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Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta(thetimes.com)
858 points by macleginn 6mo ago|579 comments
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by macleginn 6mo ago
The article spends a lot of time on criticising technocratic ideas of tech capitalists, who haven’t actually achieved anything in the political sphere so far, and doesn’t even mention China where quite a few of strikingly similar ideas are
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NHS staff boycott Palantir's data platform over ethical concerns(ft.com)
12 points by macleginn 6mo ago|0 comments
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by macleginn 6mo ago
A paywall-free link: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/frances-mistral-rai...
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Mistral raises $830M to build Nvidia-powered AI centres in Europe(ft.com)
9 points by macleginn 6mo ago|2 comments
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by macleginn 7mo ago
"TurboQuant proved it can quantize the key-value cache to just 3 bits without requiring training or fine-tuning and causing any compromise in model accuracy" -- what do each 3 bits correspond to? Hardly individual keys or values,
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Mistral CEO: AI companies should pay a content levy in Europe(ft.com)
7 points by macleginn 7mo ago|3 comments
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Maximum living organism speeds from bacteria to elephants and whales (2015)(fermatslibrary.com)
1 points by macleginn 7mo ago|0 comments
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by macleginn 7mo ago
With a 0$ Bluetooth-3.5mm jack dongle from AliExpress one can have best of both worlds, or at least continue using wired cans with a phone where the charging port stopped working.
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How The Pentagon Got Hooked on AI War Machines(bloomberg.com)
3 points by macleginn 7mo ago|0 comments
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by macleginn 7mo ago
However, these services revenues (App Store tax, iCloud storage, even the deal with Google) are still anchored to users' loyalty to the platform. So Apple needs users to (1) stay on the platform and (2) buy new devices. Making user exp
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by macleginn 7mo ago
Apple doesn’t have a cloud business, and yet their OS hasn’t been a success story either recently.
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by macleginn 7mo ago
Anthropic should be outsourcing this kind of studies by providing data to non-affiliated researchers instead of doing the analysis themselves.
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by macleginn 7mo ago
What's with "artesenal"? Is this a joke that I don't understand or a surprising way to write "artisanal"?
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Japan antitrust watchdog raids Microsoft over cloud services concerns(asia.nikkei.com)
2 points by macleginn 7mo ago|0 comments
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SIMD in Pure Python (2024)(da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
3 points by macleginn 8mo ago|0 comments
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Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage(nature.com)
5 points by macleginn 8mo ago|0 comments
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Palantir Captured the UK Ministry of Defence(ft.com)
61 points by macleginn 8mo ago|4 comments
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Can Opus 4.6 Do Category Theory in Lean?(stephendiehl.com)
4 points by macleginn 8mo ago|0 comments
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by macleginn 8mo ago
https://archive.is/LFY0t
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OpenAI Tapped for Voice Control Tech in US Drone Swarm Challenge(bloomberg.com)
1 points by macleginn 8mo ago|1 comments
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by macleginn 8mo ago
https://archive.is/UFAwU
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SpaceX to Compete in Pentagon Contest for Autonomous Drone Tech(bloomberg.com)
3 points by macleginn 8mo ago|3 comments
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by macleginn 8mo ago
Cue autobiographical bestseller, "Reading Lolita in NSW."
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by macleginn 8mo ago
With a correlation of ~0.5 the window will be much wider than weeks or months, and it's more like, "If your MZ twin died of completely natural causes at 70, it is unlikely that you will live to 120."
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by macleginn 8mo ago
Since code-generating AIs were likely trained on them, they won't go too far, though.
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by macleginn 8mo ago
The 50% number is a bit mysterious, but if I understand the text of the article correctly, it essentially means that if we do not account for the noise added by accidents and such, we get a Pearson correlation of life expectancies of monozy
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AI-supported mammography screening leads to better patient outcomes(thelancet.com)
2 points by macleginn 8mo ago|0 comments
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by macleginn 8mo ago
Most of what he writes (including the part on the skycam) applies to soccer as well.
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by macleginn 9mo ago
I guess he means that the authors can still be decent people in their private and even professional lives and not general scoundrels who wouldn't stop at actively harming other people to gain something.

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