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There's nothing new under the sun, as they say.
Perl had CPAN already in 1993; Linux and common BSD distros have basically always had package repositories.
"People were responsible for the dependencies they were importing" - I don't know about that. Plenty of us were irresponsible 30 years ago.
I agree; but that's also not a very useful observation. Modern society depends on industry of all types, and national independence depends on at least some of it being local. We can try to make it cleaner, and to some degree we can choose which types to implement. But we do not have the option to just wish it all away.
It would be very nice if we could have our cake and eat it too.
Some perspective is important, I think.
This is unpopular in the current climate of hysteria, but it's worth reminding ourselves: data centers are probably one of the least polluting industrial sites imaginable. That's not to say it's nothing, but contrast it with, say, a refinery. Or mineral processing. Or basically any other type of industrial activity on which modern civilization relies.
They hum. That's about it.
"playdates" is in itself a tell. That didn't used to be a thing. Kids would just... go out and find their friends and play. No parental scheduling or coordination required.
Effectively nobody considering buying into the IPO cares about Anthropic's source control system. They could be passing around floppy disks and so long as they were still shipping nobody would care.
A shout-out in the paper, perhaps? But co-opting their naming convention for unearned publicity isn't cool.
Some of us have been working on precisely that for a while; preparing for when the models are ready. And they're getting close!
A simple thing would be: those areas can no longer produce lumber. So what should have been a renewable resource was depleted after a single use.
Those are not OpenAI's concerns - they just need to scare NVidia enough to lower their prices more than they'd otherwise want.
NVidia has
enormous operating margins, so a competitive solution doesn't have to match or beat NVidia's scale efficiencies; it just has to beat delivered cost.
One objective of the project might be simply to provide credible negotiating leverage when dealing with existing suppliers like NVidia. You don't have to deploy at scale for that to work, but you do have to look like you could if pushed hard enough.
> There are simply too few historians trained to read them to be able to cope with the supply.
Surely this is something AI tools will (eventually?) be able to help with?
> even the MON navaids are having maintenance issues resulting in outages
Which is exactly why we previously had such a dense network: to provide redundancy in the face of inevitable outages.
Another thing to add to all this is FAA has been steadily removing from service non-GPS navigation aids.
Humans (exhibiting "general intelligence") are tool builders; virtually all our capabilities stem from our ability to create and use tools - often extremely specialized to a task. Why would an artificial general intelligence be any different?
After 2000 years everything mixes together at least somewhat so trying to draw hard lines is an exercise in pointless semantics, but it's worth acknowledging that as a system, common law is pretty distinct from the Roman tradition of civil law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
> *English Common Law* has entered the chat
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted.
I've used GPT-5.5 and Opus both for FPGA design with good results. We built a lot of tooling around it to help the models, but even without that they're definitely capable of designing digital logic.
They won't all be fulfilled. I would imagine this is part of the price-discovery process.
Seems like a fairly neutral term to me.
Nit: at some point you start getting metal fatigue issues (see Aloha Airlines Flight 243) but in general yes: fuel efficiency and fleet standardization.
Also airliners usually just become cargo planes for quite a long time before retirement. Eg. there's a bunch of DC-3s still being commercially operated. Jet engine noise regs killed a bunch of early jets, but older prop aircraft are still going strong.
That wouldn't stop their development and use in the rest of the world...
Why would foreign (relative to the US) models suddenly sit still? There's enormous incentive to improve; surely they'll be able to figure out how just like their American counterparts?
We've seen this movie before with crypto export bans in the 90s. The rest of the world caught up and then surpassed the US very quickly - and that was without the enormous financial incentives of AI.
As we learned with export restrictions on crypto in the 90s, that disadvantage will be short-lived and backfire in the long-run.
Also known as: supply and demand.
Oh don't worry, the enforcement is extremely selective.
Thinking about it as a system:
If every university were subject to similar constraints, the average "quality" of research proposals would go down (everybody would have less time to spend on it) but since the pool of research dollars is assumed constant everyone would still get roughly their same slice - just with less overhead.