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Re:Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:53AM (#48569783)
People will still own the ideas. The way they are shared is changing yet again. Just like a kindle carried a Book to a user, and LLM with RAG will do as well.

Printing books wouldnt make sense anymore except for "Traditionalist who love feeling a crisp page between their fingers"

Re:Running local models is good now on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:48AM (#48569723)
Local models Inference never really took with non tech people. Everyday people who dont know the difference between autocorrect and GPTs. But thanks to recent hardware launches from Nvidia and AMD's in response to the MacMini series, it is quite evident that local AI will replace the conventional laptop market completely one day. Current laptops will be what Nokia represents to a iPhone or Android user. Huge Leaps ahead.
Re:GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:39AM (#48569611)
Been waiting for this for so long. Huge respect to the team for pulling this off.
Its possible that Andrej Karpathy could have been hired for scaling his vision on the auto-research repo. (His version of "AI that builds itself")
Re:Now AI agents need what RSS does on Thursday June 04, 2026 @09:13PM (#48406811)
Indeed, the simplicity and structure behind RSS perfectly fits agentic AI. Web 4.0 (or Web 5.0) would definitely use a protocol whose principles might be similar to RSS.
Standardizing is not quite simple. Each rocket is different from each other. There are many reasons why launchpads are intricately designed as per specific rockets. examples like The type of fuel used, the pipelines that supply them until T-0, the reusable capabilities, sound suppression system, rocket and payload weight, etc. But if standardization is indeed achieved, then all the more victory for the spacefarers!
Yes, I meant the same. Basically, I called for expansion of existing spaceports and a handful of new ones. They will be closer to the coast as always with the launch paths facing the ocean to avoid debris falling on the population.
In order for rocket launches to reach 1000+ per year in a decade, we need more innovations and business models in launch pads. 18 months to restore a launchpad is going to hamper progress significantly. We need to build as many launchpads as we can and allow private companies to rent them. Ofcourse each rocket design and their launchpads are intricately coupled by various factors, and this would make building generic launchpads a bit difficult. But the oppurtunity and necessity exists nonetheless. Blue Origin would agree until the next 18 months.
Re:CT scans of BYD car parts on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:29AM (#48382592)
Genuinely impressed with the article. We need more such articles that re-invigorate our engineering curiosity. Kudos!
Re:MAI-Code-1-Flash on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:13AM (#48382451)
How not to flex:

"MAI-Code-1-Flash outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5"

Re:Nvidia Cosmos 3 on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:21PM (#48362804)
The two-tower Mixture-of-Transformers design (autoregressive reasoner feeding a diffusion generator) is an interesting architectural bet.
Re:Qwen3.7-Plus: Multimodal Agent Intelligence on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:18PM (#48362781)
The interesting design question here is whether unifying GUI and CLI operation in a single agent loop actually improves performance or just makes the benchmark story cleaner.