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https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2024/01/29/da... has some actual data on use. A recent analysis in Joule, an energy journal, suggests that at the r…

Is running things in batch mode also cheaper? I don't see it, but it would be a nice way for OpenAI to smooth out their demand

What? Not using LLMs or an expensive cloud based API?

Oops. This estimating centuries is harder than I thought

Article starts with: > How, a century ago, radical freethinkers quietly and persistently subverted Scotland’s Christian establishment But then goes on to talk about 1840, which is more two centurie…

That's one explanation. The other is women just have to be better to survive the CS education so if they do, they are going to be better than average. Certainly true for a bunch of female SWEs I …

The article makes some good points, but at the same time, hiring somebody to built the first version of your product is maybe even harder. Especially if you don't have a technical background it i…

The examples in the article are rather cherry-picked. Failures in Vietnam can hardly be blamed on an IBM 360 only. The Hamas attack might have surprised Israel but the Iron Dome has been tech working …

Can anybody point me to a better introduction into organoid intelligence? This all looks important and interesting, but this article seems to be all over the place. Turing test and CAPTCHA are not ver…

> Then as now, the internet’s truly big business came from revenues connected to gambling and pornography This is an idea you hear quite often, but seems very unlikely to be actually true. Internet…

thank you

are there any screen shots from before this? This is interesting, but it feels like it is only the last half of a post

Inflation was about 0.5% and dividend yield around 1% so it's still up

This is speculation, but this doesn't have to be all that unreasonable: Since OP had only 15% it doesn't seem likely that this was a "The Social Network" style trick to actively sc…

re 1) Europe is surrounded by a large body of water -> that is true for many continents. In fact being surrounded by water is what defines a continent. Arguably Europe less so since it and Asia are…

Two posts below is YC's request for startups. #5 is: DEVELOPER TOOLS INSPIRED BY EXISTING INTERNAL TOOLS

Interesting read, but then suddenly there's this passive aggressive paragraph: Apple stock has taken a beating as of late, in part because analysts have loudly proclaimed that the company is behi…

Hmm, the article body says: the accumulated technical debt of software has grown to approximately $1.52 trillion So that's the total technical debt, not the cost (interest if you will) of that de…

ad 3) If the claim of Chomsky (followers) is that you can only learn human language if you have the universal grammar, then the discovery of a system that learns human languages without such a grammar…

Quite interesting that Turing thought 125MB would be all it would take to reach AGI. To him it must have seemed such a large amount of storage