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Alphabet is only a holding company. I wonder what kind of authority he has over scientists at Google, Waymo, Deepmind, etc. Probably close to none, so a huge demotion in everything…

But Alphabet is just a holding company, what does Chief Scientist of Alphabet even mean?

Yeah, I think people who really want to learn will very quickly grow out of this. This is for people who don't want to learn but actually have to for some reasons.

This is at the driver level, just like when you plugin new webcam, keyboard, gpu, etc. Windows will automatically install a default driver for that device. Now, instead of a driver…

This is the dude who ushered in the age of nonsensical boilerplate-ridden OOP code where you need to go down a bajillion of abstraction layers to see the actually implementation. M…

Well, how many humans do you think are able to prompt this to the LLM? "The homogeneity in x is an intertwining between a dilation (x,r,u) to (lambda x, r,u) and a dilation (P,Q,R)…

Simple. If they put your company on something like the entity list that Huawei is on, nobody is going to work with you, public or private. The US government can even force non-US b…

It's like saying: - winners in the 30s were the last time we have pure human to win (before computer) - winners in the 70s were the last time we have pure human to win (before inte…

I once borrowed a technical book from my school library, and the previous owner who donated that book in the 90s circled the phrase "proof is left to the readers" commonly found gr…

There is nothing wrong with scribbling in your own books. There is also nothing wrong with donating such books with clearly written disclaimer on the front page about the condition…

Is it only me or the titles of top books from History, Nature, and Politics sound very click-baiting? I'm really taken off by these titles.

Not really. The gpt-oss models were notoriously hard to remove the built in safety. It totally depends how it was trained.

DeepSeek series are open weights models. Assuming you have enough compute at hands you can always download their weights from https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai

Most (probably all) open model providers implement OpenAI-style API. If your app's already using OpenAI models, it's as simple as swapping the endpoint and the key to switch to the…

2-3 years ago MAIR was on a roll with Llama 1 2 3, Zuck was on his rehab tour to be a cool guy, and Meta as a whole was pumping record numbers after record numbers. I can't believe…

Biden kept a lot of Trump's policies inact, he just wasn't loud about it.

No chance the world powers (US, China, France, UK, etc.) will allow something like that unless they are the one who create and enforce it. It's basically the first line of defense …

Not for airlines and international cruise ships with US as destination. The attendants won't let you board unless you have a valid US visas. Carriers get fined if they transport in…

Tbf Israel has more concern than travelers' comfort, given everything happening around them AND maybe within them too.

Your profile probably flagged some checks so they needed to get your fingerprints to actually confirm you are the one on the visa. I've never had to give fingerprints except for my…

It depends. In my country the online land register data is just a copy of the physical land owning certificate. The physical certificates (1 for the owner, 1 for the local governme…

Happens far more often than you would think in developing countries.

Multiple rockets exploded and space missions failed because of the imperial vs. metric BS, and those mistakes were made by people all with PhDs or equivalences. This is still prett…

That was just a massive operational failure, not the fault of any single engineer. No change, except hotfixes, should be able to land on prod unless it has at least go through test…

wtf is this nonsense? Compared to the OP I personally think you are the one who needs help, or at least stop consuming media from whatever sources you are consuming right now,