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How much does the average knowledge worker actually use desktop apps anymore? At this point I would bet the super-majority of work is done in a browser, and secondarily electron-ap…

+fees, though ideally the fees would be capped too

Wouldn't that be covered by using PPP comparisons rather than just market currency conversion rates?

Demand for the big cities is still increasing pretty much everywhere, even if some countries are seeing net decrease in demand on the whole. Also remember that supply deteriorates.…

Right - the point I was refuting is that LLMs are "just statistical models of words." More is going on. Does that imply "understanding?" I don't know, I'm not sure we have a good e…

The surprising bit is that 10% of Americans DO NOT own a smartphone. That must be exceedingly difficult. Increasingly everyday activities require them, without fallbacks. I presume…

LLMs as clearly doing more than just modeling words. In order to predict word placement, they need to build some kind of model, their latent space, of the types of things they are …

The new siri models will be some variant of the gemini models. This framework seems to be more generalized than that though.

Where are the "Safe Guardrails" ?

Older ML systems were much better at exposing their internal confidence. Plenty of papers reverse out this kind of interpretability for open weight models. All the models exposed l…

well, technically they can ...

I half agree. But two points: 1) if you can formalize your instructions ... then future instances can be fully automated. 2) You are still probably having the AI perform many sub-t…

There is a lot to be done with good prompting. Early on, these code agents wouldn't do basic good hygiene things, like check if the code compiled, avoid hallucinating weird modules…

Except it often is the case that when you break down what humans are doing, there are actual concrete tasks. If you can convert the tacit knowledge to decision trees and background…

Normal isn't a myth. The mistake people make is taking the mode as normal, or worse mistaking their own experience as normal. But humans generally do tend to have a range of common…

Yep. ChatAI - show the top 50 online retailers by revenue in the US and note any that have credible new stories about quality control issues. Save all of them except StoreX and Sto…

Unless they have agents reading those emails and responding ...

All the hard work is always chasing down edge cases, scaling, operational issues and other things that don't show up the user-exposed features. And talking about features, the inno…

Business crave both data for analysis and checkboxes getting checked for compliance sake. If those don't align to the value of the work - then you have the classic of employees hat…

> this is sub-par and neglects important aspects of your business But that is exactly the right way to think about it. If you have an army of sub-par workers that aren't going to t…

Also consider that while the OP looks like a skilled, experienced individual, all too often the documentation is being written by someone with that context, but rather someone unsk…

The common thread is that people are bad and saving and delayed gratification. The easiest path to instant gratification wins more often than not.

Depends on the service, and timeframes. For geforcenow, you also need to consider the upgrade cycle - how often would you need to upgrade to play a newer game? I'm not sure but pro…

Already happening at the in vitro level, might be possible in vivo as well. Neither require the more abusive approaches from the first eugenics era.

Honestly it feels like what I, or many of my colleagues would do if given the assignment. Take the current front page, or a summary of the top tropes or recurring topics, revise th…