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    Comment #49190319

    Or Sundar wanted Demis to change to work on other things.

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    Comment #49190276

    "Solar PV with storage = solar PV installation paired with four-hour duration battery storage, scaled to 20% of the output capacity of the solar PV." Sometime the sun goes away for…

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    Comment #49190210

    It's a lot easier to automatically detect a match to 1 specific thing than detect a match to a completely novel thing that offends sensibilities in a similar way to other things.

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    Comment #49190136

    That's solved by either private monopoly charging money to fund investment, or public monopoly raising taxes to fund investment.

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    Comment #49190127

    It's a lot more complicated than that -- Solar is great for discretionary, opportunistic, and time-shiftable additive demand, but not for replacing all-day baseline load. Using sol…

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    Comment #49172697

    No, Flock plays a semantic game where data on Flock's servers os "owned" by the client, so Flock is not responsible for the content or management of the data.

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    Comment #49170150

    Solve what problem? My hammer can't drive screws. Is that a problem to solve?

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    Comment #49160743

    > In any research phd course you're actively told to bite off something small and likely to be provable so that you can prove it (and publish it). But that's the start of math rese…

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    Comment #49158391

    Did you know that "revolutationary" is not equivalent to "useful", and "revolutionary" is quite ambiguous?

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    Comment #49158373

    What you are doing is "motte and bailey". The motte is "AI useful". The bailey is "Singularity is nigh".

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    Comment #49158071

    Why does Twitter show a reply "Yah" from a random fan? xcancel shows a whole stream of thoughtful discussion.

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    Comment #49157967

    The WalMart Waltons are a "family" At the core, "Family-owned" just means nepotism is preferred over merit. (The mob is also "Family-owned")

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    Comment #49157071

    better: before submitting the code, ask LLM to quiz you for understanding the code.

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    Comment #49130111

    > The problems that are found internally, or via security reviews and pentests we pay for, are ones that we fix before releasing. Either you didn't mean what you wrote, or you are …

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    Comment #49116186

    That's an incredibly deep misunderstanding. Almost as bad as saying that human is the same as a tree because we're both made of carbohydrates and proteins.

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    Comment #49116158

    > people's jobs, What people's jobs? There are no people.

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    Comment #49113690

    > Claude.ai was better than Claude Code Why is this something users have to distinguish? Why can't these generative AIs choose good names for things?

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    Comment #49112426

    That's the dream. It's easier to redesign the work to be robot-friendly than to deploy a humanoid robot and have it actually work.

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    Comment #49112406

    No one has any idea how to achieve something like this.

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    Comment #49103806

    Have you built the things described in those papers?

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    Comment #49103794

    The stuff they invent isn't what's in the papers. The progress in AI is in the engineering hurdles.

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    Comment #49103782

    They wouldn't be if Google hadn't published "Attention is all you need".

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    Comment #49103774

    No, he didn't tweeted about "making sure" of anything. Elon tweeted "I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting…

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    Comment #49103741

    How is that different from traditional research publication? It's faster?