You inspired a poem (with sincere apologies to Martin Niemöller): First they came for the oligarchs, and I did not speak out -- because I was not an oligarch. Then they came for the political cronies, and I did not…
> Digital privacy is important to me. I think that all humans should have it. Feel free to disagree. Jared Kushner is a human. All the counter-arguments I've read to this comment so far have been along the lines of,…
You're right. They were quiet for a long time and had promised new things "by the end of summer." They missed that window but have really been on a roll since they started up again.
I hope you're right. I do wish there was another way to get to what you are describing besides the same strong-arm tactics that the U.S. used to subjugate many other countries in Latin America:…
I keep getting this feeling that we're in late-stage capitalism because of how all the oligarchs are maximizing extraction: * Facebook with this and its new scraping rules for business accounts * Turning Venezuela into…
I'm sure a lot has changed since cough 2004, but that was the state with the PowerPC G4 and G5. Machine learning Linux applications used the IBM Power architecture because of their vectorization features, and that…
You hit on something that's been making me nervous for awhile, and I hope I'm wrong. The US's relationship with Ukraine reminds me of stories I've read about how people train fighting dogs. It has just that level of…
Poke poke wake up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTu6TzLZIE I saw this video referenced from this guy's longer video about a crow escape room he made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpg3VvoIVfA Of course take it with…
You don't need their consent, but they don't suffer if they block you. Now Meta is saying they would be breaking their TOS.
> This won’t last forever but as long as the frontier labs are subsidizing this heavily the open models won’t matter. It's amazing how new we all perceive AI to be, and yet how old the tricks that the big players use.…
> I think right now it should definitely be a race to profitability, I haven't been listening too closely, but this is the first realistic mention I've seen that actually says what the "AI race" is or should be about.
Yeah that's a good point. The numbers are smaller and I was looking at it absolutely. Speaking from an absolute perspective I do think they are doing more with their money than either Anthropic or OpenAI.
> Man, a lot of this discussion sounds like people cheering for the last kid crossing the finish line. Sometimes it's ok to cheer for the last kid crossing the finish line because they're actually running a totally…
I'm a KDE guy through and through, don't get me wrong, but statements like this deserve attribution, otherwise it's just FUD.
> If a new project is causing a “strain on resources” then the utility planners have failed that community. Call it an echo chamber but when it comes to data centers that's the preponderance of news that I read. These…
> The whole point of the word purpose - its purpose if you will - is to be able to talk about the difference between what a system does and what it ought to do. To say the purpose of a thing is what it does, is to…
What you describe reminds me of some studies of jumping spiders. Some aspects of their intelligence (like counting) matches that of a 1 year old human, but because their brains are so tiny it just takes them much longer…
This paper focuses on the use of the providers' web and phone tools, and the data sharing arrangements they built through ad networks and tracking services like Data Dog. It doesn't talk about how they handle data from…
> - how do you solve the 3 body problem? you need people and their people and their people on the platform to use the platform > - how do you go about getting the 1st 1000 people for something like this? I am definitely…
Actually there's lots of evidence that there is life on (in?) Enceladus: https://sales.bigmachine.io/curious-moon This book teaches how use PostgreSQL to crunch real data from the Cassini probe, which shows a "smoking…
I think there's plenty we can do about it. * If we find life on another planet it provides a realignment for most of our world religions. That's important to several billion people. It might even create a new religion.…
I was hoping this was minimal enough for somebody with dementia to use to make calls, but when they say "Phone" they don't mean like the old folks do. I kept reading though, kind-of envying the physical keyboard because…
Yeah so like that XKCD, the cops have a post-it in their car with your details. But like fashion it's also making a statement.
How about internationalized then? Give the UN something to do?
You mean the same best friend that you unilaterally groped[1], shit-talked[2], undermined[3] and tried to drag into a brawl[4]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_crisis [2]…
You inspired a poem (with sincere apologies to Martin Niemöller): First they came for the oligarchs, and I did not speak out -- because I was not an oligarch. Then they came for the political cronies, and I did not…
> Digital privacy is important to me. I think that all humans should have it. Feel free to disagree. Jared Kushner is a human. All the counter-arguments I've read to this comment so far have been along the lines of,…
You're right. They were quiet for a long time and had promised new things "by the end of summer." They missed that window but have really been on a roll since they started up again.
I hope you're right. I do wish there was another way to get to what you are describing besides the same strong-arm tactics that the U.S. used to subjugate many other countries in Latin America:…
I keep getting this feeling that we're in late-stage capitalism because of how all the oligarchs are maximizing extraction: * Facebook with this and its new scraping rules for business accounts * Turning Venezuela into…
I'm sure a lot has changed since cough 2004, but that was the state with the PowerPC G4 and G5. Machine learning Linux applications used the IBM Power architecture because of their vectorization features, and that…
You hit on something that's been making me nervous for awhile, and I hope I'm wrong. The US's relationship with Ukraine reminds me of stories I've read about how people train fighting dogs. It has just that level of…
Poke poke wake up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTu6TzLZIE I saw this video referenced from this guy's longer video about a crow escape room he made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpg3VvoIVfA Of course take it with…
You don't need their consent, but they don't suffer if they block you. Now Meta is saying they would be breaking their TOS.
> This won’t last forever but as long as the frontier labs are subsidizing this heavily the open models won’t matter. It's amazing how new we all perceive AI to be, and yet how old the tricks that the big players use.…
> I think right now it should definitely be a race to profitability, I haven't been listening too closely, but this is the first realistic mention I've seen that actually says what the "AI race" is or should be about.
Yeah that's a good point. The numbers are smaller and I was looking at it absolutely. Speaking from an absolute perspective I do think they are doing more with their money than either Anthropic or OpenAI.
> Man, a lot of this discussion sounds like people cheering for the last kid crossing the finish line. Sometimes it's ok to cheer for the last kid crossing the finish line because they're actually running a totally…
I'm a KDE guy through and through, don't get me wrong, but statements like this deserve attribution, otherwise it's just FUD.
> If a new project is causing a “strain on resources” then the utility planners have failed that community. Call it an echo chamber but when it comes to data centers that's the preponderance of news that I read. These…
> The whole point of the word purpose - its purpose if you will - is to be able to talk about the difference between what a system does and what it ought to do. To say the purpose of a thing is what it does, is to…
What you describe reminds me of some studies of jumping spiders. Some aspects of their intelligence (like counting) matches that of a 1 year old human, but because their brains are so tiny it just takes them much longer…
This paper focuses on the use of the providers' web and phone tools, and the data sharing arrangements they built through ad networks and tracking services like Data Dog. It doesn't talk about how they handle data from…
> - how do you solve the 3 body problem? you need people and their people and their people on the platform to use the platform > - how do you go about getting the 1st 1000 people for something like this? I am definitely…
Actually there's lots of evidence that there is life on (in?) Enceladus: https://sales.bigmachine.io/curious-moon This book teaches how use PostgreSQL to crunch real data from the Cassini probe, which shows a "smoking…
I think there's plenty we can do about it. * If we find life on another planet it provides a realignment for most of our world religions. That's important to several billion people. It might even create a new religion.…
I was hoping this was minimal enough for somebody with dementia to use to make calls, but when they say "Phone" they don't mean like the old folks do. I kept reading though, kind-of envying the physical keyboard because…
Yeah so like that XKCD, the cops have a post-it in their car with your details. But like fashion it's also making a statement.
How about internationalized then? Give the UN something to do?
You mean the same best friend that you unilaterally groped[1], shit-talked[2], undermined[3] and tried to drag into a brawl[4]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_crisis [2]…