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by denverllc 7mo ago
Do they? Are they different than OpenAi which I know has lots of debt and is losing money quarter over quarter with declining user share.
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by denverllc 7mo ago
Open article and Ctrl+F “APOE”: No result A lot of interventions o work differently based on APOE 4 status, so difficult to know whether this study will apply generally.
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by denverllc 8mo ago
A lack of capitals gives me sama vibes and I don’t trust sama
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by denverllc 9mo ago
Sure they mention diet and exercise in the same way gambling or alcohol ads recommend being “responsible”, or how TikTok talks about their automatic screen limiting time functionality, which they love to promote but internally know does not
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by denverllc 9mo ago
Given soda ph around 2.5, temperature 25C, phosphoric acid 0.05% and sucrose 10% gives a half life around 4 years. Or only 7% over 6 months.
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by denverllc 9mo ago
Will apps built with this framework be compatible with accessibility features?
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by denverllc 10mo ago
> it would've been considered cheating when they were in school. Doubt. What field of study? The predominant calculation helper was slide rules, which were allowed in engineering exams in the 60s and 70s. Besides, in engineering you
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by denverllc 10mo ago
> they believe in some big pharma conspiracy See: the Sackler family
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by denverllc 11mo ago
They main purpose of active desktop was to claim IE was an inextricable part of windows
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by denverllc 11mo ago
According to empire of ai, they started OpenAI as a nonprofit so they could get people devoted to the mission and wouldn’t have to pay the high SV wages
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by denverllc 1y ago
Yeah, most authors are not concerned about their papers being shared because what they care about is citations, not money. It’s the publishing companies that want to put up the paywall (and the ones who would make any money from it anyway).
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by denverllc 1y ago
Healthcare providers have starting saying it's "insurance fraud" to say that you don't have insurance when you do. My guess: they know they can get more money from the insurer than the individual (or a combination of bot
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by denverllc 2y ago
I count 14 (maybe 15?) people in that first protest photo.
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by denverllc 2y ago
IMO ggerganov is a 10x programmer in the same way Fabrice Bellard is: doing the actual hard infrastructure work that most developers would not be able to do in a reasonable amount of time and at a high performance. In contrast, the ollama d
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by denverllc 2y ago
I read a book on category theory that described how to model databases using category theory. My conclusion was that the goal was not to provide insight into databases but rather into category theory, which seemed backwards to me. Instead I
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by denverllc 2y ago
Every other item in your list is actually used to produce technology except one. Compilers? Used to produce executables form source code. Programming language? Allows us to write code using higher abstraction. Distributed systems? Allows us
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by denverllc 2y ago
Who’s the Spotify dude? Google searches come up with nothing
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by denverllc 2y ago
> But I have such a hard time believing that Node.js is inherently non-performant when there are so many counter-examples of large scale applications that do just fine on it. Like LinkedIn! Except that to make it performant they had to h
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by denverllc 3y ago
I don’t think a lot of companies care whether they lose their luster to techies since corporations and most individuals will still buy their product. MSFT was $12 in 2000 (when they had their antitrust lawsuit) and is $400 now.
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by denverllc 3y ago
> The company’s platforms have been used to fuel the spread of terrorism and violent extremism, mass violence and online harassment. Meta’s core products – Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp – enable human trafficking, drug traf
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by denverllc 3y ago
The law doesn’t say that at all. It only applies to instances in which payment is made, and says you can’t accept credit card and not cash: > Everyone is obliged to accept up to 100 Swiss regular issue coins in payment. Regular issue coi
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by denverllc 3y ago
> They are far too well-studied to hold any significant surprises This statement is absurd. The vast majority of research is (1) funded by industry, (2) focused on how plastic can be used in industry, and (3) not focused on biological as
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by denverllc 3y ago
In case it’s not clear what the company does, here’s another article [0] with an interesting quote: > “Every time I’m stressed out about work, I come back to the same realization: we’re selling dick pills, we’re not curing cancer, we’re
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by denverllc 3y ago
If I were an OpenA employee, I too would come out for Sam Altman. Why? The board was reckless. They couldn’t point to anything that he had done to warrant this, and went radio silent after their decision. Sam seems shrewd. I know the value
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by denverllc 3y ago
Sure, he may have support from people like yourself. However, it’s possible that many people supporting him know the full story, or may be supporting him for the wrong reasons. For instance, Sam may have been courting outside investment for
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by denverllc 3y ago
> Based on the insider details leaking on Twitter and Reddit Source?
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by denverllc 3y ago
Pushing too hard and too fast does not seem consistent with lying to the board.
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by denverllc 3y ago
I think claiming to quit over AGI danger is more believable to outsiders than “I want to spend time with family, totally coincidentally after my boss was fired”
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by denverllc 3y ago
If all the sellers used software to enforce a minimum price (which is what’s happening here), then yes that would be collusion. And things like that have absolutely happened in finance (see: LIBOR, bid ask spreads in the 90s, etc.).
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by denverllc 3y ago
They weren’t merely using price information to suggest rent. They were forcing landlords to accept the proposed rent 90% of the time or greater (and providing a lower rent required approval from the firm). That’s the collusion — preventing

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