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Comment · 3 days ago
What's the benefit? It appears that the outlook rejection was unintended. So against llm processing?
Comment · 8 days ago
well how much work did he really put into it?

It feels like making "Where the tokens land was checked against the table published in Scientific American in 1996 (Illinois Avenue: 3.18% published, 3.19% in my simulation)." a key point of the investigation doesn't see like a human choice

Comment · 9 days ago
technically possible
Comment · 9 days ago
we could stick with the metaphor of keys. The modern web requires fancy ones capable of hundreds of notches. The company in question basically skipped the step of notches and just used the blank key
Comment · 1 month ago
Most people don't have specialised computing / software needs or uses. In fact, they're generally Overwhelmed by the current software landscape. They want less, not more tools.

And to them software is generally a not much more than a home-screen bookmark to some client that could be a website.

Comment · 1 month ago
There will still be a need to distribute and exchange ressources, goods and services.

Real estate, food, energy, mobility.

That will be done with money. Or violence. Either way, a scary future to people when labor doesn't provide any value. Elon promises abundance, but what can he do against greed?

Comment · 3 months ago
Yep, it helps llms, and the same is true for libraries. Technically neither are necessary. Imagine an llm that's restricted to assembly.
Comment · 3 months ago
I've heard chinese contains more information per token
Comment · 4 months ago
What drives him then? Power?
Comment · 4 months ago
so i found two bonus words today
Comment · 4 months ago
I actually prefer them being public than in some governments or corporations toolbox
Comment · 4 months ago
Can someone help me understand the following?

Getting up from a seat als walking a couple steps feels that same at home and in a flying airplane (or does it?). But the base speed is 0 in the former and several hundred mph in the latter case

Comment · 4 months ago
Glad to see an emotional family event that doesn't try following the latest social-media trends or societal norms in general. Instead the people involved just figured out what's important to them and did just that
Comment · 5 months ago
Well so the Nazis founded VW with confiscated union capital, and after the war control of the company was basically handed over to the union to make things right.
Comment · 5 months ago
robots.txt is a way of leaving the door unlocked but kindly asking bots to stay outside.

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