Competition comes from competere "strive in common, strive after something in company with or together,".

Complaining about people achieving things which might benefit you because they are doing it partly for selfish reasons is some of the whiniest bullshit possible.

Rat shack could have embraced Arduino timely and it might have kept them alive long enough to get into 3d printing. Instead they pretended it was the 1970s for the entire time they existed, at least until they turned into the worst cellphone store.

The only sock puppet accounts around here are the ones used to mod me down when I know things or want people to be held accountable for supporting rapists. If you were actually part of the Slashdot leadershit you wouldn't reply, you'd just mod me down. The editors post stories which will get people riled up about politics constantly, and they obviously do it specifically to increase post counts and the do not give one half of one shit about whether there is a technical interest. All that matters is more arguments, more impressions, just like any other social media site.

I wish they would block sock puppeting. They could start by turning anonymous posting off again, since it is used almost exclusively for trolling. But when they do that, the comment counts dive even harder because this place now runs on the very same political arguments "you" (a sock puppet) are crying about here.

Every time a coward cries about sock puppets, iron becomes more irony.

There are no doubt better words, and English has never been shy about using loan words, so there's no excuse for contaminating those words by using them for something they're not suited to.

No, and it requires ignorance not only of power distribution systems but also basic electrical theory to think that it is strange. The wire has resistance and it heats as you pass current through it. The real and not theoretical current carrying capacity is limited by temperature, so obviously the way you determine whether you are reaching the capacity is to measure the temperature of the wire.

"simply" is how you do everything.

We know how much power is flowing at each point. That does not tell you how much current the wires can actually carry, which decreases as they age and also varies with ambient conditions. Before they hung the sensors on the wires, they had to guess at the actual capacity using formulas. Now that they have sensors on the wires, they know what the actual capacities are, and can send more power over the high tension lines.

If you would like me to use smaller words, I can probably arrange that, but I'd prefer you ask an LLM for that instead. It's a waste of my time, much like this entire comment.

"civilized world" ... get fucked, poser.

1. It did not happen

2. The two papers are not similar in their approaches. And the OpenAI one is more innovative and tackles a much harder problem (Buckmaster had only solved Euler).

3. Buckmaster distorted what happened. For example, the claim that he asked for Levent to be removed from his own paper the paper because he worked for OpenAI? The context is that one option that OpenAI proposed to Buckmaster was that Tristan could be the lead author on a rewrite of OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes proof. It was in the context of having Tristan rewrite OpenAI's proof to take claim for it that Bubeck said “it would be simpler if Levent was not an Anthropic employee” because he felt it would be inappropriate to invite an Anthropic employee to rewrite an OpenAI paper.

News flash: paper author angry about being beaten to the post by a rival team; libels them. Details at 11.

Yeah, I used to do that too. Decided to stop bothering with the quotation marks a couple months ago.

We're not going to spend the rest of our lives putting quotations around words when talking about models. "Think" and "reason" the words we have in English for what is going on. No need to tiptoe around it. Again: models are not humans. They are not the same as us. But those are the words we have in English for what they're doing.

They are, by definition, Markov chains.

Even in your attempt to be pedantic here (in which the universe and everything within it is a Markov chain), no, it's not. The hardware state is Markovian but the linguistic processing is a Nth order autoregressive process; it depends on the N previous states. Also, your argument is akin to saying "a Boeing 747 is just an arrangement of quarks, so don't get hung up on aerodynamics." it entirely ignores the relevant architectural details, and instead substitutes a model that blows up exponentially explodes in size within a small number of states.

If you tried to build a Markov model to do what LLMs do, and could store one probability in every unit of Planck space across every unit of Planck time, it couldn't handle a prompt longer than about 2/3rds of the first sentence to A Tale of Two Cities.

Some people will certainly buy it at that price. I'm not even saying it's overpriced for what it is today. I'm saying you can't make it highly successful at that price.

If they can cover their costs they get into a product and get a bunch of experience and IP for the future in which it actually is viable to make it cheap enough to be successful, so it might be worth doing. But it's hard enough to sell the kind of game consoles everyone is comfortable with at that price "in this economy" etc etc.

What the unions say is that you need protection from your boss in case they go off half-cocked.

Also, people who aren't good at negotiating also deserve fair wages.

His point was stupid because I'm order to get to that point you need to spend years as a lower end worker. Don't try to make stupid into smart, you'll only hurt yourself.

Some people have reading comprehension skills. They are often magical and surprising to people without them

Here in the USA I have seen both types of behavior from unions. That is, I have seen people legitimately protected, and I have seen fuck-offs who literally could not do their job protected from being treated appropriately. I was literally contracted to do parts of his job, doing things I had never done before, read the docs, got them done. He was supposed to retire and I probably would have got his job, but he bought another motorcycle (had two already) and had to keep pretending to work in order to pay for it.

Unions can be good, but unions can also be shit

If you guys understood what made a story worth discussing maybe the comment counts would regularly be over 100 again