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One detail I missed is that Koray's new title is "SVP of Google DeepMind"[1], i.e. identical to his old title. So, basically, the third change is even more of a no-op than I though…

So there are two events here: Event 1 - Jeff & co leaving. Event 2 - Demis stepping down. DeepMind doesn't need a "chair" and "Alphabet's chief scientist" is a bullshit title that …

I actually think there's a low probability of that. The four have so much influence within the company that they could have trivially set this up as part of Alphabet, if they wante…

> this could be a path for Demis to be CEO in the future in the AI era His current title is CEO of Google DeepMind. Becoming Chief Scientist of Alphabet seems to be a step away fro…

I think there are multiple separate events here, timed to coincide in order to minimise disruption. It's hard to be sure whether they share overlapping causes, but I'd guess that t…

It's weird for an announcement like this to drop in the middle of a trading day. I wonder if it got leaked, forcing the timing.

It was the locals who decided that it was worth the extra hassle and expense (and that doing the same thing at St. Margrethen wasn't). There was probably a referendum at some point…

What they do is very interesting, though IMO "refuse to enter the country" sounds harsher than it actually is. If an inbound German train is late to Basel by more than 20 minutes, …

Also, "healthy" as a boolean flag is, franky, a bit of a joke.

I agree it's an annoyance. However, the only thing that's locked on those is USB flashing. It is still possible to flash from an SD card. I recently bought a locked Xteink X4 and i…

I am not worried about the loss of skills per se. Over the centuries the average person has become less skilled at, for example, butchering animals. Is that bad for society? I don'…

Indeed. I think it's a much bigger issue for juniors, who haven't yet had a chance to build that systems design muscle. When an LLM is making a bad design decision but the engineer…

> The cost is skill atrophy I hear what you're saying but I'm not sure I buy it in the context of this thread (a response to someone who is 54 and has been coding since they were e…

> a very steep price that you may not actually account for Could you elaborate on this steep price that you have in mind? What does it consist of?

This article has a graph from a lab test: https://knowledgeiswatt.substack.com/p/20-120-vs-90-gh-of-ca... I thought it would help illustrate what you're saying but, gosh, those Y a…

> Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this. For starters, it's extremely invasive (camera on to pay a bill - wtf?), has unclear privacy implications and questionabl…

And, to save on combined shipping, a cobalt-60 machine to zap the odd tumour? :)

Did you see what's inside one of those books? https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116785283147249092 This is Amazon #1 bestseller in "Children's Encyclopedias"!

> in comparison, if you study ONE HOUR for the SAT, you gain approximately 0.9 percentiles on the test. [citation needed]

> I've vibe-reverse engineered the Bluetooth protocols of more than a 100 Android apps Impressive coverage, but how do you verify that the reverse engineering matches what the hard…

You also don't need to directly maintain or evolve the generated machine code to fix bug or add new features.

"[Learning] new sports" strikes me as an especially odd one. I can see how an AI tool could help to learn the theory or perhaps come up with better training or match-day/racing str…

Just to make sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that today's open source models are on par with frontier closed models of two weeks ago? By what criteria?