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And for a time, it even seems true as long as the natural disasters that impact various customer offices happen to not impact that one particular data center…

I even wonder if the frontier AI models are really as capable as they claim or if the companies behind them have just special cases all the “hard” questions.

For example, the earlier generative LLMs couldn’t correctly answer ‘how many r’s in “strawberry”?’ due to the underlying nature of the tokens.

If they get it correct today, how do they do it? It feels like we’re being deceived by the Wizard of Oz…

As a non-Australian, I’d say your country’s own immigration policy is fairly unwelcoming.

I get no country wants to accept a wave of 80 year olds that will be a burden to its social welfare systems.

But I find it strange one would automatically deny seasoned working professionals in excellent health with knowledge, experience, and finances to offer — just because they were born before the premier of Good Morning Australia in 1981.

If you saw what goes on in middle school classrooms of native English speakers, I’d think you’d be in for a surprise…

Tell a kernel developer that spin locks aren’t for production code.

Bring a wind turbine with you because the laughing will be quite intense…

I don’t think lack of regulation is necessarily it.

If I build a robot that murders my neighbor, I’m still at fault.

We don’t absolve drivers of responsibility because of cruise control.

In that sense, AI is nothing new. If it is abused to cause harm, the person behind it should be liable.

That’s really cool! Neat cross of the old tank game with the wireframe graphics and asteroids!

That’s just under 300kg of gold…

Would be darkly hilarious if they were using the speaker or rear defroster as a cellular antenna.

(Yeah, technically horrible but I’m sure someone will find a way)

How is Europe similar then?

I’d expect the US spends vastly more energy on transportation (individual vehicles) and housing (larger, more AC, etc)

I suspect they know exactly what they are doing.

And the non-techies who have seen Terminator and other movies blindly line up behind them…

If AI wasn’t a thing would Nvidia be worth 1/10th is current value?

Gaming is lucrative but not THAT lucrative…

The first “computers” were humans…

How is it possible for particles (with mass) to exceed the speed of (massless) photons in a medium?

I don’t mean in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum. Just seems weird that something with mass could outpace something without… Why are the photons so slow?

We’re certainly not trying 15x harder to prevent car accidents as done to prevent another 9/11.

Prior we had metal detectors for people and hand luggage x-ray. Now we have x-ray backscatter for people, ID and facial photography, and a whole lot of other nonsense. Liquids banned, visitors at the gate not permitted, and the list goes on…

I don’t entirely agree with the actual measures taken purportedly to prevent a recurrence, but it’s hard to argue anything other than significant steps were taken.

Roughly a million people have died in car accidents since. Was there really nothing possible to prevent a fraction of them?

Where’s the new government organization? What new laws have been passed to prevent? What safety features are now required to mitigate such?

Ok, we have backup cameras and the funny headlights that turn off when the turn signal is on. Mission Accomplished?

Agreed. It would actually be a fairly perverse argument to claim that most AI output is somehow NOT owned by the AI provider…

Why wouldn’t they claim ownership of the AI output? They likely already claim ownership of the “transformation” (AI training) of the (pirated) input data.

Agreed. Companies don’t like trade secrets and proprietary information potentially being laundered to their competitors…

The AI not being human doesn’t escape ethical consideration - OpenAI employees are culpable for what they build.

This was academic research. Could just have easily been trade secrets and proprietary data.

This is worse than asking an intern to fix a shipping product…

Yes, I’d prefer that investors know that the new executive is not going to continue the same crap and same level of poor judgement. Want them to know the replacement is looking to do more than wear a golden parachute.

Imagine if investors actually thought the personnel change was a positive one…

We might even get to relive history the way things are going…

$2000 for a phone?

In this economy?

Feel like a $2000 computer in the 1980s made a lot more sense, even if damn expensive back then. Certainly would have lasted longer!

In my experience, hotels in other countries also take a copy of the passports of all guests.

Also learned “know your customer” laws require US people to give passport + SSN to a foreign bank who then reports it back to the US. Given that such bank’s website involves disabling right-click for “security”, the only glimmer of hope is that the data is catastrophically lost due to stupidity before it can be compromised.

Don’t Lamport timestamps require all nodes to be known in advance?

Powerful concept but impractical and far too unscalable to be used globally.

I expect soon each website will have its own browser, compiled as WASM which will be launched in order to render the JavaScript and HTML on the website.

I died of dysentery shortly after being born.

Makes Oregon Trail seem easy…

Would be interesting to do a FFT of pixels in the sequence of images and see if anything is in there.

Just because the brightness fluctuations aren’t noticeable doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

More like a company that had hundreds of millions of dollars and a couple decades should have fixed it by now.

If only Podman could beat Docker in advertising…

I didn’t know that theory but makes sense.

When I was little, I was surprised to find that using a Game Genie made a lot of Nintendo games instantly become boring.

I suspect first-sale doctrine doesn’t allow such.

However, if content is “licensed” instead of “sold” …