> Also, what's with this damn trend of typing in lowercase only?
Anticapitalism.
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Anticapitalism.
Ah, it feels like this may be the crux of the issue, because that's pretty much what uncompressed audio is. Every value in a WAV file roughly represents the displacement of the microphone diaphragm at time t.
> A human listens. A digital system cannot listen because it must always write
There are two issues with what you're saying, depending on what you mean by that:
1) Transmission isn't storage. When you talk to me you it would be unreasonable to say that your voice is being "recorded" in the air or in my eardrum or even necessarily in my brain, even though vibrations are in some real sense physically present across the air molecules and my eardrum is being physically displaced and my brain is doing...well...some unknown ephemeral aggregation in order to produce thoughts in my head from what you're saying. So if you transmit bits over a wire, and even if you have enough wires to represent bits from many time quanta, you should likewise not call those bits recorded by the same principle of innate ephemerality.
Bits on wire in audio stream at time t ~= position of your eardrum at time t. Neither are reasonably considered storage without persistence, which we have no knowledge of, and neither are reasonably considered on their own to be representations of what is being said.
2) You don't need to accumulate data to analyze it. You can, but you don't need to, and I don't think we know that they are.
You can think of a hash function. A hash function need not record its input stream. It need only record the accumulated influence of the input on the prediction. Storing a running statistical guess about whether you're talking and recording what you're saying are not the same thing.
It also shows that a good chunk of the population does _not_ know it.
"See who your real friends are" is either:
1) confused branding that conflates two unrelated user domains
2) grossly and manipulatively trying to make people feel bad by pushing the idea that following means friendship and needs to be reciprocal
I'm not sure what you think the difference is?
I don't think you're going to be running this 1.6 trillion parameter model at home.
And TNG is neither modern nor was it mainstream when produced, so your actual position here is obscured.
There should be a rule against releasing seemingly-obsolete comparisons without explaining why you're doing it. If you don't give a cost reason, it makes you look like you're trying to hide something.
I'm not saying that the given comparison is inherently bad. I'm saying that they failed to include any useful-to-potential-users reason for why those specific non-current model versions are meaningful.
In my area Walmart is on Instacart and I've often wondered how that squares with their own delivery service.
Yes. Instacart has low cost retailers like Walmart and Aldi in many areas, and their prices are generally better than Amazon groceries. Now Walmart does also have their own service, so technically you can do that, but then you're limited to just them.
Apple didn't fully stop selling Intel macs until June 2023. And they compare against the most recent previous model too.
Well, yes, but his name also rhymes with "separation", and that's kind of important.
FWIW this is a myth.
Please, there's no value in speculation. If they want to answer, they can.
> "sk" vs "SK", "OpenAI" vs "Openai"
That's how Safari copies the goofball smallcaps text styling that The Economist uses for acronyms.
Houston is a great example of many things, but being a good place to live isn't one of them. Most of it is a depressed concrete wasteland of sprawling blight and freeway lanes far from any natural beauty with weather that causes people to stay indoors most of the time. I lived there for 20 years and have family there and you could not pay me enough to move back. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/houston-li... https://secrethouston.com/houston-unhappiest-cities-us/
Paris in the middle of a riot is a far better place to live than Houston.
> Just look at the number of children per capita.
Fertility tracks religion. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religion-fer...
The birth rate in Houston has been steadily declining for a long time and is well below replacement. https://kinder.rice.edu/research/declining-fertility-greater...
Density is not the thing making the prices go up. Local supply lagging behind local demand is what does that. Your two choices are either build more or make living there less desirable compared to somewhere else. There's no third choice.
> nice cities just a couple of hours from them have housing that is essentially free
If nobody wants to live there then tautologically people have decided that they aren't nice.