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Are you an LLM sir?

LLMs are very good at code. We can argue on the merits of their other qualities, but we can all agree on that. However, code is a very small section of 'work'. OpenAI, Anthropic, K…

Solar Energy is already quite economical.

A lot of datacenter are operating their own Natural gas based power generation. Which in itself is a different dynamic than buying electricity. I have operated such a setup, at a m…

But did that kill music downloads? Like that line from The Social Network, "Do you wanna buy a tower records Eduardo?"

What is MS board doing? How did Xbox spend 70 Billion without C-Suite approval? There seems to be no consequences for top management.

I bought a base iPad 2 qeeks ago. At least with the cheaper models, you get deals at Best Buy and Amazon. I wonder whether this will also inflate the used market. I could have gott…

The 300 Billion pay out is huge. For context, Israel gets 38 Billion over 10 years to buy US Arms. And Iran's GDP is 475.2 billion as of 2024.

We have to remember that for the vast majority of human history, keeping people alive and healthy was not a concern. Most medical interventions discovered during post-Industrial Re…

Well because you are not paying for ads. You are paying rent. Alphabet and Meta own all the real estate of the web, and you have to pay them rent to survive.

This is a good podcast on the old regime: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/696337392 Summary of the old regime: Mergers that lead to 5+% market share were blocked. Then the "consume…

The Capex and Opex requirements to do anything in the US are THE barriers to entry. Nobody has that kinda cash lying around, banks can't justify such high liabilities, and VCs are …

The pre 1980s standards were ridiculous though. However, even if the US moves to some 3 quarters of the way towards now would be a huge improvement. The "consumer harm" standard is…

I wrote about this just over 5 years ago: https://chapra.blog/search-is-dead-352/ Google had already transformed the open web to the point of uselessness anyway.

Do you think in the world of the Military Industrial Complex and the zero-sum game that is Great Power geopolitics, we will have any guardrails?

I find the discussion around tariffs in the US pretty weird. The people making the case for them right now sound like complete idiots at points and downright dishonest at other poi…

This is funny because it is an unfounded claim replying to the request for proof. I can show you my git tree where GLM4.5 deleted my whole test suite and my session docs where it i…

I don't know why this was downvoted. It is a genuine counterargument, even if it misses some of the context. The problem isn't that there are alternatives. The problem is that this…

z.ai will use quantized models in off hours. Buyer beware

My blog is a vanity project that nobody reads, and it seems to not be part of the training corpus. Claude in incognito could not recognize me.

Hello I have been using Claude code for the past 6 months. In that time, multiple revisions of each model have come out. I have seen some improvement, especially in regards to syco…

IIRC, it was $2B annualized. Which means nothing. Also, their expenses will be way north of that.

I thought the goal of the FBI was to entrap mentally ill pelople