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by petilon 3mo ago
Citation needed. If you are going to say NYT article is wrong we need more than just your words.
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by petilon 3mo ago
Not many people know that Trump had a hand in starting the pandemic. Here's what we know: In 2014, Obama administration halted the so called "gain of function" research because of risk of laboratory accidents. In 2017, the Tr
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by petilon 3mo ago
You do what you have to do when people are dying in droves due to a pandemic and morgues are running out of room.
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by petilon 3mo ago
The science doesn't matter to this administration unfortunately: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dzdddvmjo
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by petilon 3mo ago
> China has not been threatening military annexation Maybe not in Europe, but ask their Asian neighbors. > The USA is far more dangerous a "friend" than China is an acquaintance. That's true and will continue to be
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by petilon 3mo ago
This just came out: Trump reports more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures [1]. He received more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded. Trump reported another $635 million
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by petilon 3mo ago
That's partial jurisdiction at best.
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by petilon 3mo ago
Sure, but what if someone steals your money by impersonating you? Here too, ideally the victim is the bank, but now the onus is on you to convince the bank that they are the victim. They are going to say you're the victim, your identit
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by petilon 3mo ago
Only one-third? They are slowing down. Crypto companies accounted for almost half of corporate donations in the 2024 election cycle [1]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/23/crypto-companies-are-pouring...
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by petilon 3mo ago
No, you can't rename a file in use, unless it is explicitly opened with a sharing flag (which most applications don't).
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by petilon 3mo ago
On Linux if a file can't be edited because some process is holding it open you can just mv the file to /tmp and create a new file in its place. The process that has it open is unaffected because the handle is independent of the pa
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by petilon 3mo ago
Exactly. We should stop saying "Identity Theft" because that lets financial institutions off the hook. "Identity Theft" sounds like it is either your fault for being careless with your identity, or the thief's fault
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by petilon 3mo ago
> insane amount of effort goes into getting more powerful models to run with the same or less RAM The same can be said about operating system memory requirements. I am sure Linux and Windows kernel developers can confirm. Yet 30 years
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by petilon 3mo ago
Memory requirements of newer models will increase, so while the hardware may last 10 years it won't be able to run the latest models for 10 years.
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by petilon 3mo ago
Son's point is that even if the idea is solid, it will take at least 10 years to get it to work. That's too long to wait, the winners and losers in the AI race will be decided long before then. Also: if it does work, all it does i
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Why One of Tech's Biggest Gamblers Is Betting Against Elon Musk's AI Vision(wsj.com)
3 points by petilon 3mo ago|3 comments
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by petilon 3mo ago
> You can call it a failure, it's just not a military one. Would that work in corporate America? Try telling your boss, "I didn't actually fail because had you given me an unreasonable amount of time and resources I woul
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by petilon 3mo ago
> doing it is slow and expensive, so there is insufficient political will to do it So the US Navy is unable to achieve the objective in a reasonable timeframe and cost. That's the same as failure.
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by petilon 3mo ago
> Terrestrial television will surely follow I hope not. I am saving $80 per month by recording over-the-air TV using Tivo. I only want the major networks, and recording them over the air is free. Tivo DVR is great for OTA and their ser
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by petilon 3mo ago
Last year Tim Cook gifted Trump a custom, one-of-a-kind glass plaque with a 24-karat gold base [1]. (Cook needed a policy outcome that would protect Apple's supply chain costs and avoid a costly 100% tariff on certain chips and compone
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Best Investments over the Last 100 Years? Almost All Are Tech Companies(nytimes.com)
5 points by petilon 3mo ago|1 comments
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by petilon 3mo ago
If you have ever made a painting and sold it, then you too profited from the work of thousands of artists. How so? Because your sense of what is art came from those who preceded you. You have seen the works of Picasso, Rembrandt, Monet and
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by petilon 3mo ago
I would agree, if they are inspecting static output of American AI models without using their compute resources.
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by petilon 3mo ago
What AI firms are trying to build is the artificial equivalent of a human brain. If a human learns from a source material and uses the knowledge in their career that doesn't violate the copyright law. If an artificial brain does the sa
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by petilon 3mo ago
Has it been proved in a court of law that it is a copyright violation? In some cases if the model regurgitates the original material then that is clearly copyright violation, but if the model "learns" from the source material just
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by petilon 3mo ago
I think the analogies are appropriate. Anthropic took public data and added value on top of it. It is that added value that Alibaba is targeting. If it was the underlying data, that's freely available.
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by petilon 3mo ago
> If anything these models should be compelled to be public since they have been trained off public data. Isn't that a bit like saying if you read books in a public library to pick up a new skill you should work for free? > Wh
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by petilon 4mo ago
Yes, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to them. You listen to them and you evaluate their claims.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Why wouldn't you listen to a company on why their product solves the problem you're having?
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by petilon 4mo ago
If you want to know why you might want to buy a product ask the company that made it. If you want to know why you might not, ask their competitor. In both cases the answers are valuable, but in neither case should you take the answers at fa

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