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by mgreg 3y ago
"Meta released its own language model, known as LLaMA, to researchers and academics earlier this year, but the new version will be more widely available and customisable by companies, three people familiar with the plans said. The rele
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Meta to release commercial AI model in effort to catch rivals(ft.com)
24 points by mgreg 3y ago|7 comments
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by mgreg 3y ago
From the blog: "Our paper on I-JEPA ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08243 ) will be presented at CVPR 2023 next week, and we’re also open-sourcing the training code and model checkpoints today."
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Meta's I-JEPA: First AI model based on LeCun’s vision for more human-like AI(ai.facebook.com)
9 points by mgreg 3y ago|2 comments
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Autonomous Waymo car runs over dog in San Francisco(arstechnica.com)
5 points by mgreg 3y ago|0 comments
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by mgreg 3y ago
A few but a search would no doubt turn up more: Arc https://thebrowser.company/ - Perhaps not open source? Orion https://browser.kagi.com/ - Mac only (built on webkit) Vivaldi https://vivaldi.com
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To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech(eff.org)
64 points by mgreg 3y ago|2 comments
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by mgreg 3y ago
And this is a critical point. Not only has Microsoft raised the pricing for their Bing Search API massively (a cost to Neeva and others) there are rumors that they were starting to enforce some terms of service that prevents the use of the
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by mgreg 4y ago
Looks like Bing chat is using GPT-4 already: "Good news, we've increased our turn limits to 15/150. Also confirming that the next-gen model Bing uses in Prometheus is indeed OpenAI's GPT-4 which they just announced today
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How Reddit is getting simpler – and dealing with TikTok(theverge.com)
4 points by mgreg 4y ago|0 comments
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by mgreg 4y ago
It's called "predatory pricing". https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
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by mgreg 4y ago
Craigslist and Stackoverflow come to mind.
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by mgreg 4y ago
It's a very good point that companies will (eventually) look to maximize revenue and thus even companies that start out with grand ideas of being "different" succumb to that pressure. A strong countervailing force (in some ma
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by mgreg 4y ago
There are some good studies on this topic such as this one from UCLA. https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/papers/Mu... Abstract: Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is increas
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by mgreg 5y ago
I think the big concern for many is the advice from EV makers (e.g. GM) to not park their vehicles in a garage or near other vehicles, nor to leave them charging unattended [1]. It might be interesting to compare gas vs. electric vehicle f
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As privacy issues worsen, Congress looks to the FTC(theverge.com)
2 points by mgreg 5y ago|0 comments
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Mobileye and SIXT Plan New Robotaxi Service in Munich(intel.com)
1 points by mgreg 5y ago|0 comments
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CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving(blog.waymo.com)
149 points by mgreg 6y ago|240 comments
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by mgreg 6y ago
Apple will soon start flagship iPhone 12 production on Indian soil for local customers, the company said on Tuesday Apple supplier Wistron recently began trial production of the iPhone 12 at a new facility near Bengaluru, with full pr
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by mgreg 6y ago
This is a bit of a red herring but I'll reply anyway. Agreed that adsense serves ads to 'open web' properties already. However they do this with user tracking, just like facebook already does. The suggestion above is to ins
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by mgreg 6y ago
Why couldn't facebook instead facilitate that same small model railway business advertising on the railway group pages, and non-facebook pages about model railways? Why not just tie the ads to the content of the page visited? With tar
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by mgreg 6y ago
But apple (and Android) allowing search providers to bid/buy that default spot is a barrier to entry for new search providers and only makes the dominant search provider stronger. How could a new Google emerge today when people lazily
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by mgreg 6y ago
Doesn't Intel's OneAPI and it's DPC++ (in partnership with SYCL) attempt to do the same thing or something similar? oneAPI DPC++ Features Included in SYCL 2020 Final Spec [ https://newsroom.intel.com/articles&#
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by mgreg 6y ago
> 3) It turns out most non-targeted ads aren't actually that effective, and aggregate ad spend is falling. While this is a commonly held believe in many corners it doesn't appear to be well backed by data & research. Freak
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by mgreg 6y ago
Love the idea behind EthicalAds and hope for great success for you guys as an alternative to the tracking industry that is online advertising. Couple of thoughts and questions: 1. When submitting to HN the front page probably isn't the
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by mgreg 6y ago
Perhaps worth a re-read. "Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver our services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and per
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by mgreg 6y ago
Thanks for pointing out ranking search results as a technology investment required; I tend to think of it as part of indexing but a good call out. I purposely didn't want to go down the "quality" rat hole because that tends t
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by mgreg 6y ago
It is an interesting exercise to look at the barriers to entry for search engines. Clearly there are technology challenges (internet scale web crawler, indexer, search interface, ad technology) but these are not novel challenges anymore. Fu
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Google’s Cookie Fight Will Shape Future of Digital Advertising(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mgreg 6y ago|0 comments
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by mgreg 6y ago
While I didn't use them and have no comments on their search quality I did admire Cliqz for their ambition. They were building and running their own index until earlier this year. ( https://cliqz.com/announcement.html )

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