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by wrasee 2y ago
I'm confused, partly out of my own ignorance but after looking at their site I'm still none the wiser. Do modern cars essentially have some interface that means you can control them electronically? Is this a public interface, li
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by wrasee 2y ago
It is a remarkable achievement. But if “some training data from OpenAI” turns out to essentially be a wholesale distillation of their entire model (along with Llama etc) I do think that somewhat dampens the spirit of it. We don’t know that
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by wrasee 2y ago
Right. I think many here are enjoying the Schadenfreude against OpenAI, but that hardly makes it right. It just makes it a race to the bottom.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Yes, but in science you reference your work and credit those who came before you. Edit: I am not defending OpenAI and we are all enjoying the irony here. But it puts into perspective some of the wilder claims circulating that DeekSeek was
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by wrasee 2y ago
If someone replies to your comment then I think it’s entirely fair that they take your point in the context in which it was intended. Otherwise, if they are not interested in the point then simply don’t reply to it. No-one enjoys being tak
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by wrasee 2y ago
Anthropic was founded in part from OpenAI alumni, so to some extent it’s true for them too. And it’s still taken them over 3 years to get to this point.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Of course not. But in this context the point was simply that it’s not exactly a fair comparison. I’m reminded how hard it is to reply to a comment and assume that people will still interpret that in the same context as the existing discussi
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by wrasee 2y ago
I would extend the same reasoning to Mistral as DeekSeek as to where they sit on the innovation pipeline. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing (when done fairly), only to remain mindful that it’s not a fair comparison (to go back to the ori
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by wrasee 2y ago
Disrespecting copyright and personal data is good for users? I guess I disagree. I would say that it’s likely great for the company’s users, but not so great for everyone else (and ultimately, humankind).
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by wrasee 2y ago
Mistral.
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by wrasee 2y ago
I don’t think it’s that harsh. And I don’t also deny that they’re a capable competitor and will surely mix in their own innovations. But would they be where they are if they were not able to borrow heavily from what has come before?
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by wrasee 2y ago
This is true, and practically speaking it is how it is. My point was just not to pretend that it’s a fair comparison.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Also don’t forget that if you think some of the big names are playing fast and loose with copyright / personal data then DeepSeek is able to operate in a regulatory environment that has even less regard for such things, especially so f
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by wrasee 2y ago
Except it’s not really a fair comparison, since DeepSeek is able to take advantage of a lot of the research pioneered by those companies with infinite budgets who have been researching this stuff in some cases for decades now. The key insig
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by wrasee 2y ago
Agree with all of that. I would love for Kagi to be the future of search. Let’s hope that they can do so at $5/month. My hunch is that they are happy just growing a sustainable business. And I say good for them.
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by wrasee 2y ago
I’m not. I’m pushing back against folk that forget not everyone thinks the same as them. That “$5 is practically nothing” reads like a statement of fact, which is obviously ridiculous depending on where you’re from. And yes, it definitely
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by wrasee 2y ago
A strange thing to say about a discussion forum, whose essential purpose is the discussing of things. There is absolutely social value in understanding what people are willing to pay for things. And if it’s cost me more than $10 to present
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by wrasee 2y ago
Except for these types of services scale is in your favour. A bakery has a high cost of goods sold, whereas services like this tend to have high fixed costs but relatively light costs per customer. So scale is very much to your advantage (
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by wrasee 2y ago
I suppose my argument was essentially that $5/month felt on the high side, so I love that the answer is actually to pay $10/month. This is the way. In all seriousness, I am sure you are right and don’t deny the promise on offer.
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by wrasee 2y ago
If they get 100x the customers on a $2 tier than a $5 tier then yes, they can be profitable. The question is, could they get 100x? Or even 10x? I don’t know, and I assume they’ve done their homework and believe that they can’t. I just wond
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by wrasee 2y ago
> $5 is practically nothing That’s quite a privileged thing to say. This forum is read by folk all across the world and I would say that it’s up to each individual to say how much $5 means to them.
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by wrasee 2y ago
Genuinely interested. So I went to their site and I have to say it's quite refreshing. But then - a few bucks a month turns out to be $5/month, and that comes with a limit of 300 searches/month. That's an average of ju
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by wrasee 2y ago
I'm a big linux fan. Use it every day. I even use linux on the desktop to develop Windows software that isn't even distributed on linux. But am I really that alone in recognizing a lot of truth in this article? It's sad t
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by wrasee 2y ago
This is so on-brand for Microsoft. I can't help but believe that their aggressiveness in pushing AI to everyone is going to hurt them long term, especially in terms of trust. We'll see.
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by wrasee 2y ago
I am saying that it's unhelpful to miss the context, and it would be a shame if one was to misread that the Swift compiler can't even provide error locations, which it obviously can in the vast majority of cases. Swift's comp
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by wrasee 2y ago
You’re aware that the comment was specific to (I would say) reasonably complex SwiftUI expressions? How familiar are you with the context here?
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by wrasee 2y ago
C++ is hardly niche, nor I would say is the desire to interop with large, established languages with decades of existing code and libraries. As someone who has worked in both Swift and C++ I’m grateful for those that choose to make an effor
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by wrasee 2y ago
But even then the weighting is _very_ uneven. The number of votes per elector can vary wildly by state, by as much as some small whole multiple. So the “weight” of one vote in one state can be say, four times that of another state. It’s a
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by wrasee 2y ago
Ah yes I remember that now, I had forgotten about that! Funny, especially now that I see Apple are now going the other way with a dedicated "Passwords" app on iOS 18 and macOS 15. And for Apple to do this - against their instinct
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by wrasee 2y ago
If Mozilla released a separate passwords app so you could manage and access your passwords outside of Firefox I think the two would be more comparable. That would promote your passwords as part of your Mozilla account, not just Firefox. Bi

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