Comment Re: Public systems do say no (Score 0) 199
:) yes, so is Canada
:) yes, so is Canada
"Monetized, Managed Decay in Platform Value"
Aka "Enshittification"
I was thinking along the same lines.. what's 'long term' regarding hardware?
It would make more sense to offer hardware with a set lifetime - say, $199 for 1 year usage. After that, you can reconfigure the device to use a third party LLM of your choosing. But no support.
Very good point! The total incident rate matters (and now this) and not just fatal crashes.
I took a look at the keynote. It's good, exciting work. But similar work _will_ be done by Apple and Google etc. who will bake somewhat similar functionality into their desktops, apps, OSes, home devices and mobiles in due time. Larger corporations have more inertia.
Rabbit's device is cool. It's Agent AI model is cool. But their hardware _is_ inferior to a modern phone. Why then did Rabbit made their own device? Why not a $50 app? I think it's because Apple/Google app store restrictions prevent 'superapps' that can be scripted with new code, that run a background hidden web browser (*). A custom device bypasses app store restrictions - they can do what they want.
What I do not understand is how Rabbit can sustain free usage of their 'LAM' LLM _indefinitely_ from a one-time $199 device sale. Even I'd they do make a profit on each device, that's not a lot of money for operations. Also they claim to not be selling user data. So what will fund their operational running in perpetuity? Will Rabbit instead sell its LLM trained for free by millions of customers l, to third parties? Or will they sell insights to businesses of how customers _really_ use their products? Do they want to be bought by FAANG? License patents? I would query their business model before investing.
(*) I suspect how their device works is this: for well-known apps with APIs like Uber, it users the vendors public API. For others, their LAM LLM somehow generates a script to carry out required tasks on websites via an automated headless browser session that runs on-device ( using something like phantom.js or Chromium embedded). Maybe their scripting is based off an image-recognition-centric programming framework like Sikuli (https://github.com/RaiMan/SikuliX1/). However that would break if the website changed a lot. Maybe the shared LLM helps cope with such changes.
orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time
Not only that, it is the same size as the sun. (Witness the so-called "total solar eclipse".)
Almost like someone designed it that way... isn't that too much of a coincidence!
"Engineers running the show" does not mean "the CEO earned an engineering degree and he runs the show, so...".
It means the CEO lets his engineers run his show.
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Plenty of engineers go through a 'conversion experience' in the earning of their MBA degree. Engineering is a state of mind. It's practise includes reasonable respect to financial constraints. Utter devotion to financial metrics (aka greed) takes hold of many erstwhile 'engineers'.
Yes, they may consider the Moon sacred and the earth profane.
Not that i support either view, but I have even less support for private spacecraft that claim parts of the moon as a free graveyard to cater to people's novelty or ambition.
Would we tolerate this same behaviour on earth? Say, a rich guy wants to be buried in Antarctica. Should he get his burial plot for free just because he can afford for his body to be shipped there?
Well you can poke holes in his argument!
(apologies in advance for the excess brackets
If you haven't said too much already, can you talk a bit on the "distributed ledger and digital assets" bit of your solution?
I am genuinely curious. Outside Surety Inc digital notarization service (http://www.surety.com/about) and it's weekly hashes (*) published in the NY Times classifieds, I don't recall seeing genuinely useful blockchain applications. (BTW, is Surety's a centralised ledger? What drove your need for a distributed ledger?)
( *) Even though I am told that each one of Surety's classifieds published just seems to just be the hash of documents notarised that week, conceivably they could add on the hash of the previous week to the collection of documents notarised that week).
Boeing is more accurately named 'Owing' - they keep writing safety IOUs to the regulators and hence, to the flying public.
"The 737 MAX has been in service since 2017 and has accumulated over 6.5 million flight hours. In that time, there have been no reported cases of parts departing aircraft due to overheating of the engine nacelle inlet structure," the filing states.
How lawyerly and utterly bereft of meaning! This statement remains true even today, when an entire passenger door has departed a 737 MAX in flight. But hey, that wasn't due to the:
overheating of the engine nacelle inlet structure
Such shortcuts to safety proposed to the regulators must be utterly rejected.
If Boeing had instead done a proper engineering analysis, instead of having a PR flack write the statement above, it may have looked like this:
"The 737 MAX has been in service since 2017. On average, there have been 850 incidents where the engine nacelle inlet structure was overheated for more than 60 minutes, reaching an average internal temperature of 124 C. In that time, there have been no reported cases of parts departing aircraft due to overheating of the engine nacelle inlet structure. This scenario has been rigorously tested in the lab. Proper inspection of all aircraft involved in those 850 incidents has also being carried out. No failure is likely."
Of course, no such work has been carried out.
Yes, but the Navajo may consider the moon holier than the earth.
The Apollo astronauts left poop on the moon, so the Navajo probably want to talk to NASA about cleaning that up too.
Recently I organised a farewell for a colleague. This included a collection. There was no time to buy a gift (it was at short notice). Instead of buying a gift voucher, I put cash into the farewell card.
We need to bypass the queasyness we have with cash. We treat it as something impure.
Cash is the ultimate gift voucher - readily convertible, never expires and can be loaded into a bank account and earn interest. Also, recipients are less likely to misplace it ðYS
Only to be told:
You're holding it wrong
You're folding it wrong
You're walking it wrong
You're storing it wrong.
It's a troubled world. Quoting a Google search result:
"The first human-caused EMP occurred in 1962 when the 1.4 megaton Starfish Prime thermonuclear weapon detonated 400 km above the Pacific Ocean. One hundred times bigger than what we dropped on Hiroshima, Starfish Prime resulted in an EMP which caused electrical damage nearly 900 miles away in Hawaii."
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison