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Meta (née Facebook) hired addiction medicine specialists to work on their platform engagement. It wasn't to make teens use their platforms less .

Smart speakers are a mature market and seem to have topped out at about 1/3rd of US households at a lower price point than this. This is going to be a very hard sell.

I still think this question is a future minefield, as well as the question of what happens if an LLM outputs a patented algorithm

Anything with a probability mass or distribution function has entropy; the state space of Markov chains just tends to get combinatorially big as the chain's memory increases.

There was for a brief period a Middle Path, called libiberty (now mostly subsumed into gnulib). It generated GNU-compatible shim functions for whatever system you happened to be on…

As an aside, back in the days of Stack Exchange I would always type out manually whatever answer I found to make sure I understood WTF I was adding to the system.

They moved the functionality from Firefox to Thunderbird IIRC, which seemed like a desperate attempt to get anyone to use Thunderbird.

Buzz was weird because its main impact was killing another Google product, Orkut

In the early aughts the web was largely anonymous (MySpace and Friendster were just starting out and Facebook was still a Ivy league only thing). We thought we wanted to be able to…

IDK, I ran an RSS feed that had ads 20 years ago (it was a niche hobby blog and every fifth post was an ad for supplies for that hobby). It made enough to pay for the hosting.

I mean, go to an IBEW hall in a busy area and talk to the shop steward; he can probably start you tomorrow

The xAI Anthropic deal was pretty widely covered, but the press release is here: https://x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-partnership The absurdly large discount was why Anthropic could…

That's $25B before discounts , and their discounts to Anthropic in the current quarter alone are $12B of that.

Because most of the capital assets depreciate over a period of 5 years or so so you have to make the expenditures back during that time or you can't book any revenue.

They have to find a way to make inference profitable and they haven't yet

Another silent inflation of token count. There's no force on earth that can overcome that incentive for the labs.

And the hyperscalers have made the (questionable) choice of depreciating that hardware over 6 years rather than the usual 4.

Yeah, it's definitely more of a consumable item than an asset, as the logistics guys would say.

Sort of; it's like the itemizer systems at airport security. They're entirely theater (in the sense of "for show") but that show is itself important in that it makes entire categor…

I should expand that: the money goes from the end user to the lab and only in the cases where the marginal utility of the small app exceeds the cost.

IDK, get Springsteen to record an aid concert for them?

IDK I've got some rando Chinese product that looks pretty much exactly like a late-2000s iPod "classic" and has some fairly generic Android interface including a decent music playe…

Right but if we're going to a small-batch bespoke development model then "marketing" more or less disappears because why would I pay someone to talk to an LLM when I can also talk …

> few users, no revenue or minimal revenue The 900 pound gorilla has for a while been "where is all the output of these LLMs?", and this seems to be the answer; the number of apps …

> Its not my debt. Neither was AIG's, until we all woke up one day and suddenly it was