xdertz

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by xdertz 7d ago
because when doing whacky hardware you need to control the entire UI stack. Android can never deliver this because of the fragmentation and you get apps that don't work right and bug out constantly. Apple can force developers to use AP
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by xdertz 7d ago
The most important part of a foldable is the screen and they are designed and made by Samsung, so hard to come up with something Samsung couldn't have done in their own phone.
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by xdertz 8d ago
I wonder, how long until the ad business will target agents instead of humans?
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by xdertz 10d ago
As someone that mainly switched to e-readers because of bad eyes, this is way too small. Even the bigger x4 seems too small for the font size I feel comfortable with.
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by xdertz 16d ago
Then you have schools demanding a published paper as part of their masters degree. This gave rise to many conferences that are just publishing mills.
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by xdertz 23d ago
They have no fab for CPUs, they are manufactured by Samsung and TSMC. The bottleneck is in manufacturing RAM not CPUs so there is nothing Apple can do here.
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by xdertz 23d ago
This is the same as saying every binary is open source because you can look at and change the machine code. Open source means you reveal how you created this binary.
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by xdertz 24d ago
I wouldn't let kids use a sharp kitchen knife either, but it is still something that everyone benefits from owning.
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by xdertz 29d ago
There are three issues that arise - structural: There are height and size limits on things you can build without a permit - trespassing: flinging objects onto others people property is illegal - endangerment: any activity that can endanger
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by xdertz 29d ago
if you want low cost and portable, chemistry (i.e. gunpowder) always wins over gravity powered.
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by xdertz 1mo ago
We could very well reach a point where models don't get better anymore, or where consumer models are good enough for 95% of the use-cases.
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by xdertz 1mo ago
I think he is wrong on the overall usefulness of AI but I have yet to see someone actually refuting his economic arguments.
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by xdertz 1mo ago
This sounds like a problem the service providers should solve. Some kind of 'create bot account' function where you can give granular permissions for a new account to interact with your data. This already exists in some form with
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by xdertz 1mo ago
when my colleagues do something illegal or negligent they are personally on the hook for it. Who is on the hook when my bot does that?
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by xdertz 2mo ago
The guitar claim is not true anymore. Companies like NeuralDSP have reached the point where it is indistinguishable from analogue. Virtual amps have pretty much completely replaced analogue amps in live setups and many studio recordings.
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by xdertz 2mo ago
You can also watch 1.43:1 in a virtual cinema in VR.
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by xdertz 2mo ago
two main sources analytics: A/B testing, "if x does user click y"?, unique page visits, etc. ads: integrating with an ad provider comes with hundreds of trackers, because they want to - know if you bought a product after clic
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by xdertz 2mo ago
It is logically a 1080x1080 rectangular display. Every pixel outside the circle is ignored.
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by xdertz 2mo ago
> as they don't seem as popular as search engines. Anecdotal evidence that I observe is that people stopped using google and only ask LLMs nowadays for their everyday queries.
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by xdertz 2mo ago
LLMs are great for product research, as in "I want to buy X, what brands are there and what are the pros/cons and what do users report". Lots of potential to game the results there. If that is enough to sustain the business i
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by xdertz 2mo ago
So how about also getting rid of all regulations for wheelchair friendly infrastructure while we are at it? Way too expensive and it is even less than 2% of the population that requires it.
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by xdertz 3mo ago
There are plenty of roaming applications: camping, boating, flying and war zones, which have both private and enterprise customer possibilities. Then there are remote places that either have no other option or would like a backup solution.
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by xdertz 3mo ago
I don't think it is either of those. He is clearly not dumb nor do I think he is inherently evil. The thing is just that he became a billionaire at 23 and did not have to experience any of the grounding and setbacks that turn someone i
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by xdertz 3mo ago
Their target market is completely different. Anthropic and OpenAI try to build general AI that wins on all the benchmarks by throwing ungodly amounts of money at it. Mistral focuses on long term b2b contracts and their proposition is that t
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by xdertz 3mo ago
It is also valuable for scientists as it is often a 'directors cut' version of the paper. Journal submissions are heavy edited and shortened to fit into the page limits.
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by xdertz 3mo ago
Tapping something is discoverable and a basic human instinct. How the hell do you discover "swipe up from the bottom edge and then slightly right" to open the app switcher?
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by xdertz 3mo ago
Github Copilot lets you use Anthropic models. This is just a way for enterprises to fold this into their existing Microsoft contract instead of negotiating with a new vendor.
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by xdertz 3mo ago
> LLMs can be described as "hardcoded weights for generating the next token". All code is "hardcoded". I disagree. Hardcoded means you need to change and recompile the entire program. So neither an .env file nor model
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by xdertz 3mo ago
I agree. I can tune a guitar to within a half a semitone of accuracy without reference just from knowing how the open strings are supposed to sound after 20 years of playing.
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by xdertz 3mo ago
AI usage is very spiky and good models require very expensive hardware. Running locally would just result in it sitting idle ~90% of the time. I think renting will always be cheaper, for comparable performance at least.

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