to Spain and sports, stadiums are littered with ads, players wear ads, the commentator stream itself has ads baked in and people buy tickets and tapas to watch the game live. If that's not enough, go fuck yourselves!


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pipejosh is totally a real person!

Because a plumber would definitely first and foremost plug his AI software and not his plumbing company, which definitely exists!

How does this make it to the frontpage in <1 hour from posting?

P.S. https://pipelab.org/ has a bad cert


That's a nice niche you found (spoken from one heap fan to another) but I have to say I strongly disagree with your use of *roughly* twice as much

At best you were off by one but in the context of performance, you'd want to assign that extra to a super-root of ±inf in order to save log2n extra range checks per heap-up, no?


I don't think I understand what you are saying. Anyway, if you are strapped for space, do not use a winner tree.


Ah, I meant that for a classic heap, it's convenient to assign h[0] to the limit of your goal function (e.g. -inf for a min heap) cause that way you can skip the while i>0 check and just do while h[i>>1] > min(h[i], h[i+1]), asserting that the condition is definitely false when i < 2

I guess that it's not as important when you're explicitly willing to pay the piper and run the full log2n iterations just for the sake of branch predictability.

Thanks for the algo though, before today I never would've thought about doing a branchless downheap with i = i<<1 + h[i<<1] != h[i]


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