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by pu_pe 8mo ago
> SaaS also covers all kind of legal requirements (accessibility, auditing, security, payment handling, and so on), and has someone to support, blame, and come and fix it when things go sour. I hear this argument constantly about SaaS. I
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
It's beyond ridiculous. Even more so after Greenland earlier this year, and the US essentially signaling that NATO is completely dead.
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
I think we will have to choose between free speech and completely anonymity in the internet at some point. Unfortunately Germany would likely not preserve either.
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
Microsoft somehow sees a future where LLMs have access to everything in your screen. In that dystopia, adding "confidential" tags or prompt instructions to ignore some types of content is never going to be enough. If you don'
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
It's no wonder people are scared of AI. The "thought leaders" pushing it forward can only provide scenarios of despair and societal collapse. As the saying goes, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end o
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
In which way am I anthropomorphizing?
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
Out of all conceptual mistakes people make about LLMs, one that needs to die very fast is to assume that you can test what it "knows" by asking a question. This whole thread is people asking different models a question one time an
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
No, I think it's nitpicking because it truly is in some cases. Science communication is about simplifying things and making shortcuts while keeping things engaging. Of course Sagan didn't go into a tangent about the first use of t
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
Do you have a specific source for this claim? I have read through what someone else posted in this thread ( https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/02/05/carl-sagan-was-... ) and while some details are indeed in
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
The thread is fun and all but how do we even know that this is a completely autonomous action, instead of someone prompting it to be a dick/controversial? We are obviously gearing up to a future where agents will do all sorts of stuff,
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
Really impressive benchmarks. It was commonly stated that open source models were lagging 6 months behind state of the art, but they are likely even closer now.
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
Seems like this price volatility might ultimately impact all kinds of consumer electronics. Even hardware that is already released like the Nintendo Switch 2 is probably getting its costs inflated by the RAM shortages.
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by pu_pe 8mo ago
> Self-reliance is great, but there are other benefits to running your own compute. It inspires good engineering. It's easy to inspire people when you have great engineers in the first place. That's a given at a place like comm
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
This should be discussed more often. LLM providers can simply degrade model quality or reduce quotas and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, making subscription price meaningless. There should be a fixed equivalence to APIs, li
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
I suppose those are the offices from SpaceX now that they merged.
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Yes, exactly. "Just hire a small team and build native apps for another OS" is the recipe for taking a year to deliver instead of a month
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
There is no doubt they have a lot of catching up to do, but you have to consider their advantages. If Uber goes away, Lyft or others can take over the entire market overnight, precisely because they don't have their own fleet or unique
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
It seems like a fair valuation to me. I can see a path for them to approach or surpass Uber's revenue (~$50B) in the future, and I think their technology and brand are actual moats in comparison to all other driverless systems out ther
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Yes, this is a core issue. Most datacenter investments in Europe come from American big tech. If AI is going to be half as huge as predicted (kind of a big if), then Europe would depend even more on the US for compute. The highest energy pr
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Sorry but I think it is indeed much easier to have a cloud provider take care of those things. That's partly how we came to the situation we are in: a lot of people outsourced this type of work to Microsoft or AWS, because it was easie
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
I don't really understand what the author is arguing for here. Yes, tech companies (and everyone else) hired a ton of people when money was cheap, and now they are doing lay offs. I suppose the alternative would be employing people for
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
> But we can still do an illustrative calculation: let’s conservatively assume that OpenAI started R&D on GPT-5 after o3’s release last April. Then there’d still be four months between then and GPT-5’s release in August,20 during whi
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
The article's conclusion is that Russia's slowdown and high casualties are due to its poor economy and military power. However, another interpretation is that drones have changed war greatly, and have essentially brought back the
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Every time I see some complex orchestration like this, I feel that the authors should have compared it to simpler alternatives. One of the metrics they use is that human review suggests the system is right 83% of the time. How much performa
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
I don't get this "agent swarm" concept. You set up a task and they boot up 100 LLMs to try to do it in parallel, and then one "LLM judge" puts it all together? Is there anywhere I can read more about it?
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Remember that TFA is talking about personal tools that run on his own computer, so definitely his own infrastructure is more secure. Right now in Europe, GCP (like any other American cloud provider) is a big no-go as well, so I'm not s
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Insecure? What do you think is more secure, trusting a third-party SaaS with your data or processing it on your own server?
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
The Security Council is controlled by the US and its allies (3 out of 5 permanent seats). And the Security Council does not decide on matters of public health like the WHO does. The WHO is staffed by very competent people, certainly more co
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Excellent idea. The rules should be the same throughout Europe. However, on the official site ( https://www.eu-inc.org/ ) I see the following line: Local taxes & employment I guess there is hardly any incentive to open a
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by pu_pe 9mo ago
Today at Davos will be a very important inflection point. If Trump decides to maintain or escalate pressure on Europe over Greenland, more economic retaliation will follow. While that could be suicidal for Europe, there are other factors at

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