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by simonh 3mo ago
I worked on Quartz at BAML for 4 years, it was great. I met Kirat Singh once when he visited the UK, he took the basic concept from Goldman to JPM, then to BAML.
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by simonh 3mo ago
Very much so, I worked on Quartz at BAML for a few years. The whole idea was actually to use as much existing Open Source technology as possible. Hence Python and it's rich library ecosystem, instead of something home grown like SecDB&
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by simonh 4mo ago
That’s not how sticker shock works.
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by simonh 4mo ago
Sure, but I've no problem with that. I think there is a role for government helping get new technologies and industries off the ground. It can make sense to offer tax breaks to get new future sources of tax revenue going for example. I
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by simonh 4mo ago
They're not own goals, they're achieving what they set out to do.
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by simonh 4mo ago
Musk is a fascinating example. Incredibly hard working, visionary, detail oriented. Without him we'd probably not have had reusable rockets for another generation or more. With Tesla he also accelerated electric car adoption. He was al
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by simonh 4mo ago
It wasn't different.
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by simonh 4mo ago
I really doubt it, for several reasons. The Neo is cheap because it mainly leverages a compute core that already existed, consisting mainly of binned parts. Yes the chassis had to be designed, but that can be used in common for future itera
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by simonh 4mo ago
I think you're quite right in a sense, but let's say it had been Samsung making these promises. Do you think the system not working properly or producing weird and unacceptable results would have prevented them releasing it anyway
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by simonh 4mo ago
Yep, by using the terms intelligence, and occasionally Apple Intelligence and not AI[1], they get to talk about these features in a way that don't trigger an automatic mental gag reflex. The fact they cottoned on to this 2 years ago is
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by simonh 4mo ago
Sure, but the fact that people are doing something isn't evidence that it isn't a mistake. Also they may be stuck due to concerns about backwards compatibility. There may be games and utilities they are shipping, that come from up
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by simonh 4mo ago
This is true, and it's why index trackers exist, in order to diversify risk across the market so an investor is not excessively exposed to that happening for particular stocks. The market then re-prices that stock. As an index fund inv
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by simonh 4mo ago
Right, but all of that is still in the weights. The point of the article/joke isn’t literally that there is no grammar, it’s that there is no grammar separate from the weights. It’s all in the weights. And yes, it’s absurd. It’s a joke
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by simonh 4mo ago
A list of words isn’t a dictionary. What a dictionary adds over a list of words is all the relationships between the words needed to interpret them and use them, and all of that is in the weights.
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by simonh 4mo ago
C64 Basic was V2 of a dialect of the Microsoft derived Basic for the PET. It was out of date already compared to the latest V4 because the older version fit into a smaller ROM to save costs.
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by simonh 5mo ago
That’s not the Apple way, but they might fund a supplier to build out capacity in return for priority access. The thing is they tend to only do that when they can get a technological competitive advantage. The priority access gives them a l
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by simonh 5mo ago
Sure. That’s how rights work. It’s why we need to keep on fighting for them when necessary.
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by simonh 5mo ago
I think intellectual property rights work astoundingly well. We have an incredibly rich, varied culture of published materials supporting vast legions of authors, artists, film makers, software developers, designers, publishers, playwrigts,
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by simonh 5mo ago
If there's so much overproduction, just go read some other stuff instead.
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by simonh 5mo ago
All, or at least most property rights are monopoly rights anyway. I have a monopoly right over my house, and my car, my bank balance. That's just what ownership means.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Property can and does refer to rights over both tangible and intangible assets. It simply refers to ownership. Trademarks, brand identity and trade secrets are property. Some kinds of license can be property, and bought or sold. Shares in c
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by simonh 5mo ago
It's just a broad term for whatever AI integration they put into their various Apps and services. So, a combination of the neural engine stuff they've been doing for years, and integration with white label AI services from Google
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by simonh 5mo ago
The zeitgeist yes, but in terms of actual politics socialism nowadays is really a vague aspiration rather than any actual policies. Certainly here in the UK our Labour governments since the 90s have confined themselves to just tweaking the
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by simonh 5mo ago
Peak British journalism.
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by simonh 5mo ago
>Call me crazy but society should care about giving people meaning, providing healthcare, and an education. You know the three things that lead to productive humans. Things that are paid for by economic surpluses. No profits, no investme
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by simonh 5mo ago
They'd more likely split themselves laughing. The solution to threats to global economic integration is to address the threats to global economic integration. It's not to cannibalise our own full-employment high value economies, b
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by simonh 5mo ago
The reason they're blocking archives is people can go to the archive, to bypass paywalls and avoid targeted adverts, instead of the news site. It's also to prevent AI scrapers harvesting articles.
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by simonh 5mo ago
For me, it was always a two-hander between Avon and Vila. The sparks just flew whenever they were in a scene together. Vila was the most relatable character though.
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by simonh 5mo ago
There were some radio dramas or something.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Worth a retrospective look, 4 years on?

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