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by cmiles8 7mo ago
It’s not been that long really. The dot com bubble was called a bubble for a while before it finally imploded. And just like now folks were in massive denial that it was a bubble. One of the challenges here is that a lot of folks simply wer
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
They nominally come across as a more stable ship with less clouds over its leadership. However all of the major privately held AI players are struggling to paint a business and financial picture that doesn’t look “terrible” at best and “ver
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
This is important context in the wake of yesterday’s “raise” announcement. A lot of this stuff seems to just quietly never happen once the ink on the PR puff dries. The AI industry increasingly looks in scramble mode to keep the hype going
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
To then claim that Trainium is “selling” and not a dud? I’d bet a lot.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
This all smells fishy. They didn’t “raise” $122B. Raise means someone put funds in your bank account and said send us the next quarterly report to tell us how our investment is doing. They have pieces from paper of folks saying they may put
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
The lack of market understanding by the person that thought this “feature” was a good idea is staggering. There was never a world where developers would think this is a good idea.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
It’s amusing and bemusing how these lists have become so associated with grifters and fraudsters. It’s gotten to the point that legit folks are wanting to steer clear of them simply because of the negative stigma with being seen as an XuX g
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
As companies get more and more desperate to show profitable use of AI expect more and more of these Hail Mary attempts to get traction. The runway on free cash to fund the current bonanza is running out and crunch time is near.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
One would have to think he’s having second thoughts. Attaching himself to a sinking ship would torpedo his legacy.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
The whole company appears to be a giant pile of burning cash at this point and I can only imagine that this wasn’t exactly helping that situation. Was it fun while it lasted? Sorta, but it got old pretty quick. Is this a business? Hell no.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Beyond being useful for a quick check on someone’s career history, LinkedIn is mostly full of grifters pretending to be experts in things while the actual experts never post about the subject on LinkedIn.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Correct and it’s the same in many sports. Theres generally not “men’s golf” and “women’s golf” there’s just “golf” and “women’s golf.” Women are not excluded from golf tournaments, but the requirements to compete (primarily how far one hits
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
You’re getting into a separate issue of blocking puberty in children, which may would consider abuse. Separate from that there are still measurable differences between sexes that you can’t just magically change with a pill or surgery.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
The article addresses that. Given all the testing already, this is a trivial addition: “Under the new policy eligibility will be determined by a one-time gene test, according to the I.O.C. The test, which is already being used in track and
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
It was fun, but from a business standpoint I’d have to think this was a giant pile of burning cash for OpenAI… even more so than the rest of OpenAI at the moment
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Today yes, but between the improved performance of smaller on device models and the hardware itself getting better this issue is short lived.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Likely not. We’re seeing a massive slowing in the value of all that additional training. Folks don’t like to talk about that, but absent a completely new break-thru the current math of LLMs has largely run its course. We simply don’t need m
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Fair clarification, yes.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
To the extent that the present LLM movement reaches a steady state conclusion it’s highly likely to be open source models on your own hardware that are “good enough” for 95% of use cases. That blows up the whole “industrial complex” being d
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Yes ARFF should still look before crossing, but the weather wasn’t great with limited visibility and thus even if they looked it’s possible they didn’t see anything.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Emergency vehicles were en route to another emergency in progress on the other runway. Sadly it sounds like a fire truck was cleared to cross the active runway moments before the CRJ landed. By the time the controller realized that mistake
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Well everyone is desperate to show that they’ve built and deployed some AI thing. Few have done so and demonstrated meaningful value that justifies all the expense of doing it.
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
The idea that AI will suddenly solve e-commerce demonstrates a lack of understanding on everything that has happened in this space over the last 25 years. There’s a lot of this going on in AI at the moment. New folks come in thinking they h
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
It’s like any powerful tool. If you use it right it’s amazing. If you get careless or don’t watch it closely you’ll get hurt really badly. Overall I’m a fan, but yes there are things to watch for. It doesn’t replace skilled humans but it do
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
True, although even here there likely aren’t enough retail suckers to go around given the amount of initial investment folks need to cash in. Thats the challenge when you have so much crazy pre-IPO cash pumped in. After you float you still
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
There’s a strong chance the IPO window has passed. I just don’t see investors willing to jump in here given all the questions about the financial viability of AI. The bulk of those investing now are broadly just pumping cash into the fire t
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
For the whole industry is trying to solve a problem that never really existed. Folks can not like meat for ethical issues but it is a good source of protein and our bodies are designed to eat it. If you don’t want to eat meat there are othe
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Prescriptions are a total racket. A good portion of actual medication literally costs a few dollars at most. Then there’s layer upon layer of bloat and bureaucracy that add no value but drive the cost up 10x or more. It’s totally bonkers. W
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
Challenge is the whole system is just a mess. Medicare probably lays too little. Commercial insurers have formed a mountain of red tape and bureaucracy and arguably pay too much, although individual bills (EOBs) are rarely logically defensi
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by cmiles8 7mo ago
The only area where it makes sense is speed of delivery. If you really need something in the next 24 hours they are the fastest. For just about everything else the customer experience is far better elsewhere.

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