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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:45PM (#50347349)
Depends on the brain surgery... a lobotomy at the extreme end. Seizures could be thought of as a loop of firing neurons too.
Re:GitLab CVSS 10.0 Integer Overflow issue on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:51PM (#50188168)
I think this marks the beginning of the golden age. Investments in automated agent driven security scans on all software is coming to every business. Software and infrastructure will become more secure than ever before.
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:56PM (#50185785)
How does this not have a CVSS of 10?
With AI assistance - another Eric Barone could conceivably create a similar game in a fraction of the time
Re:TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:15PM (#49745922)
Yes, the density vs power tradeoff could make a lot of sense in a few applications.
I know a freelance translator and they have more business than ever, AI being "mostly" right is not good enough in many businesses. You need oversight and most importantly - accountability in the form of a human that can put their stamp of approval.
You can, and there are many techniques to do so - it's not super precise but you can essentially "delete" concepts out of a model.
Re:You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @01:08PM (#49086926)
What's your distinction between real time vs multiple steps? All computation is done in steps.

Is it all one big computation? Its turtles all the way down.

Re:Modern email can be built from borrowed parts on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:05PM (#49076737)
Sending email is already cheap, not free. Just so happens the cost is subsidized/hidden for most regular people and its so cheap that they give it away for free. For those of us that run transactional email, the cost is ~ $0.0001 per email for AWS SES, already at the fraction of a fraction of a cent you suggest.
Claude get me a job that pays $200k/yr. Make no mistakes.
Anyone have any idea what the architecture/vendors they are using for inference/compute?

Getting the compute to run inference for multi-trillion parameter models at any sort of scale and performance is daunting. There are a handful of vendors that have systems that can do this (~ Nvidia NVl-72 class) that pretty much only the frontier labs and hyperscalers effectively have access to.

Re:Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:44PM (#48835771)
Non-profits have treasury functions.. it is prudent that many of them have some sort of cash reserves.
Re:Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:34PM (#48752744)
That statement means nothing. You could say the exact same thing about Rails and have an equally defensible position. What about its architecture makes it better?
Re:A Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:14PM (#48679919)
Been following the vesuvius challenge and to me this is nothing short of alien magic tech. Incredible work.
Apple was on the USB Implementers Forum that designed USB-C so.. I would say they could definitely be credited as a co-inventor of USB-C, they also introduced one of the first devices that used USB-C.
There are some studies that suggest human brain sizes have been shrinking over the last 20,000 years. The theory is that as civilization developed the demand for individual humans to be independently intelligent has weakened because we developed a "collective brain" and also self-domesticated to be more cooperative.
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:22PM (#48633905)
Yes. Absolutely. They will move more units and make more profit overall, and if they don't do it a competitor will.
We use headless browser providers because the companies we interact with don't and won't create a proper API for us to use. Lots of legacy web apps/portals. Saves thousands of man hours.
Re:Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:46PM (#48562597)
There are no true scotsman
Re:The Ballad of TIGIT on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:31PM (#48288335)
Everything is obvious in hindsight, but the data (and theory) at the time was that this had a really good shot at being the next big thing in a world where >90% of drugs never make it past clinical trials. 10% probability of success * $200B in lifetime sales (assuming a Keytruda level smash hit) means an EV of ~$20B or more. Not a surprise more than a few companies wanted a shot at it.
Re:It's time to talk about my writerdeck on Saturday May 23, 2026 @08:40PM (#48253110)
If you don't value your time sure. Pen and paper is also basically free and even simpler with no setup time..
Re:It's time to talk about my writerdeck on Saturday May 23, 2026 @07:08PM (#48252503)
Soooo.. not to sound like a luddite but to me the best dedicated writing device for me has been just pen and a notebook or a typewriter.

There are surprisingly many "portable" typewriter options out there (including electronic ones).

Re:Is AI Profitable Yet? on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:20PM (#48244290)
How so? Most of these companies will take a hit but will be fine Alphabet, Amazon, Google, etc can write off their entire investments in AI and will be a-OK. The pure AI companies will obviously be dead.
Re:The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:37PM (#48238950)
More like poorly structured loans and incentives.
What do you mean? Pandoras box has already been opened. Even if OpenAI disappears, there will be another one to take its marketshare. The tech is too useful to die
I wouldn't blame that incident on Railway.. you can delete your prod database on AWS just as easily with their API.
Re:Railway Is Having a Major Outage on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:43PM (#48202052)
Been a customer with them for over a year now, small incidents here and there but never anything this major.
Re:Railway Is Having a Major Outage on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:42PM (#48202041)
Not strange, Google has never had a proper support team unless you are an "Enterprise" level customer.
Re:Railway Blocked by Google Cloud on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:37PM (#48202005)
They run a decent amount of their own compute/bare metal server for customer workloads. But likely still had some critical dependencies on GCP.
Re:Do teachers need advanced degrees? on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:01PM (#48143232)
Absolutely dumb take. There are plenty of very bright and talented people that would have made excellent teachers but chose different career paths because - surprise surprise - the pay is better.

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