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by smoldesu 3y ago
Anticipation
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> What if OpenAI decides to partner with Anthropic and Google? Then they would be on roughly equal footing with Microsoft, since they'd have an abundance of engineers and a cloud partner. More or less what they just threw away, on a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If you remember back far enough, you might remember when Apple had the best of both worlds. The G3 Powermac, the Titanium Macbook and even the early iPods proved that manufacturers could make highly-maintainable and nice-feeling hardware. A
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Are you using a socketed WWAN card? You could probably fanangle that into an M.2 slot (or god forbid a Framework expansion card) with a little bit of software tinkering.
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What's stopping them from doing that right now with the GPT-4 API?
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No, we all fully expect it to be expensive. Manufacturers didn't move away from repairable devices for nothing; it's cheaper to manufacture and design something that doesn't ever get taken apart. It also helps ensure that you
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Good news! There is one great emotional regulator, and it's name is "money". If you worked at OpenAI you have plenty of it. The market doesn't send companies a box of chocolates when they announce they're doing poor
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If you see "beating GPT-4" as an actual goalpost, then sure. Google doesn't; their output reflects that.
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> There was never a rehire option on the table for Sam at OpenAI I don't believe this for a second. Why address your shareholders and start a re-hiring tizzy if you're just trying to poach engineers? Microsoft could achieve the
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not just Google's goal, either: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3671132/what-is-manage... Ensuring you only use the OEM's recommended browser looks like the endgame of the internet.
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Stablecoins and L2 chains have the problem of being unregulated and usually centralized, though. At least L1 chains are fairly transparent and usually Open Source; sending your money over an L2 bridge is a game of trust. Stablecoins struggl
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For the sake of your wallet, I hope you don't put money on that. Google certainly spends an order of magnitude more than OpenAI because they have been around longer than them, ship their own hardware and maintain their own inferencin
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According to the Bard technical paper (page 14), their model beats GPT-4 in several reasoning benchmarks: https://ai.google/static/documents/palm2techreport.pdf
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Beating OpenAI in a money-pissing competition is not their priority. I don't use Google or harbor much love for them, but the existence of AI does not detract from the value of advertising. If anything, it funnels more people into it a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
GPT-4 is a magnitude larger and not a magnitude better. Even before that, GPT-3 was not a particularly high watermark (compared to T5 and BERT) and GPT-2 was famously so expensive to run that it ran up a 6-figure monthly cloud spend just fo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It wasn't sufficient for Google+ or Farmville either, but both Google and Meta have extremely competitive LLMs. If Microsoft commit themselves (which is a big if ), they could have a competitive AI research lab. They're a cloud c
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> I wouldn't want to set up Nix myself Why not? Even the official installer is pretty straightforward, the biggest bottleneck that comes to mind is setting your flakes up with the right template. Even then... I don't think I sp
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Those "diverse desktop environments" almost always took from GNOME and contributed very little back. Now that's an ahistorical conspiracy theory. Those diverse desktop environments contributed hugely to GTK, GNOME just
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by smoldesu 3y ago
From the Sunbird FAQ ( https://www.sunbirdapp.com/ ): > Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infras
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Why even comment, then? What do you stand to gain from espousing an opinion you admit is too ridiculous to contend with serious criticism?
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Yeah, I don't disagree with anything you've said. Still though, I use GTK because it works and think the pushback against it is silly. GTK was never destined to be the cross-platform native framework. If that was attainable, peopl
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I got 5 paragraphs into this before realizing that it wasn't a Resident Evil fanfiction (?!)
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If things turn out to be that straightforward, then I'll be one hell of a fool.
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For what it's worth, having pay-pornography channels next to Local 4 news has inspired a lot of letters to Congress in the past. I don't think that fostered any more of a "fertile environment for Congress to act" than th
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Apple already had competitors back then in the likes of Franklin Computers. From a pure "can you copy Woz" perspective, it's not really even a question; of course you could. It was always a matter of dedication and time. It&#
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> Eventually GNOME needs became GTK roadmap. Exactly? If you're still holding out for GTK to be a non-Linux toolkit in 2023 then you're either an incredibly misguided contributor and/or ignorant of the history behind the t
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> Freedom of speech is by definition freedom from many kinds of consequences. The only consequences the First Amendment explicitly protects you from are legislative ones. By definition, it only protects you from the government.
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Transformer-based LLMs are almost a half-decade old at this point, and GPT-4 is the least-efficient model of it's kind ever produced (that I am aware of). OpenAI's performance is not and has never been proportional to the size of
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If Steve Jobs couldn't claim Wozniak's work as his own, he wouldn't have landed "his" Atari contract. Who knows where things would have gone after that, but I have a hard time tracing Apple's history of success
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Yeah, I posted this in one of these threads last time and got beaten down with sticks and swords. Oh well, I'm on a hot streak and have karma to burn, so I'll agree with you. Parents, if you don't want your children to have i

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