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Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:36PM (#49676342)
At least Altman is somewhat open about his desire to take over the world. Dario says one thing and does another making it impossible to know his true motives.
Re:There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning on Friday April 24, 2026 @05:28PM (#47896019)
Here's where I'm missing understanding: for decades the idea of neural networks had existed with minimal attention. Then in 2017 Attention Is All You Need gets released and since then there is an exponential explosion in deep learning. I understand that deep learning is accelerated by GPUs but the concept of a transformer could have been used on much slower hardware much earlier.
Re:3.4M Solar Panels on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @04:42PM (#47869043)
Does solar make sense without government subsidies yet?
The job and stock market believe most software development companies/verticals are ~25-50% less valuable than they were about a year ago. What do you think, is the restructuring of market dynamics currently underpriced or overblown?
Does anyone today think their communication is truly private? Encryption means very little when you hold zero-day exploits and as we’ve seen there are plenty of those.
I’m also trying to see which one makes more sense. Discussion about rtk started today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189599

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