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    Comment #49226011

    > I think you are greatly underestimating the difficulty of automating nursing tasks. Made me think of this 90-year old demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUVPen3xNQ

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    Comment #49225877

    >> you can get effectively unlimited usage of GPT 5.6 Sol (Pro plan). Why use a much weaker model for the same price? > Not everything has to be done by the most expensive one. Ok …

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    Comment #49203922

    > If the Markov chain is ergodic then maybe you can talk about the entropy of the stationary distribution? Then it's just $-\sum p_i lg(p_i)$ of the stationary distribution probabi…

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    Comment #49187065

    > don’t invest heavily in doing something that isn’t already a core competency “Heavily” it’s a high bar at their scale. They spent over $10bn playing with cars.

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    Comment #49174151

    Whatever. (It’s still AUM.)

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    Comment #49174090

    AUM. Oversee: to be in charge of how an amount of money is invested or spent.

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    Comment #49174052

    > I don't understand the point of this piece. There is nothing breaking or remotely interesting which we didn't already know. The piece is published in a weekly magazine. It may in…

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    Comment #49162078

    ‘Odds’ is the payout, the price of the bet, the prize you may win. And the ‘win probability’ is the probability of winning as the name suggests.

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    Comment #49089548

    "We wanted the singularity; we got the circularity." https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/2051804769266659488 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/

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    Comment #49088022

    I wish we got some shrinkflation and they brought back the iPhone mini.

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    Comment #48996120

    Is that worth paying for?

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    Comment #48980612

    > a huge value is the […] Codex harness. There are open source implementations Like Codex https://github.com/openai/codex

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    Comment #48948101

    Once upon a time in a cloud kingdom far, far away a big, beautiful bill was issued based on storage causing much disconcertion. Etc.

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    Comment #48925498

    What's the probability that the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 was accidental?

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    Comment #48847164

    > you need to take an English grammer course And a spolling one too.

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    Comment #48783725

    A place where the slope/derivative/incremental-performance-per-price changes.

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    Comment #48710646

    https://xkcd.com/793/

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    Comment #48665610

    Or maybe foo[bar == “baz”]

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    Comment #48644870

    > has the capability to identify the issues but it is misevaluating the level of analysis that you want it to do. I guess OP should have told it more explicitly to “find all errors…

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