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by sottol 4y ago
Blind-sided how? 50% of software engineers unemployed in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years? Or something like 50% of the US/world population using a chat-gpt style assistant to perform a complicated mental task (aka not "Alexa, set a 2 m
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> Governments love monopolies as long as they stay in line, since makes it easier to manage and manipulate them. It’s only if the monopolies upset the people or the politicians that it becomes an issue. Very true. This also reminds me ve
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Then I wouldn't be surprised if they also had a long-term, iron-clad license at fixed cost.
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Both Google and Apple have multi-arch support and Apple has pulled off a ISA transitions, guess that really only leaves Apple's investment in the actual M1/M2 chip-design itself. Apple's price-point and margins are high enoug
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Also, urban lifestyle tends to skew heavily liberal so I wonder how much this reflects urban vs rural lifestyles.
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Not only quality, Google probably also has to worry about environmental impact. Maybe that will be their "angle of attack" on chatgpt if they get roughly to parity in terms of usefulness.
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My prediction is that we're probably soon getting to an inflection point where gains made by transformer-based AI models will soon be again more incremental than revolutionary. The mildly informed reasoning being based on training data
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Ask HN: GPT/AGI – are we getting of ourselves again?
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by sottol 4y ago
Imo, the problem isn't really the existence of AI but how it's used. And there's plenty of ways to censor corporations from using AI for various tasks. Corporations automating everything by using unaccountable AI is what I&#x
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Afaik that TPU has only 8MB of RAM to fit models, you'd have to continuously stream the weights - can't imagine that's workable.
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Afaik, the Llama sampler needs to be tuned to get more sensible outputs. https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1632569215348531201
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They're using GTPQ -- here you go: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323 . The authors benchmarked two families of models over a wide range of numbers of params.
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> Correct, also USDT management does not buy long dated treasury bonds or deposit in banks that do so. Wut? How would we know, they don't really share specifics. Last I know they have a lot of money in Chinese corporate bonds that w
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by sottol 4y ago
Now, imo, the problem is that there's "value" (to be extracted). How much is 10 mins of your time 4x a day worth? Whatever that is, OpenAI/MS will notice and start charging. A little at first, then what the market will b
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This whole thing reminds me of self-driving cars ca 2013-2015, impressive but not quite there and letting the imagination fly how we soon won't own cars anymore or how they would change cities in a decade. The last 5% will take 200% of
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For reference, looks like this lens can resolve a feature size of 80km. For comparison, it looks like a 6" telescope can resolve 2km according [1]. [1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-minimum-power-telescope-ne...
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These companies have large amounts of cash and cash-flow/revenue that need to be managed, so they have at least a few people working on thus full-time (or whole teams, e.g. Google). I wouldn't be surprised if these world's la
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by sottol 4y ago
These companies have huge swathes of cash that need to be managed. Google for example has a large team of (renowned, fwiw) economists, among them Hal Varian [1], doing among other things revenue forecasts which would take the state of the e
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by sottol 4y ago
Most other car manufacturers have multiple popular models. For some reason Tesla skews almost exclusively Model Y in Norway (Dec). VW (brand) eg sold 3750 vs 5382 Tesla in December spread over ID.3, ID.4, ID.Buzz*. Add 449 Porsche Taycans,
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by sottol 4y ago
It's super easy: provide a valid FedEx tracking number to the proximate area code that is eventually marked as delivered, address and content don't matter. That's it. I ordered a drone, tracking showed 3 pallettes of 50lbs ea
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by sottol 4y ago
I don't think undoing globalization is going to mean going back to the old ways. Personally, i think those well paying middle class jobs are gone, the status quo is too enshrined in the minds of business leaders, political thought (not
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by sottol 4y ago
It looks like some of these larger cases take a while to prosecute. Not saying there's no favoritism here, but FYI the Enron scandal unfolded in late 2001 and the current and former CEO Lay and Skilling's trial started more than f
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I assume interest rate climate and losses will start an outflow of money from crypto. I wonder how Tether will handle this. They seemed too big to fail but this is looking serious.
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We'll see, but I think you can ask for some topline numbers and evaluate if it's even worth digging deeper. I'm sure this is not about accounting for a million, or two, or even a hundred.
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I would hope that's pretty obvious and a desired side-effect. Don't waste space on parking lots, but if you have to slap some solar over it.
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So I can equate a fully deregulated market-based libertarian society with anarchy?
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I think they did a lot of similar work to what python 3.11 did and more when releasing PHP7. I'm absolutely not in the loop but remember postings here on HN a few years ago. Meta/FB is also pretty invested in Hack (was once a php
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by sottol 4y ago
A problem with online meetings? Any meeting I've been to with more than about 4 participants had most attendants present but checked out. Maybe the point is that participants should just be able to leave but that seldom happens imo for
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by sottol 4y ago
Just checked today and it looks like the markup is 12-12% per item over picking up at the restaurant. Overall it seems to cost 25% more than picking up oneself on a ~$100 order. And I bet they charge restaurants the same. Double-dipping, yu
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Main reason is because I've not used the TS-100 personally so I cannot say for sure, afair the TS-100 heated up a tad faster in certain situations. Anyway, USB-C is a big deal for me so I'd take the Pinecil if prices were the same

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