- Teachers salaries were never super amazing. Experienced teachers probably could, but it did take a good 10-15 years to get there.
- This was indeed a wrong statement - I was pretty sure I had read something along these lines, but I checked it out after writing this and no, it's not the case.
- > Covid has a mortality rate under 1%.
I hate it when blanket statements like this creep in.
Which Covid? The initial version was definitely more deadly than later versions.
What about future covids? Are you willing to guarantee every version of covid from here on out will be less deadly? It is the general case to be true, but it is not some sort of law.
- Babies have strong legs in order to push themselves out of the womb
- whoa, two weeks
- Yes, the article is about Mozilla, yes I was sloppy in expanding the scope without saying as much.
Microsoft is definitely the most overt in all of this, but Google is working on built in WebAPIs[1], Opera has integrations (sidebars too), Brace includes Leo, and then of course there are the "AI first" companies like Perplexity, Arc etc...
The problem is often that almost all browser features lurk in the background without you really knowing whether they are active or what their scope really ends up being. Cookies, javascript, and various other aspects of the reality of using the web have been abused for mass tracking (and surveillance)
So what's this got to do with Mozilla? Unless Mozilla is encouraging the use of local models, they are just encouraging the development of the same technology that has gotten us into this trouble in the first place. Maybe they should continue the work that meta started -- support development/use of open models of AI and guarantee the AI feature will be completely sandboxed in useful ways.
- People don't want AI passively lurking in the background extracting behavioral data yet this is the model they are aiming for, or at least gravitating towards repeatedly.
I also don't need / don't want it's manipulative presence around.
Not to be paranoid, but it's not just about browsers, that's just the most convenient place we've gotten started with this sort of mass surveillance (and control) architecture.
- Seriously? Immigration is to blame for antivax rhetoric and influence?
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/211216/dq211...
Stats show that immigrants have high levels of immunization.
- But you can make more money. And if you don't, then it's crime against the fiduciary.
- > Anyone repackaging ChatGPT’s output as fit for a specialized purpose is scamming their customers.
This is genuinely hilarious given what LLMs are.
- Yeah, not totally surprised. As in the other thread, this feature set was a pretty obvious outcome. But you have to implement it well. It doesn't look particularly well done. Probably slow, no pinch, etc...
I'm not sure what model you are talking about, maybe the S60, third edition. It is hard to get any background on it.
I'd like to say that companies missed out on the fact that a web browser would be really sellable, but it's clearly all about tying everyone to their platform, and more importantly their store.
- Advanced capabilities were truly depressing. Better hardware would have helped a lot, but given how poor Android trundled(s?) along, I'm inclined to agree that only someone with a strong vision was going to execute it as well as Steve did.
It's strange to think it was only 4 years after the initial release that he died.
- A bouncing ball is elastic. There is some loss in the process of storing the energy from the movement into the ball and then releasing it into the opposite direction. Good example though!
- The iPhone was the first really well done general purpose computing phone. It had a real web browser, a real music player, apps that didn't suck. Adoption was huge because the design was great, but we would have just seen the same thing transpire over a number of years if iPhone hadn't been created.
I know a lot of people basically who were basically saying "finally"
- What sorts of token/s are you getting with qwen/gemma?
- What sorts of token/s are you getting with each model?
- The last funding approved was passed through reconciliation with zero democrats. There is no “voting for funding they supported in the past” that spending plan is gone
- Wait, you got the Covid vaccine, it reduced your symptoms, and your conclusion was "I should have skipped it?"
Oh! Yknow that thing we were charging you $200 a month for now? We're going to start charging you for the value we provide, and it will now be $5,000 a month.
Meanwhile, the metrics for "value" are completely gamed.