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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:26PM (#50247519)
These commitments are in large part the paying for inference..
Re:Integer multiplication below n log n on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:11PM (#49986618)
Matrix multiplication is <=O(n^2.25) actually... [1]

1. https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Matrix-Mu...

Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:45PM (#49614849)
The ROI is billions added to their valuation. Also of course it costs OpenAI much less than API pricing for inference.
Re:Passkey is still too confusing to use on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @10:13PM (#45511310)
FWIW Bitwarden supports passkeys which allows you have them synced across all your devices.
The housing market in San Francisco is very much not free. Most areas are single family zoned so you are not allowed to build apartments (which are very much needed to meet demand), and extensive approvals are required to build anything. https://thefrisc.com/how-long-it-really-takes-to-get-a-build...

Although it is true that the problem of excessive bureaucracy is not exclusive to Europe and very common in the US too.

Re:Large Language Models for Mathematicians on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:13PM (#42901203)
The question is perfectly valid -https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/60050/find-a-functi...

The paper notes GPT 4 can solve it (they seemed to have asked ChatGPT 3.5 - this paper is old by AI standards, the first version being from Dec 2023).

Re:Intel slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340 on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:15AM (#42852508)
Supply and demand. Intel isn't happy with how many of these CPUs it's been able to sell, while Nvidia cannot produce enough GPUs to meet demand.
I think it's the point at which you can hire a nanny - being able to offload a lot of parenting responsibilities to someone else helps.
Re:Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:51AM (#42754106)
I don't know about that - seems like US is close to half of Tiktok revenue: "TikTok took in an estimated $10 billion in revenue in the United States last year, he said, out of a total global revenue estimated at $20 billion to $26 billion." [1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/technology/tiktok-ban-byt...

Actually good job ChatGPT since according to the article he didn't want to kill anyone other than himself.
Re:Jeju Air accident in South Korea kills at least 47 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:05AM (#42537983)
No definitely safer per hour. "In 2022, the fatality rate for people traveling by air was . 003 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. The death rate people in passenger cars and trucks on US highways was 0.57 per 100 million miles." [1] Adjusting for a speed difference of 10x it's 0.03 for planes and 0.57 for cars. Which makes sense - it's pretty easy to crash a car, and much harder to crash a plane (there's not much to crash into in the air).

1. https://usafacts.org/articles/is-flying-safer-than-driving/

Re:Happy 400th birthday to the world's oldest bond on Monday December 23, 2024 @02:14PM (#42496856)
The article is about them collecting interest a couple weeks ago on the 400th anniversary? They clearly are keeping it going, just only collecting interest irregularly at PR milestones.
This is actually for lack of RAM reasons - 15 pro and above have 8gb RAM which is enough to fit 3-4gb models locally with room to spare for rest of the applications. The 13 pro max has 6gb of RAM which is not enough.
Re:I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:40PM (#42368319)
I guess it's because it has the highest score of all models in instruction following, 20 points higher then Opus, which compensates for shortcomings elsewhere (e.g. in language), and which wouldn't necessarily translate to human evaluation of usefulness.
Not their first time, but the first time at this scale.
Re:GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:48PM (#41986392)
Seems to be part of Microsoft’s hedging of its OpenAI bet, ever since Sam Altman’s ousting: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/technology/microsoft-open...
Re:New Mac Mini with M4 on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:15PM (#41985821)
Mac minis are going to be one of the smaller selling product lines, so it's probably easier to offset the carbon emissions with the carbon credits they buy.
You should be happy that market makers like Citadel Securities exist. Payment for order flow is why commission free trading can exist. Citadel Securities, Virtu, Hudson River Trading, Jump Trading etc compete in a negative sum game which reduces the bid ask spread on various assets (i.e. make them cheaper to trade for everyone).

Also lol that a hedge fund with about 1% of total hedge fund assets controls prices. What do you think the other hedge funds and trading firms are doing?

They're referring to Ken Griffin / Citadel (Securities). Not that it makes their claims any less silly in terms of fundamentally misunderstanding how markets work.
"chemicals are those ingredients with scary names" is not a useful definition - unless you think foods containing 3-Methylbutanal are problematic (bananas [1]). You have to be more specific, otherwise you end up deriding ingredients based on how they sound rather than how safe they are. HFCS for example, is 55% fructose and 45% glucose while regular sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. So since fructose might be worse for the body (although this is disputed and it might be that glucose is worse), HFCS might be a little worse but it really is the quantities of sugar that matter than the kind.

1. https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredie...

Re:TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:41PM (#41351206)
That's UUID v5 (uses a sha1 hash of input data).
(they confirmed there was no hack) I think you have too much faith in minimal software development practices being applied at companies.
Re:The Planets Today on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:55PM (#40938491)
It depends on your frame of reference - that video is true for a frame of reference which is the center of the galaxy. This representation is with the sun as the frame of reference. From that point of view it is the galaxy that is moving with respect to the sun and the planets.
Re:High Interest Savings Leaderboard on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:13AM (#39481528)
The bank gets 5.4% from the federal government.[1] HYSA rates closely track the federal funds rate, because the banks are essentially passing on the fed funds rate to consumers (minus a cut for themselves). The bank can also get 5.3% from short term treasuries right now. So the answer is basically that the federal reserve is giving the return.

1. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-balanc...

I think you need to use the API to reproduce. I heard the chat prompt stops gpt4 from some of this behavior.
Re:Google Makes over $92B per Year by Owning Android on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:50PM (#38725826)
This article seems inaccurate. Google doesn't charge for Google apps except in the EU, where it does because of EU regulators - that's where the "up to 40$" claim comes from [1]

Per that article, it looks like in general google bundles chrome and search with the rest of the Google apps, and so is happy to offer it for free since search basically pays for the whole app suite. The EU doesn't like this bundling so google charges for apps there, but manufacturers can enter into a deal to use chrome and search and essentially get that money back through search engine revenue sharing.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/17999366/google-eu-andro...

Twitter had multiple profitable quarters before Musk tool over
Why do you think people from other countries aren't "hackers"?

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