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I've just read this https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/a-marriage-made-in-he...

For me the mass killing of children is completely unacceptable and there's absolutely no excuses, zero. And Microsoft's participation in that is a real shock for me.

Accounts are tied to your phone number.

Apparently my account was banned on Anthropic Sonnet after a "Automatic review". I'm 100% sure i did not make any "unsafe" queries, I've litterally only briefly tested and that was weeks ago.

+1 OpenAI Subscription -1 Anthropic Sonnet->sudden-death-automatic-review-system

BRICS is something which people seem to have strong feelings about. For india and china who are rivals, BRICS may offer mechanics which enable them to manage their rivalies, especially given what may be seen as the declining influence of the UN (have people noticed that the massive moon landing India is not even a security council member!).

Linq

Haha, thats exactly i thought! But my experience is the opposite of everything he said!

Visual Studio has build in snippets for boilerplate stuff, so you can type class[tab], ctor[tab], prop[tab] to inject a class contrutor or property into you code. Other IDEs will have similar.

Built in ones are here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/visual-cs...

If you want to apply a coding style, there are lots of free tools for that even, or you could investigate something like ReSharper from jetbrains.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/code-styl...

>>We do not guarantee 100% compatibility between major versions.

This is a true caveat for any language or framework, and is a sensible disclaimer.

But I think the author was referring to transition from “.Net Framework 4” series (since 2001 when I first used it, ~23 years ago) where Microsoft declared “.Net Framework 4.8” would be the last major version of that series. And that new developments should use the “.NET Core” series, which is now named just “.NET “.

I would say it’s completely ok to break backwards compatibility every 20 -30 years as is the case with .NET. Breaking compatibility to consolidate and forward past learnings and that kind of thing. The old .NET framework will be supported for many decades into the future, so it’s not necessary to upgrade if there is no benefit, for example when your customers are .NET dev’s who expect to be support with the new versions

The point is that there are so many commentators who assert that Apple is great on privacy issues, so that many people (including me) automatically believed that buying (expensive) Apple products will automatically lead to improved privacy vs other vendors. This post is calling that BS. Attacking the article/website for have cookies, is a distraction from the actual point.

And anyway if you want to see tracking cookies with a browse you only have to use Option + ⌘ + J (on macOS), or Shift + CTRL + J (on Windows/Linux). Easy. It is much more difficult to see if you are being tracked and what data is being tracked and how it is being used on your mac or iphone.

Yes, this is really a phenomenal effort! And what open source is about: Bringing improvements to so many use cases. So that Intel and AMD chip uses can start to perform while taking advantage of their high-performance capabilities, making even old parts competitive.

There are two PRs raised to merge to llama.cpp:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/6414

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/6412

Hopefully these can be accepted, without drama! as there are many downstream dependencies on llama.cpp can will also benefit.

Though of course everyone should also look directly at releases from llamafile https://github.com/mozilla-Ocho/llamafile.

To discover than a particular LLM is able to output verbatim a sections of NYT works when queried in certain ways is different from explicitly publishing a set of NYC works... i think.

OpenAI does not distribute it models, so the violation of copywrite if found to be a violation will be limited to the amount of people who queried the LLM in the same way that NYT did.

As with Apple, Qualcomm claims so be faster than x86. This is true on the synthetic single core Geekbench benchmark compared to a 2019 Intel cpu. Today the Qualcomm beats the m3 in Geek-bench and the current amd 7940hs.

But for real applications the 7940Hs, beats the Qualcomm even on Cinnebench Single core and multicore

Microsoft has transitioned from 16bit DOS, to 16bit windows, to hybrid win95, full 32bit to 64bit architectures. All with mostly seamless backwards compatibility, this with billions of active users running literally 1000s of different configurations. I would love to know what you mean by ‘inability to build and coordinate software at scale’

Why is this downvoted?

What the government agencies and police do with money they collect will surprise many, and in many cases might be considered corrupt. I can assure you that the very last possible thing that will happen is that the money will be used to make anyone whole.

Clearly the board members did not think through even the immediate consequences. Kenobi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBX7l2zgRw

In this case the fate of OpenAI was in fact heavily controlled by its employees. They voted with their employment. Microsoft gave them an assured optional destination.

What is starting from zero exactly?

Satya simply had to move quickly to restore shareholder confidence. I'm not convinced that its actually desirable for Microsoft to be fully in the driving seat. Hopefully the new division will have autonomy.

Microsoft will not have actually paid $10B as a single commitment, in fact the financials of OpenAI appear to be alarming from the recent web chatter. OpenAI are possibly close to collapse financially as well as organizationally.

Whatever Satya does will be aimed at isolating Microsoft and its roadmap from that, his job is actually also on the line for this debacle.

The OpenAI board have ruined their credibility and organization.

Forked:

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122

"to lead a new advanced AI research team"

I would assume that Microsoft negotiated significant rights with regards to R&D and any IP.

It seems you have jumped to many conclusion's in your thinking process without any prompting in your inference. I would suggest lowering your temperature ;)

Inflation serves the purpose. But more directly we also have various fractional reserve systems of money creation through debt.

Bank creates credit (money), often with timed terms of repayment

As you repay, that credit is gradually removed from the financial network.

It seems Microsoft was totally blind-sided by this event. If true then Trillion$+ Microsoft will now be scruitinizing the unpredictability and organizational risk associated with being dependant on the "unknown-random" + powrerful + passionate Illya and board who are vehemently opposed to the trajectory lead by altman. One solution would be to fork OpenAI and its efforts, one side with the vision lead by Illya and the other Sam.

I read that the bandwidth is 50% lower on the M3 combined with a lower CPU core coun. This reduction will impact inferrence performance. It maybe better to stick with M2 series if you really really think spending $10k on a laptop mac to do inferrence slowly (but faster than a plain PC of course) make sense.

Because it makes the things they use better mostly, they are => https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/graphs/contributors

Sounds quite bad. Smells of corruption. At some point Chaloner (correctly) accused the persons running the Royal Mint of Counterfeiting, obviously furious the Mint the Newton suddenly finds witnesses (from other convicts) and evidence that Chaloner is a counterfeiter! and Chaloner end up: “Twitching and writhing, on the hangman’s rope while being disembowelled.”

I dropped $1400+ on iPhone 14 (with the apple care thing), but TBH I was disappointed, iOS/iPhone used to be ahead of Android in terms of OS and usability.

Now it just felt like the hardware is wasted on iOS. I still have the old Android phone, and instinctively use that rather than dealing with iOS. Next device is definitely going to be an android.

Yes, Notepad, WordPad, Paint existed to have a baseline of utility and especially when selling a complete PC setup to customers in the 1990s:

At a time when there was no internet! The PC sales guy could demo the customer fancy text-editing with fonts and colours, draw pictures and even print to dot matrix! right in the store.

Today people like these minimal OS apps because they are simple, avoid bloat and feature creep, especially notepad and paint. Its probably an error on MS part to get rid of WordPad..

I doubt WordPad killed anyone, It didn't even have a spell checker.