tomelders

In other words - "We don't like the reporting around how bad the economics of AI are, so we're cherry picking our own data, presenting it out of context, and asking you to look at it through rose tinted spectacles."

SpaceX's has disclosed that they're loosing $2Bln a quarter on A.I - and rising - in their IPO documents.

Anthropic told the Department of War-nee-Defence that they'd made $5bln total, which is a lot LOT less than what they're spending.

We'll see what's in OpenAi's IPO later this year I guess. I'll be very surprised if they're losing less that $100bln a year.

What are you talking about Willis?

I do think local models are the future, but there's still the question of cost to be answered. Even if there's some slew of effincency improvements that mean an LLM can run locally on consumer level hardware on an affordable budget (and that's a big "if"), there's still the cost of training the modles to consider.

Assuming we end up in a future where people pay to run multiple smaller models on their machines for specific tasks (e.g. A summariser model, a python coding model, or however fine grained/macro you want to go), the people training those models will need to turn a profit.

So how much will that cost? And how often will consumers have to pay? Models have a very short self life. Say you have a dedicated python coding model - that needs re-training every time there's a significant update to the language itself, any popular packages, related technologies (e.g. servers, cloud infra etc). So how often will users need to "upgrade" to the lastest version? It's going to be "frequently".

And it still needs the language stuff on top of that. Users aren't going to interact with a python coding model by writing python. They're going to use natural language. So the model needs all that stuff. And they're going to give it problems to solve. What if you asked the model "Write me a Bezier curve function". It needs to know about bezier curves, which have nothing to do with Python. So where do these LLM providers draw the line on what makes it into the training data and what doesn't?

And if an LLM doesn't know what a Bezier curve is, that's not going to stop it from just hallucinating an answer. If a significat proportion of prompts resulted in a response that said "Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about", then people will just stop using it. The utility of these things will be quickly overshadowed by the frustrations.

The way these frontier models have been introduced and promoted has set unrealistic expectations, and there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.

My understanding is that the great filter theory means this is bad news for us humans here on earth. And considering the state of the world right now, it's especially ominous. Fate loves irony.

The apps not working either. I guess it’s just down.

This is ridiculously serendipitous. I was looking for a tutorial for this exact shader for a game I'm working on.

In music, the performer can either perform the music as written, or they can inject emotion into the piece by changing the velocity and timing of the notes. This app lets you inject the emotion through timing, even though you don’t actually know how to play piano.

It also lets you focus entirely on the “feel” of the piece.

I found it really fun.

“This article is for paying subscribers only”

The Free Press

Good to hear it’s not just me. Syntax highlighting and old fashioned code completion are essential for me, but CoPilot is a distraction.

I think “reading” code is my least favourite part of the job, and CoPilot means I have to spend a lot more time reading the code it generates, trying to figure out what it’s trying to do, then realising it’s wrong and I still have to write it myself. It’s rapid fire context switching.

But turning it on only when I need a second opinion seems like a better way to use it.

It boggles my mind. CSS isn’t hard anymore.

Hoverboards.

Are these really hacks? This is just using ChatGPT normally and as intended.

I made an iOS game years ago along similar lines called “Block Depot”.

It was like a warehouse for Tetrominoes, where you’d get orders and deliveries. So you had to get blocks out, and put blocks in.

Nobody played it.

I feel like this is doing what an animator would do, just badly.

Brian Blessed is more famous than Diana Rigg.

> He was originally hired by two other neuroscientists who also sell biopharma stocks short

I'm blown away by this investment strategy. What a brilliant way to monetise exposing fraud. Get your proof, short the stock, publish your proof, profit!

I think they mean it's not in the best interest of the people who "own" the company. Those people want to minimise costs as much as possible and Unions get in the way of them doing whatever the hell they want.

Allow me to extend my contrafibularities for creating such a fun little project.

Advertising used to be a creative industry. Online advertising has pretty much destroyed that. Perhaps anti-tracking measures will put the focus back on quality in advertising.

GDPR should have been implemented as a standard that browser vendors should implement. e.g.

``` window.getPersonalDataPreferences() ```

It should only prompt the user to submit their preferences if no preferences were detected, or a specific permission is required to allow certain features.

People may argue that everyone will just turn everything off everywhere and forget about it, and I would argue "so what?".

The burden of GDPR has been dumped on the wrong people and has become so tedious to administer it's basically useless and a massive waste of time and energy.

You're cherry picking.

Screenplays are working documents that multiple teams of people from different disciplines work from. Form should always follow function, and the screenplay format does just that. It's got nothing to do with "evaluating" the "content".

Imagine you and I share an apartment and we split the rent between us. It's not a great apartment. There's mould in the bathroom caused by a lack of ventilation. The carpet is a mess. The power keeps cutting out if we plug too many things in.

Now imagine I tell the landlord I'm going to move out unless he fixes these issues and he then offers me a 50% discount on the rent. Now imagine he recoups that discount by putting your rent up by the same amount. And now imagine that I use those savings to buy a nice big TV for the two of us. The bathroom is still covered in mould. The carpet is still a mess. The power still cuts out all the time. And you pay more rent than me.

But I bought an awesome TV for us. So I'm the good guy right?

Not a fan of it myself. I've never understood this desire to avoid writing CSS wherever possible. It's not hard - at least not anymore - but this type of abstraction makes it hard, in my opinion.

On top of that, I think it's just a bad idea to pepper your html with utility class names.

That said, these days pretty much everything I do is React, and styled-components' ability to interpolate props in styles and attributes is pretty darn nifty.

Would a Unity/Unreal engine style model work?

Managers just want to be able to make software without those pesky developers getting in the way.

To add to this; Cosa Nostra is Sicillian. Over the water, in Naples, it's "Camorra". In Puglia it's "Sacra Corona Unita". In Calabria, it's the awkward to pronounce"'Ndrangheta", who I believe are consindered to be the most dangerous, and closely aligned with the Albanian Mafia IIRC.

There are more, but those are the main active ones. Collectivley, they are Mafia type organisations.

The word Mafia itself is Sicillian in origin, and means "Swagger".

As a minister, she had to agree with the government. It's called "Cabinet Collective Responsibility"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_collective_responsibil...

Technically, it was suspended during the 2016 referendum, but was it? Really?

Nah. Had Cameron's gamble paid off, Gove and Grayling would have been out on their ear.

Barbarians is a great read too. It was the first non-fiction I read got me hooked on history.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0031RDVRS/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...