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by kgwgk 1y ago
They “deploy” much more than what they generate. Their cash position has gone from $44bn to $12bn in the first six months of the year and are now getting other people to pay for datacenters https://www.reuters.com/business&#
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Denmark already has one of the largest VAT rates in the EU (25%) - only surpassed by Finland (25.5%) and Hungary (27%). (I guess you may also argue that those two countries have reduced rates and that proves your point!)
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Positron, a New Data Science IDE(posit.co)
165 points by kgwgk 1y ago|51 comments
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> I also think things like "is this chest Xray cancer?" are going to be hugely impactful. Yes, but https://radiologybusiness.com/topics/artificial-intelligence... Nine years ago, scientist Geoffrey Hinton
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Things are so desperate at OpenAI that Altman is starting to sound like Marcus(garymarcus.substack.com)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> selected European countries The two largest in the EU by population (20% and 15%) and GDP (24% and 16%).
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Everything is about patching up clothes or other things. I was just commenting on the “patch-cable seems to be way younger” remark.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patchboard patchboard : a switchboard in which circuits are interconnected by patch cords First Known Use 1934, in the meaning defined above
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by kgwgk 1y ago
GPT4 had a chance to improve on that replying that "As an AI language model developed by OpenAI, I am programmed to promote ethical AI use and adhere to responsible AI guidelines. I cannot provide you with malicious, harmful or "c
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by kgwgk 1y ago
The following code essentially redoes what the code up to the first conf_interval block does there. Which one is more clear may be debatable but it's shorter by a factor of two and faster by a factor of ten (45 seconds vs 4 for me).
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by kgwgk 1y ago
The manufacturing is in one place. The IP in another place. Both places chosen mostly for tax reasons in this case. Paying zero taxes in the US is a lucky side-effect.
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> find out Finite?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Most of the value is in the patents, not in the manufacturing. Did they also expatriate that “accidentally”? If Pfizer operates in the US at a loss (or at least they did in 2018-2020) and all the profits are booked elsewhere it was their ch
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by kgwgk 1y ago
People have been using the word for thousands of years so they may not stop now because you say so. (Romans were already using “furtum” - theft - and “plagium” - kidnapping - for ideas and not just for things and people.)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Another similar story: King Frederick, the great of Prussia had a very fine army, and none of the soldiers in it were finer than Giant Guards, who were all extremely tall men. It was difficult to find enough soldiers for these Guards, as th
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by kgwgk 1y ago
By "in South America" they meant "South of America" :-)
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GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it(garymarcus.substack.com)
304 points by kgwgk 1y ago|257 comments
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by kgwgk 1y ago
"Less work done" doesn't look like a positive change, you can't tax your way out of a smaller pie. Specially if you strive for humanity to produce no pie to start with.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
It will never do anything else though - there is not existential threat.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> For example a VC may fund a range of biotech companies, but only recoup on those that are acquired. For those that are acquired they “recoup” much more than their investment. The idea is to get back the total investment in all the fund
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> This overview however omits the costs incurred by all those who were not bought-in, i.e. the biotechs funded by VC, etc, who never get bought. That’s indeed included in the price paid for the biotechs who were bought-in. The piece ment
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Genie comes from Latin via French, it's not (just) a transliteration. https://www.etymonline.com/word/genie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(mythology)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You don't get it. They couldn't do it yet because it would be too powerful and kill us all!
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by kgwgk 1y ago
I was told there would be a whale.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
I don't know how popular it is but it may be the easiest one to install: https://melpa.org/#/claude-code
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Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs(github.com)
782 points by kgwgk 1y ago|266 comments
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by kgwgk 1y ago
It may be useless for many use cases given that its policy prevents it for example from providing "advice or instructions about how to buy something." (I included details about its refusal to answer even after using tools for web
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by kgwgk 1y ago
There is a third option. (According to some LLM that will remain unnamed Vungle, Wrike, and Acquia are textbook cases of direct VC‑backed startups being bought out by private equity without an IPO or corporate acquisition. Not verified.)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> When light passes from air to water, it somehow “knows” the right angle to diffract at to reach its destination as fast as possible, even though from a classical viewpoint the destination is not known until after the light has passed t
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by kgwgk 1y ago
https://philarchive.org/archive/ELLWDC Why Delayed Choice Experiments do NOT imply Retrocausality David Ellerman University of California/Riverside October 16, 2014 There is a fallacy that is often involved in the

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