justinbuist.bsky.social
Software developer, data engineer, FIRST mentor, space nerd and occasional college student.
I'm more than that but that's what I show online.
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Just have it crank out code to do the task
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FWIW there is a labeling service for pronouns. I find it handy!
bsky.app/profile/pron...
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www.etsy.com/listing/7509...
www.facebook.com/mauricesenda...
Best I can tell is 1989. One Esty listing it as a 1989 poster and the Maurance Sendak Foundation's FB post dating it at 1989.
Darned good chance it was up in my school as a kid. I was 9.
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That is some stone cold truth.
I like it.
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It is very much like the .com bubble.
Companies will bust but things have changed forever due to advances in tech. It'll just be a bit of time before the consumer market sees it.
AI is where the internet was in 1996.
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We also struggled to find things on the web back then.
In 1997 I was in Science Olympiad and one of the competitions was finding stuff on the web. I rocked it. I was on the university T1, running 3 instances of Netscape, and hitting every engine as fast as I could.
Google killed that competition.
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... should be paying 3x what they are for compute which is false. I can get the compute rate OpenAI gets from Azure. You can too. You just sign up. They're getting consumer pricing.
I have no idea how somebody could write something so misinformed on the topic and expect to be taken seriously.
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... we can now see that OpenAI would reduce operation costs by taking it in-house, but that's not their jam. But, if push comes to shove they could. And that would roughly halve their operating costs. That fucks up his numbers a lot.
But the entire premise of his piece there is that OpenAI...
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... about $800 in electrical costs to run at 20c per kWh. Toss in cooling and floor space and call it $1k per year.
$10k + $3k = $13k to buy and operate an A100 for 3 years.
MS is selling this to OpenAI for the list price, that Ed calls unsustainable, of $36k for 3 years.
So, on the one hand...
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... so let's go further down this hole. Remember: Microsoft made BANK this last quarter with AI being a big reason for it. Ed claims that $1.30 is a sweet deal that MS can't maintain.
An A100 in 40GB config costs about $10k. Power to run it at 750 watts with a max duty cycle of 60% equates to...
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... buy a 3 year reservation the cost drops 65-75%. Disk, compute, bandwidth. they're all the same. It's like many other things in life. Renting a car? Costs a lot per hour. Leasing for 3 years? Way less per hour. Renting a motel? Costs a lot per hour. Leasing an apartment? Way less per hour...
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... because that's what other people pay. Which isn't true. $1.30/hr is the price for an A100 on Azure. I checked. I checked AWS. Same general price. I'm sure Google isn't far off either. His $3.40/hr number is the hourly rate for pay-as-you go and with like everything else in The Cloud if you...
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www.microsoft.com/en-us/invest...
Microsoft
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"Nobody is trying to make these things more efficient, or at the very least nobody has succeeded in doing so. If they had, they'd be shouting it from the rooftops."
I guess if we ignore the mini, nano, and turbo versions of OpenAI models that's true. And ignore DeepSeek. And 95% of HuggingFace.
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Seems weird to call out the GPU pricing. OpenAI getting them for $1.30/hr isn't special. That's just the standard price for an A100 off Azure if you reserve it for 3 years.
Anybody can get that deal.
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Ooh, let me do @nytpitchbot.bsky.social:
Whether it's people posting public information on X receiving death threats from Nazis or Mark Cuban being bummed because not enough people love AI on Bluesky, both major microblogging services have challenges.
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A $35 NES game in 1985 would be $100 now adjusted for inflation. And that was for something that could be cranked out by a dozen people or less.
Kids these days don't know how good they have it.
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I got out of control many times coming down from 10k feet. No way would I try that!
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No. Those are the R&D dollar numbers.
SpaceX bids really low on that stuff.
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Half a billion for Falcon 9. When complete HLS gets $2.9bln.
Not very much.
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I'm utterly confused as to how that would work. How do you update the Gemini model exactly?
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I've seen interior decor like that before. One of them had to seriously downgrade when he moved out of office.
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Technically NASA made a reusable second stage. The Shuttle. Killed 14 people in flight. Cost $1.6b per launch.
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It was a good day. Didn't have to use my AK.
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I look forward to my grandkids history tests.
A) It was illegal for Elon to suspend Catturd
B) The board of X told Elon not to suspend Catturd
C) Elon didn't have the balls to suspend Catturd
D) All of the above
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I gotta share where this appeared in my timeline...
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Quite the impact they've had on the world! Good show, ole boy!
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Thankfully they've got a spacecraft with a tested out 'NOPE' button that'll take them home. No need to skydive in.
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They're already under 88% of our surface gravity. The trick to staying in orbit isn't height but rather speed. They have to undock from the ISS and then slow down in order to get home. Orbit is more like a tetherball than basketball.
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Everybody on ISS has a seat on a spacecraft that is docked to the ISS that can get them home. On the US side they have to be able to return on their own. No support from ground or input from the pilot. Get in, punch button, you go home.
They are not stranded no matter what happens here.
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I was at a museum once and they had a miniature Mercury replica that I was drawn to and as I'm eyeballing that I see the mini Gemini next to it! So cool!
But when I looked at the Gemini twice I saw it was full sized. It was still tiny. Bonkers that two dudes spent 14 days in there.
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Yeah I was inside that day and missed the group shot. My bad. Y'all look great though!
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... long enough to maintain such a fleet of communications sats. At that altitude you need less of them in total compared to Starlink and gang. Geometry is fun. So, run them up there, make a new US infrastructure program. Military gets a new network under US control. Citizens get a new ISP.
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... the whole thing will come down in a fairly short amount of time. With commercial sats my opinion is the lower they operate the better. Quicker cleanup if the die and better service to the end user.
I would not trust them to operate at 1,000km, but I do trust the government to "stick around"...
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... satellite data systems. Starlink is around 550km in altitude and Kuiper is at 630km. There's enough atmosphere at 550 to pull one down in something like 8-10 years I think. Kuiper's area is going to be a bit longer, but still, close enough that if the company folds and nobody does anything...
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Security should be warning you that what you feed into the models MIGHT be used to train them in the future.
LLMs don't do that automatically. What you feed into them does become "fresh in their memory" in a way and it seems like they trained on it.
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US History books are going to be so weird in 20 years. Kids are going to get points for writing "Big Balls" down as an answer to a question on a quiz.
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Or somebody that likes to "roll coal" on others.
Or maybe even a Republican that still hates Nazis. Gotta be a couple somewhere.
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You've nailed the real problem, and I'm not sure what kept the older companies in check other than perhaps being publicly traded? Once your public you can't hide your financials and stuff, keeps people honest. And easier to nationalize I guess because there's a known market price.