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Comment · 9 hours ago
Were you under the impression that research costs can only be incurred in the US? Dizal had to spend money to develop the drug too. They recoup it by selling for the highest price people are willing to pay. From the article: "AZ paid Dizal $600 million upfront, and will owe royalty payments to Dizal based on global sales of the drug through AstraZeneca’s sales channels outside China." With those $600 million, they can now do even more drug research, which they will again sell at the highest price people are willing to pay and so on.
Comment · 2 days ago
The comments are preserved here: https://web.archive.org/web/20171108220351/https://nedbatche... It's a more subtle nitpick about how amortized runtime analysis is done.
Comment · 2 days ago
They probably prefer being used by the deep-pocketed organizations that have access to Gemini 4 Carbon even if it means losing the entire rest of the market.
Comment · 2 days ago
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...
"We're taking a deliberate approach to rollout and are actively engaged in the U.S. government’s voluntary process for pre-release model testing. Starting this week, we will make Carbon available to a subset of cyber defenders and will gradually phase access to additional trusted partners through our Fairwind Program. We’re continuing to gather feedback and iterate on guardrails before making Carbon available to developers, businesses, and consumers via our product surfaces as soon as possible."
Comment · 2 days ago
The whole point of this architecture is that it can also make use of multi-char patterns, but unlike BPE, they aren't hard-coded. And you can still use speculative decoding. Whether it works better or worse is something that you have to actually measure.
Comment · 3 days ago
It's hardly surprising that ≈0.01% of the population of Barcelona are ready to do property damage. The only surprising thing is that they managed to all be at the same place at the same time. Identifying Tiktok as one link in their organizing process doesn't mean Tiktok is to blame, but it suggests that one way to prevent future occurrences could be e.g. to have a dedicated police unit monitoring social media content so they're not caught unawares.
Comment · 3 days ago
Image-generation platforms can be subpoenaed for identifiers associated with the account that produced those images.
Comment · 3 days ago
Their problem is really that individual benchmarks are not that informative. Bad enough models all perform at chance level, good enough models all saturate the benchmark. And the number of tasks is often low enough that differences of several percentage points might just be noise. Artificial Analysis' approach of aggregating scores in a weighted sum is largely just choosing which noise to amplify more.
I prefer Epoch's https://epoch.ai/eci methodology as they explicitly model benchmark saturation and also provide error bars for their estimates.
Comment · 4 days ago
You're probably thinking about pre-election polls. Those are frequently off by a few percentage points even if they took great care to take a large representative sample of the population because it's difficult to predict turnout. However, there's one opportunity to get a representative sample of voters: by conducting an exit poll right after they voted. If exit polls show a large discrepancy from actual results, it's usually seen as an indicator of fraud.
Comment · 6 days ago
I don't see where school libraries are mentioned.
Comment · 6 days ago
The author bio at the bottom says "Hazel (the artist) and Bell (the writer) are an English-speaking duo behind the webcomics "Electric Bones" and "Always Raining Here"." Which are up https://electricbonescomic.com https://www.alwaysraininghere.com I think they just decided to blow their self-promotion opportunity for an inside joke.
Comment · 6 days ago
The dedicated fanbase, sure. But not people who don't actively seek out sexy raccoons, although they might read the comic if it shows up in their feed when they're bored. So not being able to post on popular platforms costs them a customer-acquisition funnel.
The usual solution is to put conspicuous censorship markers over everything the platform finds objectionable and then let the audience know where they can buy the uncensored edition.
Comment · 7 days ago
Not replacing expensive infrastructure before it really needs to be replaced is simply the economically better choice. If you replace it earlier, you have all the same issues with not being able to use it while construction is ongoing and the same costs and so on, so all you achieve with a replacement ahead of schedule is to artificially cut short the lifespan of perfectly usable infrastructure.
Comment · 8 days ago
They also show scores for a "Kimi model w/o cyber risk-reduction" https://statics.kimi.ai/kimi-blogs/kimi-k3-1/20261023/xdev-b... Presumably State Security will get access to that on request.
