mmcwilliams

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Comment · 2 months ago
I suppose you could word it that way but the statement given, that Trump's influence is failing with federal judges, isn't demonstrated by a jury refusing to convict someone. That is shown by judges throwing out cases; which has been happening.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sandwich guy was acquitted by a jury, not a judge.
Comment · 3 months ago
Not sure you're being clear about what you mean, here. Is OpenAI's company culture something you consider "low trust"?
Comment · 4 months ago
That may be the case but the idea that non-technical people didn't pay cash for internet products before the dot com boom is fanciful. I would say AOL's acquisition of a legacy media company did signal the peak of a mania the way these IPOs are.
Comment · 4 months ago
This seems to ignore the fact that millions of non-technical people did pay cash for a product: AOL. And in fact the AOL buyout of Time Warner coincided almost exactly with burst of the dot com boom.
Comment · 4 months ago
What people are describing here is the colloquial definition of "server", being compute hosted in space. Not a broadcast signal that is interpreted on Earth.
Comment · 4 months ago
You believe that GPS is hosted on servers in space?
Comment · 4 months ago
Can you provide a good example of something that is currently hosted in space and distributed via satellite?
Comment · 5 months ago
There are plenty of exfiltration examples out there that could go through known, commonly-greenlit domains. Even exfil via DNS requests has been demonstrated.
Comment · 7 months ago
Seems potentially libelous to claim this person isn't actually blind.
Comment · 9 months ago
I deal regularly with landlords that owe government agencies hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for years or even decades. None of them are in jail or even at risk of it.
Comment · 9 months ago
Not that it's likely but there were publicly-released LLMs, like GPT-J, that were released in 2021.
Comment · 9 months ago
Odd, I've found that Gemini will completely fabricate the content of specific DOIs despite being corrected and even it providing a link to a paper which shows it is off about the title and subject of a paper it will cite. This obviously concerns me about its effectiveness as a research aide.
Comment · 9 months ago
Palantir holds over £1B in contracts with the UK government, some of them of an undisclosed nature. Must be some impressive CSV.

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