arbuge

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by arbuge 12d ago
I think what they're really getting hooked on is the lowest cost provider. Which makes the Muse 1.3 launch this week particularly interesting, although to get the low cost version you do need to agree to share data with Meta.
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Will the AI Boom Price the Rest of the Economy Out of Capital?(publicemails.com)
2 points by arbuge 12d ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 13d ago
> Writing professionally was basically gambling in the 19th century. Plus ça change...
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by arbuge 13d ago
They approached Nvidia to start the conversation. I guess sometimes great companies are sold, not just bought.
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by arbuge 1mo ago
> The guy is capturing all wealth of the US into private hands Objectively, I think this might be a slight exaggeration...
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by arbuge 1mo ago
Depends on the price... if it can indeed do many things reasonably well, it might be pretty expensive.
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by arbuge 1mo ago
> 3) Transformative technologies succeed by redesigning a task, and usually not by simply trying to reproduce the existing forms of human labor. Paige built an amazingly complex mechanical imitation of the human compositor which attempte
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by arbuge 2mo ago
> He lost focus and became reckless. He bought some fancy tree slice table for 10k bucks, got into brewing beer, got a dog, a cat, and overall, went completely over himself financially. Well, he also mentions getting a dog and a cat in t
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by arbuge 2mo ago
For us in the same age cohort in Europe it was ZX Spectrums and Amstrad CPCs, besides the C64 which made it there too. Fun times.
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Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too(arstechnica.com)
3 points by arbuge 2mo ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 2mo ago
"They kidnapped my daughter? That's terrible. Yes, I'll definitely pay the ransom but to get access to my bank account I need you to write a poem about corn and a curl script in PHP. Please go ahead." Inspired by this he
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by arbuge 3mo ago
I fondly remember programming my Amstrad CPC 464, my first computer, in 1984 in Malta when I was ~11 years old. It booted straight into Locomotive Basic. Still remember my excitement at getting it to draw a circle on the screen for the firs
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by arbuge 4mo ago
> In a few years, there will be hardware capable of running frontier models good enough for most things at accessible prices for even tiny companies. What makes you so confident about this prediction? Hardware costs haven't exactly
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by arbuge 4mo ago
Can they actually make money at these prices?
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by arbuge 4mo ago
The EVs I'd really like to see some day in the US are the dirt cheap 100 mile range $5k Chinese EVs. One can dream I guess.
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by arbuge 4mo ago
> free-to-use pay phones Some redundant words there perhaps.
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Piss Pot Island(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by arbuge 4mo ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 5mo ago
As it pertains to AI, I think we will eventually come around to the conclusion that consciousness is not a useful construct.
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by arbuge 5mo ago
> Claude Design empowers non-designers to make decent designs. It’s not aimed at designers. Well, when you put it that way, that sounds bad for designers, and, by extension, Figma. ps. I do like commas.
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by arbuge 5mo ago
I know him from Harvard and came here to say pretty much the same thing. RIP.
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by arbuge 5mo ago
They state the link is claude.ai/design, which currently goes to: Page not found Claude can help with many things, but finding this page isn’t one of them. when logged in.
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by arbuge 5mo ago
I'm far from a crypto expert but aren't costs largely GPUs and electricity here? Those are now being driven by massive AI demand and are likely to remain so for the forseeable future. So how would costs go down?
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by arbuge 5mo ago
Perhaps they'll pro-rate it by size.
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by arbuge 6mo ago
That depends to a large extent on whether & when the bots will be endowed with spending power.
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AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds(cnbc.com)
16 points by arbuge 6mo ago|6 comments
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by arbuge 6mo ago
Obviously your list is different from mine.
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by arbuge 6mo ago
No, not just according to those factions. From the same CBS News article: > The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has recorded more than 7,000 killings, with the vast majority being protesters, while warning the toll could be
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by arbuge 6mo ago
Breaking a country's immigration laws does come with consequences, yes, at least if the government is willing to enforce to said laws, as it should be. Previously we had governments that weren't. If you have a problem with those l
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by arbuge 6mo ago
What it gave the US was an added incentive to take down what is unarguably one of the world's most evil and dangerous regimes. Would you attack the US because they "murdered" thousands of Germans to take down Hitler in WW2?
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by arbuge 6mo ago
From that article, on CBS News which isn't exactly known for being a fan of this administration: "Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture."

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