vineyardmike

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by vineyardmike 7d ago
You missed the additional feature launch where they listen to your entire life and give you transcriptions and summaries. “Siri Recap” https://support.apple.com/en-us/148354
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by vineyardmike 8d ago
> It is more effortful, more complex, and requires greater care to actually get Wifi and Bluetooth to the OFF state than ON, or ON+CONNECTED. Respectfully, that is backwards, it should be the easiest thing to turn something off. Why? I g
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by vineyardmike 9d ago
Yes...? Is that not self evident by the insane revenue from frontier labs?
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by vineyardmike 9d ago
> we know better for you so we’ll adjust the behavior accordingly 9/10 times I've used this setting, what I've actually wanted was to temporarily change the behavior. This just saves me from the need to remember to undo it
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by vineyardmike 9d ago
The cooler thing is that if a substantial amount of the 216M TV owners tried to arbitrate across the country/world, they'd cave so fast. Arbitration is cheaper than an individual law suit, but much much more expensive than a class
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by vineyardmike 14d ago
Because violating the law was the prerequisite to starting their business, without it they're worth $0 and have no models. They've already survived Training on customer input may help the models but it isn't "bet the fa
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by vineyardmike 17d ago
That's the thing though. There are very few "actual workflows" in many people's lives (especially if you exclude their job), and many many "one off (few off) workflow". That's the magic. So many tasks I ne
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by vineyardmike 21d ago
I’ve been super pro-Luna lately. I really hope that Gemini-Flash-Lite is positioned to compete with it. We all know that Anthropic has abandoned Haiku and it would never be that cheap. Probably shouldn’t say this here but I’ve been planning
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by vineyardmike 22d ago
It won’t work. I have nothing against taxation and funding education but the issue isn’t that type of education. If you work in the industry in a well funded company (the ones who’d be paying these taxes), then you probably have more coll
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by vineyardmike 22d ago
How much of that 16mo is design versus just production? If there was a “plug and play” chip where you just BYO weights, how long would it take? The bigger issue seems to be that these chips can’t hold that many weights at the moment. (I’m c
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by vineyardmike 22d ago
Those jobs aren’t coming back as-is, because AI isn’t going anywhere. Job markets change over time. I’ve just started transitioning my career closer to management, so I develop/manage roughly 50/50. At this point, if I had to mana
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by vineyardmike 24d ago
> Or even outside of software! As a software engineer, I selfishly hope that they spend more effort on non software tasks since I’ve feel like we hit a sweet spot where engineers still have some value and autonomy, but a super charged to
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by vineyardmike 26d ago
> or maybe this functionality is available already Basically already exists depending on specific trade offs and risk profile. You already can encrypt your data and store the encryption key offsite. But then you couldn’t use your phone d
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by vineyardmike 27d ago
The same way that smart phones aren’t easier nor cheaper to produce than feature phones. Once the technology and features get good, people’s default expectations shift. I’ve not been sold on flip phones so far, but the latest “passport” sty
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by vineyardmike 29d ago
My differentiation for this comment, was “preventing someone from using your product to build a competitor” vs “letting a competitor see your strengths/weakness to benchmark against you”. Competition is competition and it’s two sides o
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by vineyardmike 29d ago
They said they also block usage of Claude models to build ML models. Which is definitely protecting their turf, but also probably a little bit hiding their “RSI” abilities for competitive reasons. My theory is that a lot of “safety blocki
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by vineyardmike 29d ago
For the 1.2B passengers: the transfer doesn’t contain passenger data, just internal operations data Eg. Airline code, marketing materials, pricing histories, etc Also, to answer the question: > Affiliates and Acquisitions. We may share i
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
I can probably live most of my life without the transistor being invented, but it’s certainly better with new technology. “Needs help” is an unnecessary and negative framing, don’t be a hater. We can basically always do what AI does (if not
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
Literally everything from generic coding agent to shopping. I run it in a MacOS vm, fwiw, for certain tasks. I usually hand it a repo and say “install all build dependencies” and it’ll click through installation GUIs where necessary. I wond
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
It doesn’t matter what the actual reality is. People think that data centers waste water, and they don’t like that. The beef from a single hamburger uses far more water than a year of ChatGPT usage. Few try to reduce consumption in favor of
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
Those in power seem to think that a compute advantage is necessary to maintain economic advantage. Despite this, the voters universally hate data centers, so much so that both NY and TX have data center construction moratoriums. Despite thi
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
> I don’t think there’s some practical way to force existing corporations to include something in their charter Laws are but a pen stroke away. <legalese intro> No existing nor new C corp and their executives shall be be considered
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
> a serious problem with standard corporations... immoral activities for profit A politician could trivially write a law to end this "problem", at any point. Or courts could start rejecting suits where investors sue. There is n
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
> Perhaps Gemini itself was resource-starved because Google liked to rent out TPUs to Anthropic instead. This was the core hypothesis.
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
I agree that other organizations can compete with few resources, but my hypothesis is that Gemini training specifically is being given nearly 0 resources, despite Google obviously having lots of resources. The hypothesis is based on an assu
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by vineyardmike 1mo ago
The answer is far more benign. They getting a higher ROI renting their TPUs to Anthropic et al instead of performing training and serving their own models. Google cloud has insane backlog, and has rapidly expanded to satisfy it. While those
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> Injecting more money into the film industry would just lead it to the same people at the top of it where they'll produce the same mediocre output as they have for ages Not necessarily, if you apply discipline and intentionality. C
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
Goodwill is supposedly €1.504B.
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> Are you trying to be sarcastic or funny? I can't tell. Take a liberal arts class and your reading comprehension may improve. > knows what a partial differential equation is. I’ve met a few but tbh that’s a pretty weird way to j
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by vineyardmike 2mo ago
> You neither need not count on someone who wrote a thesis on 'feminist perspective of aztek dance' I like how we just make up fake arguments in incoherent grammar as a reason to criticize the humanities. There'd be irony

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