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by blihp 3y ago
They're saying they lost the console war because they're trying to get a big acquisition approved. They're trying to sell the story 'see how weak we are... we need this to remain competitive'.
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by blihp 3y ago
Then you probably don't care about this (yet) Assume a truly competitive model in the Open Source world is still a ways off. These teams and their infrastructure are still in their early days while OpenAI is more at the fine-tuning an
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by blihp 3y ago
It depends on what you were expecting from GOFAI. The future state is likely to be a combination of approaches where each makes sense rather than a single one. We're still in the honeymoon phase with deep learning and disillusionment
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by blihp 3y ago
Oh no, they're going belly up in 20,000 days! (i.e. $10B / 500k) Compute is going to keep getting cheaper and they're going to keep optimizing it to reduce how much compute it needs. I'm more curious about their next s
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by blihp 3y ago
I'll take 'what companies are irrelevant in AI?' for $200
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by blihp 3y ago
Knee-jerk regulations rooted in emotion and ignorance are bad. When there are bad regulations the results are usually not pretty (i.e. they tend to fail to achieve their stated objectives) and all they end up doing is protect the establish
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by blihp 3y ago
IIRC, you can get them for ~$1 on aliexpress. They're handy little devices.
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by blihp 3y ago
There was color but it was achieved via tinted cellophane tape. (though I do remember playing pure black and white versions as well) Later, there were 'real' color versions in arcades but I don't recall if it was a later ite
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by blihp 3y ago
While spinning rust was destined to lose the majority of the market to flash, I think the hard disk companies accelerated the move with the SMR fiasco. It got me moving more things to SSDs sooner than I had planned.
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by blihp 4y ago
There's barely any credible information about GPT4 (i.e. OpenAI hasn't said very much about what's going on behind the curtain) and there's absolutely none re: any releases beyond that.
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by blihp 4y ago
Better get used to it from the corporate labs. Now that ChatGPT has ignited widespread interest, these companies are all about building business models with moats. The easy going 'let's just release it' days are most likely
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by blihp 4y ago
Sure you can. The difference between the CPU and GPU markets is that AMD is a competent competitor in one of them. Pre-Ryzen AMD knew they weren't competitive and AMD CPU pricing reflected that. The reason nVidia is getting away wit
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by blihp 4y ago
They haven't been doing so at that rate for a very long time.
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by blihp 4y ago
That ownership stake is 'on loan' to them until they make 100x their money back. Then ownership reverts back to OpenAI.
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by blihp 4y ago
Their 'donor' is Google, their users are us. Without us they have no donor. Rust at least makes some kind of sense because it is a tool they used to build parts of Firefox. Aside from being the new hotness, what exactly about AI
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by blihp 4y ago
Likely not even close as the endgame was a face-saving move both for Intel and Raja. From the outside this looks like a classic case of giving someone a window seat and sending the message, if not outright telling them: 'figure out you
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by blihp 4y ago
You have been added to the wait list that will be submitted to the review board that has yet to be set up to discuss whether or not they should consider the question of if such a delegation is warranted. However, there is no guarantee that
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by blihp 4y ago
It truly has achieved human-level intelligence!
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by blihp 4y ago
I'd say it's more likely that there will be at least slower rolling runs on smaller banks by large depositors. Keep in mind that the unlimited coverage only applies to the depositors of the two banks that were taken over, not all
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by blihp 4y ago
I think you're far too optimistic about how this will play out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnQ0zEQPu_A
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by blihp 4y ago
FDIC insurance was never intended to cover everything, hence the limit. It was designed to ensure that the general public[1] could have confidence that their deposits were safe. Larger players were also covered... up to the same limit.
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by blihp 4y ago
Their decision and action was to deposit in excess of the FDIC insured amount without supplemental insurance that was their responsibility to have or ensure their bank provided. The reality of the situation is that those who did so are now
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by blihp 4y ago
To many of us, a bailout is whenever the consequences of one's decisions/actions are set aside to avoid the logical negative outcome they would have otherwise experienced. What makes this more galling[1] is the fact that this new
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by blihp 4y ago
Silvergate is tiny (assets-wise) compared to SVB and Signature and not worth a mention as it poses no systemic risk.
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by blihp 4y ago
I think they were referring to the bootloader not being locked down.
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by blihp 4y ago
True, but it was never Xerox's thinking and they didn't do it out of altruism. The government was breathing down their necks re: antitrust in the late 60's (i.e. the peak profit years) and taking on some of the ARPA projects
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by blihp 4y ago
No, I would include IBM high on the list. IBM did a half-assed PC design to rush something to market[1] after being late to PCs which was a significant factor in why they lost control of the PC market a handful of years after entering it.[
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by blihp 4y ago
I wasn't there, but I've heard/read accounts from those who were... so I believe you. None of the 'serious' tech companies back then took 'personal' computing (whether at home or the office) seriously. T
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by blihp 4y ago
Doubtful. There are glimmers of good ideas, just like there were out of Microsoft and Apple research in previous decades. But ultimately, the scope and scale of what PARC was working on (and prior to that (D)ARPA) hasn't been attempt
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by blihp 4y ago
That was the entire point of what they were doing at PARC: build a possible computing future. They were not trying to build a mass market solution, they were trying to pull what could be commonplace 10-15 years in the future with smart, mo

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