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541.
by fidotron 1y ago
There always has been a stunning amount of inertia from the old big data/ML/"AI" guard towards actually deploying anything more sophisticated than linear regression.
542.
by fidotron 1y ago
> If the FCC hadn't been so strict I think there's a good chance we'd be using computers with a lineage going back to Atari versus IBM today. And/or many of the other manufacturers of that era. I have encountered exec
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by fidotron 1y ago
Apple product managers are falling into the trap Microsoft did in the run up to Windows 8: a belief that unifying across Mac, iOS, Apple TV and Vision Pro will make them all stickier. In truth it really does just make everything obnoxiously
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by fidotron 1y ago
It says a lot that it falls to his rival, the Tekken creator, to give the most fitting comments: https://x.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1978773188034109651
545.
by fidotron 1y ago
He wouldn't have got to make the later games, like the NGs, if not for his marketing style. He literally saved Tecmo, and then later he had to sue them for not paying bonuses to him and his team properly.
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by fidotron 1y ago
This bizarre anti-aesthetic has been pushed in the web devex space for a few years now to appeal to other web devex companies.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Does this relate to workerd in any way or is it something else entirely?
548.
by fidotron 1y ago
> the stakeholders/investors have priority here and they have sold the company to the highest bidder. At EA a lot of the long term employees had significant stock holdings too.
549.
by fidotron 1y ago
You mean programs could access the file system normally? They were absolutely isolated as standard unix processes. This is what I mean about iOSification - it's trending towards being a non serious OS. Linux gets more attractive by the
550.
by fidotron 1y ago
You mean it only did things you told it to do? That's a feature. Programs absolutely could have much more controllable auto save before for when it made sense.
551.
by fidotron 1y ago
Something that good. It was coherent, (relatively) bug free, and lacked the idiot level iOSification and nagging that is creeping in all over MacOS today. I haven't had to restart Finder until recently, but now even that has trouble wi
552.
by fidotron 1y ago
What I would do for Snow Leopard on the M class hardware.
553.
by fidotron 1y ago
You have to get the energy to the appliances though, and there is the bottleneck. It does looks like it will make some sort of sense for compute workloads to move around to be at locations near surplus energy generation. As someone else men
554.
by fidotron 1y ago
The sphinx weathering is odd but it's the Osireion that is a total anomaly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osireion You would have thought that in a world with curious billionaires someone would pay for a ROV subme
555.
by fidotron 1y ago
Software "engineers" totally miss a key thing in other engineering professions as well, which is organizations to enforce some pretense of ethical standards to help push back against requests from product. Those orgs often look a
556.
by fidotron 1y ago
I'm not so sure it will be that either, it would be having multiple AIs essentially at war with each other over access to GPUs/energy or whatever the materials are needed to grow if/when that happens. We will end up as pawns
557.
by fidotron 1y ago
But this is why using the AI in the production of (almost) deterministic systems makes so much sense, including saving on execution costs. ISTR someone else round here observing how much more effective it is to ask these things to write sho
558.
by fidotron 1y ago
Almost like changing the energy source causes a step change in energy optimization priorities . . .
559.
by fidotron 1y ago
> The problem is that in Canada we're willing to invest a little for a long time. But we're not willing to make big bets. Element AI. It's not that the bets are not made, the winnings are captured by those that corrupt the
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by fidotron 1y ago
I'm somewhere in the middle, young enough that almost everything I've seen new is disposable crap (including the tools), old enough that I have had an interest in things from before and noticed that they really were built much bet
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Major US online retailers remove listings for prohibited Chinese electronics(reuters.com)
10 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
China are certainly better at turning the results of research into products, whether that research was them or anyone else. The canonical example here is 5G. Once again the US science establishment had the guy, he ends up doing the breakthr
563.
by fidotron 1y ago
There's something odd in this argument. If you come at it from a Canadian perspective Canada seriously spent on neural network computer science when almost no one else did (many in AI considered the entire thing discredited and impossi
564.
by fidotron 1y ago
A lot about this story hinges on this paragraph: > The statement did not detail why it thought the firm's operations were risky. A spokesperson for the minister of economic affairs told the BBC there was no further information to sh
565.
by fidotron 1y ago
It would next extension and extra parameters, but plenty of AAA assets have had their shaders produced by cameras with fancy lighting rigs for many years.
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by fidotron 1y ago
That wasp is one of the single most impressive pieces of computer graphics I have ever seen, and seemingly in contradiction also a fantastic piece of macro photography. The fact it renders in real time is amazing. There was a discussion on
567.
by fidotron 1y ago
> It had the most valuable real estate in the world. Radio Row was a poor use of real estate. So why did they force a sale price on the people there? If as finance people we believe in market forces they should have bought the stores out
568.
by fidotron 1y ago
Tangentially: > The vision was meant to use the trade facility and urban renewal as tools to clear and revitalize what had become a “commercial slum”. What this refers to is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Row#Ne
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by fidotron 1y ago
Transformer maybe not, but neural net yes. This is profoundly uncomfortable for a lot of people, but it's the very clear direction. The other major success of recent years not discussed much so far is gaussian splats, which tear up the
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's funny you say that, because the way it happened was it was blurted out by a diplomat from a certain country, at which point most of the regulators facepalmed and all of those of us from outside were having the same reaction as man

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