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merari42@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•EU considers tariffs on digital services Big TechEnglish19·6 months ago
merari42@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’173·8 months agoNa, that is just historically inaccurate. The original Macintosh team collected their stories/memoires at folklore.org, which give you a pretty good overview of his talents. He was really mercurial and Woz was the better engineer, but played a really important role in the vision/design of computers as we know them today. In the original Mac team others did the engineering and Jobs never claimed to be and engineering type of person, but he had a good feel on the importance of design, clear visual metaphors and good interaction design and pushed the team relentlessly into that direction.
That is something that some tech savy Lemmy users could already easily do. I repost stuff from all over the web. But some systematic preservation of good old subreddits aught to be automated.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot2·9 months agoDidn’t deepseek solve some of the data wall problems by creating good chain of thought data with an intermediate RL model. That approach should work with the tried and tested scaling laws just using much more compute.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot1·9 months agodoesn’t deepseek work on that though with their janus models?
merari42@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Trump not expected to carry through on Day 1 tariff threatsEnglish2·9 months agoAnd twitching like crazy from his ketamine habit at the inauguration.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainersEnglish1142·1 year agoImportant context and a good decision
merari42@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•China’s plan to get around Western tariffs: Fill the world with factoriesEnglish6·1 year agoThe German car companies are very afraid of Chinese retaliatory tariffs on luxury cars.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase priceEnglish3·1 year ago4chan at least had a consistent brand of being the anti-social network and being full of Nazis, weirdos, pedophiles and people who are just anti-social for the lulz. You couldn’t ruin 4chan.
Twitter’s image was being the “internet town-square for serious thinkers” with politicians, scientists, journalists and a small but good measure of standard shitposters. Loosing that brand diminishes it’s value massively. Unfortunately neither Bluesky nor Mastodon was able to catch that clientele yet.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam AltmanEnglish73·1 year agoIt’s the famous “As long as your not Google, Amazon or Apple” licence.
merari42@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Italian investigators trying to establish why Bayesian superyacht sank so quicklyEnglish9·1 year agoAt least you only have to sink one Bayesian Superyacht to update your priors. To get at population parameters you would need to sink many Frequentist Superyachts
I was on a holiday in the Cinque Terre in Italy with my wife a few years ago. Because of a rainy day we decided to take a train to Genua and visit some museums. At the maritime museum I randomly met an Italian coworker/coauthor from my research institute in Germany, who was visiting his family in his hometown with his wife.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•What do people really ask chatbots? It’s a lot of sex and homework.English13·1 year agoFor a user without much technical experience using a ready-made gui like Jan.ai with automatic model download and ability to run models with the ggml library on consumer grade hardware like mac M-series chips or cheap GPUs by either Nvidia or AMD is probably a good start.
For a little bit more technically proficient users Ollama is probably a great choice to start to host your own OpenAI-like API for local models. I mostly run gemma2 or small llama 3.1 like models with that.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute chargeEnglish14·1 year agoThe market will segment away from the current tech anyway. CATL Sodium-ion with comparatively low densities but also extremely low prices per kWh will likely win the low-end market and the market for stationary solutions. This is just due to the much lower resource costs. The high-end will be up for things like this battery by Samsung (or other comparable pilot products). The current technology will likely be in a weird middle spot.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own outputEnglish3·1 year agoDepends on what you do with it. Synthetic data seems to be really powerful if it’s human controlled and well built. Stuff like tiny stories (simple llm-generated stories that only use the complexity of a 3-year olds vocabulary) can be used to make tiny language models produce sensible English output. My favourite newer example is the base data for AlphaProof (llm-generated translations of proofs in Math-Papers to the proof-validation system LEAN) to teach an LLM the basic structure of Mathematics proofs. The validation in LEAN itself can be used to only keep high-quality (i.e. correct) proofs. Since AlphaProof is basically a reinforcement learning routine that uses an llm to generate good ideas for proof steps to reduce the size of the space of proof steps, applying it yields new correct proofs that can be used to further improve its internal training data.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?2·1 year agoEdward Teller is just the kind of scientist you need to build civil engineering projects out of doomsday devices.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?1·1 year agoThe people over at NCD must be getting raging hardons just from seeing this.
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merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second VolunteerEnglish5·1 year agoNa SpaceX would just use his neuralink chip it to automate the team that keeps Musk distracted from messing with important things in the company with a simple AI
merari42@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to existEnglish3·1 year agoIn Germany, you can’t currently deport anyone just for expressing extremist views. However, recently there were demonstrations in Hamburg where about 1,000 people marched to advocate for a caliphate and Sharia law in Germany, which led to a public debate about exactly this. However, this isn’t about Palestine but about anti-constitutional extremism. Some state interior ministers are now advocating to explicitly outlaw this kind of islamist extremism, potentially paving the way for easier deportations for those advocating for a caliphate in Germany. Here’s a german article on the topic.