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by yorwba 3mo ago
For Alibaba, it's definitely all about shopping. That's where their money is. They haven't had much luck investing in entertainment so far.
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Giving it numerical data in an LLM-generated prompt doesn't seem to help much: https://imgur.com/a/KFhczOd It included the table verbatim and even managed to hallucinate a reasonable heading for it, but then the g
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by yorwba 3mo ago
GPT Image 1 ended up with a yellow tint without training on another image-generation model's output. It's just that humans like pictures with a soft sunset glow, and this is a very easy global signal for a preference model to pick
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by yorwba 3mo ago
The idea that Chinese models cost less to train seems to be based on that one time DeepSeek estimated the training cost for their V3 model at GPU rental rates as $5 million, and comparing this to other companies' entire R&D budgets
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by yorwba 3mo ago
There's a table in the article breaking down the rate by field.
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They use a "threshold calibrated so pre-ChatGPT papers flag at 0.4%", so these things do work most of the time. It also means that there are known false positives, so for any given paper, scoring above the threshold isn't irr
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Guayaquil is in Ecuador.
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All the coefficients and evaluation points are rational, so it's a counterexample in all fields where 2 ≠ 0 and 3 ≠ 0, doesn't matter whether that field is the complex numbers, real numbers, rational numbers or even a finite field
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Not without first filling the oceans and atmosphere with toxic amounts of oxygen, driving all slimy things that couldn't adapt fast enough into extinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event On th
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by yorwba 3mo ago
FWIW someone wrote their PhD thesis on the Iu Mien language: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/thesis/An_Iu_Mien_gramm... It's not a textbook, but that doesn't mean you can't try to use it as a t
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by yorwba 3mo ago
I think they're probably more concerned about their Chinese competition, considering that despite all that spending, the Qwen app still trails Bytedance's Doubao in terms of monthly active users: https://www.aicpb.com&#
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by yorwba 3mo ago
If you want a tutorial, http://designwithfontforge.com might be up your alley.
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by yorwba 3mo ago
You can read his speech here: https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/leaders/20260717/72728b6f... He mentioned open source as one way to stimulate innovation and development, that's all. Also pay attention t
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Well, if you look at Alibaba's financials for FY 2026 https://data.alibabagroup.com/ecms-files/1514443390/5b9061ed... their sales and marketing expenses rose by about 100 billion RMB (10% of revenue), "p
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Speech-to-text models predict the next token of text from the preceding tokens of text and the current tokens of speech.
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Do the parts before you hit enter still get updated if later context indicates you said something else?
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That's the error rate for STT, not TTS. TTS is generally easier than STT because you only need to produce one valid pronunciation and don't need to handle variation within and between individuals.
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You mean the fall to a thousand questions per month. Now that the volume is low enough someone has a chance of looking at every single one of them, maybe the StackOverflow community can finally collaborate in peace, safe from the onslaught
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by yorwba 3mo ago
OpenAI's own logo description was also written by you-know who: https://openai.com/brand/ The part I find funny is "right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands" while the l
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I think the article is mostly just confusing throughput and latency. Releasing on a fixed schedule adds some latency, but that doesn't mean there's a bottleneck constraining throughput. And long-term, development speed is determin
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China's labor costs are low for most labor-intensive manufactured goods that higher-income countries import from them. They're high for most labor-intensive manufactured goods that China imports from lower-income countries. It&#x2
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by yorwba 3mo ago
In his speech https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/leaders/20260717/72728b6f... Xi Jinping mentioned "open source" (开源) exactly once in a list of buzzwords. Deriving from that an "officially stat
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> Two piers were built in the 1940s, side by side As far as I can tell, only one pier was built (using stainless steel rebar) and the presentation is comparing it to a hypothetical alternative as a theoretical exercise: "What if the
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The context in which the author wants to know this information is that they enjoy reading fiction, but not low-effort AI fiction, so they built a tool to filter out some of the low-effort AI fiction. Not every application is such a high-sta
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When you go, I recommend you look at a map of how the local public transportation network is laid out physically (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanghai_Metro_Linem... ) notice how it gets sparser furthe
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Indeed you cannot rule out astrology on information-density grounds. Astrology involves quite a lot of information, the problem is that it's mostly unrelated to the outcomes of interest. To get back to the information-density of text,
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Whether a text was written by a human or not is just a single bit of information. So you can't rule out its detectability a priori, since even the shortest text contains more information than that. As long as LLMs are used to write tex
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They include the civilian noninstitutional population, which includes retirees who are not institutionalized in a nursing home: https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm#population
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The original scans with faded colors and yellowed paper are also available: https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/sources/scans
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That wouldn't solve their actual problem, which is that everyone involved in US car manufacturing could earn a similar amount of money doing something else, so they can't just copy the cost structure along with the design. On the

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