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They did the decent thing with the Versa and refunded everybody.

Okay bro.

They’re not going to support legacy pebble by any chance?

You can’t really call it a pro-piracy message though.

Of course not. That would probably infringe on advertising standards. But it is the clear implication.

Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music

If I’m remembering right, the tagline on the Mac mini was “rip mix burn”

It’s not a big secret. I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in Chris Pratt’s recent adaptation…

I was suggesting that website hosting isn’t a particularly hard problem with no moat. European customers could go literally anywhere.

“American website hosting companies are disproportionately exposed to market shock from their European customers”

Yes they don’t call it AI

Successful product though, wasn't it

If you can call being an “also ran” in a field they had a ten year march on their competitors in success, yeah.

Truth be told it was the shoddy code they were forced to use for the vanity of their paymaster might well have held them back, though manifestly that is not a bad thing. Probably the best outcome, really.

In so far as AI can do hardware reliably you can bet your bottom dollar the big chip fabs have already been doing that. They don’t call it AI though and the models aren’t language based, surprisingly enough /s

I think a lot of European nations have been reevaluating their relationship with the US. Digital sovereignty in particular is a burning topic.

I agree with everything you have written here, however even in the face of that it makes “economic” sense for the EU to wait it out.

no balls and no vision

Seems to me they’re waiting it out. Everything could change in a presidential election and the European economy wins either way. It is an economic bloc after all.

What you describe would be what’s called “cutting off your nose to spite your face”

The concern is not so much that the US will lose friends moreso that other business partners will become more prominent. The US has a lot of social capital to burn. I’m not certain that somebody hasn’t calculated how much they can get away with…

Sounds right

When an engine stalls, the implication is that the chain reaction that drives it is failing - I don’t think that is the case with a GPU as it will quite happily sit there drawing watts til you give it things. In systems nomenclature the inverse term for bubble is utilisation. This or that link is or node is using x% of its capacity. Indeed, if you monitor your GPU with nvidia-smi you will see that very term in the instrumentation.

The term I would use would be “underutilised”

I totally struggled to find the right frame of mind to explore any of this stuff without feeling defeated and bamboozled.

I found LM studio to be a nice starting point. Frindlier and more featureful than Ollama and not as intimidating as llama.cpp (though you will want to use that eventually)

Spent a week trying to get sensible results out of llama 3.3 At one point it even simulated doing the work, log output and everything and when I challenged it about the missing artefacts it actually started questioning my intelligence. Seems appropriate for a Zuck enterprise.

Qwen on the other hand got straight to work with astonishing competency on the same system.

From what I read llama3 needs beefier compute to reliably invoke tools, which I presume relates to it focussing more on simulating AGI rather than being a useful tool.

51% shareholding he’s free to make all the mistakes he wants

You're just looking for the study of rhetoric.

I presume you mean, that what I and others is observing is patterns in mere rhetoric. That this is just unimportant window dressing around the actual problem solving.

Yet, generation of rhetoric seems to be one of the key usecases, and one of the key features that makes this technology seem “intelligent”.

It’s TOS for using ebdpoint. It says:

access is provided under condition you respect these restrictions

You are not obliged to honour this. It is not enforceable so it seems strange.

Browsers enforce it, but it can be turned off and nobody expects it to be implemented by a simple REST client application.

It’s a gentleman’s agreement. It’s a statement of expectation to the browser. On the one hand it may be for the protection of the browser user, from cross site attacks, and from malicious code on the web.

But crucially it provides little protection for the endpoints themselves bar accidental misuse.

It is very unusual and rare example of “cooperative” security in a web that’s frequently so adversarial.

And that’s what makes it hard to grasp.

It does not. Sometimes it will spawn a mess of ad hoc python, sometimes it will do curl and sed, and very very occasionally it will use the correct tool for the job if it remembers to use the skill you developed in the previous session.

Determinism is a desirable property for software, yes, and its lack thereof from LLM’s is a common complaint, but often a feature depending on who you ask. There is an element of randomness, “hotness” that is central to who LLM work but the pattern we see here manifesting reveals the deterministic processes below, but I don’t think you could rely on this technology to be deterministic, if that’s what you wanted.

I suspect there are new invariants emerging. We don’t know what they are and we will probably have to reach into the liberal arts to describe them but to me what you’re seeing is akin to the subatomic world exposing itself through diffraction patterns.

They have trackers in the Euros so they can track you across state lines /s

I wonder what the additional power draw of these features would be. Parenthetically, I wonder often about the energy impact of all these HTTPS localhost links, and is there a point where defense-in-depth has to give way to other concerns?

But yeah 95% of the consumer market don't care about this and it's only adding unnecessary costs

Just whitelist the caller ID and have the originating network guarantor

The second part is the hard part and requires coordination

It wouldn’t be expensive or especially hard to do but there is no payoff for the network. Remember they make money off scam calls too

Since as long as I can remember these organisations have been optimised for profit, not for GAF and that’s why they’re being savaged by regulation and OTT competitors now

There has been no market forces compelling them to do this and until recently when it got really bad, no political or regulatory forces

tl;dr na bro

It still exists? Like Java still exists