FloridaBoi

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[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

my wife's book club read it last year in anticipation of the movie and one of the members called it "juvenile" and I totally agreed. I had just read One-dimensional Man by Marcuse and thought that it sort of was akin to the one-dimensionality of a fascist society. The sleek silver ship, the zero friction of politics on Earth (and space) and the zero personality of the main character all kind of disgusted me lol

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It’s like the author actively wanted to avoid the complication of living in reality. The covid pandemic revealed how disunited the world is in life-making goals.

The movie was better than the book but you have to completely turn off your brain.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m sure it would be easier to get out of the trunk since manual latches are (should be?) federally mandated

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

Very simpsons coded sentence

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Breyer's oat milk vanilla is better than regular

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a shitty movie I would watch

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

Do you think they do agile or waterfall?

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Avignon ayatollah

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mamma Mia there’s a pineapple on a my pizza

 
 

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I’ve been enjoying this channel for the last few weeks.

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Turn off the auto-dubbing if it sounds weird.

It’s a TikTok video originally.

https://www.tiktok.com/@gringocorridos/video/7603929003073801503

 

Breathe easy, people! This whole thing was just a couple of guys who died of suicide. No one else was really involved and evil died with them.

 

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Start an anti-tech company jihad

In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers.

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Basically the cash burn rate for inference is much higher than reported and the media’s focus on training obfuscates it. All of the companies involved hide what the actual revenues are and if they even cover (or are trending towards covering) running costs of the models.

Ed Zitron with FT attempt to derive what those actual numbers are since they’re all over the place but cannot confirm hardly anything. It seems that at best revenues are 2/3 cash burn rate but are more like 1/2 and this is without considering the massive obligations that OpenAi is committing to.

 

The article gives no indication as to how the model works (other neural networks) so it could be a fluke especially since it is not physics based.

The arstechnica piece has this at the bottom:

“It’s not immediately clear why the GFS performed so poorly this hurricane season,” Lowry wrote. “Some have speculated the lapse in data collection from DOGE-related government cuts this year could have been a contributing factor, but presumably such a factor would have affected other global physics-based models as well, not just the American GFS.”

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