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by elorant 3mo ago
Around that time a lot of politicians in Greece had their phones hacked by Pegasus. It's an ongoing scandal in Greece that never got fully resolved, although all evidence indicate that it was an operation orchestrated by the office of
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by elorant 3mo ago
Sorry to break it to you, but those aren’t marketers. Marketers can’t build shit. Those are all savvy developers who realized that they can take their talents to less competitive markets and harvest at scale all the low hanging fruits.
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by elorant 3mo ago
They bought at $1bn and made it an $80bn behemoth. Meanwhile, I don't understand why a company has to innovate all the time like it's a piece of cake.
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by elorant 3mo ago
Instagram is an $80bn company right now. I’d call that a success.
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by elorant 4mo ago
Do they have a CLI?
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by elorant 4mo ago
You can get an AMD Strix Halo with half that price even after hardware price adjustments. Besides you don't need 128GB of RAM to run a 27B model.
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by elorant 4mo ago
I’m more interested in how they do large scans without their ISP or hosting provider going bananas about it.
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by elorant 4mo ago
Very few people, but quite a lot of companies especially after per token pricing took effect and companies see their invoices skyrocketing. You pay an upfront cost once and you’re done.
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by elorant 4mo ago
I did that too. Ending up building my own reverse index with a fixed-size vocabulary. But that's my issue, you start building one product and you end-up building ten in the process to solve all edge cases because no one bothered to res
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by elorant 4mo ago
I do a lot of work that is based on academic research, aka building a proprietary sparse embedding model. My issue with academia is that they don’t bother to solve the practical issues. They tell you how to build a PPMI model, but what abou
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by elorant 4mo ago
That or uMatrix
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by elorant 4mo ago
How exactly is AI helping you with sports? Have you become a better athlete? Have you learned more about the strategy of each sport from the perspective of a coach for example? Care to elaborate?
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by elorant 4mo ago
Economist has drunk the AI koolaid. Pretty pathetic for a publication of their esteem.
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by elorant 4mo ago
Search for one is absolutely horrendous. It used to be great, but not so in the last years. Nowadays it’s filled with spam sites that they don’t seem to be able to filter out. And don’t get me started on the crappy AI overview that hijacks
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by elorant 4mo ago
Raspberries are basically for DIY projects. I have one on my router handling call blocking for my landline. If it was costing $300 I would rather get a mini PC or use one of my defunct phones with UserLand on it. I can't see any world
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China plans $295B AI data center buildout with domestic chips(qz.com)
4 points by elorant 4mo ago|1 comments
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by elorant 4mo ago
Anthropic or OpenAI have no foothold into the mobile market. Google has integrated a shitton of AI functionality into their latest Pixel phones. That’s what would scare me if I was Apple and worried that if AI prevails this could steal som
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by elorant 4mo ago
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-d... https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ai-bin... https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/th
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by elorant 4mo ago
When the music stops we could start buying hardware again at rational prices.
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by elorant 4mo ago
Even if we assume that everything you said holds true, how is that we as a crowd can make viable a service that eats some $300bn annually in infrastructure costs? Where would that money come from? Most tech companies these days are cutting
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by elorant 4mo ago
Nothing, they just work as intended. I bought a Fujitsu A/C that supposedly required registering through some app. Never connected it, and I removed the wifi kit at installation. Works like a charm no problem whatsoever.
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by elorant 4mo ago
I can only speak for myself. I mostly write C# and the code they generate isn’t of my liking. Too many var statements, async everywhere even for the most trivial things, and then a lot of times when I ask something difficult they fail spect
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by elorant 4mo ago
They simply have no incentive. If AI tanks there's no sweating it, the cash cow of Search will keep printing money and no one is the wiser.
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Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks(404media.co)
170 points by elorant 4mo ago|104 comments
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by elorant 4mo ago
There’s nothing baffling to it. Windows PCs are upgradable. Apple won’t even give you a PCie slot on its $10k mac studio ultra to install a better network card or whatever.
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by elorant 4mo ago
GPU prices have gone 5-10% down in the last month.
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by elorant 5mo ago
Wow, this is fucking phenomenal. I fed it a long transcript asking it to create a summary and it executed it extremely well. For an 8B model this is quite impressive.
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by elorant 5mo ago
Tell me about it. I spent a week back and forth between four models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok) trying to enhance a PPMI algorithm. They couldn’t agree on anything. One was refuting what the other said. Eventually I decided to follow wh
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by elorant 5mo ago
What if their move is to make AI search horrible so that OpenAI has no moves left here because trust in the product collapses?
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by elorant 5mo ago
Give it a few years and the web will be AIs talking to other AIs ad infinitum

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