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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
Britain didn't abandon it's space programme. It abandoned a launch rocket programme though. That was over 50 years ago and the rocket was less capable and more expensive than alternatives at the time.
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
The article is right that open models already compete well with the frontier labs, and that the main thing holding big corps back from switching is fear of China. I can't see OpenAI or Anthropic undermining their business by releasing
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
In other news, the gold rush has entered a new phase as miners pivot to selling shovels.
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
For now. SpaceX will be acquiring Tesla as soon as Elon gets around to it.
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
It's circular when money flows from A to B and then back from B to A again. This is a series of transactions in which money flows from Google to SpaceX. There is no flow of money from SpaceX to Google. So it's not a circle.
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
I saw one useful feature added, which was support for lower resistance tips. You can also get it to report on the input voltage which is marginally useful if running on battery. Most of it seems to be people having fun. Animations, enabling
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
Most large companies have the CEO answerable to a board elected by shareholders. CEO still has a lot of power but there are some checks and balances. Zuck and Musk are somewhat exceptional in being dictator-CEOs.
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
Good news - Anthropic will pay you £600k to build the AI which replaces you. Drag it out for a couple of years and you'll be set.
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
If you pay for any tier of copilot then you will get unlimited access to the auto complete. If you don't use agents it's possible you'll not notice much of a change to copilot
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
Capital is cheap for Google because they are making a lot of money and they have very little debt. They are considered a very low risk and can borrow for a long time at low rates. They recently issued a 100 year bond. They seem to have deci
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
In theory a dividend is also price neutral. You have the dividend now but the company you owned doesn't any more. However, if someone gives you a dividend you typically have to pay tax, and lots of people really hate paying tax. So buy
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
I love small laptops but this thing would really benefit from a better processor. It's about 4x slower than the Snapdragon 8 elite, a 2 year old smartphone chip. 16GB ram is cool though.
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
Yes it's a misrepresentation and that's the whole point. If B&M misrepresent things to the auditor it's unlikely they'll detect this. The auditor for B&M would not have access to the original contract between the
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
I agree people and especially corporations act this way. Indeed many people believe that it's a corporation's fiduciary duty to lawyer up if that's expected to be cheaper than paying up. Here, they are looking at small amount
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
I agree with you. It makes no rational sense for the corporation to act this way. I can see how they end up losing a court case but can't explain why they don't pay up. It sounds like the first franchise collapsed owing money. I e
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
I think that hypersonic interceptors would use a rocket motor and not a ramjet, but I'm not sure. I think this is for offence because I understood the advantage of this engine (compared to a rocket engine) is that you don't carry
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
Apparently: * In App Hotel bookings in partnership with Expedia. * Travel Mode with suggestions on where to eat and visit when travelling. * Eats for the way - your driver picks up a takeaway for you to eat while they drive you to your dest
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by fancyfredbot 4mo ago
For many many reasons this engine only has one economic application - delivery of a nuclear payload in a way which is very hard for missile defences to stop. ICBMs can go faster than this already but as I understand it they go higher allow
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
It's going to get a lot harder to convince people that $outgroup took your job when $outgroup are all obviously unemployed too.
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
Who will vote against seizing your assets if you fire us all?
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
I'm not sure but I suspect that people who've run out of space in an existing data centre will be willing to pay for increased density rather than relocating.
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
Your average HFT algorithm will not have time to access storage at all, let alone 10 PB of it. Back testing an HFT algo could very plausibly need 10PB, but I don't see that being co-located with the exchange.
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
The very first sentence of this article mistakes Terabytes and Petabytes. I used to dismiss the entire article as poor quality on seeing a mistake like this. But these days it also feels like an indicator the article was written by a human
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
The world model is useful for planning. It can "anticipate" consequences of actions. This can be used for a kind of tree search to decide on optimal actions in robotics
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
"This is a parody website. Any resemblance to real companies wash-trading their revenue is purely coincidental and also definitely happening."
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
Blocking openclaw made everyone realise that what anthropic giveth, anthropic can take away. It is similar to the xAI gas turbines in that it tarnished their image - at least amongst those naive people who saw them as a plucky startup rathe
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
Elon has many many faults but "loosing" money doesn't appear to be one of them. He's literally the richest person alive!
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
The ethics are questionable, legal or not. Anthropic are tarnishing their image again here. Not sure how much it hurts then compared to blocking openclaw though.
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
Did Google outbid Elon for team A? Or A team just don't like Elon?
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by fancyfredbot 5mo ago
The icing on the cake for Elon is that it strengthens the competition to OpenAI. Or is that actually his main motivation. Hard to know. Either way it's a win win win for him.

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