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    Comment #49186529

    I had never heard of many of these, was surprised, went to research, and so far, the list seems correct.

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    Comment #49186479

    And they did raise new funding as he predicted...Since July 2024, OpenAI has raised or secured roughly $170 billion in new capital. Numbers never see before. So yes its the one, an…

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    Comment #49172175

    Google funds Anthropic | v Anthropic promises to rent Google's TPUs | v Google guarantees the infrastructure needed to fulfil Anthropic's promise | v Wall Street lends against Goog…

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    Comment #49172036

    So I am supposed to believe that from 2024 to 2025... Australia IQ increased by two points... or that China dropped one point from 2024 to 2025? Or Iran dropped two points in IQ be…

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    Comment #49171654

    If you look at examples of complex code and based on a public NASA dataset: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timm/ourmine/refs/heads/ma... that has 93 NASA software projects, you …

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    Comment #49171473

    Yes, I do 996 hours per year. That is exactly 83 hours per month, and as a prime, management can’t divide it any further.

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    Comment #49170398

    https://archive.is/cqHO4

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    Comment #49161012

    So this is a case of the Dunning-Kruger Effect?

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    Comment #49158978

    It matches my coding speed...its ok.

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    Comment #49138882

    Most likely view ...We are so primitive we are like Sentinel Island. Nobody allowed to land here under severe penalties of the Galactic Council. They were going to upgrade us to a …

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    Comment #49137002

    >> an LLM can easily code it without errors. An LLM knowns nothing of the taste of ginger.

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    Comment #49136941

    "...The general culture is based on "You can just build things". If you have an idea, you just implement a prototype, nerd-snipe a group of people to work on it and then you ship..…