Maken

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by Maken 10mo ago
The Ellison trying to buy WB was the younger one.
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by Maken 10mo ago
The most likely outcome is kids in third world countries extracting the valuable metals from piles of discarded GPUs.
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by Maken 10mo ago
Their risks are none. They are not increasing capacity, only selling the available one to the highest bidder. Whenever these AI companies run out of money, these producers can simply resume their regular business.
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by Maken 11mo ago
Given the election forecasts, people in the UK doesn't support at all the current government nor its policies. And the answer seems to be to suppress any criticism while waiting for the next election cycle.
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by Maken 11mo ago
I didn't remember that, but it would explain the spam exponential grow back then.
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by Maken 11mo ago
There is also the fact that automatically generated content predates ChatGPT by a lot. By around 2020 most Google searches already returned lots of SEO-optimized pages made from scrapped content or keyword soups made by rudimentary language
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by Maken 11mo ago
You still need someone to check the grades. AI can and will totally misgrade.
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by Maken 11mo ago
Which controversial topic did you fail/refuse to crack down on the fediverse?
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by Maken 11mo ago
That sounds like they want to subsidize the coal industry. AI is just the excuse.
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by Maken 11mo ago
Every time you update? How about Maps asking if you want to use advanced location every time you open it?
101.
by Maken 11mo ago
Maybe they are trying to make people use their API while they build an actual inference infrastructure behind?
102.
by Maken 11mo ago
The Arcade video, taking several seconds to load a few low resolution images, causes me pain.
103.
by Maken 1y ago
That's why virtually every renderer stochastically discards indirect paths with low contribution. Looking at the source code, this one computes every subsequent bounce, even those hitting the perfectly blue sphere after hitting the per
104.
by Maken 1y ago
The lack of rare earths could pretty much collapse the entire US' electronics industry.
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by Maken 1y ago
Who has ever wanted that?
106.
by Maken 1y ago
Why does a static blog need to store user information?
107.
by Maken 1y ago
arXiv was built over a good faith assumption, where a long paper meant at least the author had put some effort behind, and a every idea deserved attention. AI generated text breaks that assumption, and anybody uploading it is not acting in
108.
by Maken 1y ago
Actual papers are as good as ever. This is just trying to stop the flood of autogenated slop, if anything because arXiv hosting space is not free.
109.
by Maken 1y ago
The point is rewriting the articles that matter to Musk. Nobody cares about the rest of the articles, they are there just to justify Grokipedia being an encyclopedia at all.
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by Maken 1y ago
And Jobs was probably right. Apple was a bad fit for Bungie (and games in general). There is a reason Marathon is virtually unknown when it was one of the best "Doom clones" of the era.
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by Maken 1y ago
Is it really just a ballroom? I see few people mentioning the East Wing was actually covering the White House's underground bunker. Maybe Trump wants a more future-proof nuclear refugee.
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by Maken 1y ago
The Armory and the new terminal shows they are moving way from loot boxes into a kind of "proof of work" economy, in which price is driven up by grinding and limited availability.
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by Maken 1y ago
You never want the French Revolution... except when your country is ruled by an absolute monarch and you are essentially his slave forever. The American Revolution had the advantage of having the king an entire ocean away and no other neigh
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by Maken 1y ago
Hosting your data in the UK may not make much of a difference: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia/cloud-act-agre... Here European clearly means "outside of the legal reach of the USA".
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by Maken 1y ago
They lower electricity prices by a lot in Spain.
116.
by Maken 1y ago
But China is deploying more wind and solar energy than the USA. If anything the refusal to diversity energy sources is leaving USA even more behind the competition in the long term.
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by Maken 1y ago
Be careful, some of these new planets can spoil the fun.
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by Maken 1y ago
Which has the added bonus of working even in fullscreen games.
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by Maken 1y ago
I'm seriously wondering about the practicality of this operation. Wouldn't that many SIMs on the same spot overload any nearby cell tower? And even if the antennas could stand the load, that many SIMs hugging the network without a
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by Maken 1y ago
The same elite is still running Russia today.

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