You realize you just proved my comparison is valid, right? Your numbers, literally, show exactly what I stated.

For a nation with the resources Israel has, if they really wanted GCP or AWS for the platform, they could afford to have them build isolated, dedicated datacenters in Israel and run it for them. The US DOD does this with Azure and I think AWS.

Noticed a post this morning from someone that Udio has disabled downloads for "songs" users "create" with the service, citing this new partnership as the reason. Apparently they used to let you download .wav files. Now no downloads, and if you work around it and manage to get the file, it's now a .mp3.

Maybe this is just bound to happen every 100 years.

Elemental mercury isn't easily absorbed by your body so the fillings are not a major concern for that. It's when it is converted to organic mercury compounds like methyl mercury that it becomes a problem.

They could probably capture most or all of it with scrubbers on crematorium smoke stacks. Of course that would cost money so....

Ignoring that we don't use mercury in childhood vaccines anymore, the amount of mercury in a single filling is several orders of magnitude greater than any vaccine exposure before we removed it.

Pretty sure it's about testing the warheads since we currently test delivery vehicles on a regular basis. We fired off some Trident missiles (sans warheads) last month for instance.

They can't. The states can choose to stay on standard time, however they cannot choose to stay on DST year round due to how the law is written.

Yea it's convenient on the one hand, but kind of a bummer on the other. I'm surprised no one has started offering stamps for a small fee just not as an official thing, but a tourist thing.

We don't stamp passports for domestic air travel.

Apparently, based on other comments, a lot of people on here buy home sight unseen based on listing photos alone.

Hell, you could even say 2-3 months ago and still be right more often than not right now. I don't think I've seen any technology move so damn fast.

"There is also a possibility that OpenAI's mass-market appeal becomes a turnoff for corporate customers," the article adds, "who want AI to be more boring and useful than fun and edgy."

First of all, who has ever described OpenAI as "fun and edgy"? Grok sure, but OpenAI? I can think of lots of adjectives for OpenAI but "fun and edgy" are not in that list.

Second, commercial customers are going to pick the company with what they (the customer) perceives as the better product for the price. Period. And right now, Anthropic is better than OpenAI at some tasks like code generation.

I prefer the pachinko analogy as well, but I didn't choose the analogy, the person I replied to did. I would argue, however, there's nothing misleading about it as the objective was to point out the model is not code (the calculator).

As for stochasticity, the difference I’m pointing at is scale and intent. You're technically correct that floating point operations aren't perfectly deterministic, but this is just background noise compared to the sampling strategy. The variances in production LLMs are mostly by design or implementation variance and not hardware jitter. I'm not saying hardware jitter doesn't play a role, and if it affects the choice of a single token in a response it can send the model down a slightly different branch from that point, but they are very limited and trivial compared to what is built into the model by design, and even greedy sampling doesn't remove all possible sources of randomness from the model architecture.