I predict that in five years, half the businesses currently running in the US will be bankrupt or merged into another business, and in ten years, the same will happen again. I can pretty confidently make this…
It's the employment market waking up to the lack of value of the universities' credentialing. The universities themselves don't have a competitive market to speak of, because their customers are so heavily subsidized†…
The Apple Vision Pro was a rare early entry into a field. Usually they wait until the technology is established and the userbase is just starting to take off, as is currently the case with folding phone displays.…
Is an inner screen camera really worth it? There's already a camera cutout on the outer screen, plus you can open the phone and use the full-size camera with the outer screen, which results in much more flattering…
I once bought an overnight train ticket from France to Italy, instead of spending more on a high-speed train ticket and a hotel night. It would have been a great idea, if the train didn't have its heater stuck on, in…
Property damage is often explicitly listed by municipalities as a reason to call 911. They might not care in New York or San Francisco, but in most small towns they usually try to catch vandals in the act.
It's usually on the web page of the local police or sheriff department.
It mostly involves sorting out Python dependency version conflicts. Also, it takes a lot of compute. It still involves training a model, which for a very small model requires a GPU with several times more ram than the…
I don't think they're accusing Chinese organizations of violating copyright or patent treaties, they're more so observing undesired behavior and pushing for domestic strategies to prevent it from happening.
They had three Sonic TV shows in the 90's alone, plus three more since, and four movies within the last decade, and that's just the Sonic franchise. Is he just now realizing that the people who watch it weren't all…
Hire an engineer and buy a beefy GPU. The foundation models aren't better enough to justify their high costs over open models.
The craziest part was that Google was pretty far behind other LLMs in development. Even the initial release of Gemini was one of the worst foundation models ever open to the public. I can't imagine how anyone could have…
The terms customs uses are completely unrelated to normal human words for things. They have a 21-page document (https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/202...) describing the difference between a bolt…
Mostly because Canada is allowing Chinese vehicle imports, which US auto industry is not happy about. There's also some pressure from US video streaming producers and distributors, after Canada expanded regulations for…
The company made famous by designing and manufacturing the Nazi uniforms currently has over a thousand stores, including hundreds in the US, and earns billions in annual revenue.
They don't in this case, because there's plenty of other airlines offering competing service, but when disruptions do prevent air travel, for example with the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, travelers cruising to their…
It practically is, considering that "looks good on TV" seems to be a much higher priority than "usable".
That's a common source of bottled CO2 sold, for example, to carbonate soft drinks or make dry ice.
You can tell that the model was trained on images from real-estate listings, because what's visible through the windows looks like a picture of a house from a real-estate listing.
Being able to afford remodeling your house is one thing, but being able to get permission to remodel your house can be a far more difficult proposition.
Her lackey got more prison time than she did, even though he was following her orders.
Ocean liners use several times more fuel per passenger mile than airliners.
Something similar happened to someone in my area who was letting her kid play alone at the playground inside the apartment complex. She even had the door open so that she could hear her child playing, but CPS said that…
The less useful biometric identification gets, the more we seem to use it. My bank sent out an a announcement that they will support voice identification, right after a news story went viral of a scammer using a voice…
Fun fact: It's expressly illegal to move around the cabin when the seatbelt sign is on while taxiing, but not when in the air. Turbulence is probably the leading cause of injuries and deaths from modern air travel, but…
I predict that in five years, half the businesses currently running in the US will be bankrupt or merged into another business, and in ten years, the same will happen again. I can pretty confidently make this…
It's the employment market waking up to the lack of value of the universities' credentialing. The universities themselves don't have a competitive market to speak of, because their customers are so heavily subsidized†…
The Apple Vision Pro was a rare early entry into a field. Usually they wait until the technology is established and the userbase is just starting to take off, as is currently the case with folding phone displays.…
Is an inner screen camera really worth it? There's already a camera cutout on the outer screen, plus you can open the phone and use the full-size camera with the outer screen, which results in much more flattering…
I once bought an overnight train ticket from France to Italy, instead of spending more on a high-speed train ticket and a hotel night. It would have been a great idea, if the train didn't have its heater stuck on, in…
Property damage is often explicitly listed by municipalities as a reason to call 911. They might not care in New York or San Francisco, but in most small towns they usually try to catch vandals in the act.
It's usually on the web page of the local police or sheriff department.
It mostly involves sorting out Python dependency version conflicts. Also, it takes a lot of compute. It still involves training a model, which for a very small model requires a GPU with several times more ram than the…
I don't think they're accusing Chinese organizations of violating copyright or patent treaties, they're more so observing undesired behavior and pushing for domestic strategies to prevent it from happening.
They had three Sonic TV shows in the 90's alone, plus three more since, and four movies within the last decade, and that's just the Sonic franchise. Is he just now realizing that the people who watch it weren't all…
Hire an engineer and buy a beefy GPU. The foundation models aren't better enough to justify their high costs over open models.
The craziest part was that Google was pretty far behind other LLMs in development. Even the initial release of Gemini was one of the worst foundation models ever open to the public. I can't imagine how anyone could have…
The terms customs uses are completely unrelated to normal human words for things. They have a 21-page document (https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/202...) describing the difference between a bolt…
Mostly because Canada is allowing Chinese vehicle imports, which US auto industry is not happy about. There's also some pressure from US video streaming producers and distributors, after Canada expanded regulations for…
The company made famous by designing and manufacturing the Nazi uniforms currently has over a thousand stores, including hundreds in the US, and earns billions in annual revenue.
They don't in this case, because there's plenty of other airlines offering competing service, but when disruptions do prevent air travel, for example with the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, travelers cruising to their…
It practically is, considering that "looks good on TV" seems to be a much higher priority than "usable".
That's a common source of bottled CO2 sold, for example, to carbonate soft drinks or make dry ice.
You can tell that the model was trained on images from real-estate listings, because what's visible through the windows looks like a picture of a house from a real-estate listing.
Being able to afford remodeling your house is one thing, but being able to get permission to remodel your house can be a far more difficult proposition.
Her lackey got more prison time than she did, even though he was following her orders.
Ocean liners use several times more fuel per passenger mile than airliners.
Something similar happened to someone in my area who was letting her kid play alone at the playground inside the apartment complex. She even had the door open so that she could hear her child playing, but CPS said that…
The less useful biometric identification gets, the more we seem to use it. My bank sent out an a announcement that they will support voice identification, right after a news story went viral of a scammer using a voice…
Fun fact: It's expressly illegal to move around the cabin when the seatbelt sign is on while taxiing, but not when in the air. Turbulence is probably the leading cause of injuries and deaths from modern air travel, but…