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I'm having trouble just keeping track of all these different types of models. Is "Gemini 3 Deep Think" even technically a model? From what I've gathered, it is built on top of Gemi…

Wait, are you saying the Obama O’s story - that the 500 boxes sold out, saving AirBnb - is not totally true?

You can find a medical professional to basically claim anything these days. I could go into specifics, but there's a whole industry of ethically questionable doctors that can help …

There's also a huge difference between someone who is working as an ML researcher versus someone working on AI infra or AI-based feature development.

Wow, I hadn't thought about it through that lens exactly, but you are 100% right. Virtually everyone in large organizations (engineers, PMs, designers) are incentivized to launch t…

What's so bad about the Spotify app? For the most part, it looks like a bunch of lists (not so much spreadsheets) to me... As someone that is only tangentially in the design space,…

While Faraday discovered induction, wasn't it Maxwell that unified electricity and magnetism? Given what answer.ai is attempting to do, Edison seems like a great example since he w…

I don't know if it was led by Sam, and don't dispute that it may have been "hacky," but there is no denying it was a visionary project. Yes, other companies had similar models. I k…

This is actually a semi-plausible angle. Given Sam's personality, I could see a scenario where there was disagreement about whether something in particular would be announced at de…

ChatGPT blew the doors open on the AI arms race. Without Sam leading the charge, we wouldn't have an AI boom. We wouldn't have Google scrambling to launch catch up features. We wou…

If it was really just about seeing eye to eye, why would the press release say anything about Sam being "consistently candid in his communications?" That seems pretty unnecessary i…

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I've been out of the web-dev game for a while, and have been pretty blown away by how much has changed. Suddenly, it seems like everything is a 1-page application, SSR, and doing a…

Ironically, I was just using ChatGPT to answer another seemingly simple question: What is an example of an item that would show up in EBIT but not operating income? > In standard f…

Is it true that the safeguards are considered part of the model? I had assumed that the "safeguards" that limit certain types of responses in ChatGPT were separate from the actual …

It will be really interesting to see if Google, Facebook etc. become more closed as a result. There was already a lot made of the fact that OpenAI hired away a group of engineers f…

That's odd - I am seeing a pretty clear difference on iPhone 13, iOS 16.1.

Not to mention, he literally tweeted a week ago that "We don't invest client assets (even in Treasuries)." FTX is not bank. It's not supposed to be susceptible to a bank run. This …

Speech codes, redefinition of words, 2nd Amendment infringements, byzantine and contradictory government approval processes, centrally-planned price floors and caps... The CA legis…

I'm also in my 30s and enjoy the challenge of chess, but have never been able to get beyond the basics. Sure, I can learn one particular gambit by approaching it like an algorithm,…

If you look deeper, though, the biggest difference is actually in "other income" which itself was primarily driven by gain/loss in securities. In other words, the entire difference…

Did you bother to read the letter? This is directly addressed: "This may seem like a counterintuitive claim to some, given the widespread understanding that performance on the SAT/…

Somewhat related to this case is the way in which the Santa Clara County Sheriff was using concealed carry permits as a way of soliciting campaign contributions from Silicon Valley…