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this doesnt even capture it.

cars are a final product. beyond a basic threshold they dont influence other products, their quality or cost structure.

this is different.

all software, and everything that depends on software, will be enshittified into trabis and ladas once the idiot west starts "building the wall".

as a developer, techie or just a modern person, the only response to this is to get out while you still can, like east germans in 1950s.

this gets reheated over and over…

look at the study period.

hiit is not sustainable beyond a brief period. by definition you can only do a limited amount of high intensity before you get cooked.

what you really want is periodization and looking over long periods and aggregate volumes

typical western main character syndrome

running potentially sota open-weight models locally only became a thing in fall 2023.

if a hardware cycle takes ~3 years then fall 2026 would be the first possible device generation where apple exploits its advantage with the unified ram architecture.

more realistically, spring 2027, since they probably also needed some time to make up their minds to lean into that on the top end.

that`s also how i would interpret the recent rumors on m6 and m7.

naturally, the cooling and all that will be optimized around that.

so the first devices that are actually intended and designed for this use case will come at the earliest this fall and more likely in q1/q2 next year.

you are basically paying the price now to be on the bleeding (sweating) edge

obviously

the qn is if it will be what china wants and needs

more likely something better or more suited to the ecosystem in china will emerge

I can skim code quite quickly

are you by any chance hyperlexic? interested to hear more about this, like how fast is considered fast

i just realized that i could sell my (almost to the day) year old mac mini for a profit

that never happened before :)))

what i would like is a tool where it can listen and check my pronunciation, rather than me listening

on macos, you can also just set a timer on the Clock app that comes for free on macos.

i use a 47 min timer to remind me of getting up and shaking out and a tiny Keyboard Maestro macro to set or cancel it with a hotkey.

once it runs, there is a timer in the menu bar.

totally sufficient

independently successful albeit in a completely unrelated field

what field?

steve hsu?

transitioned from my OmniOutliner 3(!) based system last year finally to modern macOS and obsidian.

1 year later, with no js/ts skills at all, i got 10 custom plugins, several forks where i fixed bugs and some custom adapations, dozens of scripts and snippets and what not

Now obsidian works for me like I want, and still every day I use it Im still in awe

It is a bit hard to describe until I make a video but basically I seem to have changed the fundamental unit from a document to a chunk and it is just awesome

none of which would have been possible without AI

he didnt create anything

i predict you are going to have a very hard rest of your life, trying to cope with reality or reconcile what you see with what you "think"

tant pis

what part of they are chinese citizens was hard for you to understand?

at 6k you can get 128 gb RAM so you can use bigger models

Go hiking.

And drop the "the". It`s cleaner.

Why would I need a medical doctor to write things down in a journal?

no, it got plenty of traction before it got suppressed/censored/"flagged"

never was

it was always BS

now everybody can see

thats the only difference

I’d love an estimate from you (or anyone) about the marginal effect on the profession’s “care” (which is what? and how’s it measured?) from having the prize include Nobel’s name vs. not including it.

Since you stand by your statement so strongly, you should have it already, correct?

the CCP explicitly considers themselves Marxism-Leninism with and their internal beliefs and government structure is structurally follows that.

they consider themselves Communist. They do not consider us Communist.

And you know all this because of your deep study, in the original language of course, of the CPC, their internal factions, and the collected writings in their leading policy journals, I assume, yes?

Or dare I even ask did you get this from some 250 word limit editorial in the "wall street journal"?

Touché :)

This is a persistent mythology of western economic history to "cleanwash" the past and "explain" the present inequality (or what was the present until recently)

Think about the components of all those innovations from the past and if they would have been possible (to scale) without violent and forcible extraction of resources from around the globe, incl forced labor.

Think about when GDP was constructed and how, and from which point stuff got counted into it (ie from which point in the production chain it added to a country´s gdp). If you take raw materials X and Y from somewhere, by force and for cheap, then make sth like a out of it and only count that topline, now you have a big gdp, congrats.

Eg even the "US" was not even "settled" (forcible land expansion) until the late 19th or early 20th century. So you have a steady influx of cheap/free land to support a growing population that keeps adding to the "gdp". Lo and behold, soon after this dynamic stopped, financial bubble and bust ensues.

The main lesson for me is that progress and growth are completely separate things/concepts. You can absolutely progress without "growing" (bloating) your gdp, if you change some things. You can absolutely regress while "growing" (bloating) your gdp. Look at "US" today.

Chicken are coming home to roost. This is why first instinct of Trump and his cohorts is now to expand again "US" borders. Go back to extraction to "grow", since they are institutionally and mentally incapable of progress without extraction. More importantly, without "growth" the system as it is will collapse. It behaves like a cancer that has close to killed its host. It´s over, and anyone who can see knows it on some level.

Have you tried SolveIt (method, tool) from Jeremy Howard yet?

I was in the first batch last year where they introduced it and going to do the second one too.

It´s a very different kind of beast to what is currently being discussed.

I participated in the first batch and am not a shill, look through my comment history.

The dismissive comments here pain me as Ive seen them work hard on this over the last year as they integrated many of our feature requests and built out the platform. I’ve also had time to let the ideas sink in.

You definitely cant hang back and expect some magic ai to do all the work for you.

I also cant say „you will definitely benefit“ since everybody is difft.

But i can honestly say it‘s the real deal, no ifs and buts.

Considering how the folks at answer.ai have been using (successive versions of) it to build this tool itself and judging by student projects and showcases, it definitely goes beyond exploratory. You can build big stuff with it.

Personally I’m using it to learn the whole fastai ecosystem.

As someone who participated in the first cohort but is not part of their team, i would say it’s a programming environment for AI assisted literate programming.

It’s like an intelligent notebook. That means you could use this for many different things but at least to me the high order bit is „AI assisted literate programming“

Maybe you should look a bit more into the folks who made this before dissing their work like this.

the next mac pro (presumably next mar/apr) is the first that comes a full 3-year product cycle after ai hype started.

therefore I expect that mac pro (and in similar vein mac studio) will be repositioned as ai/ml dev machine, with apple leaning into their lucky strike of UMA fit with modern requirements.

my bet is m5 extreme exclusive to mac pro and 1 tb possibly even 2 tb ram, and mac studio limited to m5 ultra and 1 tb ram on the high ends.

but thats not based on rumors or "news" of any sort, just from logic extrapolated if i were in apple shoes