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Comment · 1 month ago
yes because they sell the service for less? and because their development costs are also less, does that mean they are profitable where openai and anthropic are not? just wondering
Comment · 1 month ago
OR this is FUD and China is showing the world that all the ballyhoo about exotic tech etc. required to produce good AI is just billionaire bros making it up to suck in investor dollars.
Comment · 2 months ago
Would like to see proof. Or maybe in late Oct there will be so many 'cyberattacks' that elections will be cancelled by a state of emergency. Not all states, just the Dem ones.
Comment · 4 months ago
Paywalled ... pass.
Comment · 1 year ago
If this were true, there would already be nuclear powered aircraft which would be a much more "achievable" goal given the size and weight of even the smallest nuclear power plants.

But there are no nuclear powered aircraft and so no nuclear powered missiles. And many countries have had nuclear _capable_ weaponry for a very long time because nuclear weapons can be small and relatively light.

So there is no news except for the very gullible.

Comment · 1 year ago
Open source, no. Proprietary? MindBridge.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have long maintained that scientific consensus is always political and only rarely based on fact. The noisiest and most politically astute scientists rise in stature and influence and sometimes viciously defend their pet beliefs whether they are correct or not.
Comment · 2 years ago
working already b/c 'buildt' is a new word
Comment · 2 years ago
personal: surfacebook I since 2014 work: m1 pro w/32GB
Comment · 3 years ago
Oracle stuff didn't help. It's initial appeal was that it ran everywhere. Now all languages do. So people who just want to code something quickly w/o worries for security, etc. use Js/Node for web stuff and Python for pretty much everything else. For people really concerned about speed and security C/C++ is the 'real' programmer's tool of choice. Java code gets very ugly, very quickly and code reuse, one of the big promises, just never took off. So Java is kind of purposeless. Pick a task and there is something better and easier to use than Java.
Comment · 3 years ago
Years of fomenting fear of 'climate change' and painting it as a dire crisis has opened up the general public to the predations of snake oil peddlers. With the public demanding immediate action and an immediate fix, they are primed to be ready to accept any and all proposed solutions. In this case the proposal is another instance of geoengineering a body of water that human science is still far from understanding in its role in the planet's climate. We still do not completely understand ocean chemistry nor its effect on the climate and consequently cannot model long term effects. Perhaps it's time to accept that just as it took a long time to create the current problem and it will take a long time to correct it. There is no silver bullet.
Comment · 3 years ago
FORTRAN .... proof? it's still here :-D
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Does it eat _just_ viruses?

If so, _which_ viruses?

Just wondering if it could be safely introduced in to a body and if some virii are more edible than others.

Comment · 3 years ago
Read Smil's book "How the World Really Works"

The commitment to fossil fuels is a) far greater than you can imagine and b) will not change anywhere in the near future. Bottom line: 'fossil' fuels are second only to nuclear energy in the amount of energy by volume. Nothing else is close. And we need vast amounts of energy just to grow enough to feed this planet's population let alone distribute it to where it needs to go.

So yeah, BP has got it right.

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