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by tootie 1y ago
It's PR. OpenAI stole mountains of copyrighted content and are trying to make NYT look like bad guys. OpenAI would not be in the position of defending a lawsuit if they hadn't done something that is very likely illegal. OpenAI can
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by tootie 1y ago
I never quite put it together but Vance worked at Mithril Capital for Peter Thiel. Thiel's other ventures include Palantir, Valar Ventures and he's an investor in Anduril. How can someone be such a diehard Tolkien nerd and endorse
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by tootie 1y ago
If you're buying actual business critical software, you always want a signed contract. Even if they have transparent pricing and a checkout form. Most of these services will reserve the right to terminate service if they detect any vio
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by tootie 1y ago
On Pixel 8a, I asked Gemma 3n to play 20 questions with me. It says it has an object in mind for me to guess then it asks me a question about it. And several attempts to clarify who is supposed to ask questions have gone in circles.
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by tootie 1y ago
Remember when they fired Timnit Gebru for publishing on AI safety?
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by tootie 1y ago
Is your argument "humans are fallible so we should give up?" The effectiveness (and sincerity) of DEI programs have certainly been mixed, but they should produce measurable outcomes that can be iterated and improved upon. A lot of
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by tootie 1y ago
Same reason the considered antifa to be public enemy #1.
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by tootie 1y ago
Hard disagree. On the one hand, "we have to hire a minority" is extremely blunt interpretation of DEI. But the intent is to foster diversity and that does mean hiring underrepresented groups. Having a diverse team is net positive
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by tootie 1y ago
Carr has been pretty clear the FCC will do whatever Trump wants despite their status as an independent agency. Mergers and spectrum and whatever will be handed out to politically compliant outlets.
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by tootie 1y ago
Indeed Gradle creates more problems than it solves. Maven is still the best build system in any language. Python finally has uv which is the first non-horrible build tool after so many years of being the most popular language.
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by tootie 1y ago
True, but it's also true that code spends 99% of it's lifetime in maintenance. That's the reason I am never impressed by tools that make it fast and easy to bootstrap.
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by tootie 1y ago
The language has/had some rough edges that have been improved over the years, but the developer experience of using a strongly-typed, object-oriented language within a sturdy IDE like Idea is just second to none. The debugging process
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Veritas
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by tootie 1y ago
The democratic way is we let our elected officials pass laws and that's what happened. You're ignoring the massive externalities that car owners impose on non-drivers. You're also (very Americanly) assuming car owners have sp
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by tootie 1y ago
Crime is down, but it's been trending down since the pandemic ended. In fact, the crime rate on the subway was never very high. The few high profile cases made national news, but given the millions of daily ride, the actual odds of bei
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by tootie 1y ago
It's change. And it's a tax. Neither of which are easy sells.
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Marc Andreesen
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Also, NCSA was started with NSF funds and the put out the first web browse. And now the guy behind that is supporting Trump. Really pulling up the ladder.
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by tootie 1y ago
Gates is betting very heavily on AI and thinks it will greatly improve health outcomes. Both for medical research and even primary care. You may not like it, but I'm sure he is offering grants for AI research. Not necessarily for train
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by tootie 1y ago
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/how-we-work/grant-appl...
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by tootie 1y ago
From his perspective, there are millions of people dying of infectious diseases and other very treatable conditions. That's the urgent problem and the one he can solve very directly.
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by tootie 1y ago
He talks about this in today's NY Times interview and he is pretty unsparing against Elon Musk in particular for his role in killing USAID. Says he is directly complicit in killing children while at the same time, he is technically sti
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by tootie 1y ago
It's part of the strategy. He endowed a giant philanthropic org. You can leverage an endowment by investing it aggressively and spending the proceeds to keep the fund running indefinitely. What he is now announcing is a pivot to start
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by tootie 1y ago
Yeah, and vaccines are a big reason why. He has seen the benefits of mass vaccination first hand and was a big advocate for pandemic prevention before COVID. COVID really broke a lot of people's brains.
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by tootie 1y ago
I flip back and forth with Claude and Le Chat and find them comparable. Le Chat always feels very quick and concise. That's just vibes not benchmarks.
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by tootie 1y ago
I'm guessing it's flexible. Mistral makes small models capable of running on consumer hardware so they can probably scale up and down based on needs. And what is available from hosts.
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by tootie 1y ago
That's absolutely insane and isn't even the craziest thing to come from HHS this week.
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by tootie 2y ago
Renegotiating trade with Mexico and Canada was one of his most prominent achievements of his first term. Fair to say that deal wasn't substantially different from NAFTA, but it was a deal that he approved. To come back a few years late
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by tootie 2y ago
Yeah this is the biggest issue. No one is going to make a long-term investment to accommodate such a capricious policy maker. And certainly not with Congress making noises about overriding him. The upfront costs of reshoring manufacturing n
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by tootie 2y ago
It's an academically selective public city school. Very diverse student body in all dimensions (ethnicity, wealth, lots of immigrants). Most take public transit on their own. Kids there are just kinda treated like adults. They're

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