DebtDeflation

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by DebtDeflation 20d ago
Nvidia is hedging their bets against becoming too dependent on OpenAI, Anthropic, and the hyperscalers as their only customers. If on-prem deployments of open models starts taking off in corporate America, this acquisition positions them w
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by DebtDeflation 3mo ago
There have been a few recent stories about businesses finding themselves spending more on tokens than they were spending on the workers these AI Agents were supposed to have replaced.
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by DebtDeflation 5mo ago
>compounds need to undergo a rigorous regiment of empiric testing before they are given to potentially millions of people Particularly when the mechanism behind most of these peptides comes down to "promotes more rapid cell growth&q
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
>The internet will likely be far worse without ads than with ads. Ads won't go away. They'll just move from infesting websites to infesting AI chatbots.
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
Agree. People understand and accept firing for performance issues. People understand and accept layoffs when they're a rare event needed to save the company from bankruptcy. What's not understandable or acceptable to most is th
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
This is why I've started telling younger people in the industry (I'm 52) "Don't worry about giving two weeks notice or doing knowledge transfer, it's not your problem. If you accept an offer and a better offer come
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
Once you get outside the SV and NYC bubbles, the vast majority of kids do not have their own laptops in the US. Phones, obviously are somewhat more common, but as even you note that's mainly with regard to teenagers - the average 10 y
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
Age verification at the OS level makes no sense to me. Most households aren't going to have a separate device for every family member and so you will end up with a tablet or computer set up by one of the parents (and thus having their
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
This comment brought me back in time 40+ years to a Saturday morning perched in front of our TV. Thank you.
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
Could you imagine giving MetaClaw full access to your local file system, email, web browser, and all other applications? What could possibly go wrong.
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
> Nvidia's "rack scale" machines like GB200-NVL72s and GB300-NVL72s are basically a fully built rack you roll into a DC and plug into power and network. In that case, Oracle should probably just buy the rack-scale Vera Rub
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by DebtDeflation 6mo ago
> a CTO of a F100 company explicitly state that whether AI is driving efficiency or not, the capital investment, and more importantly, the promises of efficiency to investors will mean some people will be let go That seems like an insane
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by DebtDeflation 7mo ago
At this point it seems the entire AI Safety/Ethics debate was nothing more than a Marketing campaign to hype up the capabilities of the models - get people to think that if they're potentially dangerous that must mean they're
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by DebtDeflation 7mo ago
> the absurd overhiring that they did in 2022 and 2023 The overhiring took place from mid 2020 through mid 2022. The reversal into layoffs started in late 2022 and was in full swing in 2023. While the overhiring problem was real, the c
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by DebtDeflation 7mo ago
Totally agree. And it goes beyond criminal history. Just because I choose to make a dataset publicly available doesn't mean I want some AI memorizing it and using it to generate profit.
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by DebtDeflation 7mo ago
Sure, but people will just drive to the next closest airport and fly. Quarantine makes no sense as an explanation without accompanying roadblocks.
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by DebtDeflation 7mo ago
It's shocking to me how prevalent this "who needs Salesforce when everyone can just vibe code their own CRM from scratch in a day" narrative has become in the business press. Like, what???
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by DebtDeflation 8mo ago
Oracle is a perfect example of using empty AI partnership announcements to goose the stock price and also a perfect example of how unsustainable of a strategy it is.
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by DebtDeflation 8mo ago
Given that they have around 44,000 employees in total and they surely aren't firing all of their managers, it would seem they have a lot of managers. The press release indicates most of the reduction is in IT, so internal operations,
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by DebtDeflation 8mo ago
Specifically, exposure during fetal development, and the changes it causes are potentially life-lasting.
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by DebtDeflation 8mo ago
Information Retrieval followed by Summarization is how I view it.
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by DebtDeflation 8mo ago
>these modern social media and influencer versions of Stoicism feel like something else entirely Yes, the pop philosophy folks tend to confuse Stoicism with Spartanism, just like they confuse Epicureanism with Hedonism. It also helps to
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by DebtDeflation 8mo ago
Eating real foods (e.g., whole foods rather than highly processed foods) is good advice overall. But replacing mono and poly unsaturated fats with saturated fats is total nonsense. We have thousands of studies spanning decades showing tha
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by DebtDeflation 9mo ago
Hopefully they plan to invest in the technology and not just eliminate a competitor.
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by DebtDeflation 9mo ago
And two years prior IBM acquired Ahana (PrestoDB SaaS). Totally agree that businesses need to much more carefully assess the risks of moving to these hosted open source platforms. Reminds me of when over a decade ago companies moved to Sn
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by DebtDeflation 10mo ago
A 25% reduction is huge, even if you account for the fact that people who get vaccines tend to be more health conscious to begin with, when you consider that outside of the very sick and very old Covid has a mortality rate under 1%.
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by DebtDeflation 10mo ago
>So how to explain the current AI mania being widely promoted? CEOs have been sold on the ludicrous idea that "AI" will replace 60-80% of their total employee headcount over the next 2-3 years. This is also priced into current
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by DebtDeflation 10mo ago
Yes. GTS was infrastructure services and was spun off. What's left is the old GBS - business services and systems implementation services.
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by DebtDeflation 10mo ago
Likewise with experienced devs who find themselves out of work due to the neverending mass layoffs. There's a huge difference between the perspective of someone currently employed versus that of someone in the market for a role, regard

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