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Delip Rao
Personal blog · pagestlabs.substack.comaihardware
Delip Rao writes AI Research & Strategy, a personal blog at pagestlabs.substack.com about ai and hardware. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “GPT-3 and a Typology of Hype”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its argument that GPT-3 was an advancement rather than a breakthrough, driven mainly by data and compute. One commenter points readers to it for that view.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An AI newsletter from Delip Rao that dives deep into the post-LLM era, with intermissions from the past.
Most-linked posts?
- GPT-3 and a Typology of Hype4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-27
What Hacker News says?
I see GPT-3 as an "advancement" rather than a "breakthrough". There were several differences to the previous model such as the transformer being used and the rest is more like data + compute power. Have a read from this post here about it. [0] What the hype around this only shows is the market potential around GPT-3's capabilities and glosses over the issues around it because from a VC standpoint: "Who cares, I want…
Comment linking /p/gpt-3-and-a-typology-of-hype
on “The impact of GPT-3 on Google Search, a complex-adaptive system”Submitted Ride the Hardware Lottery as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 and a Typology of Hype as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 and a Typology of Hype as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT-3 and a Typology of Hype as a story · 2 points
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