cowl

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by cowl 7d ago
Anthropic's stance on safety it's just PR management and their hope to keep the others down, they are rushing as blind as everyone else to whatever improvement they can achieve.
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by cowl 28d ago
finance, many yield curve calculations have a lot of date arithmetic in their hot paths
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by cowl 2mo ago
tech dept is not a problem. to paraphrase captain Jack sparrow. "even if it were the most indepted working software project, IT WORKED". On the other side of the medal we have a rewritten software that although it's trumpete
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by cowl 2mo ago
only that is not so. disk prices maybe, the memory will not be available to consumers because it's a tech that makes sense only for datacenters full of GPUs and massive power/cooling. by now all fabs have converted to it, there mi
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by cowl 3mo ago
oh no, the company that illegally used every possible media they could get their hands on is crying that some other company is doing something potentially shady but not illegal? And using that excuse to put in place hidden surveillance syst
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by cowl 4mo ago
or maybe it is a bad thing, because right now the model is "throw it against the wall and see what sticks or how many billions we need to make it stick"?
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by cowl 5mo ago
Dark matter is not another Guess. is no guess at all. its the same as saying the center of the earth is made of Dark Core. and when someone proposed liquid core, there would be papers how a liquid core doesnt explain 100 %, and neither does
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by cowl 5mo ago
It's funny how for MOND we cant accept that it has some unknowns yet but we are more than willing to accept the FULL UNKNOWN Dark Matter. it's easy. put "Dark" in front of something and you don't have to explain it
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by cowl 5mo ago
you can have both. the waterproof was just an excuse to make you either change the phone or go to a specialised center to change the battery, something that is so incovinient/expensive that people just obsolete their phone instead.
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by cowl 5mo ago
personal computers in early 70s/80s were a considerable investment for little to no gain and especially no force pushed FOMO. it costs you nothing to install/adopt an AI chat bot and it's being force fed to everyone at head t
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by cowl 5mo ago
the information is not new. how easy it is to get step by step instructions is new. Try it yourself. Google is good but not instant, step by step good. you need to do your own research that takes time. time that anti-terrorist units use to
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by cowl 5mo ago
not the same thing. to use your tool analogy, the AI companies are saying , here is a fantastic angle grinder, you can do everything with it, even cut your bread. technically yes but not the best and safest tool to give to the average joe
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by cowl 6mo ago
it's not really investing though. Amazon will provide 50B worth of compute and Nvidia will provide 30B worth of chips etc. Google doesnt need any of those. The only one that is really investing is SoftBank who is pushing for a faster I
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by cowl 6mo ago
min release age to 7 days about patch releases exposes you to the other side of the coin, you have an open 7 days window on zero-day exploits that might be fixed in a security release
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by cowl 7mo ago
Agree but you are talking about a POC, and he is talking about reliable, working software. this phase of LLM are perfect for POCs and there you can have 10x speedup, no question. But going from a POC to a working reliable software is wher
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by cowl 7mo ago
then you are misunderstaing the downvoting. it's not that the fact that they are burning money. it's the fact that this cost today 20k but that is not the real cost if you factor the it is losing money on this price. So Tomorrow w
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by cowl 8mo ago
No, What i'm thinking is Having the option to choose Salary Stability or Salary Risk. In that scenario if the employee is fired after just 2 years (worse case) because the project does not work, he is still financially better (compare
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by cowl 8mo ago
Is someone forcing you to work at a company chasing the latest fad? You go and choose the type of company you want. The keyword here being "Choice". There are plenty of workers that would not mind carring a little more risk in t
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by cowl 8mo ago
If developers are using Claude code with it's quirks, Anthropic controls the backend LLM. If developers are using OpenCode, it's easy for developers to try different LLMs and maybe substitute it (temporarily or permanently). In
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by cowl 8mo ago
LLMs have read EVERYTHING yes. that includes a lot of not optimal solutions, repeating mantras about past best practices that are not relevant anymore, thousands of blog posts about how to draw an owl by drawing two circles and leaving the
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by cowl 9mo ago
>How is that different from how it worked without LLMs? The only difference is that we can now get a failing product faster and iterate. The difference is that there is an engineer in the middle who can judge if the important information
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by cowl 9mo ago
rerouted? it was a completly different destination, much further than he was originally. there is nothing "noone can do" about stupid burecracies like "can't stop at this station because we are not registered". Firs
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by cowl 9mo ago
Videos produce benefits (arguably much less now with the AI generated spam) that are difficult to reproduce with other less energy hungry ways. compare this with this message that it would have cost nothing to a human to type instead of goi
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by cowl 10mo ago
a bit tired of auto industry's "just in time" supply managment. they had the same problem when covid closed everything down and now 5 years later they still have not learned that they cant just order "enough for 1-2 mon
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by cowl 10mo ago
more like "it's bad to fry the planet so we will destroy our economy for 0.001% impact while the real impacters continue to advance and leave us in the dust"
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by cowl 11mo ago
most sites pull blindly pull and exec JS from their vendors, especially adds / tracking. you don't need a MITM attack on the site, plenty of supply chain issues for which https does nothing.
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by cowl 11mo ago
This is to be honest a little unfortunate. While Https is very important, do we really need to verify that Blog X that I may read once a year is really who they say they are? For many sites it doesn't make a lot of sense but we are her
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by cowl 11mo ago
Google translate has nothing in common. it's a single action taken on-demand on behalf of the user. it's not a mass scrap just in case. in that regard it's an end-user tool and it has legal access to everything that the user
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by cowl 1y ago
because your "yes" might mean you are putting other projects at risk depending on the vulnerability. Computing freedom applies only on machines YOU control. you can't expect to be able to do everything you want on hardware o
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by cowl 1y ago
that's true of any company. if they didn't pay for building the product, they would be very profitable.

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