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by dereg 1y ago
Young man me likely would have thought, “wow, cool tradition!” Old man me thinks “$390 million? How are they funding this?! That seems like a massive sum of money to throw down the drain every 20 years.” Then I did the back of envelope math
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by dereg 1y ago
My main takeaway from this is that Luca Maestri was a blight on Apple. He steered this company into the most malicious of compliance schemes that only has increased their regulatory attack surface. On top of that, he's the one who disc
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by dereg 2y ago
You’re only looking at one side of it. Consider how much value that excel adds, and how many use cases it enables. It’s incalculable. It’s always easy to poke at excel’s issues, but errors are almost always a skill issue. From a financial p
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by dereg 2y ago
Apple outsourced chips to IBM (PowerPC) for a long time and floundered all the while. They went into the game themselves w/ the PA Semi acquisition and now they have Apple Silicon to show for it.
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by dereg 2y ago
If Apple wasn't selling privacy, I'd assume the other way around. Or if anything, OpenAI would give the service out for free. There's a reason why ChatGPT became free to the public, GPT-4o moreover. It's obvious that Ope
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by dereg 2y ago
I can't really dispute any of that. It took almost a decade but the PA Semi acquisition showed that Apple was able to get out of the shadow of its PowerPC era. Nvidia will remain a leader in this space for a long time. But things are g
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by dereg 2y ago
Nvidia obviously has an enormous, enormous moat but I do think this is one of the areas in which Apple may actually GAF. The rollout of Apple Intelligence is going to make them the biggest provider of "edge" inference on day one.
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by dereg 2y ago
Learning how to write llm function calls.
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by dereg 2y ago
Can't wait to attempt GUI automation on my iPhone using the mac.
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by dereg 2y ago
If we know anything about Apple, they're going after Nvidia. If anyone can pull it off, it's going to be them.
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by dereg 2y ago
Apple Intelligence stuff is going to be very big. iOS is clearly the right platform to marry great UX AI with. Latching LLMs onto Siri have allowed the Siri team to quickly atone for its sins. I think the private compute stuff to be really
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by dereg 2y ago
Regarding Germany and large corporations, and somewhat of a tangent, I remember a decade ago a bunch of hedge funds had tried to sue Porsche, the parent company of VW, for cornering the market for VW’s open interest and cause the mother of
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by dereg 3y ago
There weren’t 200 holdouts. It was like 5 AM over there. I don’t know why you are surprised that people who work at OpenAI would want to work at OpenAI, esp over Microsoft?
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by dereg 3y ago
Likely connected to the fact that they released voice chat for free users an hour ago. https://x.com/openai/status/1727065166188274145 Assuming these two things are related, if I may editorialize just a tiny bit,
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by dereg 3y ago
Don't forget Tasha McCauley's husband, Joseph Gordon Levitt, has been vocally anti-AI during the SAG-AFTRA strike, an event for which AI was a huge point of contention. It's a poisoned board.
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by dereg 3y ago
Seems all but confirmed that Sam is going back to OpenAI. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609
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by dereg 3y ago
You have! The Apple Vision Pro is slated to be released by the March/April 2024. The device has only been made possible by the steady march of Apple Silicon.
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by dereg 3y ago
Saying the chips haven't enabled any sort of innovative products it's like driving down the interstate wearing goggles, err, blinders. Let's check back in four months.
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by dereg 3y ago
I do think he was the chief architect of the coup. I do think his beliefs and ideals are still valuable flora for a company of this ambition. There just needs to be a more professional structure for him to voice them. Dealing with folks lik
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by dereg 3y ago
I think that his beliefs are important to the company. A board shouldn't be a homogenous glob nor should it be like a middle school friend group. What he did was both bizarre and amateur, but I believe in the best of us all the come fo
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by dereg 3y ago
I don’t understand why and how they didn’t consider this sort of discussion before so unceremoniously firing him. The others on the board outside Ilya need to go. I don’t consider anybody beyond forgiveness and if Ilya takes a professional
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by dereg 3y ago
ExifTool[0] does all that from the command line. I use it for automating my photo organization workflow and, as a bonus, I use it for reading the metadata of damn near any filetype. [0]: https://exiftool.org
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by dereg 3y ago
My interpretation is actually the opposite. I believe that 1Password has grown significantly in the professional space, and that Okta likely sees this trend as a competitive threat. If there's anything that Apple's upending of Bla
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by dereg 3y ago
I'll push back because, in my experience, this sensation arises in the still-very-tired aftermath of totally spending myself on a problem. Solutions emerge in my head as I sleep, usually after a day of brute-forcing a problem so much t
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by dereg 3y ago
No such suspicion is necessary. Google's revenue from the United States has only increased as a share of its total revenue over the past decade. https://abc.xyz/assets/4c/c7/d619b323f5bba689be986d716a61&
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by dereg 3y ago
Keep in mind that the information in the link you provided only applies to the developer models, which are only accessible via API and OpenAI Playground. OpenAI's developer relations person confirmed it a little whiles back: > [..]
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by dereg 3y ago
GPT-4 in ChatGPT has changed so much and so frequently. I've spent an inordinate time using both, side by side, and it has mostly failed to replicate the performance of their API offerings. While I don't have examples on hand righ
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by dereg 3y ago
It's really poor work. There are two conclusions I took from scanning through this and trying to reproduce a few of the reported failures. 1. The author is bad at prompting. There are many ways to reduce hallucinations and provoke bett
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by dereg 3y ago
Median income is not a better measure because it is blind to changes in population composition over time. Series of median income figures doesn't actually track anything. For instance, a country that accepts more lower-skilled immigran
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by dereg 3y ago
Since last year, before I heard about langchain, I've been building my own stack of tooling for my own LLM projects that probably now covers about 10-20% of Langchain's functionality. I heard about Langchain earlier this year and

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