Comment Re:$3000 per book (Score 1) 67
Can you point to any history which has been destroyed, specifically? The last copy of a historic work?
I can't believe anyone who values information to any degree would do this.
Can you point to any history which has been destroyed, specifically? The last copy of a historic work?
I can't believe anyone who values information to any degree would do this.
"keep the stuff AI is killing"
Like what, exactly?
- Reddit, which is a minefield of misinformation and crazy ideologues
- Wikipedia, which has an official stance of ideological filtering, having banned the founder
- StackExchange - hasn't been relevant in years, likely the source of much of the AI coding hallucination and bad agent tooling
- Google - hasn't been a useful search engine since at least 2018, mostly just an ad delivery system now
- not sure what else
Meanwhile, I can still read books published before 2020. But I can also build things quickly to read them to me out loud (even reading a paper book, if I so desired), and there are millions of APIs I can directly and quickly harness to generate a ridiculous amount of information which was locked behind hours of work trying to decipher horrible API documentation + coding.
I don't see it as a loss.
Malware is any software that runs on your computer but is intended to serve the interests of someone else.
Calling it malware isn't so much inaccurate as it's unspecific. Not all malware is adware, but 100% of adware is malware.
"CD sales still increased 6.7% year over year, even if the whole genre was removed from the equation, jumping 16% to 16.3 million units."
That's gotta be money laundering. CD sales have decreased an average of 12% per year, for the past quarter century.
I don't think Google should be required to provide anonymized search data to rivals. Firstly, that's effectively their intellectual property.
Oh, I wouldn't worry about that. I'm sure the others will do something transformative with the data.
Yes, I intentionally don't go to work because I'm too busy going to the Illegal Immigrant Volunteer Slaughterhouse. This means I don't have the money to feed my family or fuck hot chicks. It's a sacrifice we all have to make for the future of our children, though!
Man, they really need to pass a law or something to make it affordable to have healthcare in this country, man. Someone should run on that premise. It's something long past having not been tried.
How do you think those immigrants get those skills in other countries? Are they randomly birthed with them, perhaps assigned them? Bequeathed, like a royal bloodline?
Are you retarded?
No. There are 3 ways they get them, the same as in the US:
1) earn them
2) buy them
3) fake them
At the very least, they had to have the forethought to acquire them in piece or in farce before applying for the job, unless you're suggesting a very large percentage of India appears to have precognition as well as having a disproportionately high rate of supposed idiot savants/high functioning autists (and that 'functioning' is doing a lot of work).
I'm so sick of this shit. It doesn't matter what your political persuasion is, you've got to admit that this is completely self contradictory:
"shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction worker and airplane mechanics"
If there is less of something (labor) the value of that thing will increase due to increased demand. It does not matter if they were allocated by government fiat (a communistic thing, funny enough, given the prevalence of H1B as a so-called "capitalist" measure).
More H1Bs and 'helping' companies is more of a planned or managed economy. It's more communist. But the fact is that no amount of societal uplifting that will make an 80IQ citizen a 120IQ citizen so that there's enough doctors or engineers. The only real option is to pay more for it, as a larger incentive to allow those who are smarter to be more likely to pursue it. (After all: as much fun as it is to operate heavy machinery all day, construction still wasn't the career that the smart kids who liked to play into the dirt went into...)
"One note from a science process technicality: the closed-source nature of these LLMs makes reproducibility very difficult, which weakens the strength of their result."
No more so than a study in psychology.
That's the truth of it, and this is arguably the real news here. I've got agents that do more web browsing today on my computers than I do.
Eh. That's likely a small fraction of a fraction of a percent.
Look around you. People are not generally concerned with privacy, nevermind security.
So let me get this straight. If I live in a hot or cold environment, and/or I regularly use the advertised range (or as much of it that the car will give me, realistically) to avoid having to sit and wait for fast charge to 80% for an hour on a road trip, I'm looking at (probably) no more than 80% capacity available after 5 years?
That torpedos the used market solidly. No wonder they're available so much cheaper.
I went to school in VA. There was rarely a day that the heat would get turned on. They're big monolithic heat islands full of children, calorie powered.
We also didn't have A/C back then, either. Windows would be open all day. I doubt they do that now.
I know this comes off trollish, but: why can't these power companies (which are usually public utilities) just build more power production instead of jacking prices? What's the deal? Why is this a "hate on AI that runs in datacenters" problem, and not a "just produce more power" problem?
Some people claim that the UNIX learning curve is steep, but at least you only have to climb it once.