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Is Q the answer to this whole thread? People are talking about AWS Bedrock but that seems like something a startup would build upon and offer something like Q, eh?

I have a _small_ e-commerce company and we have >300GB. Most of that bulk is photos and videos though, but in an ideal world I’d like my AI assistant to find that stuff too: “I’m making a Boxing Day ad campaign. Can you show me the ads that we’ve made in previous years and all of the photos that we’ve taken of our new Reindeer and Elf designs?”

I’m sorry, I don’t understand those limits. It uses a lot of unfamiliar terms like “batch inference” and “modality”. I just want a nice UI that I can give my hard-drive to and then ask it questions.

Is there a limit? Could I create a knowledge base with 10,000 documents? 100k? 1M?

Amazon does need the competition though

> And if you're dealing with what would be an overly-large amount of repeated values, you just run multiple queries yourself instead of one.

It is a bit annoying to do this though. It would be nice if it was done for me automatically be some db driver.

> And if round-trip latency is some kind of issue with running queries sequentially, you can always issue queries in parallel instead.

Some languages or frameworks don’t provide great parallel ization features though.

I guess at the end of the day if it’s an extension to SQL that you can optionally use, then I would have some situations where I would use it.

China

The hybrid phone-table-laptop takes another small step. I've been expecting this feature for a while. Our phones are becoming tables. Our tables are becoming laptops. Our laptops are becoming mobile.

The PDF reading seems to have issues. At first it says that it can’t read PDFs, but then after I encouraged it, it did try to read it, but said that it was unreadable due to formatting issues…

Can someone explain why they keep losing when all the evidence does seem to say that it isn’t problematic? Is it just politics?

No sympathy for those scum. If it was your low-income parents being scammed of their life savings, you wouldn’t either. No one is stopping these criminals. There is no legal system to pursue them. They operate largely outside of any repercussions. No sympathy for those scum.

This phenomenon is not limited to hospitals.

Incredible that even the least viewed 2021 articles are still really well done! One has a photo. They have 5 and 6 citations respectively. They both have multiple sections.

As someone who was already impressed by Wikipedia, wow! Talk about toiling in obscurity

I wish they would talk about the real corruption of the IPCC and other international sports organizations which basically exist to take bribes from host countries. There's a reason big sporting events often take place in dictatorships.

(or maybe they do, I didn't browse super thoroughly)

They do address it here: https://enhanced.org/science-is-real/

Whether you like or accept their treatment of the subject is up to you

The secret sauce for about 100 simplistic AI startups is public information now.

But then by that logic any action by any platform is never illegal. It's their platform, they can do whatever they want. If you don't like, don't use their platform, right? Is that what you're saying? I'm not totally unsympathetic to that POV, but in practice I guess it doesn't seem to be working out so well...

Streaming is a different matter. I agree that you don't own anything if you stream. I also don't think lack of popularity for "buying" is a reason not to have a reasonable rule about the definition of "buying".

They force sellers to use their payment processor. If you don't, they charge an extra 0.5% markup on top, which basically means that no 3rd party payment processor can be competitive on price.

I think you can also measure their power in the same way as Amazon - The % of fees that they capture as a percent of sales volume goes up every year. Slow squeeze.

Is vertical integration illegal?

> PE firms jacking up the cost of housing

They're just profiting off of a supply shortage. Fix the shortage and they won't be able to make money.

That's not what the word "monopoly" means though...

> Our second option used to be the Facebook/Instagram/TikTok to Shopify connection but with that being dead in the water most of us have had to commit 100% to FBA to be able to stay afloat.

Can you explain this further?

Also do the fact that you never own what you "buy". Buy means buy. Period. Amazon, Audible, Google Play, Apple TV, etc. I would like to _own_!

Do Shopify next! And Apple's 30% tax is literally outrageous!

Singing in the style of another singing should be as legal as training an AI to do it.

This space is starting to get crowded. Can anyone compare this with some of the other solutions coming out recently?

A-priori, is there any explanation for a platform charging 30% other than monopoly? Imagine if a grocery store charged 30% for slotting fees?

Yeah, the article and this whole comments thread is very intellectually dishonest.

Disclosure: I’m like, 70% optimistic about the project. I don’t believe that the team are lying. Anyway, as with many things, time will tell. I wouldn’t get worked up over it. If it fails it’s pretty inconsequential.

A CBDC does not necessarily need to be implemented with that capability.