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christkv··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
I suspect nothing will change at Nvidia although Jensen does not have any sort of "super shares" so he can easily be deposed by the board if they really want to. But why would they.
christkv··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
What inference engine do you use ?
christkv··on Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed
The rest is history just recently did two episodes of the Hungarian Revolution which I think were really good https://therestishistory.com/episodes/the-hungarian-uprising... but I’m not Hungarian obviously so i don’t know if it covers it well or not.
christkv··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
Another variant I see are mobile phone case shops in super expensive rental locations selling 5-10 euro cases. Sure......
christkv··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
Hey how else are you going to launder dirty money.
christkv··on A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines
So ridiculous we already have ESE pods for traditional expresso machines. We replaced the Nespresso machine in the office with a normal expresso machine so people can make bring their own ground coffee if they want but we also offer ESE pods for people who don't care but still want a good coffee.
christkv··on Why Don't We Live in an Art Nouveau World?
Because of Le Corbusier and the other modernist architects who turned the entire world into concrete bunkers. If I had a Time Machine I know who I would go back in time and push in front of a tram.
christkv··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
It would be interesting to know if this skill had been trained in by OpenAI to use for improving their smaller models.
christkv··on China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
We really need a foundation that trains open source models. You know what like OpenAI was supposed to be.
christkv··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
Meh getting them elected is one thing can they overcome the institutions and the bureaucracy stuffed with corrupt friends and former politicians that’s completely different.
christkv··on US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
If they win congress and the senate every bill will be vetoed anyway and they won’t have the votes to override the veto. It will be two years of paralysis.
christkv··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Wait so Microsoft gutted their AI Division and Microsoft looks like it did as well from the list of "departments" that are in the approved buyout list. Does this mean they are just going to be resellers of the big models companies going forward?
christkv··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Hah not always. I worked at a bank where they offered this and I applied and I was denied and told I was essential.
christkv··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
It's reality and I do not make a difference if the activist is from the left or right of political spectrum. I don't play on either of your teams.
christkv··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
No because I'm not captured ideologically. You can run open source models (which are ever improving) and there is no moat for AI neither in software or hardware. Look at yourself in the mirror and tell me it's not the pot calling the kettle black.

Colonialism is so overused as a term it's pointless. By this logic China is doing Electric car colonialism and Bangladesh apparel colonialism.

christkv··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
I'm a person who believes an activist has already decided the conclusion and just finds whatever facts they need to fit their narrative. They also use BS terms like AI colonialism and other nonsensical meaningless words to manipulate people emotionally.

So yes I think this is claptrap of the first order that exists so people can pretend it's of any value to reaffirm their echo chamber.

christkv··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
I saw "AI colonialism", looked at her LinkedIn and yeah she is an activist so all objectivity is out the door.
christkv··on Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement
Is this new party cohesive enough or will it split into infighting?
christkv··on One Must Fall 2097 Remastered
That game was terrible but still better than Tongue Of The Fatman from a couople of years before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLq5eDsiPOs which was truly horrible. I had a friend who had a 3DO with Samurai Shodown at the same time as One Must Fall 2097 and I was so envious.
christkv··on Job loss and cortisone mania
I don't know if someone is able to "enjoy" their work in general that is on top of a pyramide of people who probably don't enjoy their job.
christkv··on Job loss and cortisone mania
I mean is this not most of human existence through history though? A very small part of the world has the luxury of enjoying their job.
christkv··on No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
And island big enough to sustain itself preferable not with with winters as you will need energy (panels), food and barrier.

A collapsed society in a place like Northern Europe would be terrible as it relies on a lot of complex technology to keep the modern lifestyle going. None of the Scandinavian countries are self sufficient in food.

christkv··on Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party
I don't think it will work at all.
christkv··on No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
I'm not sure Sweden is where I would try to hide out if the world was ending.
christkv··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
We have this discussion with some public customers who want to use LLMs in our products. So far there is no official policy for the public sector so we are telling them to bring their own LLM model either by deploying models to azure in the region they want thus sifting the responsibility onto their contract with Microsoft and off our plate or sign a contract where they acknowledge they understand the risks of using third party llms (we offer, open ai, claude and mistral as providers for now).
christkv··on The Rise and Fall of Jev
Doomerism + Wishful thinking. We are what ~3 years into mass adoption of llm tech? Every couple of months it improves. Jev came out a couple of months ago and there is nothing that makes me believe that it will not improve over time as people fine tune small models to work better over time.
christkv··on EA is shutting down BioWare
To be honest I have the third one on my ever growing list of games to play. I have been told it's pretty decent and kind of the last game Bioware actually delivered on.
christkv··on EA is shutting down BioWare
I just found the encounters were very repetetive as I remember. I had just finished the first one two weeks before the second one came out.
christkv··on A farewell to Arc browser
I have started to use Vivaldi a lot due to the it's built in profiles making it easy to test our application or having multiple instances open at the same time.
christkv··on EA is shutting down BioWare
It became a corporate job instead of a smallish team excited about building the games they wanted to play.
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