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Alphabet Earnings Release FY23 Q3 [pdf](abc.xyz)
61 points by ckastner 3y ago|54 comments
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MSFT Earnings Release FY24 Q1(microsoft.com)
23 points by ckastner 3y ago|4 comments
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by ckastner 3y ago
> I remember attending a company-wide all hands in 2016 Times change, though. A lot of companies back then thought remote work would negatively impact productivity. Then Covid happened, and mandatory remote work demonstrated that it ac
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by ckastner 3y ago
Are you at liberty to say how high the frequency gets in connection with these models? I assume the latency is comparably much higher but also wouldn't be surprised if microseconds generally aren't a problem, eg because the patter
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by ckastner 3y ago
> Semiconductor in general is going bust, too much supply. All semiconductors companies invested more because of Covid (and the sudden huge demand). Semiconductors are cyclical in general, and most sources that I trust believe that the b
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by ckastner 3y ago
Granted, the merit of some of the awards is questionable, but I think e.g.: Nash's work on game theory or Kahneman/Tvservky's on the pyschology of judgment definitely fall under the umbrella of "science".
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Intel to Make Altera Unit into Standalone Business, Seek IPO(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ckastner 3y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 3y ago
The Debian ROCm Team [1] has made quite a bit of progress in getting the ROCm stack into the official Archive. Most components are already packaged, the next big target is adding support to the PyTorch package. Many of the packages are olde
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by ckastner 3y ago
> What does a credit rating even mean for a country that prints reserve currency? The credit rating affects borrowing cost (how much interest you have to pay). When you think of the debt ceiling that the US frequently hits, somebody is b
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by ckastner 3y ago
> Six months ago it was a global chip shortage that had supply chains backed up around the planet. chip != chip. TSMC manufactures hundreds of products, check out slide 4 of the last quarterly results [1]. "AI" (on 5nm or below
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by ckastner 3y ago
> There is no perfect scientific study, if you critique all of them to the point you critique this one, you will dismiss more-or-less all science. It doesn't have to be perfect, it has to convincingly (to some degree) reject the nul
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by ckastner 3y ago
> it’s the sort of confusion which will inspire many people — especially those who deal with text files all day and get pedantic about this stuff — to satisfy their incredulity and thus be exposed to your program. Confusion doesn't
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by ckastner 3y ago
What I'm missing in this (great) list: products from Shuttle [1]. Which is odd, because a Shuttle XPC seems to have been the author's very first thin client. Some of the XPC slims are fanless, and the number of ports they come wit
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by ckastner 3y ago
> I'm well aware cookie-less analytics does not require consent Tangent, but cookie-less analytics may also require consent. It's about PII, and cookies are just one mechanism to tie information to a person. For example: browse
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by ckastner 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
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by ckastner 3y ago
This is a dick move par excellence , I'm sorry that you're losing your handle. But the cherry on top is that three of the handles they offered you (@TheTV, @tvme, @TommiV) seem to belong to someone else already. So I guess the ev
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by ckastner 3y ago
This report will be all about the guidance for the next quarter (and hopefully the next FX), though.
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MSFT 2023/Q4(microsoft.com)
12 points by ckastner 3y ago|3 comments
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by ckastner 3y ago
> Simple: by offering you to host a marker on google maps or by even giving you an account, they are entering a contract with you/your corporate entity from which they can't just unilaterally exit without good reason. Contrac
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by ckastner 3y ago
Like a sibling comment of yours, you are arguing principles. I'm not arguing those principles; I already stated that I'm 100% behind them [in favor of the GP]. > Only the most hardcore market fundamentalists/objectivits te
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by ckastner 3y ago
> On a side note: GDPR demands that companies provide a way to get a manual review for decisions made by machines. Correct. Unfortunately, from what I've heard so far, all that this entails is that some drone looks over the case, an
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by ckastner 3y ago
I didn't ask a question about the ethics of the action. I asked about the specifics of the court order. Courts (at least in Germany) cannot just arbitrarily decide on what is just or not; they must follow the rule of law. Without some
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by ckastner 3y ago
How would this work? Google isn't an official registry, do they have an obligation to list any business? And the privacy argument is often effectively countered with security concerns, even more so if that is expressly stated so in the
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U.S. Considers New Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China(wsj.com)
2 points by ckastner 3y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 3y ago
Of all the recent publications with regards to passkeys, FIDO2, WebAuthn, etc., finally there's one with a simple and concise summary of the benefits: > Strong credentials. Every passkey is strong. They’re never guessable, reused, o
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by ckastner 3y ago
The fine may not be significant enough given how much Meta has profited from this, but that was only one consequence of the decision. The second consequence is that they have to stop doing this, which is far more damaging than the fine.
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by ckastner 3y ago
The decision PDF is lengthy but boils down to the following two instructions on page 73: > 273. In light of the above, the EDPB instructs the IE SA to impose an administrative fine on Meta IE for the infringement of Article 46(1) GDPR th
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by ckastner 3y ago
> This site uses cookies if you are logged on. But even if you aren't logged on, we share your browsing details with 6 other companies from around the world. That's one of the things the GDPR was created for. If your data is
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by ckastner 3y ago
I can only assume so, given the nature of the experiment. But it seems counterintuitive to add yet more of it. Naively speaking, it feels a bit like the actual data is being "guided" towards the simulation. However, I have zero su
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by ckastner 3y ago
> With PRIMO, computers analyzed over 30,000 high-fidelity simulated images of black holes accreting gas. That means that the new image better conforms to the simulated data. I understand why it makes sense to do this (simulated data g

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