jcfrei

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The three times I said no to Tim Berners-Lee(capybaraleech.substack.com)
1 points by jcfrei 8d ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 8d ago
Just like kids eventually take over most of the daily tasks for their parents (for people in countries where you don't have any kind of retirement fund and assisted living, etc.). Same will happen here - on one hand because the human p
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by jcfrei 13d ago
This is going to be an extremely interesting space to watch. Will online shops open their perfectly sculpted and sales-optimized webpages to accept requests from chat bots? such that they can just do highly targeted requests for shoppers? O
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by jcfrei 17d ago
AI can be progressing rapidly and valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic can decline at the same time. In fact I would say that's actually the default scenario. If AI really advances rapidly then it will be quickly moot which company devel
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by jcfrei 22d ago
https://archive.ph/q7QBg
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Let the Bond Market Speak(wsj.com)
3 points by jcfrei 22d ago|3 comments
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by jcfrei 23d ago
These blog posts often allude that the EU regulatory bodies are just slightly incompetent or short-sighted and these fragmented national models happen by accident. But unfortunately that's not the case: The EU pretends to be a single-m
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by jcfrei 24d ago
I've recently started using codex for most of my coding. Haven't looked back so far: It seems to reason deeper about the code it writes and has much less downtime.
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by jcfrei 26d ago
this looks just like x402 by Coinbase which enables stablecoin payments. but instead of transacting in dollars it tries to revive the idea that btc can be used as an actual means for payment rather than just speculation.
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by jcfrei 29d ago
Is anybody else experiencing this: I have multiple claude instances running on different servers - and some keep getting the 529 Overloaded error and one instance doesn't and just continues working. All are using Opus 5.
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by jcfrei 1mo ago
search isnt that super hard to solve. the problem is that incentives are misaligned - which means companies who sell something have an incentive to share their index with the corporation that pays to be the default search provider. for a si
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by jcfrei 1mo ago
A lot of the performance of these open source models might come from distilling the closed frontier models. If those can't raise the funds anymore to train newer and better models then the whole improvement cycle might slow down.
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by jcfrei 1mo ago
> Prior to Bretton Woods countries were well aware that no single country could be entrusted with the power granted in being the global reserve currency. That's a misleading statement. First of all at the beginning of the 20th centu
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by jcfrei 1mo ago
Once LLMs get fast enough at processing real-time images Apple (or anybody really) can just roll out a browser rendering engine that just masks all ads. It will take a few years but the browser ad-business is in it's terminal phase.
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1Password Login Issues(1password.community)
1 points by jcfrei 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 1mo ago
In many investment theses - like Nvidia's bet that demand for compute will keep growing - the first order assumption is usually correct. Yes, demand for more compute, chips, infrastructure is huge and each year some additional data cen
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by jcfrei 1mo ago
That's how quickly your perception shifts when you are inside of a real, fundamental technological shift. If some similar computer program figured out the same improved bound just 6 years ago there would have been numerous blog posts,
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by jcfrei 1mo ago
I think their move makes a lot of sense. Frontier models can probably not advance much further with the datasets we have currently available. Most of the text that goes in is online chatter, images and some scientific texts. That's gre
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
People keep bringing WW3 up but I disagree. There's such a huge aversion in EU countries against any kind of war against Russia and the governments know it. They will let a LOT slide on Russia's side before any kind of retaliation
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
Upvoting this so more people see how cringey it's written.
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Can This New Enzyme Turn Back the Clock in the Human Body?(nytimes.com)
5 points by jcfrei 2mo ago|1 comments
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
That's an overgeneralization and haircuts for debtors are common - even when a positive equity value remains.
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
lightning is a pain to set up, you have to open a channel and keep funding it - so if we are talking about small amounts these costs should definitely be added to your calculation. or you use lightning via an exchange - but that again kinda
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
very unlikely that they are holding models back. models are very quickly depreciating in value and have internal cutoff dates. that would really not make sense from a business perspective. and doing an entire training run without commercial
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
Some good answers below already. I think the anti nuclear movement already started before Chernobyl. I believe it was one of the founding ideologies of the green parties (the danger of high CO2 emissions was not yet front of mind for a lot
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
If you find a more informed and up-to-date source than a market where people wagered close to $1M on I'm all ears.
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
There's a very low chance of OpenAI doing an IPO this year: https://polymarket.com/event/openai-ipo-by . So the assumption that they "have to do an IPO" already seems questionable. The rest of the analysi
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by jcfrei 2mo ago
No to both in my opinion. The EU market is in reality still heavily fractured - especially in the services sector. A Hungarian construction company for example can't just easily build a bridge for a town in Italy. With Europe steadily
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by jcfrei 3mo ago
Fascinating. The 2001 shift aligns well with China's entry into the WTO.
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by jcfrei 3mo ago
I think this is part of a long term development where technology and globalization slowly erode workers bargaining power. Basically you only build a factory in the US if you can keep labour costs low enough and the manufacturing automated e

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