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by pavlov 4mo ago
When the humans have a track record of corruption, it might make sense for a company to seek parallel opinions from a LLM so they can at least flag suspicious human decisions. Assuming BNP Paribas leadership wants to stop the corruption of
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Video – thirty years of breaking the web's assumptions(talking.video)
3 points by pavlov 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pavlov 5mo ago
I remember seeing expensive multi-page ads for Claude in the New Yorker over a year ago. Their marketing has been working the high end of the “regular people” market for a good while.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
The brand name counts for a lot in this market. Lamborghini Urus sells well even though it’s inferior on every metric to cars a fraction of its price. Tesla lost its premium brand cachet and consequently the Model S/X market. Ferrari p
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by pavlov 5mo ago
Tesla Model S is discontinued. Whatever its merits, there wasn’t a market for it.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
The content is good, but this LLM writing style gets tiresome. Everything is a revelation: >“I bought it for Chrome. It's running a model that didn't exist when I bought it.” Well duh, personal computers run new software. Tha
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by pavlov 5mo ago
If you’re suffering from obesity, is it helpful to imagine an alien somehow beaming calories into your stomach?
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by pavlov 5mo ago
Downvoted for clickbait (posting a link instead of explaining the argument).
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by pavlov 5mo ago
The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht granted the South Sea Company a monopoly for British trading with the Spanish South America and Pacific. Exciting! Everybody knew there's enormous wealth in those lands. Spaniards had brought over tons of gol
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by pavlov 5mo ago
Elementary school children would make ashtrays as gifts for Father's Day. If dad didn't smoke, surely he had guests who did.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
Calling him a writer is somewhat underselling his talent. Jodorowsky was a world-class clown and mime (yes, really) before becoming an award-winning filmmaker, visual artist, and comic book writer.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
Jolla still exists: https://jolla.com/ They develop Sailfish, a non-Google Linux-based mobile OS that can apparently run Android apps decently in a sandbox.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
The conclusion of the article is interesting: > 'The unit of analysis for "why is X poor" may be the political coalition, not the country.' So maybe the real question here is not about the absolute poverty, but the
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by pavlov 5mo ago
"Chat, can you show me an example of why correlation is not causation?" The article actually addresses this specific point: "Human capital is thin. Mean years of schooling sit around 5. Stunting rates have been at 35-40% for
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by pavlov 5mo ago
And even more pedantically, DS has recently adopted a new naming scheme where the former DS 4 is now written as DS N°4, pronounced "number 4"... Their stated inspiration for this SEO bomb is Chanel perfumes.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
Technically DS is an independent sibling of Citroën within Stellantis, a sprawling car conglomerate that owns a dog’s dinner of car brands in Europe and USA.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
All non-monarchies in Europe are republics too. It’s by far the most common type of democracy. It’s unclear to me why some Americans insist on making a distinction that doesn’t exist.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
I’m not interested in debating the anti-Islam diatribe. If your lived experience is that “bearded men and veiled women” have destroyed the halcyon paradise of your childhood, then that’s fundamentally a nostalgia-based emotional argument. B
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by pavlov 5mo ago
In the 1980s, EU money was flowing to Spain, Portugal and Greece. And people complained about that too. But the result is inarguably positive. Those countries had only recently become democracies after decades of military dictatorships or o
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by pavlov 5mo ago
> “a brilliant stroke of genius the likes of which the world is not likely to see again. If that one guy hadn't been born, we would have gone thousands of years with no method” But that’s not the criteria for granting a patent. It
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by pavlov 5mo ago
I don't think businesses that previously had zero phone support can afford Sierra. They seem to be a "for pricing, let's go play C-level golf" type of company.
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by pavlov 5mo ago
Reminds me of this bit in Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent” about London’s topographical mysteries: ”With a turn to the left Mr Verloc pursued his way along a narrow street by the side of a yellow wall which, for some inscrutable reason,
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by pavlov 6mo ago
What’s the point of prediction markets? They are just ordinary gambling unless you allow insider trading and manipulation, because that’s the only way the market can acquire and represent novel useful information. But if you allow those thi
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by pavlov 6mo ago
One of the greatest Silicon Valley tropes is when boring software guys get rich, lose the plot, and start reinventing physics from first principles because they think the universe is like computer science. The solace of made-up physics is t
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by pavlov 6mo ago
Here I was thinking he invented throwing two d10 where the other one is marked with tens. Somebody had to invent that too, right?
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by pavlov 6mo ago
Anthropic today feels like 1990s Microsoft, when mere rumors that MS might enter yet another software vertical (publishing, CAD, 3D etc.) were enough to destroy the stock prices of current market leaders.
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by pavlov 6mo ago
You’re sanewashing Trump’s absolutely bonkers behavior by focusing on the critics. The man can barely form a sentence and posts on social media on the mental and writing level of a ten-year-old. Americans are choosing to accept this from th
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by pavlov 6mo ago
In the case of X, the business owner is aggressively pushing his political views on users by heavy-handed methods like prioritizing his own posts in algorithmic feeds and overriding the context of his AI bot to parrot his pet ideas. If you
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by pavlov 6mo ago
Trump promised the most crypto-friendly US administration ever, but this is probably not what Republicans had in mind.
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by pavlov 6mo ago
It’s not like Iran plans to keep the Bitcoin. It’s just a way around sanctions.

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