Recent content by Phelps McManus

I replayed the directors cut of the first one a couple of months ago, and then just picked up the sequel last week. I am already 30 hours in and completely hooked. The improvements on the original game loop are great. Five stars are a bit more difficult, but the APAS Enhancements system makes...

Man time really is a flat circle. I remember installing Tie Fighter from 5 disks 30(00) years ago!

This too shall pass, brother. The cure for high prices is high prices.

Would it be Nermal’s Bordello?

When your stock price jumps on a purchase you make with mostly stock, that represents a powerful discount you enjoy compared to the rest of the market. Pretty smart move, planned well in advance of today, and executed immediately after the IPO.

Yeah, if I had to do it over again, that is exactly what I’d have done differently.

This is the way.

I expect something more bittersweet - like Carl survives but Donut reverts back to a normal cat (perhaps willfully to avoid guilt over atrocities she committed).

Southern Company shareholders certainly ate most of it, but that has been reflected in their share price for a long time. MS ratepayers ate a lot, followed by the US taxpayer care of DOE grants for coal gasification tech. The most ironic part of this failure is that, even if the technology had...

Are we talking about the average business consumer running local models? On what GPUs? A bunch of distributed, private, and likely underutilized LLMs seems less efficient than the data center model. This applies to individual consumers as well. Inference costs are coming down for each new...

I think you are saying you suspect you will be shocked…

Begone, ye 32gb pleb!

It does not help that work ethic amongst younger employees is generally pathetic. Like how can you work on the same boring project for 3 straight months? Especially with AI to help you plow through tough debugging problems, I do not have much sympathy for people who can’t demonstrate productivity.

Something is off on your scale or maybe you are taking about context sizes? I burn through a million tokens ($3 of Claude sonnet) in around 1-2 hours, and I am fairly diligent about clearing my context between prompts. If Claude says it is compacting, that means you hit the 50k context limit...

Private Equity typically expects a minimum 15% return and 20-22.5% is not unheard of before the risk profile gets into venture capital range. Of all the warning signs OpenAI is flashing, this does not seem like “OMG imminent collapse”.