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by leoc 5d ago
Go To Market/Project Management?
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by leoc 5d ago
But high demand for LLM time isn't sufficient to keep customers at the frontier LLM SaaS providers. That demand can be satisfied locally or at non-frontier outlets, absent hardware shortages at least. The Tier 1 providers (and the woul
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by leoc 5d ago
Seemingly the AI bulls are either not sufficiently optimistic, or not sufficiently wealthy(?!), to build new fabs as joint ventures with the manufacturers in which they agree to assume most of the downside risk?
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by leoc 5d ago
That greater efficiency only benefits the LLM SaaS providers as long as the hardware manufacturers, probably especially the VRAM manufacturers, remain supply constrained, since the high-efficiency users are the ones who can pay top dollar.
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by leoc 6d ago
> The Star left cluster are primarily operations that pair the left hand on the keys with the right hand on the mouse. Sure (this is demonstrated in the linked video, for instance) but the ZXCV group is pretty similar in that respect. Ev
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by leoc 6d ago
I don't see a clear advantage over the the ZXCV shortcut placement which the Macintosh team chose. (The original Finder had no specific Redo shortcut because it was single-undo and ⌘-Z performed both undo and redo.) Even well-placed de
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by leoc 6d ago
It also seems pretty reasonable to worry that Oracle isn't banning LLM code contributions to OpenJDK https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/as-larry-el... ( HN discussion at https:/&
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by leoc 7d ago
Thanks. And the publisher's companion page with supplementary materials is https://shop.elsevier.com/books/book-companion/9781558607354 .
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by leoc 7d ago
Also, "Readings" is hidden behind a "Menu" menu button on the mobile-device version of that page.
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by leoc 8d ago
IIRC there's a common cultural tendency to put a lot of stock in the magical powers of exotic foreign wizards, so divination might not be such a bad explanation at all.
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by leoc 8d ago
The EU is asserting its strategic independence and will no longer rely on the US for supplies of whip-tailed herbivorous dinosaur fossils.
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by leoc 8d ago
Old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774245 repaste: > People seem to have forgotten that when Perl evolved from being a better AWK to the paradigm example of the modern "scripting language", Larr
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by leoc 9d ago
So it seems, but what of it? That wasn't his first career setback, and I'm sure he's still trying to get interesting work done at Isomorphic and maybe elsewhere in addition to working the PR pump for Alphabet.
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by leoc 10d ago
I don't know, Hassabis always seems to have been willing and able to do PR and put himself out there, in addition to having the technical muscle.
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by leoc 12d ago
> Perhaps the kinds of people who use Hacker News changed. I don't think that a change in the composition of HN users is sufficient to explain it. To start with, a lot of the original user base which came over from main Reddit and &
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by leoc 12d ago
There’s no guarantee that the humans would be in the driving seat of events in a no-robotics ASI scenario, and in fact if we really were coexisting with a Machiavellian superintelligence then we’d quite likely only be in the driving seat on
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by leoc 12d ago
It isn't true by definition: you could quite happily induce people to release a series of highly contagious bioweapons, after which those people would be surplus to requirements. What is true is that you're likely to need humans t
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by leoc 12d ago
Right. A hypothetical superhuman AI wouldn’t have to master robotics to affect the physical world. It could simply bribe, blackmail, manipulate and play politics with humans. As others have pointed out, our political leaders have already be
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by leoc 12d ago
As usual, "Google" here means the two individual human beings who together have a controlling interest in Google, Page and Brin. It may also mean some other people, but it certainly means them. To be clear, that's not to su
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by leoc 12d ago
His reaction to the 2011 Dropbox password incident was an early concern, IIRC.
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by leoc 13d ago
Its YouTube channel has some nice video, including footage of the KL-10: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZSXexPtkcnmJ59mPoeZyGDWQ... .
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by leoc 14d ago
If you're serious about doing OO with static typing as well as (of course) mutability, you basically have to have something like flow typing to keep away the circle/ellipse nonsense. (In so far as flow typing is really static ty
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by leoc 16d ago
One thing that the Special Edition did for Star Wars was make clear that it had borrowed the Humphrey Bogart and "Little Pete[r Lorre]-Big Syd[ney Greenstreet]" characters which came from The Maltese Falcon via Casablanca . S
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by leoc 17d ago
For the Duo to make sense at all, it basically has to fold out into a screen which is big enough that (quite often, at least) you don't feel obliged to bring along a second, larger device anyway, or to wait until you get home or back t
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by leoc 17d ago
And this isn't even the real cult PIM application from Lotus! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Agenda https://www.dreamingincode.com/
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by leoc 18d ago
Apple is probably also waiting for increased RAM supply to start making high-quality local inference a viable mainstream option.
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by leoc 22d ago
Sure, but that's not the "just a solution in search of a problem" claim made in the article. I don't think anyone including Ted Nelson has ever claimed that Xanadu was sufficiently complete at any point.
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by leoc 23d ago
I think the prices are still really modest if you look at them in perspective. One of the small, irreplaceable stock of surviving PDP-10s could be had for less than the cost of a mediocre used Ferrari.
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by leoc 24d ago
In general I have about zero enthusiasm for trying to find defensible interpretations of things that Ed Zitron said, and I generally agree that the name of Zitron just largely needs to stop coming up in anti- and anti-anti-AI arguments sinc
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by leoc 26d ago
> Reals numerical systems are much more diverse than that. For instance, Babylon used a base 60 (hence our minutes and hours). But there were much less than 60 numeric symbols, since they had a symbol for 1 and 10. So 2 symbols for a bas

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