I think the latter half of your post is missing

Hehe, he reached limit of his tokens /s

What do you mean? Data science is advancing at an incredible pace IMO! DuckDB is the coolest thing to happen to data science in my neck of the woods

'btrfs send' is more like diff/patch than it is like rsync. It requires both source and destination to agree about the source snapshot.

Is this the “Improve model for everyone” setting under “Data Controls” or is that a different checkbox?

The report pdf confirms Sebastian was the Bubeck in question

it's possible to do a RLHF or RLVR pass pretty quickly. I'm almost certain a full pretraining run isn't possible within that time frame.

300e9 output tokens at the current Astra per-token API pricing ($50 per 1e6 output tokens) would be roughly $15,000,000 ignoring input tokens.

They pay at cost though, not the public API pricing.

Doesn’t matter for us.

this is a highly marketable problem and specific teams at OpenAI were aware of specific competitor efforts. I would be surprised if this were happening on a large scale, but

1. Less than a hundred people in the world are working at this problem, 2. A significant fraction of those happen to work at competing hyperscalers, 3. Those hyperscalers repeatedly show themselves not to take user privacy seriously

I'm not sure what your points 1 and 2 have to do with anything. Both directionally increase the probability of hyperscalers also finding the solution independently.

> Those hyperscalers repeatedly show themselves not to take user privacy seriously

where? Any examples?

Have you been living under a rock? None of the big tech companies care one bit about user privacy in the US.

That's not an answer.

Any degree of tracking what people do is unprivate. Every single web interaction you perform is tracked. All LLM companies store all your conversations by default. Do you need more examples?

It's one of those questions that sets the bar so low, the conversation might as well not be taking place

The employee was named as “Sebastien Bubeck.” It helps to read the article.

But then who is the third person in the call.

I was wondering if this was going to be some Rust fork of Emacs, à la Java Minecraft vs Bedrock Minecraft

I thought it was a mnemonic memory system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfJXd0rSCqo