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Comment Well, time for someone to step up (Score 3, Insightful) 114

AMD can't do it because they signed up all HDMI Forum agreements to be able to use HDMI. They can't break that agreement.

But... The Linux Kernel has a long history of people reverse engineering closed specs and building a module for it. That module usually sucks for the first couple of years, but they generally achieve their goals.

Who wants to step up?

Comment Oh, that's such bullshit (Score 3, Interesting) 25

Everyone will be buying their product based on this bullshit?

AI transforms and compresses images so much, exactly because subtle pixel level differences would wreck everything. And everyone encodes / compresses their images differently. The only way to create something that would confuse all AI models would be to create something that confuses humans as well.

But, sure, let them market and profit on the fear that creative folks have of AI right now.

Such bullshit.

Comment "Attention Is All You Need" created Transformers (Score 3, Interesting) 6

The "T" in "GPT" means "Transformer", which is the thing that that paper created.

Before that paper it wasn't possible to parallelize large model training across a large cluster, which make large models impractical.

Most of the generative AI and large language models making strides out there today came from that parallelization that Transformers enabled. It really changed the world in a significant way.

Funny thing is that they were only trying to improve language translation models. Well, at least according to the paper.

Comment The most profitable businesses in the world need s (Score 2) 14

I am shocked! I am shocked! Well, not that shocked.

Itâ(TM)s super easy to beat the imported horse, and that does not make you great at growing your own horses.

Give it a decade or two and the EU will be so far behind the rest of the world and still wonâ(TM)t admit to what they are doing wrong.

I am an EU citizen btw.

Comment Designed from the ground up for spatial computing? (Score 4, Insightful) 38

a) You don't use your hands to interact with content as if it was in front of you.
b) Everything looked like apps built for 2d screens projected on something that looks like a very large 2d screen.

Give me Minority Report level stuff with me shuffling through email super quick, dragging and dropping data from one application to another, something with multiple layers of depth that we can start talking about something "designed from the ground up for spacial computing".

Give me what Photoshop would like in a spacial interface, and what it would do differently. Not today's photoshop projected in front of me because I already have that. And I already have multiple screens in front of me.

It feels like a huge missed opportunity here.

Comment Apple built a repair program but kept iFixIt out (Score 4, Insightful) 63

iFixIt are not happy because they can't sell the parts, they can't participate in any way whatsoever.

The repair manual is exactly the same that the Apple Genius bar folks use, and the parts are the same ones they use.

Apple opened up their internal repair program for customers. But they are not interested in helping the IFixIt guys out.

Comment Are they trying to compensate for the GDPR weight? (Score 3, Interesting) 33

GDPR means start-ups can't change their business models quickly, as they have to go through a thorough and expensive legal review every time they do that. It pretty much kills innovation in Europe. You'd have to test business models out somewhere else, then, once well tested and established, you'd bring it back, which is something that is much easier to do for non-European companies.

I believe they are trying to compensate for that, that they will fail, and still not admit they do not understand any of that.

Comment Related question: what's the point of 5G? (Score 3, Interesting) 147

There is literally nothing I want to do with my phone that can't be done with 4G/LTE. I regularly get 50megs+ download/upload and I can't think of a single-user use case that needs substantially more than that. I used to get 80megs+ before, but they seem to have reduced it a bit, they could just unthrottle it if they wanted to.

I live in Dublin, Ireland btw, having good internet is more the rule than the exception.

Comment Careful with units: symptomatic vs confirmed cases (Score 1) 334

0.4% of symptomatic cases is probably ~ the same as 3.4% of laboratory tested cases back in April, the unit that the WHO used.

The 0.4% number is much more useful for modeling as we can use it to extrapolate a real number of cases from the number of deaths.

Comment Can we stop bringing dumb shit to Slashdot? (Score 1) 184

If "there isn't enough evidence to make a definitive claim", as most of the article goes around, then you are really trying to fire up a political discussion here and not bring up news for nerds that can be digged up in high quality discussions.

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