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Because utilities are commodities and natural monopolies. CSPs are neither.

You’re correct. MCP is just a defined way of mapping string descriptions to functions.

Humans drive without LIDAR. Why can’t robots?

Wouldn’t this make the $200k drop below EBIT and thus increase accrual accounting profitability? Sure it could be less cash efficient but generally capitalizing expenses is net fav…

I work at Google but not on this. We do offer Gemini with Google Search grounding which is similar to a search API.

Pretty much the Reserved Instance Marketplace

Think the massive increase in demand is due to mass inference of open source LLMs? Or is the transformer architecture driving mass inference of other models too?

I know accelerator demand is blowing up. However, there are only a few players training foundation models. What are the core use cases everyone else has for all of these accelerato…

“Own” is likely a very simplistic term for the complex agreement in place between SpaceX and NASA. I’m sure SpaceX retains all of the developed IP, but NASA can “do whatever they w…

Third try always

Corporate finance theory says that when a dividend is issued, the price of the stock goes down by an equivalent amount.

I’m a Googler who doesn’t do anything remotely close to setting capital return policy. Just remember Alphabet has been buying back 10s of billions for a while. Dividends are just a…

Googler here, if you haven’t looked at TPUs in a while check out the v5. They support PyTorch/JAX now, makes them much easier to use than TF only.

Let’s compare. I’ve interviewed for and been offered both high paying tech jobs and investment banking jobs. My interviews for tech really required me to have a deep understanding …

What happens when your vm is live migrated 1000 feet away or to a different zone?

I’m not completely read in to all the details but she told me prior to this drug her diagnoses was a “death sentence.” The lung cancer had metastasized throughout her bones. The in…

My aunt was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and is only alive because of this drug. It’s a marvel of modern medicine.

Why is RAG a horrible hack? LLMs can draw from only 2 sources of data: their parametric knowledge and the prompt. The prompt seems like a pretty good place to put new information t…

When I prototype RAG systems I don’t use a “vector database.” I just use a pandas dataframe and I do an apply() with a cosine distance function that is one line of code. I’ve done …

It’s interesting to see more developed KG + LLM use cases that aren’t just NL to Graph DB Query Lang.

I, a human, can read a copyrighted work and then write a new work and own the copyright on that new work as long as it is not substantially the same.

Why can’t we make it cheaper and easier to build nuclear plants?

SRE needs authority to hand back the pagers. That’s a key aspect.

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Yes it’s commercial but you can run it on any cloud or on prem.