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by zetazzed 3d ago
Ok, but how do the economics of this work? Based on its settlement, Anthropic paid an average of $3000 per work they scanned based on their settlement ( https://tech-insider.org/au/anthropic-copyright-settlement-2... ).
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by zetazzed 27d ago
I uninstalled basically all of these EXCEPT youtube, and that's what I struggle with sometimes now. I find so much great long- and medium-form content on Youtube that I want to keep it around. But I have to admit that I can sometimes f
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by zetazzed 1mo ago
I'm a good target market for pro-coffee writing, but this is just an observational study of a drinks habit. No one in the general public should have any interest in studies of this kind. Maybe if you're deep in working in this res
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by zetazzed 1mo ago
The NYT just did a story on Andon: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-... Their AI "boss" appears to be pathologically chill and worker-friendly. Has never denied a req
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by zetazzed 2mo ago
Who will invest in generating data for the frontier of AI if their output will immediately be used to train a competing model? Forget China vs. US, this applies within-country too. After exhausting all the publicly-accessible data on the in
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by zetazzed 8mo ago
It's like the Victoria 3 combat system. You just send an army and a general to a given front and let them get to work with no micro. Easy! But of course some percentage of the time they do something crazy like deciding to redeploy from
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by zetazzed 10mo ago
This is actually not such bad advice for a manager who manages other managers, though I can see why ICs find it very frustrating. If you are giving high level platitudes and counseling-disguised-as-coaching to a junior new hire, they can ri
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by zetazzed 11mo ago
The total profit of ALL US health insurance companies added together was $9bln in 2024: https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/2024-annual-hea... . This is a profit margin of 0.8% down from 2.2% in the p
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Is it easy to record a voiceover or add chosen audio? (Sorry I don't have an invite code so I can't try.) I could see some room for human jokes or short human-driven songs that could use a video backdrop.
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Does Disney have a positive obligation to show animal cruelty snuff films on Disney Plus? Or are they allowed to control what people say on their network? Does Roblox have to allow XXX games showing non-consensual sex acts on their site, or
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Their revenue is like $670bln. If you come up with an innovation that increases that by 0.01%, say by better optimizing prices or targeting adds, you've added $60m of revenue. If you pay a star engineer $1m per year and they have even
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Ok but telling someone they can have GPUs online in a mere 5 years if they build as fast as SK is still going to be a very painful pill. How do we get a DC in a year?
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by zetazzed 1y ago
I see an increasing number of politicians taking the position: "I supported Israel's government's actions when they first attacked, given the goals of destroying Hamas' leadership and freeing hostages, but now that it h
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Manufacturing output has more than doubled in the US since 1980: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPMAN#
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Companies can choose their gross margins! Just take the cost of manufacturing, double it, and call that your price. You now have 50% gross margins. But you can't choose your total profit. Maybe almost nobody buys at this crazy price yo
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by zetazzed 1y ago
In the models I've seen, they still require and bill insurance. The monthly fee is a supplement for the doc practices.
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Ok, I appreciate that timelines in this space are long. But the opening phrase: "Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development..."
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by zetazzed 1y ago
Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris. Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior. I hate and I love. Why I should do this, perhaps you may ask... I know not, but I feel it done to me, and I am wracked.
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by zetazzed 1y ago
I feel like LLMs are the same as the leap from "world before web search" to "world after web search." Yeah, in google, you get crap links for sure, and you have to wade through salesy links and random blogs. But in the p
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by zetazzed 2y ago
In a past startup, we had at least one person apply to our regular job postings with a cover that transparently said "I know this is a full-time, long-term posting, but I really want to be a contractor for a bounded time." Since i
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by zetazzed 2y ago
Algebra in 8th grade is back this year. https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/... . I have no other knowledge to vouch for SFUSD either way though.
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by zetazzed 2y ago
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes! Lots of detail, but it also shows how many geniuses it took working over years to really make it work.
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by zetazzed 2y ago
I'm still surprised the "dumb phone for kids" and "dumb watch with basic comms" markets are so underdeveloped (from my perspective). I would love my kids to have (a) gps tracking, (b) ability to send texts/call
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by zetazzed 2y ago
Controversially, Rawls asserts that you clearly want to maximize the worst outcome in this case (the "maximin" principle). Economists strongly disagree as it doesn't take into account probability. If you have the potential to
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by zetazzed 2y ago
This is a really important problem, and a lot of software attacks it. Pretty much every big HR/workforce management system includes options for it, e.g. https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/workforce-managem
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by zetazzed 2y ago
There's a phenomenon in which inflation-related posts generate lots of comments or concerns that the CPI methodology is manipulated in some way. If you are interested in learning more about CPI, the methodology is very complex but tran
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by zetazzed 2y ago
For folks with GPUs, note that HDBscan is very optimized in cuML ( https://docs.rapids.ai/api/cuml/stable/api/#clustering / https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/faster-hdbscan-soft-
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by zetazzed 2y ago
Man, I want to appreciate a nice new hardware approach, but they say such BS that it is hard to read about them: > “There might need to be a new term, because by the end of next year we’re going to deploy enough LPUs that compute-wise, i
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by zetazzed 3y ago
Hercule Poirot (in "The Cornish Mystery"): "Hein, the pancreas is nothing. Of the digestive organs, the liver is the key. Look after the liver and life will take care of itself." (I have cut my alcohol to 2 drinks per we
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by zetazzed 3y ago
If your company makes $1bln per year now and pays a CEO $1 mln, and then someone comes along who has much better ideas, better work ethic, and more experience and you (the board) are convinced they can add 5% of revenue as pure profit to yo

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