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I'm paraphasing but the Chinese premier said recently AI should be seen as a common good that should benefit everyone.

AI model providers have zero "moat", clients change them as they see fit. This week ChatGPT, next week Claude. The real value is and going to be in hardware - as long as China doesn't enter the GPU/RAM race.

I increasingly see AI investment, generally speaking, as a lost cause. It has very little chance to pay off.

Masters, or even a PhD might be the play long-term, as software is very likely to become even more commoditized than it is now. A Master degree (even in a non-computing field) or a computing-adjacent PhD might give you expert knowledge required for a field to remain in computing until you decide to retire.

I don't know how high paying it is, although I can see how it can be, especially given there is a shortage of watchmakers in the developed world, even in Switzerland.

My friend told me when he visited India that they repair everything over there: it's a beautiful thing IMO

It somehow reminded me of this: (How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38

Life of Brian is banned from public screening in parts of Germany on Good Friday. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23227452

We'll see if we ever get something like that in Spain. I guess not, fireworks are just too deep in the culture here.

Fallas festival in Valencia is not your thing then. But at least I realized why there is an audiologist on every corner.

Well that was the peak of the kickstarter era, tons of wearables and new projects. You know, like Pebble

That's really cool honestly. This took me back to around 2017 when everyone was into hardware startups.

This trope is very widely documented in Russian literature, in fact it's one of the "corner truth" of Russian existence.

Checkov, Gogol, Pushkin and Dostoyevsky all wrote novels with this exact plot, because it was so lifelike and tangible for all Russians (Soviets) to understand. If you're interested, check out The Bronze Horseman, The Overcoat, or Poor Folk.

Loosely related

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/06/why-so-many-top-hackers-...

Exactly why starlink's business was viable.

Also Spain followed the Swiss model, with a twist. The line was laid by telefonica/movistar, everyone rents from them. You can normally get at least 1Gbps at any residential location (often even rural ones if at least a few houses are clumped together).

I am deeply surprised by the silence of philosophers, sociologists, liberal arts majors, economists. Where are the think tanks who contemplate and debate the societal aspects? The tech is advancing full steam but the "other side" doesn't feel anywhere nearly ready.

At some point it's going to plateau, maybe already has. Then they will switch to FPGA/ASIC-based model-specific hardware for lower consumption. I'm pretty sure the "space data centers" won't use GPUs, they are not radiation-tolerant whereas FPGAs can be.

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/gemma-4-on-cerebras-the-fastest...

They have to, but also everyone working at 3D printing companies thought "industry 4.0" is going to completely override everything, we are going to print housing and going to print a mug at home and drink coffee out of it.

Today's news that Amazon is hiring 11k interns. I think part of the AI story was used as a convenient excuse to get rid of some "fat" and some covid overhiring and gave companies an out to change course.

I don't doubt that, however they seem to have approx. 500 of these chargers across China.

What's up with the knee-jerk hate on EU lately?

The real competition has 1MW charging. BYD has installed some of these chargers in Europe recently. It's really interesting to see the battery charge go up in real time.

Unfortunately the local llm bunch is not the most emphatetic one in my experience: you are somehow "expected" to immediately know all this stuff and god forbid you ask the wrong question. I've never seen or felt this level of bullying and weird vibes over tools and LLM models. "My setup works for you or beat it".

For the most part you can just download LM Studio and go from there. It provides a chat interface and an easy-to-use interface to browse, load and use LLM models. The engine: it is abstracted away by LM Studio, if you want to dig deep it's llama.cpp as the runtime. Weights are the files what you download, they are the models for practical purposes.

I'd say give it some time for the dust to settle. This field badly needs standardized benchmarks even before the conversation around model goodness can start.

Oh definitely. I've seen GLM 5.2 go for around $4 per million output tokens.

This is the first Qwen fine-tune that is not immediately rejected by the local LLM community, and in some cases even being recommended. Based on my limited usage, it is good, gives creative solutions to coding problems. I don't expect 9-35B models to one-click create full apps. Most people who were complaining did so .

Yes, I believe it stems from the tankards having lids back in the day, which is due to the belief that plague-ridden flies could fly into your beer, and also against "night air". Interestingly some Germans still believe "moving air" (well, draft) is unhealthy, especially from an AC, and the cold air is what makes you sick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory

UK has probably the worst healthcare in the developed world. In part perhaps due to UK blindly accepting any kind of medical degree (doctors and nurses) from all over the globe. Yes, you heard that right, they verify the validity of the degree but there is no formal standardized exam to sit to practice in the UK.

That works in your case because you likely already have an analytical mindset, can reliably discard or research information further. Same thing why AI is in an enabler for people having already some skill. But it can be very dangerous or misleading for people blindly believing all output.

True, for example in Switzerland you can't really get melatonin, even if you do it costs an absurd amount (like 100 chf). Doctors seem to be really against it in Switzerland.