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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is hard for me to digest because I have a lot of respect for Karpathy. His famous article on the potential of LSTMs as language models absolutely blew my mind. The innovations that led to LLMs stand on his shoulders, so how can he have such a poor take here?

[–] corbin@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's too young to grok why operating systems exist. (So am I...) To be fair, we're outgrowing the concept in several areas; folks say that Web browsers, unikernels, blockchains, and now apparently LLMs are all replacements for the operating system, because they resemble each other in functionality sometimes.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, they're platforms. (hello, i'm facebook, your new OS)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

suddenly thinking about how we could've gotten SocialOS if zuckieboi gave neumann a parachute

thank fuck we're not on that timeline branch