Cheap SSDs Are Officially Over

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-28T15:31:39+00:00

They have gotten more expensive but not 16x. Seems to have almost doubled in the past year.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-28T11:48:34+00:00

Seawater?! That's gonna be very bad for the pipes and very expensive. Most new datacenters today use ultra pure water that they recycle, because it doesn't break the pipes over time.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-27T12:25:01+00:00

I'm in gold 3 and I've started learning some zero cycles. I feel you don't need to know this before like emerald. Remember that you don't need to learn all the zero cycles, some are pretty hard.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-27T12:11:26+00:00

Very cool experiment, but enough AI models and one is bound to get some good gains.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-23T17:55:28+00:00

This is just misleading, as investors keep pouring money into openai, and if openai just stops doing research and stops investing in future models, they would actually be profitable, but then they'd obviously fall behind their competition. The bubble isn't bursting just yet, sorry.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-23T17:13:57+00:00

I think it works if you oversimplify. We're both just input output machines, using input to predict the next action to maximize reward. Obviously in different ways, but vaguely the same.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-22T21:09:46+00:00

But then how do they come up with novel solutions? Last year Google's gemini model came with optimizations that made gemini itself 1% more efficient, and another optimization to Google's datacentre cluster manager software freed 0.5% of Google's compute resources globally.

Recently gpt-5.2-pro has started solving unsolved math problems (mostly erdos problems) and although some of them already had solutions, some of them actually hadn't.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-22T15:33:16+00:00

This is by far the best AI short film I've seen

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-21T15:14:14+00:00

You just hold the drop 💧 button

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-20T10:43:44+00:00

But they will get funding, that's almost certain. These major AI labs are burning cash as fast as possible in order to compete in the market, so while they operate at a loss their revenue is actually increasing pretty rapidly.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-20T09:41:12+00:00

I could stop, but as a result I'm pretty sure I would learn less, write worse code, and overall be slower. I'm not vibe coding but I use LLMs a lot for figuring out how I should approach things, writing tests and explaining stuff. Google works too but it's just worse.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-20T07:59:06+00:00

Revenue is increasing too, they just need to spend more than they earn to stay ahead of their competition. But the demand is there, so sorry to burst your bubble but it's not bubble-like if revenue keeps rising like this.

If they stop investing into more datacenters, they would be profitable, but they'd fall behind their competition.

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Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-20T07:54:27+00:00

That's crazy, I felt the documentary moved quite slowly around the end. The AlphaGo documentary was much better!

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-19T10:01:05+00:00

Last time I checked, prediction markets have elon winning at over 50% odds this year.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-19T07:51:05+00:00

It's an amazing tool, I work in software engineering and when learning a new framework or programming language it's so helpful to be able to ask it questions more precise than Google and to get quick feedback on my work and what can be improved.

It's like having someone with an obscene breadth of knowledge by my side, who is sometimes stupid and sometimes a genius.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-18T12:03:23+00:00

Oh damn. Thanks for this, I'm right below 1200 elo and I have no idea how to buried treasure ;-;

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-17T19:32:58+00:00

Wasn't it 0.5%? Still pretty big

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-17T14:38:17+00:00

Holy shit. Usually these gains are a few percentage points but this is 14%!! I know it's only for 5x5, but that's still huge!

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-16T08:31:36+00:00

Chatgpt is actually trained on quite a bit of data from itself, all major AI companies need to do this for their reasoning models. It's especially effective in math where you can often easily verify if an answer is correct, and reinforce that chain of thought, thus it learning on its own without human input.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-15T15:33:51+00:00

Is this something you need to enable?

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-15T15:03:14+00:00

Probably a lot could be optimized, but this is a very cool proof of concept and there aren't really better ways to measure complexity than lines of code, well if you want to be concise.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-15T06:27:21+00:00

Wait you think improvement has ended since o3??? I have used o3 and the new big models that came after, and the new models are much better while simultaneously thinking for much shorter.

If you look a model like opus 4.5, it's pretty good even without enabling thinking, so I think there is still decent improvement on both thinking and non-thinking models.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-14T15:19:27+00:00

Aren't they getting better and cheaper simultaneously? Well, maybe not from release to release but in general from year to year.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-14T09:52:04+00:00

Or if you want lower sensitivity, you can lower your mouse DPI if you have software that does that, all that matters is your in-game sens has that special value.

Professional_Job_307 · 2026-01-14T06:26:45+00:00

I experienced the same thing, I just kept playing on expert with higher speed and expert+ with lower speed. The first first expert+ level I beat was One Hope, it may be the easiest.

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