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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Standard_Oi...
This was a fascinating read. It’s been a few years since I finished but gives about the most thorough analysis you’ll find.
Not an essay but you can probably find an ai to summarize it for you.
- It’s interesting, I’m trying to use it to create a themed collage by providing a few images and it does that wonderfully, but in the process it is also hallucinating the images I use so I end up with weird distorted faces. Other tools can do this without issue, but something about faces in images this model just has to modify them every time. Ask it to remove background objects and the faces get distorted as well.
Using it for non-people involved images and it’s pretty good although I haven’t done much and it isn’t doing anything 2.5-flash wasn’t already doing in the same amount of requests.
- Well all the Uber/Lyft drivers have led light bars mounted on their Prius’ now so the class warfare is well underway I suppose.
- Maybe it’s an overcorrection because the Tacoma I had, a couple years older than yours, had auto high beams and they would just stay on all the time. They only turned off from reflecting on road signs or when a car was only a few lengths away approaching. Quickly found the button to disable that feature.
The feature seems to be poorly implemented by all manufacturers. I see Teslas driving around flashing high beams every night because they trigger on/off really quickly and the drivers seem oblivious to the rapid change.
- Wow so the polymarket insider bet was true then..
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1oz6gjp/new...
- > On another note, heard on Bloomberg today that they've been working on GTA 6 for 10 years at this point.
It’s incredible to think about what else has happened during these past 10 years of development. Or think about other decade long stretches and what was accomplished.
Not cutting short what the undertaking of this is, just that the scale of this project spanning a decade is fascinating.
- FB seems to have figured it out finally and their stock took a huge hit for the investment of infra. Also, despite being behind in sota models and huge human capital investments for research, I believe they are benefiting greatly from oai and the likes.
Every image/video/text post on a meta app is essentially subsidized by oai/gemini/anthropic as they are all losing money on inference. Meta is getting more engagement and ad sales through these subsidized genai image content posts.
Long term they need to catch up and training/inference costs need to drop enough such that each genai post costs less than net profit on the ads but they’re in a great position to bridge the gap.
The end of all of this is ad sales. Google and Meta are still the leaders of this. OpenAI needs a social engagement platform or it is only going to take a slice of Google.
- Amazon still does this. The customers aren’t saas companies in the bay though. It’s militaries, and they’re sent to FOBs.
- The answer to bad AI results from businesses won’t be, let’s forget about AI and instead hire back all those 6 figure programmers.
Instead it will be just as it is has been for years, let’s send this (in this case) AI generated data to Malaysia or Bangladesh and have them clean it up and then bill it as perfect AI solution.
These people in poorer nations have been cleaning data for ML and AI for years. It’s just adding another loop back in.
- For now anyways. There’s a lot of effort being placed into putting up guardrails to make the model respond based on instructions and not deviate. I remember the crazy agents.md files that came out from I believe Anthropic with repeated instructions on how to respond. Clearly it’s a pain point they want to fix.
Once that is resolved then guiding the model to only recommend or mention specific brands will flow right in.
- Mexico has a huge network of importers for doing exactly this and it predates both administrations.
The invoicing system there is highly gamed and corrupt (not that anywhere isn’t).
All of this tariffing has created a lot of new opportunities for businesses who operate in grey areas.
- I work for a PMA and as such my agency has undergone drastic layoffs and total hiring freezes as a result of DOGE and the current administration. If we were falling behind before, wait and see how things look in a few more years if this doesn’t change. The avg age of my coworkers is probably late 50s and that seems to be common all around. It was already hard to recruit for a job that is severely underpaid can’t imagine what the future holds.
Of course Heritage Foundation has been publishing articles about why our power markets need to be privatized since at least the 80s. They hate that we sell electric at-cost to Americans. So if the federally controlled power markets fall to privatization expect to really be paying to catch up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Marketing_Administration
- If it is all a waste and a bubble, I wonder what the long term impact will be of the infrastructure upgrades around these dcs. A lot of new HV wires and substations are being built out. Cities are expanding around clusters of dcs. Are they setting themselves up for a new rust belt?
- What is out of reach for me is space to perform the hobbies.
I have welders, metal and woodworking equipment, 3d printers, auto mechanic tools, etc and years of experience and knowledge and interest in building stuff. But I have only a tiny garage to work from. I don’t really have room to do much so it feels like waste.
I’ve looked into renting a small shop but Seattle is so expensive that renting even a one car sized shop space is prohibitively expensive for a hobby (for my income level).
I’m sure I could turn a profit with my work on the side but then it’s a job and you have monthly overhead expenses to cover and all the stresses that come from that.
What is even the actionable step to take? Make more money? That usually comes with less time unfortunately. Moving away to somewhere I can afford a larger workshop at home was the plan until return to office happened for me.
- Welders, millwrights, machinists, carpenters, lots of trades have qualifying interviews. I’ve taken written exams in interviews for machining and welding as well as hands on show me parts.
Not that I agree with absurd interview process of software development but they often see themselves more akin to attorneys than tradesmen. The difference being attorneys have to pass a bar exam and even trades have journeyman cards to provide credibility.
Software development has none of that. Real engineering has PE licenses but how do you achieve that in such a broadly scoped field of software development?
We either play the interview game or find a way around it.
- I work for a major utility and they used to run everything on mainframe and cobol but that went away long before I started programming. My coworker is nearing retirement, around 30 years here, and he started on cobol and worked on transitioning off. He has some really fun stories but my point being, the tales of cobol prevalence are very exaggerated. Maybe some parts of finance are still using it, not my area.
- After a bad shooting night in an elimination game between NBA teams Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors, Klay Thompson did not score a single point. This led to an outpouring of comments about all the bricks he put up. AI interpreted it a little different.
Mirror:
Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree
In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear.
image: https://imgur.com/a/uk0dNv3
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I switched over to consulting/contracting so I don’t have the visibility like they do, but my work is heavily dependent on llms. However I don’t see it wiping out the industry but rather making people more efficient.
They have much more robust tooling though around their llms and internal products that have automated much of their workflows which is I believe where the concern is coming from. They can see first hand how much of their job has turned into reviewing outputs and feeding outputs into other tools. A shift in skills but not fully automated solution yet.
It’s hard to gauge where things are going and where we’ll be in 5 years. If we only get incremental improvements there’s still huge gains to be made in building out tooling ecosystems to make this all better.
What does that look like for new college grads though? How much of this is really computer science if you are only an llm consumer?