This is not new knowledge and predates the current LLM fad.

See the Hutter prize which has had “machine learning” based compressors leading the ranking for some time: http://prize.hutter1.net/

It’s important to note when applied to compressors, the model does produce a code (aka encoding) that exactly reproduces the input. But on a different input the same model is unlikely to produce an impressive compression.

Everything’s computer

I feel like this could be a Columbo episode

Name and shame the brand!

Maplibre (https://maplibre.org/) offers a beautiful open source solution. There are affordable open source solutions for OSM base maps too (https://github.com/protomaps/basemaps), where you can host the whole thing as a single static file.

No one should be paying Google per API key :)

True, but they were still resource constrained, which might be why they ended up with a model with lower resource requirements.

Smiling on the outside…

Should be a nice salary boost for developers in a year or two when all these companies desperately need to rehire to fix whatever AI slop mess they have created.

And I hope every developer demands 2x their current salary if they are tasked with re-engineering that crap.

Those mega corporations have intentionally misused the term “algorithm” which implies an unbiased method of ranking or sorting. What they are actually using is more like a human curated list of items to promote that supports their self serving goals.

I totally suck at the piano/keyboard but I still enjoy it so much

I think the smoothie will degrade in the fridge (taste/texture…still safe to eat). I would just wash the blender to have the nicer smoothies. Rust rinsing, then running it with just water, then rinsing again is probably sufficient.

There are public utilities in the US. And yes, they offer better service and lower costs than the competing private utilities.

I didn’t know about the benefits until I moved somewhere served by them. I think we would have more of them if people could see the benefits, but unfortunately the utilities you have access to are limited by where you live.

SO is rapidly fading into irrelevance, but we’re all still writing code anyways. Seems like the problem will solve itself.

People have options, and it’s very easy to go somewhere else. If the food isn’t better the price and demand are going to be perfectly related. Every price hike matched by a corresponding drop in sales. Zero sum game.

I think this is very true, but western media isn’t going to probe this point.

US government doesn’t grasp that sanctions will only further motivate their internal technology development, until it surpasses US tech. China isn’t North Korea. They have plenty of local talent and capabilities.

The US govt is unable to fathom that SMIC internally innovated to allow 7nm, and now 5nm process that does not need the sanctioned tech. Also, SMIC is likely stretching the truth, calling their N+1 tech 7nm, just to taunt the US.

Looks delicious. I love homemade bread.

Naan, idli.

Mismanagement and inefficiency must be present everywhere at Google as they do immense amounts of R&D but are constantly beaten to innovation by smaller players.