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Did AI write this? It's getting harder to tell(ft.com)
3 points by cs702 19d ago|0 comments
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by cs702 20d ago
"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is." - Mark Hanna Mark Hanna was a political consultant in the late 1800's, in the US. Source: https:&#x2
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by cs702 29d ago
To me, it looks like the leading labs are investing more and more to improve their frontier models, and are being forced to charge less and less for them due to competitive pressure. Maybe I'm wrong, but "reasoning as a service&qu
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The Waldo Moment(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by cs702 1mo ago|0 comments
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by cs702 1mo ago
Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode in which a blue animated bear named Waldo nearly wins a by-election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment Reality these days sometimes feels as strange as fiction.
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The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse(ft.com)
5 points by cs702 1mo ago|1 comments
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by cs702 2mo ago
That is my reaction too. It looks like great work! Valuable not only for inference, but for training too (think proprietary datasets). I would add, a single individual did this. One person can make a difference :-)
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by cs702 2mo ago
The OP talks about the drought extensively. Quoting: > there is quite a lot of compelling evidence that period of LBAC [late bronze age collapse], especially the 1190s, was unusually dry in the Eastern Mediterranean, which would have ca
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by cs702 2mo ago
It's not hard to imagine that will be able to do as good a job as a human accountant in the not too distant future. It's also not hard to imagine tax authorities using AI to audit everyone's tax returns every year. We sure li
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by cs702 2mo ago
Arguably, they're a better choice for customers than a shutdown. I mean, they're at least keeping the service alive for as long as possible.
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by cs702 2mo ago
Yes, agree.
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by cs702 2mo ago
Think of it as a perpetual bond with declining coupon payments. Customer "inertia" or "lock-in" might be better terms to describe what the company is looking for in an acquisition. Their ideal customer may well be someon
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by cs702 2mo ago
Also, in case you didn't already know, I saw a headline announcing that the sky is usually blue.
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by cs702 2mo ago
Bending Spoons is a company that acquires SaaS companies/products that are not growing or losing users but have a well-known brand and customers who stick around. The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut cos
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by cs702 2mo ago
The little photo of the guy with a top hat, dancing, with high-wire towers behind him, cracked me up. It's a literal "high-wire act!"
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How Liberal Law School professors fueled rise of Federalist Society(news.harvard.edu)
2 points by cs702 2mo ago|0 comments
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The Bessent Doctrine (Essay by Mohammed El-Erian)(nytimes.com)
3 points by cs702 2mo ago|0 comments
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by cs702 2mo ago
> the economy is filled with bullshit jobs, bullshit corporations, and bullshit products. Yeah, it sure feels true. There's even a book about it, you know, to help people cope with it: https://press.princeton.edu/boo
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by cs702 2mo ago
Yeah, that's true. Sigh.
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by cs702 2mo ago
Sure, touchscreens are cheap, but high-quality touchscreen software is most def NOT CHEAP! Apple and Google have spent untold amounts of money developing iOS and Android. CarPlay and Android Auto are really nice. Tesla has spent gobs of mon
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by cs702 2mo ago
Love the title. I think it's a great idea to associate pervasive surveillance with the all-seeing eye of evil incarnate from The Lord of the Rings. General audiences reading only the title, or coverage of it in the media, will immediat
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by cs702 3mo ago
Reminds me of caveman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647455
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by cs702 3mo ago
Very interesting. The author claims to have proved that markets can be informationally efficient or competitive, but not both. The implications for policy and regulation are significant. The author looks credible: https://phili
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by cs702 3mo ago
... and funny too. A great book!
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by cs702 3mo ago
Interesting, these really old menus would not look too out of place at a restaurant today.
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by cs702 3mo ago
> The problem is millions of people have been raised in a bubble built on the assumption that this is a good thing. Please don't attack a straw-man. I've never met anyone who believes extreme inequality is a good thing on its o
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by cs702 3mo ago
Hi, I shared the OP. I don't agree with all the points it expresses, but I found them thought-provoking.
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How Modern life compounds the ancient struggle to belong(current.fas.harvard.edu)
4 points by cs702 3mo ago|3 comments
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by cs702 3mo ago
> If anyone has an outline of to whom the other hundreds of billions are owed, I’d be curious to see it. Me too. That's one of my questions. The other questions I have are about the shocking misuse of funds.
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by cs702 3mo ago
The legal claims from expropriation, I get that... but everything else was actually borrowed . Whether the form was debt issuance or unpaid accounts payable, the rest actually was borrowed. It's kind of an "impressive accomplishm

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