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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
For just this reason, dialing back ITAR export restrictions has been on the agenda for nearly a decade. > https://calibremag.ca/trump-preparing-to-roll-back-itar-expo... It hasn't yet happened. And, as things stand
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Never is a long time. When open models catch up in 4-12 months, they might change their minds.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Startups don't have as much money to spend on lobbying and gifts, though.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> Only companies approved by the government will get access. There is no process for individual users to get access to the new model. I knew the time would come when individuals on personal subscriptions get the short end of the stick.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Rome through the ages: > https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay6826 The data suggests that Republican Rome was a mix of the local Copper Age populations of central Italy and incoming Bronze Age nomadic
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
This is strictly about linguistic similarity and not genetic similarity. On a genetic map, a PCA plot, Romans and Romanians simply don't overlap. Romanians cluster with their Balkan neighbors, (1) on account of massive Slavic migrat
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
The public doesn't vote on the Hugos. It's a clique of WorldCon attendees.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
I'd argue that Israel is, in fact, behaving worse than South Africa ever did. Apartheid-era South African government was a nightmare, but didn't engage in mass murder (or, uh, "collateral damage") on an Israeli scale.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
It's over a decade since the big SF awards have been any indicator of quality. These days, they're practically an anti-indicator of quality. What's more, they're heavily weighted in favor of a particular type of scienc
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Chinese supercomputer powered by homegrown chips tops global ranking(cnn.com)
4 points by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago|0 comments
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
There's only one honorable response, and it couldn't be simpler: A complete and immediate arms and dual-use technology embargo of Israel, combined with more general sanctions. South Africa should be the model: Just ostracize them
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
It's a market in the same way that poker and blackjack are "markets" on which cards are most likely to appear. You don't need to redefine what gambling is.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> I think prediction markets could serve a similar to a futures markets and have a functional purpose in the economy. It could be useful to generate real time estimates of the probability of some events that no one can control and have
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Alan Greenspan, RIP(nytimes.com)
5 points by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago|1 comments
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
But how does spending more get you better code? Whether you pay API prices or $100-200/month prices, the output seems comparable? Besides, quality has a lot to do with the person using it & reviewing/editing the code.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> The thing we are all finding now (software devs) is that AI is great but boy is it pricey if we want anything useful … What? A $200/month subscription to Claude, $100/month at OpenAI, and $25/month with Gemini should g
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Website doesn't work. Anyway, the conventional answer would be that you need an investor at this point -- an angel, even. If that won't work, you probably ought to do outreach and look for partners. I don't think that sellin
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Heavy life challenge: Biology usually discriminates against heavy isotopes. Can we reverse, redirect, or exploit that tendency? Find a way to get plants and bacteria to preferentially incorporate heavy atomic isotopes. Use microbes, algae,
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
> femtometer resolution The diameter of a carbon atom is 154 picometers. Nobody's going down into the femtos. And you're not going to get atomic resolution, either, because humans move around too much and things like scannin
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
In fairness, AAA games are practically over. They have grown too bloated, take too long to develop, and, with the culture wars raging in the background, almost every AAA game steps on at least one landmine and loses a large fraction of its
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
My point was more that that many European politicians are torn between wanting to fight climate change and wanting to spite China -- and that, when all's said and done, they often come down on the "spite China" side, which ma
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Somewhere, an EU bureaucrat is reading this news and shrieking, "n-noo, this can't be happening!" As a general heuristic, they're all in on climate-change doomerism, but they hate hate hate the fact that China's the
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
I'm working on a game myself. Mind if I ask: - How difficult was it to get on Steam and other vendors? - Are there any artists you'd recommend working with? I need a 3D/Blender artist, especially.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
It's not worth bothering with unless the task is very difficult, long-context, long-running, or all of the above. But, when it's worth using, it genuinely increases success rates and appears to amplify model intelligence.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
You laugh, but this is real, and PUA means what you think it means: https://github.com/tanweai/pua Also, it works amazingly well, which is just lol.
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
Modern game development has become slow, expensive, and fragile. Teams are larger, timelines are longer, budgets are higher, and even highly produced games still frequently fail. I think one reason is that content production has not scaled
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by A_D_E_P_T 4mo ago
AI models don't have agency. The modern experience, at least when writing code, is that you're basically able to code in natural language -- from which, the model infers what you really need and goes and does it.
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by A_D_E_P_T 5mo ago
> For example, LLMs to drive NPC dialog and world mechanics in games is not a thing due to cost. Hah, I'm actually working on just this problem. Cost isn't the issue. There are only so many coherent (in context) responses a
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by A_D_E_P_T 5mo ago
Believe it or not, there is none. Somebody ought to write it. This is probably closest, but it's not an entertaining narrative history, more of a reference: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552691/large-language-mo
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by A_D_E_P_T 5mo ago
> in the long term it is a weighing machine. This has not been the case for a long time. What do you suppose is BTC's correct valuation? How about TSLA?

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