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must not have been clear then. what's bad about a site you can log in to and share your information so that it helps others? and provides you with information and data that allows you to make better, more well-informed decisions for you and your loved ones? that's absolutely good by any rational standard, no question about it.

Fighting bad capitalism with good capitalism in healthcare, company idea?

I FIRE'd a few years back from tech and spend too much time watching the news.it occurred to me that the answer to cracking the health insurer monopoly was liberating the information not available to the buyers. Why not build a website/app to allow the insured to upload detailed information about their maladies and how their insurer handled it? result of data corpus, processed through a data...

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if technology continues to improve productivity, then the market will continue to rise accordingly.
Re:Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI on Monday February 26, 2024 @10:22AM (#39512263)
that's a good problem to aspire toward.
Re:Intel's Humbling on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:30PM (#39199937)
i was a process engineer there in the early 2000's, they did crazy random shit then too! they had an 'internet tv' pc that was designed to play mp4's in 2001.
Re:Intel's Humbling on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:24PM (#39199898)
i worked at intel between 97 and 07. MFG was absolute king. Keeping that production line stable and active was the priority that eclipsed all. i was a process engineer, and to change a gas flow rate on some part of the process by a little bit, i'd have to design an experiment, collect data for months, work with various upstream/downstream teams, and write a change control proposal that would exceed a hundred pages of documentation. AFAIK, that production line was the most complex human process that had happened to date. It was mostly ran by 25-30 yo engineers. That in itself was a miracle.
i'm thankful there's work being done on improving version control. git is great but if you don't respect it, it will punish you.
any work done in this area is good work.
there is no technical reason why you couldn't unbolt openai interface and bolt in llama. Moreover, once you have this, you need only load the model into memory once. emulating different agents would be handled exclusively through the context window sizes that llm's expect. each agent would just have its own evolving context window. roundrobin the submissions. repeat

what's crazy to think about is what new things will become possible as the context window sizes creep up.

Re:The Age of AI has begun on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @04:26PM (#35252019)
given all the world's pain and suffering that has been caused by the GUI, i fear AI for the first time...
Re:Antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @12:48PM (#34521570)
Their dna sees our over=stressed modern lifestyles as an opportunity. shouldn't surprise us i guess.
i've built nlp apps but lack ideas. maybe we could all talk.
you can reach me at my username@gmail. i just retired 2 months ago from a 25 year engineering stint starting in cyber and ending as a level 5 ML engineer/data plumber. we may be too well aligned though. i have no major expectations but would love a cool project and good folks to work with. money is second to that.
Re:China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:36PM (#18729832)
They are persistent. I see attacks from them on my company in the thousands every day. Some ip ranges have continued to hit us dozens of times after prolonged blocking.
So it's going to get warmer, sea levels will rise. coastlines will move inland as sea levels rise. Typically colder areas will become more tropical.

Other than displacing a large number of people who live on coastlines, what's the big deal?

Insult me for my niavety if it makes you feel better, but I honestly don't know the answer.

Re:‘99.9999%’ uptime – it’s an illusion on Saturday February 17, 2018 @11:49AM (#16401449)
maybe if your 'app' is entropy in the universe.
It's pretty insane when we live in a time where we are on the brink of a technology that could surpass electricity and we're still selectively acknowledging reality only when it conforms to our own biases.
yes. salesman bullshit. i think it was tensorflow that was flaky.
I've spent some time training tensorflow cnns on nvidia 1080gtx.

It works pretty well, but i couldn't reliably train production models for work on it. it's just too flaky. I mentioned this to our 'trustworthy' dell rep who suggested that a good v100 suite would surely solve all the reliability problems, what with it's greatly increased memory bus, or something...