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We lack a build tool to handle an edge case yet unseen, no means exist to input the new weights and get a better model

Big deal; have some bpf probe handle kick off of the rebuild when the when new weights are tested by some verification process

This is just CI/CD work now

> People aren't giving Anthropic billions because they are idiots or dislike the Chinese.

Maybe this describes Anthropic people mostly

I would not assume this represents their investors

Kevin O'Leary has specifically mentioned kicking China's ass wrt AI race

There is likely a ton of xenophobia and racism motivating a lot of stupid investment within the US

Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:48AM (#50349965)
"If we lived in a world where LLMs could work we'd have done it decades ago instead of in the last few years."

I wasn't offended but secondhand embarrassed for you. You didn't think up LLMs before they happened but you're so sure about the future nonetheless.

I mean frontier like ability with less data.

You're doing the same old IT thing where ya act like your grasp of today is where progress terminates. It's cheesy.

Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:41PM (#50346906)
Apple Silicon launched in Mac, the first couple iterations worked/sold great. By the launch of M3 market realized it wasn't a fluke and that x86 was dead but still fundamental due to deployment at the time

Flash forward a couple more years to now it's all about efficient model training which sucks on generic CPUs so everyone is buying and designing other chips

Two big consumer pivots over 4-5 years and boom ...they're IBM and handed lifelines to shore up chip manufacturing in the US for strategic reasons but Intel essentially manufactures rotary phones right now. Maybe the fab biz will get modern designs right. We'll see

Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:23PM (#50346782)
Uh huh everyone denied the value of the cloud ...grey beards that are all dead now would never allow their cherished benefactor small business owners private data be stored in a homogeneous data center... heard it all every decade when the state management semantics change with the generations of tech bro butt in seats

I am sure this time the Ruby and Terraform script kiddies will hold back progress just like all those BSD admins staved off Linux like they promised to do on Slashdot 30 years ago

Now that this site has no social moat to boast from the other side of, how out of touch yall are is ridiculously obvious

Glad I went with applied physics, electronic and computer engineering degrees. Will take hands on skill setting up experimental research of propagation of information through various physical materials at various power levels over skill in copy paste of ultimately meaningless syntax.

Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:56PM (#50345230)
Apple's AI infrastructure is a hub device like AppleTV, Mac Mini, iMac, or MacBook connected to iPhone and Watch. They will be the first to benefit from cheaper to run, eventually embed in chip models, and are positioned to be a key player in offloading demand from data centers.

They’re the bridge to the frontier models until iPhone 21 ships with then modern frontier model baked into Apple Silicon.

Luck is variance and in the US we see the variance is capital transfers from government to family networks that control the corporations and university boards and initiatives

Historians have long debated how rich families and in the last century, rich countries, engage in pay to play for their kids while everyone else's hoe potatoes

Back in the middle ages it was studying theology and convincing the poors to confess sin now it's social theory and therapy to confess feeling anything but allegiance to the factory to grave mindset foisted on blue collar America

Neuroscience has revealed brainwave sync between human meat suits is a physical reality; so we're basically just rsyncing the American conditioning among each other engaging in constant parroting of the civil religion's allowances[1] that there be gentile Mr Burns haves and thoughtless drone sycophants

Absolute quackery[2]. Kirk made whoopie with green skin hotties. Han bounced around. Yet for some reason everyone with power is like "boring missionary with no lights on and zero talking!"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

[2] https://www.them.us/news/elon-musk-anakin-posting

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:36PM (#50343352)
This isn't that insane to anyone with old school engineering experience and not abstract thought experiment engineering in the cloud.

Language modeling is compression[1] and all the state to manage the cloud doesn't organically exist, it's added to the system.

We will see huge gains as all the developer middleware is compressed out as nonsense syntax outdated to the task at hand of linking phones and tablets to world models governments control.

Sam Altman was just saying they know best how to use your memory; what they decide is stored in memory is what we all experience.

It's not to store and copy around versions of C and Python and JS. They don't exist organically.

This shit will continue to get whittled down to just the geometric state transforms in memory and on screen just how government agencies decide. It's all electrical state in the machine at the end of the day. The math of machine latent space is what they're recursively self learning towards.[2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27734