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How dementia is being defeated

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Has China obtained the most important machine?

economist.com
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Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better

economist.com
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AI super-apps are remaking China's internet

economist.com
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Opening a jar for 10 hours straight [video]

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Solar Impulse 2 Crashes into Gulf

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The troubled quest for tasty vegan cheese

economist.com
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The AI supply crunch is here

economist.com
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Sumochess

sumochess.org
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Nvidia is expanding its empire

economist.com
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Americans' electricity bills are up. Don't blame AI

economist.com
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Geothermal's Time Has Come

economist.com
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A new industry of AI companions is emerging

economist.com
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Gang suspected of sending up to 40k stolen UK phones to China

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Renewables Overtook Coal in 2025

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comments

pingou
·hace 4 horas·discuss
Perhaps it will. And perhaps countless animals are already better than us at appreciating a good sunset, yet we do not seem to value them much.
pingou
·hace 5 horas·discuss
https://archive.ph/u7VB8
pingou
·hace 5 días·discuss
Personally I am happy that there are weirdos and that they share their weirdness.

What he has may not be a very serious disease yet I was interested in learning about his experience and felt sorry for him.
pingou
·hace 5 días·discuss
Did he somehow wronged you or are you just having a bad day?
pingou
·hace 6 días·discuss
https://archive.ph/3vOjh
pingou
·hace 11 días·discuss
Because supposedly they would repair themselves or be repaired by other robots, and energy would cost less and less, anything would cost less and less if work is increasingly done by robots than can be improved year after year.
pingou
·hace 27 días·discuss
Would it be more scientific to say it is sure it will happen?

I suspect the opposite is happening, too many times an environmental catastrophe has been predicted in too certain terms and has not happened, which is why many people lost trust.

And if you think that we shouldn't try to predict but only inform about what has already happened that seems even stranger to me.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
But this paper is not about extra EU migrants but all migrants. And even then if we control for age they say they are contributing less than natives.

I think it would be very odd that less educated people on average contribute more than natives, especially if they are at risk of being discriminated when looking for a job.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
Is the SpaceX 1.7 trillion IPO on Friday some kind of psychological anchoring?

Say it goes down 50%, then it suddenly appears cheap, when in reality that would still be way overpriced.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
But surely Google has both ML people and people expert at optimising stuff, be it hardware or software. In my opinion they have the talent, the sheer number of employees and the capital. Can deepseek really have people much more talented at optimizing stuff?
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
But what is preventing their competitors, who have many more employees, who are also very talented, to do the same?

Every little improvement would save them billions, so it's hard to imagine they aren't pouring a lot of resources into that already.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
"Furthermore, vegetarianism, though morally laudable, has an obvious economic limitation — when one person refuses to eat meat, it lowers the price of meat for everyone else"

I very much doubt that, I think the opposite is happening in the long term because of economies of scale.

So go ahead, become vegan! You already know you should!
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
They talk about subsidies, "draining its coffers", and "taxpayers helping some of the richest corporations on the planet buy servers, equipment, and power infrastructure", but it doesn't seem like they have lost any money, just that the tax breaks mean that they haven't earned as much as they could.

Not that I think that those datacenters should have those tax breaks, but the language seems quite misleading if not an outright lie, presumably without those the datacenters would have been built elsewhere.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
For the third time I never said it was a good plan.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
Yet LLMs can play chess and have a "mental" representation of the chessboard.

If LLMs get better but do not progress at playing games when not specifically trained on it it seems to point to a generalisation failure, a limitation that would prevent LLMs to ever achieve AGI, I do not know if that is weird but it seems that for now nobody really knows if they can achieve AGI or not. Perhaps some emergent behavior will arise after more scaling.

To me it's only totally unsurprising if you are 100% certain that LLMs will never reach AGI (like LeCun thinks for example).
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
Not saying this is a smart plan, but how is it far more stupid than invading Iran which is basically impossible unless you are ready for tens or hundred of thousands of casualties among your own citizens?
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
I suspect the plan was (and still is) to weaken authorities in Iran so that the people take over. Or have the Iranian government reach a deal that would be less favorable to them.

A plan with quite long odds you could rightly say, but not as stupid as subduing them by invading them I suppose.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
"Investors who have poured hundreds of billions into closed-source labs are betting on an unprovable safety moat".

Nobody is investing in closed-source labs for safety reasons, being able to explore more in details what and how the model is thinking is nice but by no means a game changer. What matters to investors and most of the users is that the model gives the right answer at the end.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
I do not think there is anything wrong with that (just that this is uncommon and surprising, so I'm curious), but in my hypothetical scenario where storage isn't an issue, having useless data stored should not matter.

Changing the default is not a big deal, for sure, but would you still do it if it required 10 minutes of your time every 6 months? If yes, I just cannot believe that you have no reason to do it. Perhaps it makes you feel freer, perhaps you think your device is more organized or cleaner, or something else.

But of course in real life data uses storage, but I feel like most people are on the other extreme and keep too much (data or possessions) because they cannot let go, but chat data footprint is usually minimal unless you receive lots of photos/videos.
pingou
·el mes pasado·discuss
But if storage isn't an issue, why go out of your way to remove them? Don't you think there is an underlying reason you are changing the default to remove them?