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The Israeli Military Is One of Microsoft's Top AI Customers(dropsitenews.com)
7 points by avidphantasm 2y ago|1 comments
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Microsoft is a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence for the Israeli military, according to internal documents related to the contracts between the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Microsoft Israel obtained by Dr
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
My first grader has a pretty nice Dell 2-in-1 from school (with 8GB of RAM!!!). She had a school-provided iPad in kindergarten. I don’t think either of these things did her any good educationally (except making sure every kid has a device t
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
At least in the Python world, it’s trivial to bring up an isolated DB instance using a docker compose file and a simple pytest plugin. Hardly seems worth the effort to mock the DB in cases like this.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
My primary memory of this screensaver was while working as a desktop support work-study in college. Our NT 4 servers (PDC and its backup) ran the 3D pipe screen saver. I pointed out to the admin that it was using a software OpenGL renderer
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I’m not smart enough or interesting enough to be hired by OpenAI to expertly solve problems and explain how to the AI. However, I like to think there isn’t enough money in the world for me to sell out my colleagues like that.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I remember being struck a few years back when shaking the hand of a friend’s farmer father. He was about six-inches shorter than I am (6’1”) but his hands were MASSIVE.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
It’s clearly not practical now, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be at some point.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
It seems like unified memory has to be the goal. This all just feels like a kludgy workaround until that happens (kind of like segmented memory in the 16-bit era).
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I would like you to explain why you think the creation of infrastructure involves low-skill jobs.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Cold War.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
And those markets relied upon the US Army to remove Native Americans to create the “free” real estate upon which the whole thing relied.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I feel similarly, but come at it from a different angle. I first learned C++ in undergrad ca. 25 years ago. I never used C++ much professionally, going first to Java, then Python, and then C. About two years ago I started doing more work in
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
There wouldn’t be free markets without the state. So he either doesn’t actually want free markets and wants to run a mafia state like Putin, or he is a complete idiot.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I guess WWIV has been on a slow burn for going on three years now.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Is multicast a thing on the commercial internet? Seems like that could help.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
First hit on DDG: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I got it when I was around 40. Before getting the three doses, I would get 3-4 nasty viral sore throats per year (white blistery lesions, very painful). Now I get zero. I was probably on my way to getting throat cancer like Michael Douglas.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
I know AI is the buzzword du jour, but this is really ML, and really just advanced cybernetic control systems. Deep learning systems have a high enough degree of variety necessary to control short time step nonlinear systems like the plasma
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Yeah but if H5N1 strains have a high fatality rate, a 50% effective vaccine is a big deal.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
You mean like this [1]? I would shocked if OWC didn’t have a version of this for the new mini form factor in the works. [1] https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/external-drives/owc-ministac...
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
It's a desktop. Use an external disk. Much cheaper.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
In America 2024, $250 dinner eats you!
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
But now someone at Apple can treat themselves to a very nice dinner.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
What does this high level of integration mean for repairability? Lack of/difficulty in repairability can raise lifecycle costs or reduce longevity. The latter is especially worrying for lifecycle carbon emissions.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Building a new app at work using Web Components and WebSockets for dynamism. I’m using Bulma for CSS, which is still about 300KiB. However, the site loads instantly. I’m not using a Javascript framework or bundler or any of that (not even n
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Wearing VR/AR headsets in public spaces is extreme anti-social behavior that deserves extreme sanction.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
The US intelligence community cares about that? All evidence points to them not caring about who gets killed.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Yeah, it’s annoying, but it’s the right thing in this day and age. Condoms are annoying too, but often necessary.
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by avidphantasm 2y ago
Maybe it’s because having the broken systems in use sometimes (often?) benefits the intelligence community.

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