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by anonylizard 2y ago
TSMC is banned from exporting high-end chips to China. The Taiwanese want to be an US ally, and not end up destroyed like Hong-Kong, hence they'll comply with US sanctions. China is still far behind the US in high-end chips. Sure they
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by anonylizard 2y ago
“ I think Taiwan needs to take one for the team and commit to reunification with China” That approach was already tried against Hitler, allowing Germany to reunify with Austria (Austrians were even willing), and then taking Sudetenland. If
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Are you insane? China can only achieve that by forcibly conquering Taiwan, with minimum hundreds of thousands of casualties. China can't win a peaceful competition against the US in the long run, because China is undergoing total demog
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by anonylizard 2y ago
You completely do not mention, that China is MILITARY THREAT. 1. China takes Taiwan 2. China dominates all chip manufacturing 3. China dominates the AI industry 4. China overthrows the US tech industry supremacy by dominating global markets
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by anonylizard 2y ago
That's inaccurate, because traditional sentiment analysis, or rather the entire NLP ecosystem, is a very niche and underoptimized space. Its not comparing C against Javascript, its comparing Ada against Javascript. Ada is not going to
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Because LLMs WILL dominate all NLP use cases, whether you like it or not. Its like the linux of operating systems. Sure you can handwrite up some custom OS more specialized for a purpose. But its much easier to just use linux, which everyon
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by anonylizard 2y ago
LLMs massively compound the advantage of existing popular languages, namely python. Any new learner will find it infinitely easier to use sonnet 3.5 to overcome the so called '2 language barrier' for python, while the lacking data
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Ehhhh.... Why can't the government keep the road neat? Isn't that the government's job? The problem with including a stipulation in the contract, for the private company to keep it neat, is its hard to objectively monitor (Un
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Are you people being deliberately obtuse? A presidential candidate is equivalent to some random people? Like it was 2cm away from civil war. Are some random gang shootings that killed 10 people worse than JFK's killing?
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by anonylizard 2y ago
The university presidents got 'resigned' due to failing the congress questioning. If you are working for public institutions, then it probably matters immensely. But if you answer only to shareholders, then its more theatre.
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by anonylizard 2y ago
The head of US secret service just got 'resigned' after being double body slammed by Republicans and Democrats in congress on live TV. Still that is getting off lightly for a catastrophic failure 10x worse than crowdstrike.
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Society was able to move to mass WFH on a global scale in a single month during Covid, thanks to the highly centralized and efficient cloud infrastructure. That could have easily saved tens of millions of lives (Imagine the Spanish flu with
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Like how do you plan on competing against multimodals, which keep getting cheaper and clearly can do audio->text? Or existing incumbents like Deepgram? Or just the generic APIs provided by the big clouds.
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by anonylizard 2y ago
AI allows people to 'express themselves in unique and interesting ways' far more than VR does. Text and image generation allow people to create worlds completely tailored to themselves, this time unlimited by the need for other pe
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by anonylizard 2y ago
It allows for looting the national treasury today. All large construction projects in Egypt go to the military first. Who then subcontracts it out, essentially paying the generals their cut. Hence why Egypt is building their new capital cit
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Yeah bro, why have cars, we have legs! Why have teachers? We have books! In reality, modern society has plenty, plenty, plenty of obstacles for every age group. Our priority should be eliminating them, not worrying about having too few of t
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by anonylizard 2y ago
The huge solar power plants in China are in western China, aka deserts and frozen desert mountains, aka you can't build data centers there either. And shipping that power across thousands of KMs is as hard for China as it is for the US
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Why is an employee obliged to 'make things work', if those very same things are going to threaten their job? I'm also not certain how this is sabotage. If executives treat developers like interchangable factory line workers,
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Anime already cuts corners by using cheap 3d models in place of 2d hand drawn objects. The more rigid the object, the better this works. 3d cars look better than 2d cars, even in an otherwise 2d show. Mechs look a bit worse. And human chara
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Wow, this looks like the beginning of the end for in-between animation. A large chunk of an anime's budget goes to in-betweening. Essentially human interpolation of graphics between two key frames (Its usually like 6-12 inbetweens per
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by anonylizard 2y ago
No they won't lose a lot of users, what's the competition or alternative? ChatGPT? Even more AI? Youtube did like multiple redesigns, each time with massive complaints, clearly had no negative effect on youtube. Reddit did that hu
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by anonylizard 2y ago
This, starting out at a startup. When you later go onto a big company. They'd be surprised by your ability to build a product end to end, from design to implementation to infrastructure. The only part that's missing is handling th
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Like have you checked the license of Llama3? Who told you it was free for all commercial use? Most open source licenses by big companies these days, are anti-big-tech. Aka anyone can use them but big tech. "If, on the Meta Llama 3 vers
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Fine tuned LLMs can play chess at grandmaster levels. So its clear that there is in fact 'deeper patterns to chess' that allow one to play very well, without any search required (Since LLMs cannot search). Its just that those patt
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Certain people, discovered how easy it is, to change entire institutions, by applying targeted pressure towards individual managers of those institutions. No manager dares to refuse these initiatives because they'll be instantly named
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by anonylizard 2y ago
People like you, is why Europe passed on global leadership to the USA. Ukraine can be burning on your front door, and you still think EU is safe. Guess what, EU is safe only because of NATO. Russia has attacked basically every neighboring c
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Russia and China cannot deliver more firepower per USD. Any such impression is because Russia/China only fights near-shore wars, rather than the expeditionary wars of the US. Because the US fights global wars, it focuses on quality ove
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Russia is not manufacturing more weapons than its GDP suggests. Its simply spending more money than the west donates to Ukraine (Because Russia is fighting for Putin's survival, while its not #1 priority in the west), and importing eve
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by anonylizard 2y ago
Manufacturing is not a magical lamp that craps out guns. It is merely a part of a value chain. Namely, minerals and petrochemicals have to be produced upstream. Financial GDP captures the ability to produce or purchase the upstream resource
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by anonylizard 2y ago
The entire article can basically summarized in one sentence "Using PPP instead of USD to measure GDP, significantly shrinks the gap between the EU and the US" Now, using USD has its problems, but PPP's primary purpose is livi

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