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If Waymo has taught me anything, it’s that people will eventually accept robotic surgeons. It won’t happen overnight but once the data shows overwhelming superiority, it’ll be adopted.

Per the article, all current European data centers used 62 million cubic meters of water for 2024. That is 3.4% of only Spain's existing desalination capacity (≈1.8 billion m³/yr).

Seems like this is solvable:

1. Keep rolling out the closed-loop cooling improvements now appearing in new DC designs.

2. Add more desal capacity where it’s cheap (sunny coastlines + renewables) to cover the residual demand.

Sources: - https://aedyr.com/plantas-desaladoras-agua-salobre-espana/

Upvoting this since presumably you're actually the CTO at Snyk and people should see your official response, but wow this feels wildly irresponsible. You could have proved the PoC without actually stealing innocent developer credentials. Furthermore, additional caution should have been taken given the conflict of interest with the competitor product to Cursor. Terrible decision making and terrible response.

This has been my experience. Lots of companies are implementing LLMs but are not advertising it. There's virtually no upside to being public about it.

I know of many, many LLM systems in production system, since that's what I've been helping companies build since the start of the year. Mostly it's pretty rote automation work but the cost savings are incredible.

Agentic workflows are a much higher bar that are just barely starting to work. I can't speak to their efficacy but here's a few of the ones that are sort of starter-level agents that I've started seeing some companies adopt:

- https://www.intercom.com/fin

- https://www.rox.com/

- https://devin.ai/

- https://bolt.new/

- https://v0.dev/

Presumably one of the PMs you’re referring to has posted this article for additional information. Feels like they’re doubling down on their initial position.

https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/8187090244506-...

Wild response. It appears you did not learn a single lesson through this process.

There are legit criticisms of Sam Altman that can be levied but none of them are in this article. This is just reductive nonsense.

The arguments are essentially:

1. The technology has plateaued, not in reality, but in the perception of the average layperson over the last two years.

2. Sam _only_ has a record as a deal maker, not a physicist.

3. AI can sometimes do bad things & utilizes a lot of energy.

I normally really enjoy the Atlantic since their writers at least try to include context & nuance. This piece does neither.

Good. In the US, we should all wake up to the fact that we enjoy the lives we lead in large part to the fact that we’re able to project strength. AI will be another piece in the puzzle of national defense.

Seems reasonable? If you’re planning on staying free forever and are already gated to 90 days of history, why would you care if they delete 1+ year old content? From a privacy perspective, I’d even say it’s a positive update.

Yeah. I enjoy it for watching movies/shows, especially while flying. I also like to do a couple of hours of work (programming) in a cool environment with immersive music every couple of days. I keep it on my standing desk and when I stand up, I frequently will put it on.

I don't recommend it for non developers until there is more content, but it's a really neat dev kit device that shows where the future is headed.

Feels like this is going to become one of those things we look back on in retrospect and regret. We should be full steam ahead on identifying what effects microplastics & phthalates more broadly are having on our health & adjust accordingly. Early indications seem... not great.

Wow. I understand business models that are freemium but for a premium priced B2B product? This feels like an incredible rug pull. This changes things for me.

Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-16/neuralink...

Seems that way. From the announcement: "This is a big bet. Automattic is doubling down on chat after their acquisition last year of Texts.com, a messaging app with a similar mission. Our teams and products will merge, and I will take on the role leading the team as Head of Messaging. It will take a bit of time for us to integrate and combine forces under the Beeper brand. We’ve got big plans!"

I'm not sure when OpenAI added them, but you can hear similar things when using the ChatGPT voice mode on iOS. Sometimes it feels almost like a latency stutter and other times it feels intentionally human.

Fantastic news. I use them all the time in Phoenix. My mom uses them to get to her doctor appointments. I think people underestimate how much of a quality of life improvement these are for people even when compared to Uber/Lyft.

Seems like a big deal that this is open weights. Am I missing something or is this a very serious contender to Stable Diffusion?

Is your contention that all of these websites and providers all simultaneously decided, incorrectly, to use these popups and that there is no legal requirement for them?

> Did we ever get an explanation as to how Gemini Pro had such a large increase in rating so suddenly?

Different fine-tune and gave it access to the Internet.

Source: https://x.com/asadovsky/status/1750983142041911412?s=20

I feel like the title massively underplays the accomplishment. This is now the number two preferred LLM response in a blind comparison, only behind GPT-4. For a model created by a small team in Paris to be ahead of Gemini Pro, Claude, GPT-3.5, etc. is beyond impressive.

Not sure it's worth putting a lot of weight behind an anonymous source when it directly contradicts a lot of what Pepsi has said publicly[1]. There is a whole movement to short Tesla and a lot of blogs & social media purposefully put out a lot of FUD that makes it difficult to understand what are real critiques vs market manipulation. I'm sure the Semi program isn't perfect but the blog post seems... biased.

[1] https://vimeo.com/851092605

It seems the operating loss may have been expected for the quarter and the CFO's departure could be unrelated. Always difficult to tell in these scenarios but the Sphere officially opened on September 29th. I find it hard to believe they expected to be in the black within less than 45 days.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/11/07/media/sphere-cfo-quit-after-ja...

I love how thorough Cloudflare post mortem’s are. Reading the frank, transparent explanations are like a breath of fresh air compared to the obfuscation of nearly every other company comm’s strategy.

We were affected but it’s blog posts like these that make me never want to move away. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone has bad days. It’s how you react afterwards that makes the difference.

I like to think of all responses from LLM's like the top-rated post on Stack Overflow or a top five blog post from a Google search. It's helpful information that _may_ be correct but needs to be verified. A lot of the time, it's spot on. Some percentage of the time, it's straight up incorrect. You have to be willing to compare various sources of data and find what's accurate. It's a nice, easy-to-use starting point, essentially.

Worked on a team doing nationwide MLS feeds via a variety of sources eg IDX, VOW, etc. Feels like some sort of arcane art after a certain point trying to get everything to play nicely on a unified interface.

> 65 min read

That's when you know it's going to be amazing. Single best narrative-form overview of the current state of integrating LLM's into applications and the challenges encountered I've read so far. This is fantastic and must have required an incredible amount of work. Massive kudos to the author.

Their self driving cars do work? I rode in one for 30 minutes one-way on Sunday. Used it for my return trip too. No driver. Take at least 2 - 3 rides a week and have been for a few months now.

Weird. Should tell that to the Waymo that drove me 20 minutes from my home to a restaurant downtown last night. I was the only human in the car, located in the back seat.

I'm wearing a lot of hats at the moment since we're still in startup mode so the list is pretty varied:

- I ask it to create list of questions that different personas might want to answer with our reports section. I then ask it to categorize those questions & to then provide suggestions for graphs & dynamic filters that would help answer those questions.

- I ask it for help translating emails and documents for international customers.

- I ask it to create markdown, formatted spec documents with really verbose context. Helps me as sort of a foundation for feature sprint kickoffs.

- I ask it to take internal documentation and to simplify it so that we're able to use it for public facing help center documentation.

- I use it as my first resource for asking questions about SQL queries, React patterns, explaining different things eg SVG properties and how to manipulate them. I gut check things with Google when I feel like it might be hallucinating but generally it does really well ~ 90% of the time. Saves lots of time compared to going to Google first.

- I ask it for help writing tests or help refactoring code

- I asked it for help in creating some policy & procedures docs that we needed for compliance. Essentially gives you a decent template to then build from & customize.

- Lots of other things. It replaced Google for so many things in my daily workflow. It also helps a lot when you're not feeling creative and you need some ideas.