I think I used this exact Ivanov book (but in Russian) in school and quite liked it.

It is not meant to be the primary textbook but an adjunct to one. It succinctly covers a lot within 500 pages.

There are more advanced Physics books on that site which are also worth looking into.

Landau! my soviet physics teacher would say the same thing!

Well, but they do.

To catastrophic effects, invariably.

You meant that totally unironically?

How could AI coaches be successful?

I've been ruminating on this past two years, with life before AI most of the compute staying cheap and pretty much 90% idle , we are finally getting to the point of using all of this compute. We probably will find more algorithms to improve efficiency of all the matrix computations, and with AI bubble same thing will happen that happened with telecom bubble and all the fiber optic stuff that turned out to be drastically over provisioned. Fascinating times!

I don't think any of this is "fascinating" - it is more of a racket scheme. They push the prices up. Governments failed the people here.

Isn't this more easily explained by supply-demand? Supply can't quickly scale, and so with increased demand there will be increased prices.

Imagine someone goes to the supermarket and buys all the tomatoes. Then supermarket owner says I don’t know, he bought all at once so it is a better sale. And he sells the remaining 10% of tomatoes at a huge markup

I think it is better compared to Dutch folks buying all the tulip bulbs. And the price skyrocketed.

Tulips were by my understanding more so NFTs. Rich people gambling when bored. With promises for tulips in future... Future contracts for tulips. And prices were high because they were insanely rich merchants.

The RAM looks like cornering market. Probably something OpenAI should be prosecuted for if they end up profiting from it.

Except it's still sitting idle in warehouses while datacenters get built. They aren't running yet. Unlike with fiber, GPUs degrade rapidly with use, and for now datacenters need to be practically rebuilt to fit new generations, so we shouldn't expect much reusable hardware to come from this

Ah you are not alone!

Link here is to gist , but on lobste.rs some one posted link to Eva's blog. And it with links to friends blogs, feel so much like old internet. I dont even know what I enjoyed more, reading technical side or discovering this dark forest.

I used to buy almost every single one of their bundle, but at some point I got a feeling they started repeating with different bundle titles.

Anecdotal evidence, all books I bought this year were used.

I don't use an app, I use website via SFPL proxy, and it works just fine on iPad Pro (12"), but bookmarks do not work, so you need to remember where you stopped to continue after re-login.

If you are in Bay area, San Francisco Public Library (sfpl.org) gives you access to O'Reilly for free, if you have library card, while it does not improve on usability issues, at 0 cost it is phenomenal resource.

Seattle Public Libraries (spl.org) also provides no-cost access to the O'Reilly Complete collection as a membership benefit.

Support your local public library!

My two problems with access through libraries is lack of app access, and that every time I login, all my progress is gone (not reset to cover - gone gone), and I have to find the resource again, open it and go to the page/time I was at. Also can’t create my own playlist or favorites.

At least my library acts like that.

Same for SFPL. Majorly annoying.

I already have a San Francisco Public Library card because it gives me access to some very useful archives, but I had no idea that I could access O'Reilly as well. Thanks for mentioning this!