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Mark Cummins (@mark_cummins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Seems about right: 3 or maybe 4 orders of magnitude from increasing investment, 1 from Nvidia margin compression, 1 from custom silicon, 1 from Moore's law. So plausibly 6-7 OOMs of headroom in the current sprint, which would last until the early 2030s. (Absent a wildcard on

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Sounds in language often correlate with meaning. For example, all of these words relate to the nose: sniff, snout, snot, snore, sneeze. LLM embeddings place semantically-similar words together It would be fun to study the similarity of syntax and semantics using LLMs 🙂

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This is one of the most important results of the year, as exciting as the OpenAI o1 results. We now have two very different, very promising scaling dimensions for test-time compute: TTT and RL. (1/🧵)

Mark Cummins (@mark_cummins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

OK, say it goes further and we get AI that's broadly superhuman across all domains. How do you invest for this? Does the question even make sense?

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In U2’s 2009 album, Bono says “The best of us are geniuses of compression.” That’s something one LLM might say to another 🤠

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Unique opportunity to speedrun the process to join me at Kilo Code as an engineer — apply by Monday Oct 20th kilocode.ai/call