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nerbert··on Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100
Every $1 they invest brings back $100 in their valuation maybe.
nerbert··on Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening
We already have the answer to many of these questions.
nerbert··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
Neither with horses
nerbert··on When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Grape and aspergus, we all get it
nerbert··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
tell that to the 90% of belgians with deficiency
nerbert··on Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers
Just like cloud vs private server. It'll be based on use case.
nerbert··on $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
Some open source models will cross the chasm, some big ai providers will too, and in both case they will have their specific use cases.
nerbert··on Mistral OCR 3
On the OP link, they compare themselves to the capabilities of leaderboard AI's and beat them.
nerbert··on Mistral OCR 3
Just need to open the link to answer that question.
nerbert··on Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
Buildings are built to resist earthquakes. Outside, anything (electric poles, roof tiles...) can fall on you.
nerbert··on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
I'm all for everything being compatible with everything, but why should apple invest resources in testing/debugging android compatibility for something that they make?
nerbert··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
Indeed, target users are people seeking validation + kids and teenagers + people with a less developed critical mind. Stickiness with 90% of the population is valuable for Sam.
nerbert··on My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
A little detail in the otherwise great write up! I'm curious too.
nerbert··on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
Directly taken from Gate's book.
nerbert··on An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up”
It's not all or nothing. Within EU nations, you will find many systems that sit within a spectrum between a rigid 2 party system like the US, and a full blown multi-party coalition type government broken down into specific levels, like Belgium.
nerbert··on TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery
Depends who will ultimately deliver.
nerbert··on Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
Or, if you're more of the entrepreneurial mindset, do one last update of the software to introduce a pay-as-you-go/SaaS model with your credit card in, and when you're leaving, you remove your credit card info.
nerbert··on OpenAI’s Sora made me crazy AI videos then the CTO answered most of my questions
Might as well shield yourself from future litigation at the price of looking like a detached CTO.
nerbert··on Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?
Fascinating. So this MOND theory works in this case. If I understand correctly, scientists still prefer the dark matter theory because it applies in more cases at galactic scale, and this is just one occurrence of the MOND theory working fine?
nerbert··on Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral
Personally, growing a startup enough to catch the eye of EU regulators is a problem that I’d like to have.
nerbert··on The Apple Vision Pro
Why wasn't this incorporated by Apple in the original product?
nerbert··on Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Wow, I'd love to witness something like that one day. My circle doesn't include a lot of these people, and maybe that in itself is part of the more general problem.
nerbert··on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
Too bad, EV rental worked great for me with hertz, despite all the terrible testimonials in this comment section.
nerbert··on Labs.Google
What you’re seeing is exactly that, engineers and researchers in charge, trying to communicate by emulating stuff they don’t understand. Product people need to be involved to find a market fit for all this great tech.
nerbert··on Fukuoka court rules ban on dual nationality is constitutional
Any US citizen HAS to leave the US with their nationality. That’s the law.

U.S. citizens must use a U.S. passport to enter and leave the United States. This requirement is outlined in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, specifically 22 CFR 53.1. It states that a U.S. citizen must possess a valid U.S. passport to depart from or enter the United States unless they meet certain exceptions. This law ensures that U.S. citizens are properly documented for international travel, facilitating legal entry and exit from the country.

nerbert··on My insulin pump controller has a bug
Because anything different from that would be admitting that it is a life threatening situation and they are not going to treat it as such.
nerbert··on Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses
Welcome to Amazon!
nerbert··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
AI is still uncharted territory, both are equally important.
nerbert··on State Dept prioritizes 'AI-ready workforce' in its first AI strategy
Can't wait to see journalists introduce FOIA requests with prompt injections.
nerbert··on Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was fired from Y Combinator by his mentor
And just like sama may not be the best to run OpenAI of humanity’s interest, Putin isn’t the best to run Russia for humanity’s interest. But both men are incredibly successful at navigating power dynamics to maintain their control over their respective organizations.
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