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PunchTornadoon Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20

still getting hits from IE users on my site. 69.71 million people around the world used Internet Explorer to access the web in 2021.

PunchTornadoon Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20

https://killedbymicrosoft.info/

163 services killed by Microsoft. But they still didn't manage to kill Internet Explorer.

I don't know why Google gets the hate for killing things.

PunchTornadoon Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20

I was surprised when they announced they're killing workplace. A lot of businesses relied on it.

PunchTornadoon Trillium, the sixth generation of Google Cloud TPU

Anyone know how this compares with latest nvidia?

PunchTornadoon Insatiable: A life without eating

One of those reads that changes your perspective on life in a way.

PunchTornadoon California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

how would this impact solar stock? to me it seems that the demand for solar will decrease.

PunchTornadoon California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

nice website, would be cool to see at EU level.

PunchTornadoon Can Demis Hassabis save Google?

I find Gemini the best. Paying the 20£ subscription for advanced. It's been almost 2 months since I opened chatGPT, gemini completely replaced it for me and I'm a happy customer.

Everyone has their preference and maybe some people like you prefer chatGPT, but the way google makes deals with other companies like apple and samsung, I don't see openai competing in the future.

PunchTornadoon Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code

Is that normal? I imagine the poor bastards wanted to put it on their CV for their next job.

PunchTornadoon OpenAI's "Own Goal"

but.... they say they are an NGO

PunchTornadoon OpenAI's "Own Goal"

none of these examples say that we are not in for the money or profit and under an NGO

If you read the article openai says that they are not in for the money and then proceed to be in for the money. Also, Ilya says to not change anything because it will hurt recruitment.

PunchTornadoon OpenAI's "Own Goal"

The perceived hypocrisy stems from the contrast between OpenAI's public statements about benefiting humanity and their actions, which reveal a profit-driven focus similar to Microsoft's. Unlike Microsoft, OpenAI lacks transparency about this core motivation. Microsoft is not bullshitting that they do AI for the common good under an NGO.

PunchTornadoon Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI

I find gemini advanced better than gpt4. it is my go to option now.

PunchTornadoon Sora: Creating video from text

Google, Microsoft and Facebook have capital and compute. That is not an OpenAI moat.

Facebook has Moat because of their social network. It is very hard to switch to another network. Google with search has no moat because it is easy to switch to a new search engine. OpenAI has no moat because it is easy to switch to a new AI chat once a better product becomes available. AWS has moat because it is hard to switch cloud providers. Apple has moat because people want to buy apple products. etc.

A moat can be seen where even if you have a worse product than the competition, or users hate you, they still use your products because the cost to switch is immense.

PunchTornadoon The math exams of my life

Makes me sad. None of these questions can ignite a passion for maths or connect maths to the real world.

PunchTornadoon Free unexpected MIT courses to kick start the new year

Why would you need it? How would you pass exams? Who would pay for a teacher reading your exam and ensure you don't teach.. etc.

PunchTornadoon The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement

I hope Microsoft ends up paying billions and billions in damages and similar lawsuits will follow.

PunchTornadoon If 95% doesn't count as a vote of no confidence, what number would?

I work as a company where the board or the investors fired the ceo. I was furious. We were chatting among employees how these guys are destroying our company and our ceo was great. In an employee vote, the ceo would easily get 90%.

3 months have passed now. We are sued for investor fraud. The company stock hit the ground. That ceo actually ruined the company, but us as employees didn’t know the facts.

PunchTornadoon Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

Seems like a very big step down to them.

PunchTornadoon How to boss without being bossy

People should put effort in how they convey the message.

If they don't put it, they don't care about you.

A manager who doesn't care how he conveys the message, (or doesn't care how the same message is received differently by his different reports), doesn't care about his reports.

PunchTornadoon How to boss without being bossy

I disagree. No matter how much trust there is I accept nobody to tell me "I need you to do ..." or some other direct variant. Fortunately I encountered few bad bosses like this.

PunchTornadoon The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny? (2022)

What is a knowledge gradient? Thanks

PunchTornadoon Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted

There was an article about how bankruptcy lawyers are charging 2000$ per hour + other expenses.

PunchTornadoon Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand

Hmm, I don't get it. The prediction was accurate 49% of the time, which is what I was expecting in a coin toss like this one. In which way does it predict the answer at step 1 if it's a binary choice with 50% accuracy?

PunchTornadoon OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

My experience is different. I think Bard is giving better answers than chatgpt so I really use it daily even more than google search.

PunchTornadoon BioNTech presents positive phase 1/2 data for CAR-T cell therapy candidate

To create the antigen do we need to sequence every individual that received treatment? Is it a personal antigen for everybody?

PunchTornadoon OpenAI is too cheap to beat

I was using Bard and chatGPT in parallel, but lately I just default to Bard. To me it's a better model with much more accurate answers, while chatGPT just gives you bombastic words.

PunchTornadoon Mistral 7B

I think it won, but not by much. Also Mistral is a 7B, so just by being close to GPT4 is a success.

PunchTornadoon Speakers of different languages remember visual scenes differently

as my old fried Witty used to say, the limits of my language are the limits of my world.

PunchTornadoon Open Challenges in LLM Research

I think more people worked on the covid problem which was 3 years ago