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by pingou 4mo ago
I suspect the plan was (and still is) to weaken authorities in Iran so that the people take over. Or have the Iranian government reach a deal that would be less favorable to them. A plan with quite long odds you could rightly say, but not a
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by pingou 4mo ago
"Investors who have poured hundreds of billions into closed-source labs are betting on an unprovable safety moat". Nobody is investing in closed-source labs for safety reasons, being able to explore more in details what and how th
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by pingou 4mo ago
I do not think there is anything wrong with that (just that this is uncommon and surprising, so I'm curious), but in my hypothetical scenario where storage isn't an issue, having useless data stored should not matter. Changing the
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by pingou 4mo ago
But if storage isn't an issue, why go out of your way to remove them? Don't you think there is an underlying reason you are changing the default to remove them?
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by pingou 4mo ago
Why do you feel the need to delete your chats? Is it to save space? Would you still do it if you had unlimited storage?
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Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better(economist.com)
60 points by pingou 5mo ago|105 comments
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by pingou 5mo ago
Also it keeps asking you for execution permission all the time for the same commands over and over again (even if you add them to the settings). Worse, I selected "Terminal Command Auto Execution: Proceed in Sandbox", and it keeps
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by pingou 5mo ago
They announced Gemini 3.5, an AI centered search approach, Gemini Spark, Gemini Omni, smart glasses, and more, and somehow that accounts to "having nothing to say"? How high is the bar? Sure, most of this stuff is just improvement
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by pingou 5mo ago
How do they calculate that? 3.1 has 57M output tokens from Intelligence Index, 3.5 Flash has 73M, so not a lot more, and 3.5 is a bit cheaper, I don't get how 3.5 can be 74% more expensive.
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by pingou 5mo ago
Couldn't get it to work on Chrome. Had to find the stream on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU
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by pingou 5mo ago
The end goal of these companies is AGI, or even ASI. If you believe this is around the corner, and think AI can do the job of a human for less money, it makes sense to put all your money into working towards that goal and buying as much com
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by pingou 5mo ago
That wouldn't help in that case as exfiltrated data is committed to public GitHub repositories. Unless you have to accept every time an app posts or requests data from known hosts?
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by pingou 5mo ago
Ok so the hype would be people saying AI can currently do something well and autonomously when it cannot (or not consistently enough), and it is easy to prove them wrong. But I feel like people are more hyped about what the AI will be able
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by pingou 5mo ago
I just got a bit triggered by the "hype" word. What if the hype was real? It is easy to say that nobody knows how all of this is going to work, and I would say it is a prudent thing to say, but there is value in making a bold pred
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AI super-apps are remaking China's internet(economist.com)
6 points by pingou 5mo ago|0 comments
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Opening a jar for 10 hours straight [video](youtube.com)
4 points by pingou 5mo ago|1 comments
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by pingou 5mo ago
Well first of all TFA is not talking about individuals buying solar or anything, so do we at least agree that renewables make sense for countries/state? It seems like you have set an impossible bar for renewables so I don't know w
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by pingou 5mo ago
How do you explain that solar got 50% less expensive in the last 10 years? Why would people and institutions in control of solar equipment reprice their stuff to match the price of dirty electricity? You think there is no competition? Or yo
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Solar Impulse 2 Crashes into Gulf(dronexl.co)
1 points by pingou 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pingou 5mo ago
Most batteries do not use rare earth metals. Even if they did and it was an issue, we would find alternatives if that was necessary, just like rare earth free motors were developed to avoid all the downsides of that come with those. Have a
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by pingou 5mo ago
Seems promising but it would have been nice to have some figures and the estimated cost at scale (or even just costs for the prototype).
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by pingou 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/2wIST
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The troubled quest for tasty vegan cheese(economist.com)
5 points by pingou 5mo ago|1 comments
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by pingou 5mo ago
AI improving itself (or at least the architecture it runs on), the singularity is near as they say. Do we have other examples of AI being used to improve the LLMs, apart for the creation of synthetic data and the testing of the models?
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by pingou 5mo ago
I have indeed missed the arguments that are so powerful that they dismantles my thesis. Would there even be a debate in the tech community if such unassailable arguments existed? The author is entirely entitled to his opinion, just as I am
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by pingou 5mo ago
Not sure why you are downvoted but I agree. Additionally, perhaps LLMs are just like another higher programming language as the author said, and they still need someone to steer them. I'm sure it was very difficult to program in machin
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by pingou 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/yKBHA
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The AI supply crunch is here(economist.com)
7 points by pingou 5mo ago|2 comments
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by pingou 5mo ago
This is assuming there will be no competition. But why wouldn't there be? Especially since you can use open source models, which are not too far from frontier models (from now).
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by pingou 5mo ago
"One moringa seed can treat about 10 liters of water, the scientists found" What does it mean? You have the discard the seed after 10 liters? If yes, sorry to be so negative but it seems completely useless. Edit: a tree can produc

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