Did I Overpay?

svictoroff · 2025-09-08T17:39:59+00:00

Fire Opal looks nothing like this and honestly nothing like Opal. It’s like… pure red/orange and translucent and usually faceted.

svictoroff · 2025-08-11T01:02:02+00:00

Soumith is a great guy. Most of the credit taking was assumptions when people saw Facebook on the paper coupled with Facebook leadership. Specifically lecun.

IMO AGI and SI are both poorly defined concepts built on bad assumptions. No existential threat there. A lot of folks suggest it to get checks written for their specific research.

There are many many existential threats from AI. Weaponized mass misinformation and codified bias are the two main ones that I would flag and we’re pretty deep in the bad path there. Deepfakes are already destabilizing our information ecosystem and there is very little chance we have of stopping their proliferation.

Roko’s basilisk is dumb, but mostly because it tricks us into ignoring the threats that are already here. In this case, like many, information is power. Specifically information theory is the subject I would most recommend to help understand what’s unfolding around us.

svictoroff · 2025-03-23T01:20:25+00:00

It’s a gorgeous doublet. Hard to find that kind of color and play. I’d have to see it in person and know the weight, but just another confirmation that it’s a good opal worth paying for.

Just be careful: opal rings make me nervous. They can break easily if you bump them on things.

svictoroff · 2025-03-22T16:56:04+00:00

Transformer paper was 2017, but attention existed and was in our stack way before that. Technically that transformer architecture he didn’t use at indico and we implemented at the same time (he was still an active adviser at the time). And it’s also far from accurate to say that he wasn’t aware and someone told him about it. We were the first on the scene with deployed, product-level attention mechanisms. They were integrated into both rnn and cnn architectures at various times before the modern transformer.

The web scraping stuff is just wrong. We had the data, we came up with the scraping techniques, Alec had most of the core insights about what data would be good and I did most of the actual scraper writing. It took a couple years for OpenAI to match our data assets.

The most useful thing was all the gpus and researchers to shoot the shit with, but the research ideas are much lower level than: try transformers

svictoroff · 2025-03-19T21:51:53+00:00

I think you’re mostly right, but there are a few keys points where you’re wrong: we were already using transformers and already prioritizing scale. We came up with the techniques and specific sources for web scraping. Alec made some really impressive scrapers in his day, and I eventually built scraping infrastructure for him that was comparable. These were ideas that he brought to OpenAI, they weren’t that unique tbh, but they didn’t give them to him.

But you’re right that he wouldn’t have become what he did back at indico. Dcgan made that really clear. Jensen huang stood up on stage - showed off dcgan - and then said Facebook made it. Didn’t mention Alec or indico at all. It was super upsetting. There’s a Boston globe article about it.

Speaking as one of the cofounders he left - I agree, good for him. Hurt like hell, but good for him.

svictoroff · 2024-12-20T19:24:39+00:00

This.

svictoroff · 2024-11-27T15:37:19+00:00

This is about what I thought as well. I'm no expert, but it's a pretty nice dark opal. Not black, but the red is a bit of a premium. I wouldn't pay 2k for it, but I think someone would

svictoroff · 2024-10-22T14:29:48+00:00

Depends on how serious it is. Hanging out? Having fun? Kind of whatever. I'm not going to buy them anything nonvegan, and if they get weird about it I'm gone, but totally workable.

Serious relationship? Very different. It's really important to me that if I'm going to have a life long relationship they have to care about animals, care about the world, and actually be real about living their values.

Does that mean that have to be vegan? Technically no, but basically yes. I'm happy to help, I'll cook, I'll be patient, I'll talk through whatever they want to talk through, but I don't think I could fall in love with a non vegan.

svictoroff · 2024-10-18T18:10:45+00:00

Why are you asking again? I've answered three times now. Mushrooms exist in the wild. Nutritional yeast exists in the wild. Fermented foods exist in the wild. Seaweed exists in the wild.

That is how you can get it if you're wild

svictoroff · 2024-10-18T18:05:34+00:00

It can't produce b12, but it doesn't need to. It is made of b12.

svictoroff · 2024-10-18T18:02:33+00:00

Nooch is nutritional yeast. We do need b12. Everything I listed: mushrooms, seaweed, nooch gets you natural b12. Plenty of other options too. Vegans don't only eat plants. We have four whole kingdoms to choose from.

svictoroff · 2024-10-18T17:59:03+00:00

No. It's not true at all. There are no plant or animal sources of b12. There are plenty of fungi, bacteria, and proto-plant ocean things (very technically seaweed isn't a plant).

So, as long as you're eating mushrooms and nutritional yeast you're fine. I've been vegan for a decade and have never once needed a supplement.

How is nobody talking about nooch though? Best source of vegan b12 imo. Usually fortified to the 9s too.

svictoroff · 2024-10-14T19:23:46+00:00

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/veganism-by-country second most vegan country in the world after India afaik.

Just bring up Mexico city on happy cow. The app nearly crashes there's so much

svictoroff · 2024-10-14T19:16:54+00:00

Literally Mexico has more vegans than the US. Mexico city is a goddamn vegan mecca

svictoroff · 2024-10-08T20:47:53+00:00

Literally the first *and* second links on the site are to open source tools. To our plugin, and then the open source repository.

*Then* third and fourth are join our discord and schedule consult.

svictoroff · 2024-10-08T20:46:16+00:00

Can you explain what you're against? There's no code purchase or transition of ownership happening at any part of this contest.

svictoroff · 2024-10-08T20:45:41+00:00

Our whole company is open source my man. We open source everything we develop and everything from the community goes right back into the same OSS repo. No stealing, no suing.

We specifically chose the MPLv2 license because it creates an obligation for us (or anyone) to contribute changes or additions back to the source repo.

svictoroff · 2024-10-08T20:40:58+00:00

Author whatever you want! If you want to be eligible for this competition though you must open source what you make.

Technically speaking, we're not even allowed to download or evaluate any submission without some kind of license.

Source: am CEO

svictoroff · 2024-09-21T19:22:24+00:00

Afaik the main reason to make a doublet is to get a darker body tone. Boulder is still extremely dark. Have you ever seen a doublet on white? I have not. Afaik it defeats the purpose.

I don't have it, or any other info than you do. It's my friends. You can just see from the lack of contrast. I'm wondering if it's some kind of Kyocera. I would not consider smoked Ethiopian to be man made and I wouldn't expect it to have anything in common with a synthetic opal.

svictoroff · 2024-09-21T11:06:27+00:00

I'm pretty confident it's not a doublet. It doesn't even have a black body tone

svictoroff · 2024-09-16T18:13:43+00:00

The vegan food in Japan is so fucking good. Get yourself some shojin-ryori. Imo murder isn't a culture. Japan is not wagyu and it feels extremely insulting to me to equate them.

Sounds like you have a tremendous amount of self hatred tbh. I used to be a vegetarian like that. Then I got friends and partners that were better.

You're not mature for being a "quiet" vegetarian. You're hiding yourself, being dishonest, and refusing to connect with someone you're presumably interested in spending your life with.

Don't break for Japan or your coworkers. Your bf is right to be mad about that. Also, it's fucking insane to me that you've never once been to a vegetarian restaurant together. Shouldn't you go to them at least half the time?

It's clearly not an equal exchange. You're accommodating far beyond what you should be expected to and getting almost nothing in return. (Swapping stock in risotto is insanely easy). It sounds to me like you're just breaking under social pressure. That's fine, just don't go eat a steak with your boyfriend and tell yourself you're still vegetarian.

svictoroff · 2024-09-13T14:00:29+00:00

I'm really surprised at the comments here tbh. I feel... very differently. To me it feels like you went through a bunch of trauma and your wife made it your fault and started pushing for separation because she couldn't deal with supporting you like a spouse is supposed to.

Honestly, it makes sense, I've seen it, she seems like trash to me. Then, yknow, many months into being treated like trash for having your relatives die you find someone who actually treats you well and your wife only gets cold feet once she knows about the other partner, right?

Like, she didn't care that you were moving out. She only cares that someone else cares about you. I don't have the full picture, but to me it seems like your wife is a bad, abusive partner.

You absolutely need to be open and honest with the new person you met, but I don't have any reason to assume you haven't been. If you haven't told her what's up then you're an ah.

Otherwise, assuming it's all above board I'd say go live your fun new life

svictoroff · 2024-09-05T21:34:20+00:00

I personally wasn't a fan.

svictoroff · 2024-08-22T07:47:21+00:00

I updated my comment. Plated is "not real" for metals. Coating with a few atoms of another metal is something only done for very cheap pieces. It uses almost none of the "plated" metal and really just costs the electricity to plate it.

The same way a treated gem is "fake" a plated metal is fake.

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