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Depends on what you want to do. Some task specific models can be trained with a few ten or hundred thousand training examples so you can use a bigger model to produce synthetic tra…

You said it yourself, model size and hardware. Big models cost more (good optimisation reduces things slightly, but they still need the hardware).

If someone says just the word, it's hard to say if they mean just artificial selection, which can and is done to some extent today via genetic counselling by medical geneticists, c…

The 13,800 number seem like it would be quoted from their annoucement of the $830 million funding round they had in March. Here's CNBC's article on it: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03…

Yes for NAND, and I suppose nobody is using mechanical hard drives for this.

Didn't the US stop new aid since 2025? Sanctions against Russia sure (at least until they decided the spat with Iran was more important) but I feel like that moral high ground is l…

Besides which, I doubt China has sufficient influence over Iran to restrain them, considering the US " ahem removed" the all the people that could plausibly considered moderates. I…

Per the OSD definition of source code, "the source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program." which means an argument could be made (as charci…

Jiang et al. (2021) TransGAN: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3540261.3541391 In general probably not much of a stretch to get rid of convolutions or recurrence by replacing with at…

Aren't RLVR signals typically based off formal systems not natural phenomena? The formal sciences are certainly useful for producing tools used in natural science, but it's not ent…

Microsoft surely has enough resources to keep their fork going if they choose to, so I see no reason why Google would try that given they would likely end up with less control over…

There are a lot of applications like that though, only they're all being rewritten for electron.

It's more typical to use parsecs in practice for astronomy.

Disney is able to jackboot anyone violating their IP because the DMCA imposes liability on big tech companies if they do not comply with a valid request. The comment you initially …

I want the mob boss to face legal consequences. If they choose to get out of the business of facilitating crime because of that then so be it.

Normally, if there is sufficient evidence, both the mob boss and the ground level gangster are liable and criminally responsible for their crimes. You are free to disagree, but I d…

That's very interesting. Does that mean you can reduce say, a 30B class Q8 from ~30 GB down to 10 GB or less?

People's right to make stupid decisions end when they reach public roads and/or borrow children to make a point. That's why we have things like driver's licences.

As I understand it, it is the position of several DPAs that denial of access entirely (i.e. "consent or pay") could contravene the "freely given" requirement of GDPR in most cases,…

Lots of species are r-selected, I don't see why that would be considered inefficient. In fact I think there are probably more r-strategists than K-strategists.

A lawsuit is not the same as a criminal prosecution. One is supposed to remedy damages, the other is supposed to be because it is in the public interest that people follow laws and…

Basically, they shot someone in public to promote their cool new gun.

Previous changes to society were also made by people within society so I don't see how that follows.

> escaped the desires of its human creators I wonder if we will ever solve the corporate-superorganism-alignment problem and why the AI alignment people rarely (as far as I can tel…

As we all know, the US is entirely free of geopolitical interests, which is why there was a US–Japan trade war in the late 80s.