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Comment · 1 day ago
LLMs trained on fair use are themselves fair use. Weights pls
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
A rising tide lifts all boats. It doesn’t mean the sea is made of boats
Comment · 5 months ago
Cool

…but never buy v1 hardware folks! Especially for limited runs like high end laptops.

Apple quality comes from scale. A narrow product line means they have literally hundreds or thousands times more testing than PC ultra books. (And still — don’t buy a first iteration of a new Apple chassis.)

Comment · 5 months ago
I think the answer is no, as this is a creative repurposing of css3d as a basis for a general 3d engine. That lets you put web content everywhere, even on the triangles of your teapot. Cool, but extravagant

Whereas THREE.js or webgl is purpose-built for realtime animated 3d scenes.

Comment · 5 months ago
> That may suit Anthropic as private models can't be distilled

They can be distilled internally… expect great things from Sonnet 4.8

Comment · 6 months ago
Why not the Pacific Ocean
Comment · 6 months ago
In a master’s, you learn a lot about a little

In a PhD, you learn everything about nothing

Comment · 6 months ago
Wait till Codex doubles prices/halves quotas on May 31
Comment · 7 months ago
Billions in profit may unblock scaling customer support beyond scrappy startup minimums

However (and I loathe this logic) if you can get the marketplace to accept that minimal level, and the brand harm is inconsequential, why not pocket the savings

Comment · 7 months ago
For those who find this appealing: Fires still burn down houses so what’s the point of fire departments?
Comment · 8 months ago
Skill issue—in management.

Good leaders perceive workhorse vs showhorse spectrum, critical toil vs needless flash (and vice versa).

It’s hard. Most fail at hard things. The industry in the aggregate will fail at hard things

So you get articles like this.

Comment · 8 months ago
Open source meth is still bad in absolute terms even if it’s better than the alternative meth
Comment · 8 months ago
They’re not going to build their own, it’ll just be one of the many capabilities of the agent platform they use. A 2024 SaaS is just a playbook for next-gen AI.

You don’t buy a spelling correction program because it got built into Word. And now, the OS…

Comment · 9 months ago
Indeed perhaps the most valuable lesson from travel is returning with the realization of just how poorly the generalizations and statistics describe the messy reality of a place. Everywhere has every sort of person

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