Cable companies were the one and only landline infrastructure with a big head start in true broadband (IE not counting DSL) to homes. Our small rural town, like most towns, has had cable TV for decades. So when the internet came along, and they very begrudgingly began to support internet (and thus start losing regular cable subscribers to Netflix and the like), they realized they had a cash cow on their hands.

Ours gouged terribly with their plans. They coupled data caps with speed, so you had to pay for more speed than you needed in order to not exceed the data cap - which then triggered very expensive overages. I was paying $115 a month for 300 Mbps in order to have enough data to not go over the limit each month with our family.

Now, not just one but two companies have come into town and brought fiber. So of course everyone (myself included) left the cable company in droves. They reduced prices but it was too little too late.

These cable companies have purposefully gouged customers who now totally despise their brands for what they have done, and they are paying the price. In reality I don't think they really care - they have made their fortunes and that money has gone to whoever / whatever and they are content. They have already "won", and now it's just a matter of how much of the last-mile internet pie they get for the long-run. I guess that wasn't a bad business decision, because the writing has always been on the wall that the last-mile options would greatly increase and no one would be able to monopolize it like cable companies monopolized both their cable and internet access for that decade or so.

BitNet is one of the most hallucinatory LLMs I've used, and it doesn't fail to entertain:

> Explain what a Ailingoo is.

"Ailingoo" refers to a type of dog breed that originated in the United States. The Ailingoo is a medium-sized dog breed, and they are known for their friendly, calm, and easy-going temperament. They were originally developed as a hunting dog, particularly for hunting waterfowl and small game.

Ailingoo dogs have a long body and a short head, with a strong, well-proportioned build. They have a long, straight tail and a broad, flat skull. Their ears are typically medium-sized and slightly rounded. The Ailingoo's coat is typically short and smooth, which is easy to groom and makes them a popular choice for dog shows.

They are generally healthy dogs with few health issues, but as with all breeds, they should be checked regularly by a veterinarian to ensure they are in good health. Ailingoo dogs typically live for 10-12 years.

Please note that breed standards may vary slightly depending on the organization or country, so it's always good to verify specific details from a reputable source.

From BitNet running on my Raspberry Pi:

> What is the meaning of the phrase "a loose dog won't surf"?

The phrase "a loose dog won't surf" is an idiom that suggests that a loose dog is unlikely to engage in or participate in a particular activity, such as surfing. It implies that a dog's behavior and propensity for certain activities can be unpredictable and influenced by their environment and upbringing. In this case, a loose dog might not be as willing or able to surf as a trained, well-behaved dog might be.
However, the specific meaning can depend on the context in which it is used. It could also be interpreted as a broader statement about an individual's unwillingness to take part in a certain activity regardless of whether they are loose or not.

Turing completeness. Enough said.

From the chart in the video, for the first 100km travelled this new system does not know the position to better than 1000 meters (about 2/3 of a mile), but then after about 120km the accuracy increases. This is likely due to having passed through enough deviances in the earth's magnetic field to have a higher confidence of the actual location.

However, that would be dependent on traveling in a relatively straight line, as opposed to say flying in a circle 50 km in radius where you are looping over the same deviances in the magnetic field over and over not allowing the location to be fixed as accurately.

I played around with this model some (you can easily try it here) and it is very bad about hallucinating, and even when corrected it will acknowledge but then re-hallucinate that information again. It's almost arrogant even lol.

It is technically very interesting they can run this so fast with such a small memory footprint, but I'm not certain what the use case would be with so many inaccuracies. It's not clear if that is a training issue or a byproduct of 1 bit parameters.

It might be that from a processing / reasoning / problem solving perspective the single bit is not a detriment (IE it can still solve math problems and perform reasoning very well), but when it comes to stored knowledge and information retrieval it has affected accuracy.

I think people are missing the importance of this very-low memory footprint type of model though, as it could be used in lightweight, low-power embedded systems and the like. You know how there is the Internet of Things, with zillions of low-power wifi connected smart devices everywhere? Now imagine if they could also run AI models internally as well.

Makes me wonder how we managed to live with cruise control since 1948, considering the car will just smash itself recklessly into anything while maintaining a very fast and dangerous rate of speed. It's just a good thing it wasn't named "Smart speed control" or "Autonomous speed control" because those words cause accidents.

The hardware requirements to play Doom are incredibly low. A $5 ESP32 microcontroller (which even includes bluetooth and wifi) can easily run Doom.

This is just one of the global tactics companies like China have done to undercut the USA and drive production out of our country. As a capitalistic economy, things that are not profitable to produce in the USA cause production to go out of business due to competition. China flooded the globe with cheap rare-earths, and mining in the USA ceased.

The same thing happened with oil several years ago, when fracking in the USA resulted in huge numbers of small companies springing up and making money off oil again. Lots of mom and pop type very small companies started up and did well. Then OPEC flooded the globe with cheap oil (which can be tapped directly out of the ground which is cheaper than fracking production) and they all closed up shop. Then OPEC increased prices back because that kind of oil production can't be ramped up over night.

When it comes to these kinds of resources it really isn't a massive concern - they are sitting there in the earth just the same as before ready to be mined and refined again. My concern is things more along the lines of technology production - chip fab plants being the main one, the mass production of finished productions like high quality drones or cellular phones, OLED display production, etc.

In the meantime the goal was achieved - Americans are talking about this issue (like here on Slashdot), politicians have been woken up to it again, and production in the USA can begin ramping back up.

That's because any system is only as good as its data. Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Kinda like "I couldn't care less" vs "I could care less"?

Simple question here. If AI is writing code, then how is it executing this code the test it? If I have a smallish repo containing 250k lines of code, how is the AI executing what it has written that works within that codebase? Is it compiling an EXE, and running it within a Windows environment? Is it running PHP code on a LAMP stack? How does it test the query on my database containing 5 million records? How does it verify the HTML and CSS it created behaves correctly in half a dozen major browsers on desktop, tablet and phone?

We are talking about a Chinese State-owned company here, right? And you are really believing they are being open and honest? Exactly would a communist-owned company gain by being open and honest?

How do you know there haven't been thousands of other people killed due to this autopilot failing in China so far?

They are stating that the "public network" count includes private chargers, but they are shared by more than 1 person in some way. IE a business may have a charging station that can be used by some specific employees (and this is probably the greatest contributor to that "public" count). There might be an apartment building with 2 or 3 units, that has a charger that can only be used by the tenants at that apartment. Or potentially a homeowner has a charger that they share with their immediate neighbor. Those are not public chargers, but they are counted as such. They should be counted in the 700,000 private chargers instead, because they are by definition not public.

The public count should ONLY include a charger that any random person can drive up to and use. That is what has to be compared against "gas nozzles" which are entirely for public use.