I have been in an SF muni car with someone actively smoking something that was not marijuana or a cigarette. I think it was fentanyl but I’m not sure. This was about two years ago. I hope this is tolerated less now than it has been.

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Some of these concerns are precisely why we are building Nemotron at NVIDIA. We want to make it possible for people to invent and deploy AI in all sorts of new and unforeseen ways.

Nemotron is:

1. Not just open weight, but open data (to the limits of what is feasible), open recipe, open technique

2. In the future built by a coalition of organizations coming together to build great openly developed AI.

Nemotron 3 Super is our most successful model yet. [1]

Ultra is coming soon. And then Nemotron 4.

We can afford to do this because when AI grows, NVIDIA's opportunity also grows.

[1] https://kaitchup.substack.com/p/the-fastest-and-cheapest-120...

Nemotron is great, keep up the good work!

how do you justify the compute investment for something like nemotron ? especially if all the labs are willing to pay for those same GPU clusters for inference or training runs?

Nemotron has two reasons to exist, both of which are strategic to NVIDIA.

1. Help NVIDIA design future systems for AI by more deeply understanding what it takes to build AI.

2. Keep the AI ecosystem strong and diverse throughout the world by providing AI infrastructure that many companies can innovate on.

This is not a science project, nor is it for the joy of giving something away. Both of these reasons are core to NVIDIA.

Does Nvidia maintain it's own compute hardware expressly for model training? Otherwise, I'm not sure how you keep up with the SOTA model techniques.

Yes

AI is a mirror. If you are boring, you will use AI in a boring way.

sadly, disembodied brains are not very useful. embodied brains require a civilization's worth of energy consumption and environmental impact in order to do their work. so we really need to take the world's power/water/carbon impact (divided by the world population) to talk about how much power it takes for a human brain to solve a problem.

Most of the things on sale at “Whole Foods” are ultra-processed these days. Anything that requires effort to make gluten free or vegan for example. Like impossible burger. Extreme ultra-processed. Or gluten free bread.

Please don’t tell me impossible burger patties are like cigarettes.

Right, it's not that all ultraprocessed foods are bad, it's that most bad foods are ultraprocessed.

Agreed. Which makes the statement “ultraprocessed foods should be treated more like cigarettes” seem wrong.

I guess “bad foods should be treated more like cigarettes” is too obvious.

nobody has a good definition of ultra-processed food

People keep saying that in this comment section like it’s a reason to stop talking about why some foods are addictive and lead to bad health outcomes. Who benefits when we do that?

Perhaps more obviously, a multi-vitamin is considered "ultra processed" under Nova. A fiber supplement is considered "ultra processed". Lab grade creatine is "ultra processed".

As a creatine user I thought of this, but I don't recall seeing creatine as an ingredient in most foods. I still prefer to get my protein via meat, eggs, or other basic foods rather than in the form of a highly engineered shake, not least for cost reasons.

They certainly have such offerings, but I'm perplexed at how you get to 'most of the things on sale'. The most processed things I get from there on a regular basis are bread, cookies, or alcoholic drinks. It's very rare that I find myself looking at the label of anything I can purchase there wondering how it was made.

As I said - anything surprisingly gluten free or surprisingly vegan is going to be UPF.

Sometimes I wonder if the gluten free trend is a ploy by food processing companies to whitewash expensive proprietary processed foods as “whole”.

I think you mean "anything UPF-GF or UPF-vegan is UPF". The Typical vegan and GF foods you find in a supermarket are just the same as others foods:

   - non processed: fruits, grains, roots, leafs, pulses
   - processed: pasta, breads, nuts milks, sorbet, fries
   - UPF: most drinks, most sweeties, most prepared food

Some exceptions exists but don't change the general trend:

   - vegan burger: some are UPF, some are just smashed fallafels
   - GF bread: rice or rye bread suits most gluten intolerants. Those suffering allergies have limited options obviously (which include abstaining from bread) but their medical condition isn't a "gluten free trend".
   - meats cuts: some contains sodium nitrite and other nasty additives while others are just raw animals parts.

OK but that's a very small proportion of what the typical supermarket has on sale.

The Nano model isn’t pretrained in FP4, only Super and Ultra are. And posttraining is not in FP4, so the posttrained weights of these models are not native FP4.

I had a similar experience. The "Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus" written in stone was not an aspiration or a motto for me when I visited, it was a statement of fact.

I've often wondered if Intel would still be a dominant force in computing if it had kept engineering in Silicon Valley. I worked at Intel both in Hillsboro and in Santa Clara and I feel that Intel's decision to put so much engineering in Oregon was done to insulate them from the pressures of Silicon Valley. They didn't have to pay very well, and they had a very insular culture - because they could afford it. They didn't have to work very hard to keep engineers at Intel because their engineers were basically trapped in beautiful Oregon and generally wouldn't consider moving back to expensive California.

Housing costs in the Bay Area are soul-crushing, but they do motivate people to work on the highest value projects because complacency just doesn't usually work if you're trying to buy a house. And so I wonder, if Intel had kept their workforce mostly in California, could they have stayed a dominant force in computing?