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> There aren't a lot of companies making this type of advanced tech, and definitely no Canadian ones doing it. The number of CEOs that brag their products are designed to kill people, and used to kill people is pretty limited. How a
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Of course dry-water is actual water. Full self-driving isn't.
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We still have to see what will happen when people "uncopyright" Disney movies, Microsoft software, ...
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That's what people don't really understand about CPUs these days. DRAM is stuck on 10nm (and even that was a big effort to move there). The capacitor circuit DRAM uses doesn't work if you reduce the size much more, and so it
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4mo ago
I believe "... not the richest man in the world anymore ... big ego" covers it pretty well.
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4mo ago
... and teachers will just not do this. So maybe having AI grade a million tests instead can help. I mean is this being done to help kids? Or to protect the jobs of teachers who have no real interest in teaching?
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4mo ago
Name ONE western countries that is half as heavy handed as China in suppressing softdrinks or even gambling.
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It's obfuscation because you're leaving out that this is an openly political fight of an in-power leftist politician against an "extreme-right" party (of course, they're well to the left of the US democrat party). T
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4mo ago
Sometimes I wonder why people don't just go back to apache mod_php, mod_python and know you can just deploy apps even if they aren't perfectly isolated. Everything still works, and if you have many small sites there's no beat
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4mo ago
So wait ... you're not even going to train based on what you want, just "throw into"? Did you actually put in work on a very clear and accurate prompt with a full manual on what to do?
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I wonder what people actually expect the result of a "multipolar" world is going to be? Of course, this will mean a great many more conflicts.
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4mo ago
The point was to take a random combination of story elements. Pick one each {King,dad,CEO} {betrays,kills,loves} {his enemy,the king,a foreign prime minister} and feed to an LLM. The output will not be an intricate well designed epic storyl
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> Add more randomness, add more steering, add random steering in random chapters, change it up, and so on. That doesn't work for AI models. The whole training process depends on the basic principle that if you take the average of 10
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If you mean that taking out any kind of debt is fundamentally a bet that whatever is being put up as collateral will grow faster than the interest rate? Because if it doesn't the risk that suddenly debt holders control you grows by a
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4mo ago
Indeed. People forget how quickly and easily companies become too big too fail. The US government bailed out, took over, privatized (not just once) Iridium, just because they had satellites and Global Crossing, just because of fiber ownersh
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4mo ago
What do you mean "not delivered"? The solution to too much immigration was that Boris Johnson and the conservatives tripled immigration (and >10x'ed Pakistani immigration) because they got power through Brexit. That'
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4mo ago
The whole reason the British government pushed Brexit was so Britain could control its immigration. That's how Brexit was presented to the population, that's why people voted for it. Then the government got Brexit, and then Bori
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Why is everyone expecting LLMs to be like the Star Trek computer? I wonder if anyone's ever measured what the hallucination rate of a human is.
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SpaceX is incredibly sensitive about this after they've been beaten to Mars orbit by ... it's quite a list: NASA/JPL, the Soviet/Lavochkin Mars program, ESA, ISRO, ESA+Roscosmos, the UAE Space Agency/MBRSC + JAXA (J
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The alternative that we've used for the past 100+ years is to force such companies apart. Is Google Docs allowed to offer a "managed chrome" policy? Sure. Is Google Chrome allowed to be a browser? Absolutely! But if either si
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Because you're always looking about a comparison, a choice. Holding the world economy hostage placates some egos at incredible cost to Iran ... or agreeing to the US commitments, problems and all. The superior option is obviously to tr
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You might want to add that it was not just an international agreement for demilitarization, Hezbollah actually signed a treaty they were going to demilitarize and never did ... UN never responded to anything, not even when Hezbollah started
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That is why rewriting in another language is such a cheat. LLMs beat 10 years+ experts at the details of a single line of code (and I mean SYNTAX, not invariants), but suck at the design, at the level of functions, and higher up. If you rew
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How much did it cost?
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I am unaware of the US situation, but there are vast differences in housing quality across Europe. Compare the Netherlands, even bad parts of the countryside, to the Greek or Romanian countryside. WTF! And where you'd need air conditio
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5mo ago
Then just save yourself some time. Immediate mode and accessibility are mutually exclusive.
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5mo ago
Hmmm Jetson Thor looks like a cheaper version of DGX spark, minus the network interfaces.
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TLDR: lowering the rent would create a direct problem for banks to convince investors the building is worth more. And since they've already given the money of the investor away (usually to construct the building in the first place), ef
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There is more content than ever before accessible. It's just harder to find. If anything, this is a total failure of Google (and other search sites) I wonder what this will mean for the future, both of Google and for finding informatio
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What gets old in your kinds of arguments is the constant diversion of focus away from Palestinians, what they do and the reasons, the agency behind it. Because arguments like yours fall to pieces even touching that festering pool of filth
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