Shades of 2008. That recession occured because banks had over-invested in mortgage backed securities. Which collapsed in value, scrubbing billions off the banks capital balances and tying up their ability to lend.

Move forward 17 years and now it will be loans for data centers, power generation and grid improvements. All backed by the banks. And all worthless now. Because the value of an asset is based on its ability to generate revenue and service debt.

At least the data centers can be used to house the newly homeless. Just don't build camp fires on the raised floors.

So close... but no cigar.

The US version will suggest videos of teenage girls twerking. So, pretty much like the old US version.

I'm here. They're late.

Your analysis forgets one very important point: before someone signs paperwork to give you $100B, they probably want to see what you haven't released yet, and what your roadmap looks like.

Nvidia doesn't want to be one of many companies selling flawed AI models, and starting up their own effort to compete with their own customers is very stupid and a very good way for them to stop being your customers.

They want to be the company selling hardware to the companies selling flawed AI models. Being one step removed from the flaws allow you to get none of the blame, but still get the sales from all those companies.

Like basically every OS does at this point.

I mean, I know that Windows will do that since Windows 7, macOS does that, Gnome does that. KDE does that.

Not sure what your point is.

.. this makes me think of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

I wonder if the models trained on US-only data can be compared to the model trained on everyone-but-the-US data to gain some insights - flattering or otherwise

Who is going to unload the trucks?

macOS has been doing this (using a video wallpaper) by default for a while, and I'm guessing that's what brought this idea to the fore (again).

And yes, it's basically just a pointless, silly distraction - why would anyone want this? Unfortunately (from the OS manufacturers' position) operating systems are pretty feature complete, and basically the only "new shiny" thing they can offer is adding pointless bloat. Oh, also they can actively break things I guess... which always seems to go hand in hand with adding pointless bloat.

That's about the only thing that such a centrally-managed setup gives, it forces a shift in the bureaucracy to make the oligarchy's mandate happen. The problem is that this may not account for things like environmental degradation, harm to the general population and other issues surrounding personal rights, etc.

Something of a compromise approach can be reached in democratic countries, but it requires all of the stakeholders from the federal officials down to the local building code inspectors during the construction process to be onboard.

What China does for 'the people' may well not be good for individual Chinese persons. Similarly to what the Soviet Union did for 'the people' was often quite harmful to individual persons.

This sounds like the urban planner utopia until you consider that it's just the 21st century version of a company town, and you're only a very short step away from getting paid in company scrip.

First: fuck you. Covid is still a reason to stay away from work, because your coworkers don't want to catch that shit. Don't be a fucking prick who spreads disease because of equally diseased politics.

Were you advocating for horse dewormer a couple years ago too?

Second: this still applies to any other easily spreadable disease, such as common colds and influenza. That shit spreads and you're an asshole for still going into the office.

I'm sure that is happening in some organizations.

What I can't reconcile is that I work at a wildly profitable company with a great big market share in their core market and a vast moat around it due to the massive costs with entering this business. And yet, we're requiring "hybrid" work for employees.

We've been unable to hire folks to cover open positions because of the ridiculous "hybrid" requirement for no good reason - I know at least 3 people that we could hire for senior engineering roles that we have open, except they aren't in this geographical region.

I recently asked our director of engineering if there's going to be any change so that we don't have to slip schedules by not having asses in seats and he just kind of shook his head because he also understands how stupid this is. So now we're going to have to slip milestones and deadlines because of some arbitrary policy that is actually hindering us from getting the job done. Well done, C-suite!

The same goes for the size. It's pretty clear that scientists were ballparking its size in metric units, and converting the fractional units with that much precision was stupid. Calling it "about a hundred feet or thirty meters" would have been a lot better.

And this sort of thing happened long before AI was in the picture. People don't understand significant digits, and it's worse when it comes to estimates.

As for distance away, it would have been better to include something like its closest approach puts it around 3/4 of the distance to the Moon.