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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for raises, etc Would you consider employers to be "fully cynical" about their affairs and interactions with employees?
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> They're also hosting in switzerland. Crypto AG was also based in Switzerland - that by itself mattered very little because it was owned by the CIA and the West Germany Intelligence service.
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> Did we not watch the same movie? "My team and I are proud to share with the world something special we've been working hard on. We are finally ready to launch the Torture Nexus, inspired by the unforgettable technology in the
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> And we know exactly why Meta is doing this and it’s not because they have some grand scheme to build up AI. It’s to keep these people away from their competition I don't see how you can confidently say this when AI researchers and
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> it is trivial to spoof user-agent It's also trivial to detect spoofed user agents via fingerprinting. The best defense against scrapers is done in layers, with user-agent name block as the bare minimum.
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A curious disclaimer on the listing was that they were selling the physical plane with the Hydrogen engine, but not the intellectual property. I suppose the IP was sold separately, and the buyer might need to obtain a license separately bef
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> Is anyone actually getting value out of these models? I've found incredible value in having LLMs help me write unit tests. The quality of the test code is far from perfect, but AI tooling - Claude Sonnet specifically - is good at
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The particular startup in the article was developing tech to replace regular aircraft engines with those running on Hydrogen. I don't think any lessor would appreciate those extensive modifications on their aircraft.
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Is it the media or unfettered capitalism? Traditional media (newspapers, and local news) is dying slowly, they cannot successfully compete with centralized juggernauts with global footprints sucking up all the ad dollars. Was it Thiel who r
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Sony and Microsoft don't need to interact with AMD's software, they just use the hardware That's the entire point of AMD partnering with larger companies, rather than going all-in with consumers and small startups at thi
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4. The US government can chip in via grants, tax breaks or contracts. It's all very Dr. Strangelove. "Mr. President, we must not allow an AI gap! Now give us billions"
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xAI did/does the same, but Grok is nowhere near as good. Perhaps a measure of talent is required to "copy" as well as DeepSeek.
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No. https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/10/29/the-...
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> But Hotz isn't crazy to test them in an odd way.. He should have just read the Lisa Su interview from Q1 2024 where ahe laid out AMDs strategy without equivocating > ... although he'd probably be better off dropping AMD ca
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> That said I'm deeply worried about anyone whose based their company on amd gpus Sony Interactive and Microsoft XBox seem to be doing great without an army of underpaid students. AMD does great at the top and bottom: the corporates
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> ...he'd be much more worried about whether AMD management have any interest in companies like his succeeding. This reads as incredibly entitled. AMD owes him nothing, especially if he's opposed to the leadership's vision
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> Their preference to shut down instead of receiving tens of billions of dollars would be a clear violation of a company’s fiduciary duty to shareholders for any normal company. This is not strictly true - when a company leaves a huge ma
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> ...two days for a traditional NLP pipeline Why 2 days? Machine Learning took over the NLP space 10-15 years ago, so the comparison is between small, performant task-specific models versus LLMs. There is no reason to believe the "t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Yet people are arguing that we should allow the people who did that to continue to install apps on millions of Americans phones Who are "the people who did that" - Byte Dance or China as a whole? If it's the latter, I&#x
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Yet people are arguing that we should allow the people who did that to continue to install apps on millions of Americans phones Who are "the people who did that" - Byte Dance or China as a whole? If it's the latter, I&#x
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's a reference to a Monty Python sketch - What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us? https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ?si=M_0VYwJBXwkzL1qV
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What Has Google Ever Done for AI Research?
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The comment at the root of this thread was specifically addressing making it to orbit on first launch - which a bench test isn't.
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TBF: that wasn't an unsuccessful launch attempt, but a failure to not launch. Which affirms parent in that they seem to have work out all the kinks out during development.
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Would you ask the same question if it were Long March rocket debris falling into the Atlantic with very short notices from China?
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> ...in the early days it was just a hodgepodge mess of ideas, even if it dominated the market. and it was glorious ; the intent-system and Notifications drawers were Androids calling card. Intents were a blessing and a curse: being abl
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by sangnoir 2y ago
How about nouns as verbs? "The new dashboard will surface potential issues. If we find any ,I will calendar a meeting for the cross-functional group to workshop the list, and task the relevant partner-teams to resolve"
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I think the American government is contorting its public argument to avoid saying this plainly because there are many American companies that control information for most of the world, and they don't want other countries to go "Hm
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> the abundance of blocking in the 'verse in lieu of adequate spam controls, which ActivityPub fundamentally lacks Bring your own algorithm can tackle spam (like adblocks). ActivityPub is flexible enough for Mastodon to build up re
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> the abundance of blocking in the 'verse in lieu of adequate spam controls, which ActivityPub fundamentally lacks Bring your own algorithm can tackle spam (like adblocks). ActivityPub is flexible enough for Mastodon to build up re

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