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anonylizard

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    Comment #48041529

    It is just sad that commentary like this even exists. I sincerely am curious of the education that produces sentences like this. On one hand it is articulate and educated, on the o…

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    Comment #43811328

    Why not? Zuckerburg has already realized that local social networks will be utterly replaced by AI chatbots, which are superior in like 99% of cases. It doesn't matter if others fi…

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    Comment #43649760

    You can pay for long term support from private companies. And your scientific context is a distinct minority for python now. Most new development for python is for data/AI. Conside…

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    Comment #43649732

    Because python dominates AI, and python is dominating because of AI. And prompting really, really benefits from f-strings and templated strings. LLMs as a whole means the rise of u…

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    Comment #43540822

    Its a gigantic bet on user stickiness in AI, and the monetizable value of AI users who don't pay for subscriptions. Aka low-end consumers vs high-end consumers. Nvidia and AMD were…

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    Comment #43166385

    Do you worship the posting guidelines or something? Are you that offended by someone adding information to a post? The forum is a public one, not a 1-1 conversation. The poster add…

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    Comment #43084756

    AI just represents a new class of business, that doesn't need consumers or revenue or business plans. Traditionally you want to build a moat with name recognition, established cust…

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    Comment #43056591

    If one compares O3-mini's coding abilities to the original GPT-4. It is as large as GPT-3 to GPT-4 gap GPT-3: Useful as autocomplete. Still error prone, but vastly better than any …

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    Comment #43003545

    Most of social sciences today is 'degenerate' by your definition, at least a plurality of those researchers openly admit that following the evidence is not the highest virtue, but …

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    Comment #42944058

    Indeed you can. This only affects the heavily subsidized usps shipping process. If your r&d cannot afford fedex you shouldn’t be doing r&d. For all the supposed panic and importanc…

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    Comment #42942041

    Government is exactly a codebase. Government bureaucracies is essentially constricting human judgement to more robotic code-like behavior, that's the only way to build large system…

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    Comment #42941999

    Compelled speech is far, far, far worse than constricting speech by every conceivable dimension. Even in day to day interaction, forcing someone to be silent, is far more of a gent…

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    Comment #42941981

    DOGE is staffed precisely by the tech elite. Like 20 year old grads who are elite programmers winning competitions, that type. Are they not part of the tech community now? You high…

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    Comment #42941968

    In that respect it is astonishingly successful by every measure. Musk got his global political shift and becoming co-president of the US for a causal $40 billion.

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    Comment #42941887

    This, the US is the country most willing to make daring bets on innovation. Europe will not spend even 0.1% of its pension/welfare fund on big research bets. The private investors …

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    Comment #42620074

    There's a titanic market with people wanting some uncensored local LLM/image/video generation model. This market extremely overlaps with gamers today, but will grow exponentially e…

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    Comment #41970934

    That's not true, and only seems true because of highly selective examples. Money can force people to work, out of the necessity of survival. What it buys is reliability. You can fo…

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    Comment #41952379

    The odds are like 95%-5% against them, nothing will save them at this point.

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    Comment #41885961

    Stockholders don't even have that much influence. Because of all the index investing, board votes are often decided by say Vanguard/Blackrock, not mom and pop investors It is only …

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    Comment #41854793

    Once you have paying customers, you can hire an actual developer. Claude is not 100x for any typical software work, but the biggest gains come from precisely 'non-typical work', wh…

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    Comment #41773234

    How small are the autonomous attack subs? GPUs powerful enough to power autonomous decision making attack subs are going to consume a lot of energy, a lot more than what a car size…

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    Comment #41773161

    There were no counters to cavalry for like 1000 years. The only generalized countermeasure to cavalry was cavalry of your own. This led to the dramatic territorial and genetic expa…