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by jonas21 2y ago
I think the main reason for sunsetting the project is hinted at near the bottom: > The field I know as "natural language processing" is hard to find these days. It's all being devoured by generative AI. Other techniques s
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by jonas21 2y ago
> That should require a huge introspection and if needed, shut down unsafe lines of business. Which line of business would that be? Maybe the one involving human drivers that leads to ~75 deaths per year [1]? Though that's still a
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by jonas21 2y ago
The airlines weren't broken up in the 70s. They were deregulated and allowed to add or remove routes and set fares as they saw fit. Less government oversight in this case turned out to be a good thing for consumers.
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by jonas21 2y ago
> ESPN did post a separate article on their outlets from writer Jeff Kassouf that is all about Morgan and the emotional night. However, that article is located on the side menu of the AI-generated recap and is easy to miss. So... there
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by jonas21 2y ago
Isn't this the sort of "wrong question" the author is talking about? If you're stuck thinking in the frame of smartphones, you're going to ask about apps and not the more interesting ways AI can generate revenue?
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by jonas21 2y ago
If instead the 2 gas stations were both selling at $4.45 and looked around and decided not to lower their prices to $4.15 even though they could, it's equivalent.
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by jonas21 2y ago
And what would that root cause be?
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by jonas21 2y ago
Many of the things people think are bad about Google in 2024 (trackers, targeting, slurping up user data, etc) came from Urchin.
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by jonas21 2y ago
Or worse, to target specific companies that the government doesn't like for whatever reason (arguably, this is already happening in the EU).
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by jonas21 2y ago
Google spent $22 billion on stock-based compensation in 2023 [1]. That's over 1% of the stock of the company transferred to employees in one year. Now, many people probably sell that stock as soon as they can, so the employee ownership
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by jonas21 2y ago
To be fair, I just asked a real person and had to go to even greater lengths: Me: How many "r"s are in strawberry? Them: What? Me: How many times does the letter "r" appear in the word "strawberry"? Them: Is t
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by jonas21 2y ago
Do you not expect Apple to use the M4 in the next round of Mac refreshes?
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by jonas21 2y ago
If they can do that, they can spoof or proxy any website and collect your passwords, auth cookies, and anything else sent over the network. At that point, who cares if they can also see how much CPU you're using?
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by jonas21 2y ago
The company started out doing text-to-speech and created different pricing tiers based on number of characters in the input text. Now they're branching out into other things, but want to keep the same pricing plans, so the unit is stil
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by jonas21 2y ago
You're treating this as a binary thing -- either you know something or you don't -- like it's rote memorization of facts. But that's not how problem solving works. You need work your way from what you do know to get to a
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by jonas21 2y ago
The $1.1M is for compensation of officers, and the $3M listed in the table below is for officers and key employees (i.e. non-officers). This is clearly stated, both on ProPublica's site and in the IRS Form 990 that it's sourced
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by jonas21 2y ago
Only after they pay the 40% estate tax on it (which is higher than the 20% capital gains tax + 3.8% net investment tax that they would be saving).
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by jonas21 2y ago
It's the opposite. If untargeted ads generate less revenue per impression, they'll need to show you more ads to make the same amount of revenue.
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by jonas21 2y ago
The point cloud is a by-product of of aligning the input images. You essentially get it for free.
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by jonas21 2y ago
> Someday that vm process won't be enough For a surprisingly large set of cases, that day will never come. I've scaled services to millions of users on a single VM. The best debt is the kind you never have to pay off.
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by jonas21 2y ago
For most of that time, he was working as a technical writer (at Microsoft, I believe).
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by jonas21 2y ago
> The fact that Apple's Metal, which is pretty good, is actually implemented with a private OpenCL system is proof that the spec is not to blame. I don't understand. If OpenCL was so good, why did Apple create Metal instead o
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SpaceX's Starship Rocket Successfully Completes First Return from Space(nytimes.com)
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by jonas21 2y ago
When you're 67 and basically retired (as Einstein was at this time)? By contrast, in his 20s, he wrote 4 highly-influential papers in a single year, in his spare time while also working full-time at the Swiss patent office.
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by jonas21 2y ago
> buy insurance from your own pocket In other words, buy it on the market, like the GP said. With ACA subsidies, you'll never have to pay more than 8.5% of your income in premiums for a mid-range plan. And that's in the worst
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by jonas21 2y ago
> I'm not aware of the machine learning researchers responsible for the core technology threatening to leave. Who were they? Ilya Sutskever, Alec Radford, Wojciech Zaremba, Nick Ryder, Mark Chen, ... how many names do you want? &
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by jonas21 2y ago
A CEO being fired, without explanation, at a company that is doing well is highly unusual.
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by jonas21 2y ago
The interesting part is that Nvidia revenue is up 262% from last year, which isn't really captured in the other thread's title.
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> Anything that requires an ongoing subscription fee is dead in the water. The only reason those stupid smartboards took off is because they make school boards look cool, they are a one time cost, and can be paid for with bonds (because
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by jonas21 2y ago
As in "not illegal, but still gonna get you fired?"

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