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Comment #49268451
> Anything that suggests curl into bash just plain sketches me out. Yeah, 100% and it's becoming more and more of a thing, see rust install for example. OTOH, if you're installing …
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Comment #49217507
An attempt at formalizing in Lean Mochizuki's ITU and put an end to the controversy produced by a 500 pages "proof" that no one can actually understands. Additional information: ht…
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Comment #49203825
Yeah, so https://chatjimmy.ai/ ... the model is crap, but the speed is amazing. Worth checking out.
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Comment #49196246
> Google loves to kick senior execs upstairs. The Japanese corporate culture has a name for this: Madogiwa-Zoku (窓際族) or “The tribe by the window”. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fe…
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Comment #49196064
> It would be stock price suicide if anything even remotely happened with Google. aka they're dead in the water.
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Comment #49194303
> Neat, now do a 3D Delaunay tetrahedrization! :) I do see the smiley, but still: show a litle more appreciation man, this is really impressive work and deserves more than a "great…
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Comment #49194280
Impressive work. @author : I'm trying to wrap my head around the following question: are there any situations where the "int32 constraint" would be an issue? My gut feeling says th…
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Comment #49194035
Here's my bet: Demis will be gone within 6 months. A year at most.
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Comment #49166269
> I think it might be like waveform collapse, but very high dimensional. The waveform collapse is natively "very high dimensional", not sure why the "but" part of the sentence belo…
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Comment #49116679
> LLMs are famously inefficient, expensive and unreliable. Maybe, but here I am suggesting an LLM specifically trained to do only machine code to high-level code reverse engineerin…
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Comment #49116636
> There is no point to have an LLM do what can be done faster and deterministically by standard algorithms I think using the word "deterministically" in the context of decompilatio…
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Comment #49116134
Mmmh, I've always wondered ... as much as VLAN's are a very useful tools to - for example - route two separate LAN's traffic through a shared physical link ... are they any good wh…
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Comment #49107670
Not sure why someone would want to use an LLM to build a new decompiler instead of training an LLM to BE a decompiler. Especially given the fact that you have an infinite training …
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Comment #49057768
https://archive.ph/kQtHB
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Comment #49057684
> Researchers found preserved bits from near the surface of the original asteroid where it experienced concentrated salty fluids Are we sure the guy who picked it up didn't just wa…
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Comment #49057658
> I didn’t see was whether this was a Russian drone or Ukrainian drone From the france24 article: > A government investigation reportedly identified the first of the three drones a…
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Comment #49046820
To quote Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun microsystems, circa 1999: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it". It has become truer every year that has passed since then. The 2026 v…
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Comment #49034564
> Any examples of nations that succeeded in this regard? (currently corruption-free states) It's all a matter of degrees of course, but Singapore and Switzerland spring to mind. I'…
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Comment #49032459
> and more corruption-free nation I'm really rooting for Ukraine here, and it looks like they are well on their way to succeeding pushing Russia out. But the corruption issue ... f…
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Comment #48997012
> Could it be that they have to serve their models to billions of users? And how is that different from their competitors exactly?
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Comment #48997001
> It’s multimodal though. Sure. And how does that make your day better? I know it does not improve my work in any way shape or form. I'll take a better coding model that's not mult…
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Comment #48996955
> It's a bit disheartening to see no comparison to other models here Disheartening, but not surprising: the comparison would not be very flattering for Google.
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Comment #48996932
Why exactly are they announcing these completely milquetoast models ? I'd be low-keying the release if anything, given how lame they are compared to their competition. What am I mi…
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Comment #48996915
> they left us reeling with their abrupt product decisions This is what happens when you put a McKinsey consultant in the role of CEO of an organization where product managers run …