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by newyankee 11d ago
A lot of the long tail tools are used so rarely or for some very specific functions in certain organisations that there is a good case to be made that these can definitely be targets of simpler GPT guided automation. There are a lot of redu
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by newyankee 11d ago
Honestly it seems like they knew this would happen, but they managed to really make the most of it. If anything it is an example of how important marketing is in influencing culture and choices
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by newyankee 11d ago
If anything, much later than what I anticipated it would take. One place where one has to appreciate Chinese scale.
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by newyankee 11d ago
Also while developed countries are affected , developing countries like Bangladesh, India are disproportionately affected, mostly a function of geography and a lot of history (very high population etc.). Honestly once AI becomes powerful en
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by newyankee 16d ago
there might be 8 billion GPUs in the world by 2040 but they will be controlled by 8 corporations across the world.
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by newyankee 20d ago
Everyone will probably go through the 5 stages of grief w.r.t AI adoption in their field and the gatekeepers will (rightfully) hold onto hallucination and errors as reasons to delay incorporation or to incorporate it with more human handhol
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by newyankee 21d ago
See, the issue is CEOs capture a fair amount of value but ultimately it is the owners and the main shareholders who hire them for that value to insulate themselves from day to day running of the company. The maximum value of the company is
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by newyankee 21d ago
The funny thing is Decentralised Autonomous organisations (DAO) under Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies had similar goals originally. I do not know where they stand and if ever a useful DAO was created. If nothing this is a useful demo in
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by newyankee 22d ago
If you research the origins of Dwarkesh, even more conspiracy level points emerge. I do not think even in the handful videos post Leopold fund collapse he has addressed it in any ways. That is the point of so called observers, they pretend
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by newyankee 1mo ago
A flood of releases today, really difficult to make out for someone who does not use or test all these models on complex real world use cases as to how people decide which ones to use (besides price)
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by newyankee 1mo ago
With frontier models, I have found so many self contradicting points in Indian tax law that I would rather welcome a good AI helping to reduce discretionary powers of officers via highly subjective interpretations. This power asymmetry is b
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by newyankee 1mo ago
all the US needs is Australia like pricing and combine it with individual energy independence branding + clean long term financing like mortgage and there is no better place in the world to harness the urban sprawl and single family homes f
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by newyankee 1mo ago
Probably want to jump 1 generation ahead directly compared to captive Chinese investment with fully automated US factories churning out Silcon perovskite tandem panels directly with few inputs and electricity
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by newyankee 2mo ago
A loop where solar is converted to fertiliser using similar process , probably generating hydrogen as a side effect with some mechanism to probably capture some carbon for economically useful use when it reaches say an LCOE of 0.01 $/k
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by newyankee 2mo ago
Well I am an Indian who lived in US and worked for top companies for 10 years and left back to my home country as I did not want to be beholden to the Green card waiting time or take some unethical pathways (I see a lot of abuse of O1 now).
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by newyankee 3mo ago
It means in the long term there might be more efficient ways to ship 'energy'. If you ship containers full of solar PVs, batteries and use it over their lifetime the amount of 'total energy' transported for a given unit
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by newyankee 3mo ago
If I was getting 8 $ burritos with clearly marked ingredients and total automation end to end, I would gladly work with such a variant of Chipotle as well, even if it cuts workforce by 80% in such a scenario. Frivolous employment maximisati
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by newyankee 3mo ago
LCOE is the talking point that should shut down all others along with LCOS of LFP batteries
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by newyankee 4mo ago
When an entity becomes almost a monopoly, surely the rules about some behaviours should be stronger
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by newyankee 4mo ago
Well one hobby I had when young was collecting these matchboxes. It was rumored that collecting 1000 unique ones would unlock something and gave rise to a rat race, this is pre Indian internet and no one really knew what it would unlock. I
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by newyankee 5mo ago
Wow, I had seen the inside of the refinery still partly under construction way back in 2003 when I was barely out of my teens.
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by newyankee 5mo ago
I do agree that FDA was quite risk averse before especially in areas where the risk - reward would be better for terminally ill or other patients. Having said that this is a different kind of risk reward treatment where the patient might th
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by newyankee 5mo ago
Fingers crossed. I thought the same when I had heard Stefan Heller at Stanford give a talk 15+ years back. I am sure progress is happening but Biology is hard and the hope is AI and other developments are giving it a push
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by newyankee 5mo ago
Actually I am unaware about what FDA policy changes helped this, can you elaborate ?
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by newyankee 5mo ago
Very positive news. I have something similar but in a much more difficult gene with different manifestation, but at least this gives me hope that something might come up in 1-2 decades.
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by newyankee 5mo ago
Also when discussing Mughals the most important elephant in the room is ignored. Their intention to totally Islamise India. But this is more about Indian history being editorialised by few communists and others as they hate the notion of a
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by newyankee 5mo ago
Actually there are many more interesting people in Indian history. From Chandragupta Maurya, Kanishka to even Shivaji and others. Mughals are overglorified if anything and their own primary texts are ignored in this process.
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by newyankee 5mo ago
I am sure people said the same 100 years back when they probably thought living beyond say 60 was too much. I know that in poorer countries due to high infant mortality rate and other issues just reaching 60 was a big milestone for the aver
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by newyankee 5mo ago
In an ideal world, yes. But the only way to move forward is somehow modifying the existing world for better, step by step.
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by newyankee 5mo ago
In a well designed urban environment where cars have space for 2-3 modular batteries with swapping capabilities, I see no reason why taxis etc. need to carry battery payload > 150 km of range needed for local use, which would mean better

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