Would it have cost more than $250M to get a Siri LLM working?

Maybe Tim was afraid of another Apple Maps and bailed?

Who wrote it?

Sounds like some janky offshored slop.

Maybe it's janky American slop, but it would be good to know.

One might imagine that buying a million books would get a buyer a very good discount from the publisher.

They could have paid $5 or whatever for each book they trained on. $15M or so for 3 million books - they could totally afford that but "why pay when you can steal?"

Then at least they would be defending fair use rather than defending a 'theft' lawsuit.

If we had Constitutional Copyright they at least would have millions of 14-year-old books to train on. That would be quite sufficient to train and refine models.

> when they straight up flout the law and personally authorize it

That's the law for you, not the corporate oligarchs.

Worst case outcome for them is they pay a small fine, nobody is personally held liable.

The continuous sandbag dome systems are actually structurally and seismically stable. Good in desert climates, at least. They use local materials to coat the surfaces with stucco.

It would be very amendable to automation.

See here but many other videos on the Tubes too:

https://www.ameripacific.com/c...

Nice try, Dr. Notman!

They could use a better model and spend 50x the cost to generate 30% better subtitles, no doubt.

It's good enough for their "summarize the video" feature which I now use to avoid listening to AI narrators. Especially the ones programmed to maximize runtime with nonsense, repetition, and restatements.

I'm 90% sure I read about this in the TNG Technical Manual back in the 80's.

The film crews never adhered to it but it was a cool idea.

If miniaturized and adapted to a passive phased array they could be installed in the cargo holds of airplanes too.

Yeah, this article is too cute by half.

Per reports SpaceX has been arming Ukraine with terminals for several years so Russia has put a lot of engineering into detecting, characterizing, and targeting the signals. They've provided this technology to Iran.

Trump recently bragged about CIA providing automatic weapons to the "protesters" ahead of the "protests" (over Bessent's currency war) which Iran shut down using the SL detectors.

Allegedly large shipments of terminals by Mossad were interdicted and those agents were hanged.

These spooks are willing to "fight to the last Iranian". Glorifying this is complicity in their entrapment.

There are much better ways to freedomtech than broadcasting a beacon unless a rapid color revolution is the goal.

People worry about China landing in California and taking over but it might be that having the Chinese Communist Party run California would reduce both taxes and regulation.

They get auth through CPanel then get root through Copyfail.

Brace for impact.

There was a catastrophic auth bypass CVE for CPanel the same day.

Chaining is just normal these days.

It starts off that way but winds up with ethnic hiring practices and nepotism..

Cheap labor becomes a thing of the past.

jobs.now has a database or these postings.

Most people wouldn't argue that Switzerland is a real country, recently with about 7 million people. Especially before the EU influence and the ending of financial privacy there.

Yet most or those same people would argue that half of US States couldn't each be an independent country because there aren't enough people.

Being neutral would benefit many of them in the ongoing hostilities.

If your company is dependent on 3rd party software you're at their mercy and not truly independent.

If your company's software relies on someone else to run it you're at their mercy and not truly independent.

You should be able to target multiple platforms and if you're not self-hosting to either be redundant already or be able to quickly move to new digs.

I've helped too many people bail water when they make those decisions incorrectly and wind up in an existential crisis for their company.

You don't need that kind of stress.

"But it's cheaper!"

Many people need to touch the stove.