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Yet another reason to support open-weight alternatives, I guess.

yes, which is why Apple got massively fined for doing it -- nowhere near enough to compensate all the depressed engineering salaries though.

This is (probably) a natural evolution of Garry's gbrain, a basic RAG for individual use. Gbrain is super useful as a starting point for an individual; this seems like an extension…

"...and that's a good thing."

Does basic photoshop count as AI usage...? What about changing color balance, dynamic range, etc?

They settled with a subset of copyright holders. Guarantee they violated lots of others' rights in the process

> What makes art meaningful and impactful isn’t whether it looks good or cool. I fall on the other side of that coin: I care about the final output way more than the story & strugg…

The Veritasium video on how jet engine turbine blades are "grown" in an aligned crystalline structure for enhanced material properties (e.g. thermal performance) is absolutely fasc…

> A lot of it is effectively bribing and menacing trading partners That's just a byproduct of propping up the military industrial complex; have to have conflicts to justify giving …

Yet rents won't drop -- the commercial mortgage covenants prevent landlords from dropping rental rates, so they'll just sit there fallow until the market recovers.

The entire rail industry suffers from massive deferred maintenance issues that manifest as serious safety concerns. This shit happens in every industry: dieselgate, 737max, flint w…

UK cctv and China's system are probably the closest examples?

Test-taking may only roughly correlate to intelligence, and is just one dimension of a human... but they likely care less about false negatives (like you) than they do about false …

Google removed "Don't be evil" from its Code of Conduct in May 2018. Shocking that it took 8 years for the author to make their ethical stand -- during which time Google stock went…

You need to read about agrivoltaics. This is being used to huge effect elsewhere in the world to improve farming & soil. Here's an example from China: https://www.sciencedirect.com…

Google is one of the few verticalized options in AI: Data, models, cloud services, low-level silicon (TPUs), internal use cases, retail use cases, B2B uses, distribution (browser &…

Google & Meta are illustrative of late-stage capitalism -- it's all about distribution, not innovation. Their job is (mostly) to just acquire the products that have passed the gaun…

How does 's' compare to other languages' letters - e.g. arabic or chinese - in terms of difficulty?

Or more specifically: One just did sue, but lost because he waited too long.

Those Raptor 3 engines are a thing of beautiful simplicity compared to their forebears...

Andreessen-Horowitz, who most people (and they themselves) refer to as a16z and have the eponymous domain name (a16z.com). They're one of the top VC firms on the planet -- exceedin…

Sounds like a solution to a problem already solved by DECT NR+ -- a 5G technology that is 'subscription free'.

Sayre's Law: Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small Maybe universities, tenure committees, and funding sources should stop measuring academics by vanity m…

To be fair... I miss being able to access my location history data via the browser. So it's not a case of "google being evil", it's a case of "sane defaults", "shifting regulations…

Best source of "open" financial data I've seen from this sector is Whiteclouds: https://www.whiteclouds.com/ They did crowdfunding via Wefunder, so their financial docs performance…