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Wouldn't enterprises investing in their own hardware be more likely to buy standard 4-GPU or 8-GPU servers? Apple machines aren't really designed for server racks.

Thanks for the lulz.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-ab...

This post sure ruffled some feathers judging from its downvotes.

>Isn't this how human brains work? We're just large probabilistic neural inference machines. A network of neural weights guided by past training.

Artificial neural nets are merely cartoons of how people guess human brains work. They're likely much further from reality than, say, the fundamental laws of physics which can be experimentally verified or disproved.

> It's like power consumption: it's going to scale, so we need to control how it scales.

I don't think your premise is obvious at all. Developed countries have stagnant or shrinking populations, and there is a general trend toward greater power efficiency over time. So why should total power consumption be expected to keep increasing?

A body of independent subject matter experts who command public respect is anathema to authoritarian governments. It's why authoritarian takeovers frequently start by targeting major universities.

"No build step and no application backend: the mesh, the solve and the audio all run on your own machine."

"What do you do for work?"

"I find ways to defeat adblockers"

"No waiting on the same row, less contention."

> Doesn't that mean agencies like this are not free to set their own rules when a law is ambiguous?

Agencies can say whatever they want but courts are not required to defer to them when this inevitably goes to a lawsuit.

Do you target macos or windows, which have always given users full control of software management?

So EU "digital sovereignty" still means hitching most critical functionality to Google?

The quotes are appropriate because only Congress, not executive action, can change the official name.

Another interesting question is why the frontier labs are piling on pure maths, which has little direct economic value compared to something like law or improving the efficiency of their own models? How much OpenAI and Anthropic are paying to serve these models for ordinary users is the elephant in the room. A cynical take is that the frontier labs are trying their best to pump up their pre-IPO valuation through flashy headlines.

What about AI research itself? Is OpenAI close to automating its human staff out of a job?

Were you a Caucasian in China? Foreigners, particularly those from powerful Western countries, tend to get much more deferential treatment than locals.

Any independent reasons for your claim besides appeal to authority?

A lot of "native" apps rely on the Internet for essential functionality. Your Starbucks app would be deadweight if it couldn't pull your account info and store catalogs from starbucks.com.

Or just buy a MI300A server like https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-g383-r80-aap1-amd-inst...

It's interesting that Linux users have been conditioned to expect this level of coupling when any other user would find that absurd. Do Windows 10 users expect to be stuck on software from 2015? Should one have to switch to Windows Insiders just to run recent games?

The outbox is basically a local queue in front of the remote queue.

What happens if Google says "nope" to a developer who applied for ADV? Does the developer retain the ability to distribute their software to end users through whatever non-Google-approved channels they use today?

From day one, Google sought to attract customers to Android by marketing it as an "open" alternative to Apple's locked-down appliance model. Android couldn't quite compete with Apple's UI polish or battery life, but that was okay because Android sought to be a hand-held personal computer that could also make phone calls. The most important quality of personal computers, of course, is that they can run whatever software their users desire, including the users' own code.

Having gained their market share, Google now pulls a bait-and-switch by quietly retreating from Android's "open" messaging and philosophy. That's too bad for Google, because a mere appliance, it's worse than iPhone in every dimension.

Isn't Docker is basically a front end to containerd, the most common k8s container runtime? One could just as well ask why use a completely separate container stack just for local development when docker shares the same business end as the prod environment.

Would they be able to hire top ML talent with US government salaries?

All the Jetbrains tooling as well.

> It’s a perfect example of research that does nothing except making people feel virtuous for doing the research.

You could say the same for basically any of the fundamental sciences since none of them translate to any appreciable short-term economic value. What is the point of continuing research in physics or mathematics? Math theorems don't convert immediately to industrial output. Why invest even one dollar into astrophysics instead of having people stargaze on their own dime? Should the US outsource basic research to other countries?

>This is a completely derivative conclusion from something I learned in molecular biology as an undergrad. The only "new" thing here is saying that poor people live in environments, since we've known for literally decades that DNA methylation is affected by environment.

It's one thing to theorize a causal relationship, but informed policy-making needs actual data that can only be obtained by legwork. What aspects of the social/cultural environment are we talking about? What genes are being expressed differently? What are their estimated health or economic impacts?

"illicitly" implies a law that is being violated. What law?

See Sarah Wynn-Williams' book and congressional testimony for more.