I have been on a lecture from great government IT person, they are evaluating models and are very unhappy about the situation, because they’d love to use Mistral, in some cases it’s the only EU based model they can use … and they know it’s really bad and falling more behind.
It is well possible that Mistral can make a profitable business by being bad, but still the only possible model for EU uses. Sad story, sad to witness.
“Just get an EV” is the “let them eat cake” in disguise.
If I had a house and could charge EV at home, and had 1-2 kids, I might consider Tesla.
Public charging has iterated roughly to what gasoline costs (because that’s what people are willing to pay), and once you need 5 full seats, there is just a handful of options, and they (eg. Kia EV9) easily costs 3x more than lightly used MPV of a same size.
I'm not entirely sold on this idea, open source models aren't really hurting Deepseek or Qwens bottom line.
99.99% of people cannot run these models on their own hardware, they are forced to rent it from someone. That someone is almost always the big China players themselves anyways.
First, there’s manyyyy model inference providers out there world wide. Just look at open router. Second, it’s well known in SV that most startups are using Chinese models because they have access to the weights… and that makes it far cheaper.
Calling them American owned models implies some sort of public ownership. These are models controlled by individuals whose benefits are absolutely not uniformly shared among the populace.
I mean FFS a single hyper scale datacenter can provide free school lunches for a year. Something tells me the economic output of making sure children are fed is way higher than whether Zuckerberg can own another Hawaiian island by allowing people to be scammed by LLMs.
Not really, it’s a pretty common way to address companies that are part of a bigger geopolitical story. The press will happily refer to Chinese models, European when talking about Mistral, Canadian with Cohere… etc.
I’m an American person yet I’m not public property.
The implication is that American models winning would actually benefit Americans. That's not going to happen at all and talking about as if China "winning" would harm Americans is delusional cold war thinking at best.
>As of at least 2023, there is no academic consensus on the effect of resource abundance on economic development[4]
Interesting. Do Japanese, and now Dutch, planners think they are free of the resource blessing?
[4] Alssadek, Marwan; Benhin, James (2023). "Natural resource curse: A literature survey and comparative assessment of regional groupings of oil-rich countries".
>For instance, the oil sector frequently
requires technical solutions to improve offshore oil drilling. This might
create positive knowledge externalities to support other sectors. If these
sectors trade with the oil boom sector in the economy, then
learning-by-doing spill-overs in the overall economy are expected. In
this scenario, the implications of the Dutch disease would not be evident,
and natural resources may in fact be a blessing rather than a curse.
the newly elected president criticized foundational research saying it doesn't "turn into jobs" and instead "ends up in an expensive book abandoned in a library".
That isn't the Dutch Disease, it's anti-intellectualism. It is where Pol Pots come from eventually, and it never leads anywhere good.
Pinochet was a garden variety kleptocrat and villain, not an ideologue. Where Milei falls remains to be determined.
edit: also no reason to make this thread deeper, but you seem to be missing the idea that I am insulting Pinochet. He didn't do it for any reason other than power and money. That is worse. For whatever reason, you appear to think I have views I do not, and are assuming the worst of my replies. I will not reply further.
You seem to be confusing Chile and Argentina. Milei is president of Argentina, not Chile. The new president of Chile is José Kast. I suspect the substance of your comment is unaffected by this, however.
Funny, and here I was thinking that neoliberal authoritarianism, Cold War anti-communism, and neofascism were all ideologies. But I guess it's only ideology if the bad guy was propped up by the USSR or the PRC?
What I missed in analysis is that service sold isn't "selling your bandwidth to a highest bidder" - it's an universal binary delivery system, so if someone would pay more for eg. binary that explores your network and installs btc miner or password stealer on all unsecured devices, then that's what you'll get.
I am trying to do the same, and I absolutely don't understand what is happening in the 3-5 seconds while two gigahertz-level machines and a modern monitor negotiate something over tens-gigabit-per-second connection.
If Steve Jobs herded makers of all the parts into a single room, and told them they aren't leaving until this takes 10 ms, I would be immensely grateful and I bet it could be resolved in a week.
The very fact that it is a tens-gigabit-per-second connection in an environment full of RF noise (we all love our high powered switching power supplies) makes it hard to get a reliable signal instantly. Still shouldn't take longer than a few hundred ms though (worst case).
The pretty generic TV I use a a monitor apparently keeps the links up with its three inputs, at least for a while after recent use, so switching between two powered computers is quick, about half a second. I started using that rather than a KVM since the KVM caused a retrain, adding several seconds to switching.
A pox specifically on my otherwise delightful samsung OLED, which immediately upon any sort of disconnect event (say, changing the resolution, or restarting the machine) decides to spend 10-15 seconds slow-scanning every other possible input. Exactly none of which have a physical cable attached, and exactly zero of which have ever been used once.
What the devil is taking so long? I'm sure there's some technical reason that the check isn't more instant, but gosh it is frustrating every damned time.
My Acer Predator can disable that option. The downside is specifically for MacOS, the Mac often gives up trying to sync before the monitor has finished its side of things, and since the Acer has a non-configurable, extremely short auto-power-off, so the two get into a death loop.
This frustrates me too, switching takes even longer than 5 seconds for me. I use an external KVM switch (with a physical button) and I run a laptop via a ThinkPad docking station, so two more devices in my case.
For real. So many things do this. I'm particularly frustrated with Bluetooth. Why does it take multiple seconds for two devices to send a minuscule amount of rf data when connecting over known mac?
Probably debouncing, when anything/any events happen, you have to ask yourself, did this event truly happens, or just some weird glitch and can safely ignore it.
Yep. I am pleased to say that after over a decade of development and high tens of billions USD in costs, Siri can finally play Knights of Cydonia in Youtube Music at a first try. "That Queen song from Sonic hedgehog movie" will probably need another 20-50 billion $ and I am happy to let Ternus spend it.
Useful support agents = can do things user doesn’t have permission for = are a vulnerable attack vector.
Or they don’t have permission and are just glorified KB search.
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