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Womble

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  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • It wont be Nvidia unless they play things incredibly badly, they're the only ones making actual profit by selling shovels in the goldrush.

  • An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit

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  • Mining raw resources that are more easily availabe on asteroids than on earth seems like the most likely candidate. There are metalic asteroids that have significant quantities of valuable metals like gold, titanium, iridium etc.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings

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  • Not only that, but if they do engage in "DEI activities" (definition not included) then they reserve the right to take back the entire grant and and previous money the python foundation had recieved from them in the past. Its a total poison pill, and if this sort of language is widespread in government grants its going to completly gut research in the USA.

  • Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week

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  • If we are, then I entirely misinterpreted them.

    On re-reading it seems like thats quite possible! The first and second line seem to agree with me but the third is taking the opposite postion though so who knows.

  • Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week

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  • Are we on the same website? Lemmy as a rule hates AI with a blind passion and will downvote anything that isnt frothing at the mouth hatred of it. Hence the downvotes on this post, people see it has AI in the title and isnt calling it slop or saying its cooking the planet and so it gets downvoted.

  • OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas

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  • The killer feature for other AI-powered browsers has been the built-in chatbot that sits in a side panel and automatically has context for whatever’s on your screen. It may sound minor, but many users spend all day copying and pasting text or dragging files and links into ChatGPT, just to provide context. The sidecar feature removes that friction and makes for a smoother user experience.

    Really sounds like exactly what you'd want be focusing on if you were the leading AI company and are on the verge of AGI just like you promised... Just think, people might save a dozen ctrl-c ctrl-v keystrokes a day!

  • AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say

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  • Name recognition, and the fact that no one will blame you for picking the most popular option if things all go wrong.

  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • Assuming you are just a regular person using Windows, you are not their customer, at best you're a handy side revenue stream and data source. Their actual customers are giant enterprises who are actively trying to fire people and smaller business locked into their ecosystem by needeing to interact with other businesses (who are also locked into their ecosystem).

  • Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World

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  • I'm not even sure that IP being owned by non-natural persons is the problem, for example I could see a coop collectively owning copyrights/patents relevant to their work. The problem is the frankly ridiculous amount of time granted for copyrights and obvious methods being patented.

    Change both of those and you keep the benefit of innovative individuals/small groups having legal protection from large corporations muscling in and stealing their work and get rid of most of the damage done by the current system.

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  • You do accept that bad software has been written, yes? and that some of that software is performing important functions? So how is saying "It needs to be written better in the first place" of any use at all when discussing legacy software?

  • TIL I'm in the top 5% of drinkers in the US. Whoo!

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  • You're misinterpreting the graph. That graph is number of drinks per day the OP's post was 5 in one day at any time in the past month or 15 over a week. 15/week is ~2 a day on everage which is at the threshhold of unmodified risk based on that graph.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • No you spouted some stuff about "trust me I've seen it" (almost certainly relating to using single floats) then an irrelevant tangent about how ten doesnt divde cleanly into three and how thats a problem for floats, when you have exactly the same problem with fixed point/integer division.

    Do you have an actual example of where double precission floats would cause an issue? Preferably an example that could be run to demonstrate it.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • And so instead of explain why and clarify any misunderstanding you chose to snarkily insult my intelligence, very mature.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • I fail to see a difference there, 10.0/3 = 3.33333333333 which you round down to 3.33 (or whatever fraction of a cent you are using) as you say for all accounts then have to deal with the leftovers, if you are using a fixed decimal as the article sugests you get the same issue, if you are using integer fractions of a cent, say milicents you get 1000000/3 = 333333 which gives you the exact same rounding error.

    This isnt a problem with the representation of numbers its trying to split a quantity into unequal parts using division. (And it should be noted the double is giving the most accurate representation of 10/3 dollars here, and so would be most accurate if this operation was in the middle of a series of calcuations rather than about to be immediately moving money).

    As I said before, doubles probably arent the best way to handle money if you are dealing with high volumes of or complex transactions, but they are not the waiting disaster that single floats are and using a double representation then converting to whole cents when you need to actually move real money (like a sale) is fine.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • You are underestimating how precice doubles are. Summing up one million doubles randomly selected from 0 to one trillion only gives a cumulative rounding error of ~60, that coud be one million transactions with 0-one billion dollars with 0.1 cent resolution and ending up off by a total of 6 cents. Actually it would be better than that as you could scale it to something like thousands or millions of dollars to keep you number ranger closer to 1.

    Sure if you are doing very high volumes you probably dont want to do it, but for a lot of simple cases doubles are completely fine.

    Edit: yeah using the same million random numbers but dividing them all by 1000 before summing (so working in kilodollars rather than dollars) gave perfect accuracy, no rounding errors at all after one million 1e-3 to 1e9 double additions.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • Single floats sure, but doubles give plenty of accuracy unless you absolutely need zero error.

    For example geting 1000 random 12 digit ints, multiplying them by 1e9 as floats, doing pairwise differences between them and summing the answers and dividing by 1e9 to get back to the ints gives a cumulative error of 1 in 10^16. assuming your original value was in dollars thats roughly 0.001cent in a billion dollar total error. That's going deliberately out of the way to make transactions as perverse as possible.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • The post I was replying to was saying

    people will stop using it for all the things they're currently using it for

    They will when AI companies can no longer afford to eat their own costs and start charging users a non-subsidized price.

    i.e. people will stop using AI when user have to pay the "real" price (what this is is left unspecified and an exercise to the reader to figure out). My point was that even if the AI price from those provided to infinity AI usage wouldnt drop to zero like they imply.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • There are free open models you can go and download right now, that are better than SOTA 12-18 months ago, and that cost you less to run on a gaming PC than playing COD does. Even if openai, anthropic et al disappeared without a trace tomorrow AI wouldnt go away.

  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • Quantum entangled communications that are impossible to evesdrop on exist now, cloud computing is the money machine that allows Amazon to keep expanding, virtualisation is used by effectively every company using computers at scale. (blockchain, I'll admit, was pretty much all hype and vapourware other than laundering drug money and allowing speculation)

    Just because there is marketing hype around a term doesnt mean there isnt anything of value there.