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KoolKat23··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
This is the business case already. And has been the case with tech companies for a long time. Your phones built in photo manager replaced a lot of what Photoshop does.
KoolKat23··on What will our economic future look like?
Good point, perhaps it may be a saving grace. I note they don't comment much on the allocation of said capital. Might be too bitter a pill for most to swallow.
KoolKat23··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Humans do this all the time. You watch a YouTube video and subconsciously choose the same colour palette. They hear a rumour that it's a solved problem, i.e. they were pointed in the right direction that is all.

I mean some companies glean insight into new products merely by asking other people what they do for a living.

People need to get over this ownership thing, it's being taken too far. Humans benefit from the efforts of others simple as that.

KoolKat23··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
I mean this is a basic question, is your data used to improve models, did you opt in or not. There's nothing crazy here and it's not identifiable. You'll just conveniently find the next model iteration knows how to do it.

Any enterprise worth their salt already considers this stuff.

KoolKat23··on What will our economic future look like?
Definitely a bit of positive framing. My big take aways, either stagnant wages or significant paycuts for knowledge workers and overall decreases in employment rates on all scenarios. Worst of all...

That's only forecasting out to 2030.

KoolKat23··on DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
I imagine they need the compute. Can expand market share with more users for same amount of compute.

But I agree with you. I have a dumb workflow that worked well with v4-flash-0731 and I suspect is directing to a newer model that now breaks it.

KoolKat23··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Generally you can't carve out from a constitution, it is all encompassing. You can reinterpret perhaps but "carve outs" are only by amendment to the constitution. It's a concept called constitutional supremacy. There's generally ranking to laws. Think of a venn diagram with subset circles inside bigger circles.

Constitutional Law > Statutory/Legislative Law > Administrative/Regulatory Law > Case Law/Common Law

KoolKat23··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Passed your personal turing test.
KoolKat23··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
https://x.com/Koolkat6000/status/2087502146556100812?s=20

A small anecdotal example to demonstrate how the response lacks depth. It's imperceptible to most. You'll probably see through it in your own field of expertise, if you had both answers. Uncanny valley type thing.

KoolKat23··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Good point, very interesting. Thanks!
KoolKat23··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Less probable also means less optimal and you get a subpar response. More so if it's baked into its reasoning. It's intelligence will suffer unless this is some post processing thing.
KoolKat23··on “Gravity is worth asking about”
Don't get me started on the whole iCloud thing, and apple account sign in (although to be fair to them they've improved this it was way too onerous in the past).
KoolKat23··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Unfortunately. We live in a increasingly complex world and the truth gets muddled.

In the past if your local store does something unethical, it would be easy to determine this, discuss and vote with your wallet.

With increasingly large and complicated businesses this is no longer easy to determine and communicate.

Obviously this can be abused with hypocritical things like virtue signalling, but the primary purpose is to encourage businesses to do better.

There are many stakeholders.

KoolKat23··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Sorry I mean published i.e. available to the public.
KoolKat23··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
No man is an island.
KoolKat23··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Perhaps I'm imagining it but the entire industry was build on published research, this "AI wave" is at odds with that and seems to be driven by greed (although they'll claim some arms race or something to help themselves sleep at night).

There should be a new ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) policy being pushed recognizing the important role this plays. Although ESG and all norms have been set aside in this grim new world it seems.

KoolKat23··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
Of course that matters but many can do this.

I go to plenty of homes and their dishes are perfectly clean.

KoolKat23··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
I hate this new cult of personality thing many are trying to cultivate.

But to that point most of the time, poor performance is attributed to "the market" and strong performance is attributed to "leadership". There is some clear cognitive dissonance going on.

KoolKat23··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
You can't drop everyone in that position but there is a significant number that still could do it. It is not 100% more like 50%/60% luck.
KoolKat23··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Honestly go use Deepseek v4 Flash, the data hosting in PRC is it's only downfall. It truly is an excellent model at the moment. It is opensource thankfully but there is friction there and this won't be as popular.
KoolKat23··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
It's going to be more difficult to distinguish as humans are now using those terms.
KoolKat23··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
I hate installing apps, sitting tracking my data in the background, and then there are often silly restrictions such as copy/paste being disabled, for what is basically just a web app.

On well implemented mobile websites, Google password manager pops up as does Google pay, can even authenticate with my fingerprint, zero friction. Theres zero need for an app.

And that's coming from a millennial who used to buy big ticket items on the PC.

KoolKat23··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
I've come to realize clutter makes me anxious. This is a quite common for people. Sadly I still own lots of shit.
KoolKat23··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
Nano and mini, which is smaller? This is a bit more clear imo. It also helps for expectations, bigger isn't necessarily better for all use cases.

(Well given the limited amount of things we can deduce from a name)

KoolKat23··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
Perhaps, but in the same breath, from the limited things I've seen and heard, they're extremely reluctant to take any risk with these types of funding schemes when disbursing, so unless it's tried and tested it's not getting off the ground i.e. it's unlikely to lead anywhere considering current state of market.

I mean we can barely get EU to host with EU providers. Nevermind something so speculative.

KoolKat23··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
Open source is currently entirely reliant on Chinese models.

So basically EU will be left behind unless we start doing something about it now. imo Mistral isn't enough by itself.

KoolKat23··on Phosh 0.56.0
There's also thresholds where a simple tap of a card won't work and you need to insert the chip, not the case with the phone. Phone is much much easier, don't even have to open the wallet app, just unlock the phone with your fingerprint and tap.
KoolKat23··on European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
Again, at this point, they're taking things too far,age gates shouldn't need to be an impenetrable fortress (notwithstanding the question of whether they should exist in the first place).

It should simply be the adult account on the device is notified if the device is rooted, effectively no longer in child mode. Go crazy with the warnings on both devices if you want as they've opted in at that point.

KoolKat23··on European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
This quite literally validates those "tinhat conspiracy" folks, honestly the EU are not doing us or themselves any favours here. If it is intended to replace cash then it should function like cash. This limitation is draconian.

There is one thing after the next, under Von der Leyen and Metsola, its ridiculous.

KoolKat23··on European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
There is always imperfect information, there is no such thing as a perfect market and as a result regulation will always be needed to curb the excesses such as monopoly. Even if we had perfect information, humans remain irrational. This is a simple fact of life and the universe.
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