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Consciousness & souls are defined by feelings. Feelings need chemicals - dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin. Our meat substrate has these, silcon doesn't. While mirrors, TVs, Tiktoks, L…

Making $$$ & keeping them are 2 different skills. He's demonstrated the former 16B times, now he's demonstrating the latter. The big downside risk I see for Nvidia is a garage star…

1) Making money & keeping money are 2 different skillsets. You've made some $$$, now learn how to keep it. 2) Time is far more valuable than money. If you can take life-changing $$…

I doubt it. Brains run at only a few operations per second.... GPUS at TFLOPS. There just isn't enough bandwidth. My brain only needs to get mugged in a dark alley by a guy in a ho…

> the U.S.'s vaunted system of checks and balances doesn't work and a similar president could be elected at any time Precisely. The world has lost faith in both the US voters and i…

Some would say further than 4 yrs. Enough of the voters and Congress have demonstrated that they are tolerant of this mode of leadership behaviour - internationally trust has disap…

Things that have changed recently that may affect the trend - faith in the stability of US govt declining need for petro dollars increase in US debt as %age of GDP (IANA Economist)…

Speaking as an non-american reading local & global news sources.... ...does Trump not understand 2nd round effects ? From afar he seems to be intent on Making America Great for Bil…

> and then you found that it offered marginal-but-not-amazing improvement over the previous version. Then call it GPT 4.1 and allow version space for the next iteration. I think th…

I use minbrowser.org/ Some sites disallow it... min suggests changing the user-agent setting to something like - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 …

An alternative explaination... Deepseek is a side project for a hedge fund. Shorting NVIDIA & releasing everything including the source would have a high probability of being hugel…

Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame) was one of them. His response to a billionaire was 'I have something you will never have - enough'.

LLMs are text compression algos. They are very good at memorising & retrieving text related to the user input. They can even pass bar exams based on that - some misinterpret that a…

I implemented it in the browser. For demo & src, see https://svelte.dev/playground/2c1bf42e0d2a4cebb38b907fa7f90a... Adjust separation, cohesion and alignment manually, or use the …

> Pulling that off is the social skills test. Surely the most significant side effect of any F2F interview is to evaluate social skills. An answer that the interviewer fully expect…

Google 'polarized training'. It's 80% really slow conversational pace jogging, and 20% really hard, struggle to breath flat out sprinting. Just avoid the intermediate jogging that'…

Flying for months at a time in the stratosphere, Zephyr offers game-changing capabilities that will be transformative for mobile connectivity and earth observation. As a payload ag…

Agree. A better response to '80% chance that this is a known shoplifter' is for security to keep an eye on them. It should very quickly become apparent that it's a false positive (…

Hardest to diagnose phone support I had to deal with was an elderly relative in the DOS days trying to find another lost file.... "type in 'dir \documents' and press Enter. What co…

Surely consciousness is not black & white, but a scale. Rocks at one end & us(?) at the other. There was a recent post suggesting that our thoughts are 98% unconscious. It's not ha…