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by bgwalter 1y ago
OP is speaking about the next source of growth , not existing revenue streams.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
SoftBank is also more cautious and the "$500 billion" Stargate project that was hyped in the White House will just build a single data center by the end of 2025: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/softbank-opena
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The Sloan school again uses the sycophantic conductor meme for the dear business leaders, many of whom are entirely uncultivated and have never touched a classical instrument. Regarding "AI", at least this CTO is cautious, but als
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I'd rather have Versailles than my current apartment. I think all standard pro-billionaire talking points have been exhausted in these comments.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The goal is banishing any and all questions of what to download, what desktop, what apps, packaging formats, software stores, user accounts, backing up, all of it: run the browser locally, sync the data – and only the data – to the cloud.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The moral of the story is not about cracking or getting arrested. It is a metaphor for the danger of taking shortcuts, just like certain other shortcuts in programming that are currently popular and also come with their own version of 1337
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Kids walk or cycle to school autonomously from the age of 6 in many other countries than the US.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The privacy is an illusion though. I'd rather have a sensitive talk in the subway than in a car where everything is recorded and tracked.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Amazing. Stealing the spotlight from High School students is really quite something. I'm glad that Tao has caught on. As an academic it is easy to assume integrity from others but there is no such thing in software big business.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"Redis for AI is our integrated package of features and services designed to get your GenAI apps into production faster with the fastest vector database."
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If consumer "AI", and that includes programming tools, had real geopolitical implications it would be classified. The "race against China" is a marketing trick to convince senators to pour billions into "AI". H
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Yes, and what is worse is that the same mega-corporations who have been ostensibly promoting equity until 2025 are now pushing for a gated development environment that costs the same as a monthly rent in some countries or more than a monthl
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Translation: His company will launch "AI" products in order to get funding or better compete with Valkey. I find it very sad that people who have been really productive without "AI" now go out of their way to find small
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Why Tax Breaks for Data Centers Could Backfire on States(time.com)
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The "AI" promotion articles are beginning to read like Jack Kerouac.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I'm very much not in denial about my open source being being stolen without attribution or the layoffs that are rationalized by fake "AI" productivity. You do have a point though that we should be writing to Sen. Marsha Black
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Thank you for this pop psychology evaluation. It could have been written by an an "AI".
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by bgwalter 1y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44615695
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The model did not fit in the margin. We'll never know how many GPUs and other assistance (like custom code paths) this model got.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Average humans, no. Mathematicians with enough time and a well indexed database of millions of similar problems, probably. We don't allow chess players to access a Syzygy tablebase in a tournament.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
So the gold medal claims in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613840 look exaggerated. The whole competition is unfair anyway. An "AI" has access to millions of similar problems stolen and encoded in the mode
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Michelangelo worked alone on the David for more than two years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)#Process Maybe later he got lazier. I haven't really heard of famous authors using assistants for
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by bgwalter 1y ago
None of the X enthusiasts has even seen a benchmark or used the thing, but we're glad to know that Duke Nukem Forever will be released soon.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
“It just stopped the ability to make progress,” the user told TechCrunch. “I tried Gemini and Kimi, but there’s really nothing else that’s competitive with the capability set of Claude Code right now.” This is probably another marketing s
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It went viral in schools and among adults in the real world. The press hype seemed organic and not dictated by the newspaper owners. What we see now with "AI" is that the hype is mostly by online shills with some connection to the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
An example of tech that was super hyped and deservedly popular and faded later is the Rubik's Cube. There was a real rage in the press and in the street after it was released. Now it can still be bought, but most people would consi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
There was no hype at all about the white plastic they put in your teeth instead of gold or amalgam. There was no hype about bullet trains, they just happened. Hype happens when people don't really need a product and the marketing machi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is already known that E-Cigarettes cause lung damage: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi... On the rare occasions of exposure by a user exhaling in public next to me I found it worse than p
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Meanwhile, Anthropic and others aren't raided and are not blocked in Italy. The YouTuber should have used an LLM for laundering copyright.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
VCs, who go on and on about capitalism, were whining on Twitter until the Silicon Valley Bank got bailed out. In real capitalism the SVB would have been allowed to fail and the VCs would have taken a hit. But no risk for them, everyone paid

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