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Comment Re: Battery life sounds great, but AI? (Score 1) 74

I have an M1 MacBook Pro Max I've run gpt-oss-20b on it. It wouldn't support a dozen users, but it worked fine for me for experimental and dev testing.

Considering I didn't buy this machine with AI as an intended use, that's pretty amazing.

There's definitely some room for Apple in this space, while everybody thinks the only player is Nvidia.

Comment European companies vs. American companies (Score 1) 153

``European blue-chip firms sell products that are improved versions of what they sold in the 20th century -- turbines, shampoos, vaccines, jetliners. American star firms peddle AI chatbots, cloud computers, reusable rockets. Nvidia is worth more than the European Union's 20 biggest listed firms combined. Microsoft, Google, and Meta each fired over 10,000 staff in recent years despite thriving businesses.''

Perversely, Wall Street rewards those companies that lay off employees by the thousands. Not so much those stable companies that make more improved products but may only have modest growth and increasing profitability. That used to be rewarded. (IMHO, a company that has to resort to laying off a thousand here and a thousand there are being mismanaged.)

Comment Re: Oh please (Score 1) 155

If you need trigger warnings you need to be in therapy.

If you want to avoid certain content you can do research on it and avoid it.

If you're avoiding your trauma and expecting the rest of the world to conform to your avoidance strategy you need therapy.

Story from a few years ago was someone in a history course wanting to avoid discussion/essay on a particular topic due to PTSD; he went to the professor and worked out an alternative that was quite reasonable.

You know who doesn't do that? The trigger warning group. They want to use avoidance strategies that pretend issues don't exist.

Comment Re: Oh please (Score 1) 155

If you're in treatment and utilizing trigger warnings - great.

If you're not in treatment and you're relying on trigger warnings you need to seek expert level therapy now.

Guess whos usually the ines complaining about the lack of trigger warnings... hint, it isnt the first group.

Comment Trigger warnings (Score 1) 155

if you need trigger warnings the first question to ask:

Are you being treated for your trauma? If not, the trigger warning is useless to you as it only encourages avoidance behavior if you're relying on it anyway.

There are some narrow circumstances where I think they're relevant to everybody, but their prevalence diminishes that and results in exactly what this paper points out.

I use TV ratings to determine if something is of interest sometimes. Sex? Yes. Violence? Yes. Etc. often times shows without any of them are just simply boring.

Comment Re: I have BAD White Coat Syndrome... (Score 1) 34

No.

Consist deviated under the two circumstances is pretty well studied. A substantial number of readings in a doctors office are high. Within certain margins it's accounted for, obviously there are people that exhibit the effect more than others.

But taking blood pressure correctly is generally not difficult, can be readily trained for and if necessary can be demonstrated easily by both parties.

Getting results which are consistent, wrong, but approximately in the correct range is actually quite hard.

Comment Terms of service (Score 2) 18

Terms of service aren't much of a concern here. Honestly, completely irrelevant unless OpenAI opens up 30,000 streams at once.

Terms of service have little value in court when it comes to scraping of content that doesn't cause issues with the service itself. Contract violation with near zero repercussions.

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