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Finnish satellite startup decacorn Iceye and Nokia are working on an alternative: https://www.iceye.com/satcom

I had to test because I didn't recollect ever experiencing such issues with Spotify.

And no, the problems you described are not there.

On my Windows 11 laptop it takes about 2sec to start and basically any song starts in less than a second.

Maybe it's Apple making Spotify crappy on Mac to promote iTunes?

A thing I've been wondering, I might be completely lost in thinking about this, but do you know: If you grow mushrooms at home is there a risk that it spreads as kind of fungi to the building, furniture etc.?

Finnish ocean rower Jari Saario has been rescued after his solo rowing boat was damaged during an unsupported crossing of the South Atlantic from Cape Horn to Cape Town.

About the rescue in Finnish: https://yle.fi/a/74-20203587

Following last week’s major partnership announcement between AMD and OpenAI, Oracle Cloud has now revealed plans to deploy 50,000 AMD AI chips.

A woman is crediting her Oura ring with identifying changes to her body that ultimately resulted in a cancer diagnosis.

Not an expert here. I am not sure how 3D the videos in the article are. IMO they are 3D in a pixar/animated sort of way.

But I have very recent first hand experience of creating a video for our startup's Facebook post with Minimax image-to-video inference, from an image of our animated avatar character.

...And yes, first the videos were bad quality with lots of inconsistencies, but after adding "animated" to the prompt, in front of the "man" word, the result was pretty great already on the first try! Which I then ended up even using. (you can even check it here if interested https://fb.watch/xRC-fptexM/)

Perhaps it should be self-evident, but still, it was not to me. :)

Edit. I guess my point was also that the animated character in the video ended up being somewhat 3D as well.

Appreciated.

Isn't 3% still somewhat significant? But good point though!

Nvidia has lost about $100 billion in market cap in the past couple of hours.

Sounds awesome. :D For real, the anecdote is hilarious and I find it easy to believe but also sounds cool what you are working on.

Yes, that's what it seems to me also, that often a RAG or similar is branded as an "agent". Though I personally understand an LLM agent as something that takes input x to use in LLM inference and then uses the output from that inference to create a new input for another LLM inference that includes the first output and so on, and repeats this >1 times.

Interesting! To me 80% hitrate sounds actually pretty good and awesome if it actually improves productivity, though understandably not something that could be left on it's own devices.

I had no idea about Make.com or n8n, they seem interesting. Thanks for the tip! Will check them out.

When does a LLM customer support bot that is based for example on RAG architecture, become an LLM agent?

Seems like a great service! We could definitely consider this as an viable option for our startup's application. I am not an expert regarding the OSM data and maps in general, but how customizable is your library, can I somehow relatively easy add housenumbers of the addresses from OSM data on the buildings in the map?

Should there be a link to some video or podcast somewhere there? I can only see a link to a pdf file.

I'd be curious to know the answer to this also.

Thank you :)

Thank you for clearing this out to me :)

Sorry for the slightly off topic question, but can someone enlighten me which Claude model is more capable, Opus or Sonnet 3.5? I am confused because I see people fuzzing about Sonnet 3.5 being the best and yet somehow I seem to read again and again in factual texts and some benchmarks that Claude Opus is the most capable. Is there a simple answer to the question, what do I not understand? Please, thank you.

In any case, I agree in that the acquisition is great news and the economy is in a depression. :) Huge part of it is because Finnish mortgages are mostly straight tied to Euribor unlike in other Euro countries and since post covid the interest rates went up, Finns got f*cked. Hopefully the Euribor interest rate will be going down and the mortgages will start to become smaller, at least when they are being paid off.

Both Supercell and Wolt have their headquarters steadily in Finland. The founders and Finnish early investors have gained hundreds of millions or billions of euros wealth for themselves which they have further spended and invested in Finland. They have paid huge amounts of taxes and keep on doing all of these since they are still located in Finland. It's hard to downplay the value of those IMO.

There's plenty of interesting and fast growing startups still left here. For example Supermetrics, Varjo, Smartly, Iceye, Aiven to name a few. IMO you are being pessimistic.

Contrary to what you say, Finnish startups have been very successful. Here's just a couple examples:

- Supercell sold 81.4% stake to Tencent in 2018 with a valuation of $10.2 billion.

- Wolt was acquired by DoorDash in 2021 with a valuation of $8.1 billion.

The list is much longer with startups that currently generate revenues of tens or hundreds of millions in a year that have not been sold.

Now if Meta would only get that website layout of theirs working on this Chrome browser that runs on my two year old Samsung Android phone, they would be a whole lot credible to me.