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Intel unveils largest-ever AI 'neuromorphic computer' mimicking the human brain(livescience.com)
41 points by dosinga 2y ago|31 comments
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by dosinga 2y ago
https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2024/01/29/da... has some actual data on use. A recent analysis in Joule, an energy journal, suggests that at the rate they are being produced, ai servers
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Booming AI demand threatens global electricity supply(ft.com)
20 points by dosinga 2y ago|15 comments
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by dosinga 2y ago
Is running things in batch mode also cheaper? I don't see it, but it would be a nice way for OpenAI to smooth out their demand
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Crypto Trader Searched Web for 'Fraud' Before $110M Haul(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dosinga 2y ago|1 comments
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by dosinga 2y ago
What? Not using LLMs or an expensive cloud based API?
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by dosinga 2y ago
Oops. This estimating centuries is harder than I thought
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by dosinga 2y ago
Article starts with: > How, a century ago, radical freethinkers quietly and persistently subverted Scotland’s Christian establishment But then goes on to talk about 1840, which is more two centuries ago
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Chinese Cement Maker loses 99% of value in 15 minutes(bloomberg.com)
12 points by dosinga 2y ago|1 comments
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by dosinga 3y ago
That's one explanation. The other is women just have to be better to survive the CS education so if they do, they are going to be better than average. Certainly true for a bunch of female SWEs I have worked with
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Billionaire Steve Cohen invests in Golf because 4 day work week is coming(bloomberg.com)
7 points by dosinga 3y ago|4 comments
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by dosinga 3y ago
The article makes some good points, but at the same time, hiring somebody to built the first version of your product is maybe even harder. Especially if you don't have a technical background it is really hard to judge whether what they
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by dosinga 3y ago
The examples in the article are rather cherry-picked. Failures in Vietnam can hardly be blamed on an IBM 360 only. The Hamas attack might have surprised Israel but the Iron Dome has been tech working well in recent years. The US warned anyb
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How Elon Musk Is Using His AI Startup to Help Turn Around X(wsj.com)
5 points by dosinga 3y ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 3y ago
Can anybody point me to a better introduction into organoid intelligence? This all looks important and interesting, but this article seems to be all over the place. Turing test and CAPTCHA are not very convincing arguments brains beat AI. B
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by dosinga 3y ago
> Then as now, the internet’s truly big business came from revenues connected to gambling and pornography This is an idea you hear quite often, but seems very unlikely to be actually true. Internet's truly big businesses are the tru
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by dosinga 3y ago
thank you
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by dosinga 3y ago
are there any screen shots from before this? This is interesting, but it feels like it is only the last half of a post
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Building Python for Google Sheets: Traps and Tricks(neptyne.com)
1 points by dosinga 3y ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 3y ago
Inflation was about 0.5% and dividend yield around 1% so it's still up
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The Secret Oil-Trading Ring That Funds Russia's War(wsj.com)
4 points by dosinga 3y ago|0 comments
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by dosinga 3y ago
This is speculation, but this doesn't have to be all that unreasonable: Since OP had only 15% it doesn't seem likely that this was a "The Social Network" style trick to actively screw him out of his equity. More likely t
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What a Viral Post on Giraffes Says About China's Fed-Up Investors(nytimes.com)
3 points by dosinga 3y ago|1 comments
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by dosinga 3y ago
re 1) Europe is surrounded by a large body of water -> that is true for many continents. In fact being surrounded by water is what defines a continent. Arguably Europe less so since it and Asia are part of the same land mass. re 2) Is it
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by dosinga 3y ago
Two posts below is YC's request for startups. #5 is: DEVELOPER TOOLS INSPIRED BY EXISTING INTERNAL TOOLS
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by dosinga 3y ago
Interesting read, but then suddenly there's this passive aggressive paragraph: Apple stock has taken a beating as of late, in part because analysts have loudly proclaimed that the company is behind Meta, Google, and Microsoft in genera
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by dosinga 3y ago
Hmm, the article body says: the accumulated technical debt of software has grown to approximately $1.52 trillion So that's the total technical debt, not the cost (interest if you will) of that debt
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by dosinga 3y ago
ad 3) If the claim of Chomsky (followers) is that you can only learn human language if you have the universal grammar, then the discovery of a system that learns human languages without such a grammar does seem like rather relevant to the d
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by dosinga 3y ago
Quite interesting that Turing thought 125MB would be all it would take to reach AGI. To him it must have seemed such a large amount of storage
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Role play with large language models(nature.com)
1 points by dosinga 3y ago|0 comments

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