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by samspenc 2y ago
From the results - Revenue up 14% from $74.6B -> $84.7B - Net income up from $18.4B -> $23.6B - EPS up $1.44 -> $1.89 - Number of employees down from 181.8K -> 179.5K
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Google's Ad Sale Growth Slows in Second Quarter(wsj.com)
9 points by samspenc 2y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 2y ago
Yeah, if we assume they are at 20% profit margin like FAANG or other tech / finance companies, at $1B ARR, they are making $200M net income per year. At 30-40 PE, they would be valued at $6-8B max. In reality, they are most likely losi
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by samspenc 2y ago
Didn't realize there was a WiZ that specializes in home lighting https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us Per their About Us page, they are an "IoT platform for smart lighting solutions and smart services" and &quo
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by samspenc 2y ago
I haven't played with it yet, but very impressive :) a full vector DB built on top of IndexedDB. That means it should run on all modern browsers, and should be able to handle large volumes of data (at least, proportional to disk space)
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by samspenc 2y ago
Yeah I was also going by their quarterly earnings reports since they're a public company. Though that only breaks down the revenue by continent, but was using it to approximate US revenue at 30% of worldwide.
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by samspenc 2y ago
True, but if we look at GDP ratios instead of population, it looks different. Nigeria's GDP in 2022 was $472B, compared to US's at $25.2T, so Nigeria's total economy is roughly 2% the size of the US. Meta / Facebook made
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by samspenc 2y ago
Fascinating, despite the significantly better specs (and VRAM) on the AMD MI300x, the Nvidia H100 seems to match performance at lower batch sizes, and only loses out slightly at larger batches, I'm guessing the differentiator is mostly
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Rates Insensitivity in the Economic Downcycle(lynalden.com)
11 points by samspenc 2y ago|0 comments
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AT&T: Hacker Stole Cell, Text Data on Nearly All Wireless Customers(wsj.com)
41 points by samspenc 2y ago|4 comments
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Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit(theregister.com)
381 points by samspenc 2y ago|445 comments
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by samspenc 2y ago
Somewhat related to this topic, Move.AI https://www.move.ai/ does something very similar but specifically for 3D 'markerless' motion-capture (MoCap) data. You can use iPhones, smartphone or recently any inexpensiv
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PHP version stats: July 2024(stitcher.io)
4 points by samspenc 2y ago|0 comments
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A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too(nytimes.com)
31 points by samspenc 2y ago|8 comments
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Apple first rejected, then quickly approved, Epic's app store in Europe(ign.com)
16 points by samspenc 2y ago|7 comments
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by samspenc 2y ago
Agreed, this works great for a single or small set of users (2-3), but OP is asking about self-hosting an open-source / open-weight LLM locally to serve a larger set of users (100s per post title). I suspect they may need a larger serv
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by samspenc 2y ago
Thanks for making this open source! As someone who is a total noob in this space, I see WebXR allows one to create VR applications that run in browser across a variety of VR headsets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebXR
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Follow the Capex: Triangulating Nvidia(platformonomics.com)
9 points by samspenc 2y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 2y ago
This is par for the course for any text-to-speech or speech-to-text service these days, check out ElevenLabs' other service pricing and it is similar - they have monthly pricing but the character usage is capped at each level. Actually
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by samspenc 2y ago
There are a few services that do this already, but they are all somewhat lacking, hopefully Meta's paper / solution brings some significant improvements in this space. The existing ones: - Meshy https://www.meshy.ai&#x2
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by samspenc 2y ago
From the article: "Microsoft making very similar arguments about how antitrust was going to stifle innovation" ... "when Microsoft lost its cases’ innovation didn’t end. What did decline after ... was Microsoft’s browser mark
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by samspenc 2y ago
Very cool, looks like React frontend and NestJS backend, so Typescript / Javascript for both. Curious why you chose NestJS over other options?
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Enhancing New York Times Web Performance with React 18(open.nytimes.com)
16 points by samspenc 2y ago|8 comments
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by samspenc 2y ago
Huh, looking at the code, it's simpler than I thought, basically these are the 2 lines that enable the request-response functionality: const session = await window.ai.createTextSession(); const response = await session.prompt(pro
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McDonald's to end AI drive-thru experiment after errant orders(nypost.com)
3 points by samspenc 2y ago|1 comments
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Netflix: Sharing Our Latest Culture Memo(about.netflix.com)
2 points by samspenc 2y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 2y ago
Bloomberg has posted the interview video on their channel now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh6REnqwXe4
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AI Startup Etched Unveils ASIC Claiming 20x Speed-Up over Nvidia H100(techpowerup.com)
3 points by samspenc 2y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 2y ago
Was curious about this as well, seems like the closest comparison today is to Groq, wondering how it holds up.
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by samspenc 2y ago
> Sohu is built for one thing and one thing only: transformers Thanks for clarifying this. Could you clarify whether your chip supports the transformer architecture in general, or only specific models for e.g. Llama 70B? In case of the l

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