"The hard part is it requires nerves of steel because you will be up 100,000 one day and down 200,000 the next day and up $120,000 a day after that. The point is it's all doable mathematically. "

That's what's wrong with this article. They evaluate the model on its accuracy, or lack thereof, on a single race. That doesn't work

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't expect anything GPT-like to outperform a more simple statistical model on sports gambling. Still, this article doesn't make a lot of sense.

What a language model might be good for here is populating the statistical model, like collecting facts on the different players current injuries from news stories.

I always took these kinds of things as a bit of a joke myself. They can't overthrow the government. But historically what does make paramilitaries forces (more specifically, pro-government militias) potent is being tolerated / allowed / tacitly encouraged by the government - when such groups or more are less in line with the ruling party and allowed to do its "dirty work" that is illegal for the regular police and army. (Yes this is in the presence of some degree of law and order... after all, the ruling party doesn't have to do anything but look the other way).

This has happened all around the world lots of times (yes including but by no means exclusively the Brownshirts) and yes I do think Trump would welcome such support, based on his past actions and statements so far. And yes I do think he would fire the head of the FBI to protect this type of activity, since he already did that to protect himself once.

China eyes May 2024 launch for 1st-ever lunar sample-return mission to moon's far side

By Andrew Jones

February 15, 2024

I don't know who modded this offtopic, this bill sounds 100% like "let's make up an issue to win so we can be winners."

Pointless to ask without knowing what compensation he's getting.

What the deal with silicon valley jobs used to be was, you'd get a big salary, but you'd work a lot.

He who hath never pushed the paradigm of email or spreadsheet past its intended usage, let him cast the first stone at her.

That would have to be addressed on an application-specific basis. Debating the issue "in general" doesn't make much sense.

Definitely humans provide care in a way an algorithm cannot. On the other hand, when the summary does get around to mentioning what Kaiser is actually doing, it's monitoring sensors. Computers are pretty damn good at maintaining vigilance in sensor monitoring, in a way people are not. That's why we have fire alarms even though humans can also feel heat and smell smoke.

The OLED screen jumps out at me as a useful upgrade. An iPad is mainly a screen.

Although, they make some nice non-OLED screens too.

I think perplexity.ai is in a honeymoon phase of not having been sued yet. GPT4 has become very cautious about analyzing or quoting copyright material including papers, whereas perplexity will still go ahead and access them and do the work for you. It's great, but I wonder if it will last.

People want to see their 401k's go up, and whoever's in charge of making sure $BIGNUM goes up this quarter at google wants their bonus. There is no single individual who personally owns the $110B google has lying around.

They most certain do have offices in those locations

https://about.google/locations...

Not sure offshoring is an appropriate term for a global company hiring globally.

If you're hiring somewhere you don't sell anything, that's definitely offshoring.

I remember people saying the exact same thing about computers in general.

Exactly. It's like taking a look at ENIAC and thinking 'welp, this technology will never be commercially successful, and I can't really think of a use for it.'

On the other hand, PDAs went from 'useless toy' to 'corporate status symbol' to 'literally redefining how society works' in less than twenty five years.

People live their lives through their phone. There's a qualitative difference.

Like why your car requires a seatbelt and airbags, but your snowmobile doesn't.