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greesilon Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

The parent comment may be a joke, but it's unclear if it is. This makes it possibly the best kind of joke.

greesilon IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

Holy fuck you have a lot of karma

greesilon IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem

Okay man I've got to ask, what kind of data are we talking about? Legal? Medical?

I've heard that there are legal software platforms like Clio that offer AI products, not sure what just eavesdropping on some lawyers at the bar.

greesilon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

I'll continue to exercise my disbelief in alternate narratives for this (rightfully) convicted felon then.

greesilon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

Incredibly different? It defies credulity?

greesilon The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

You can just read Bad Blood, too, and skip the movie / hyperbole/ whatever

greesilon Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

The amount of investment being thrown at this when we have serious existential problems as a species is how I know the system is definitively broken. Capitalism got us this far, but it's time for something new.

greesilon OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

What if it's just because the numbers aren't that great at the moment?

greesilon Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

I'll check it out, thank you

greesilon Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

Yes I can read Wikipedia. The question is what was this person like? Please tell me ruoy metsys tpmorp.

greesilon Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")

What kind of mind figures out this thing exists?

greesilon Gemini 4 Argon

They are a search and ads monopoly, so there is that.

greesilon NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

Por qué no los dos

greesilon NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

This has got to be a trump thing. "Big beautiful ramjets!" And so on

greesilon We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

Right now that looks like a bunch of rich edgelords and us as serfs

greesilon Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone

I loop, therefore I am.

greesilon Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

I'm not an expert in cybersecurity, but given my own experience using the `ol stochastic parrot as coding tools I both see the power of a bot swarm, but also think these companies just have shit network security.

greesilon Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

Not trivial, not impossible

greesilon GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all

Boo. I was delighted by its introduction in pixel 8. I thought this was a resurgence of the old Google, actually giving a f about software, security and the end user.

iPhone 17 has it now. maybe Google's work here is done

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ndcrug/iphone_17_in...

greesilon US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?

Nope, it looks pretty bleak for my kids if I extrapolate this bs out, and saddle them with the expectations of go to college get a job.

greesilon Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

I enjoyed this Veritasium video on the subject, which includes Penrose Diagrams.

https://youtu.be/6akmv1bsz1M

greesilon Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

They do slow them down a bit

greesilon US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?

Don't forget that the debt to geo ratio is only 120%. Japan was able to get up to 200% in a low interest the rate environment.

greesilon Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)

Tradewars

greesilon My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

I don't think they give a flying fart a about their users anymore, but yes.

greesilon U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

Time to send in the ground troops. Nothing bad can happen. /s

greesilon Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors

Or written by AI. Or commented on by AI.

greesilon Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts

> Agents will explode the use 100x or more

That _could_ happen, but very likely not in a short enough timeline to save them.

> In fact spacex story tells you next : investments in infrastructure is the best investment

ROFLMAO. How's the stock doing?

greesilon Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts

I think Ed's argument is that given the infra investment the revenue won't be enough to pay back the original investors. In fact cheaper models make this worse for them. Who cares about the investors? Well it turns out the infra was financed in large part by debt that was securitized and a bunch of regarded investors that bought the debt looking for higher returns will be taking a huge haircut when the bubble pops. The amount of securitized debt is roughly the same as the mortgage backed securities back on 2007, ergo the prediction is a big recession.

What's unclear to me is if this is a systemic issue that's going to cause credit to freeze up but imo the opacity of the shadow banking "system" does not help here. If you see one cockroach, etc.