frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

why are you linking me to articles i read ages ago?

Perhaps because you didn't understand what they said.

You think AI is only useful if it’s taking someones job?

It's why companies are dumping billions into it.

If the models were actually getting substantially more efficient, we wouldn't be talking about bringing new nuclear reactors online just to run it.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Deepseek is not the huge leap it appears. It's better, but not at all what was initially claimed.

Nor is smartphone AI going to do the things people what AI to do. It won't let the CEO take your job.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

Don't worry about it, it's just more efficient.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But I was told capitalism was the most efficient system.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

The current models depend on massive investment into server farms. They aren't generating profit, and probably can't. When the companies involved realize it's not going to happen, they'll pull it all. That will generate a new AI winter, and in 20 or 30 years, maybe the pieces will be picked up and the field will go through another summer cycle. This sort of boom/bust cycle has happened before in AI.

And no, self-hosted models aren't going to make up for it. They aren't as powerful, and more importantly, they will never be able to drive mass market adaptation.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

Every ticket scheme for NFTs fails because of a simple reason: contract law. Venues don't stick with TicketMaster because they like it. TicketMaster's store front doesn't have any magic technology; a room of overcaffinated fresh CS grads could recreate it in a weekend of binge coding.

Venues stick with TicketMaster because they are contractually obliged to do so. NFTs do not and cannot change that legal reality.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trusted, cryptographic timestamps exist, and have for some time. NFTs don't add anything new.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

It didn't need to be far.

Artillery range is around 70km. You need to get that close to the southern most road along the coast into Crimea, and a little more for padding some defense. Now you can turn that road and anything on it into rubble whenever you want.

Ukraine got within a few km of doing that at some areas.

The Kerch Strait Bridge could be hit whenever by a missile. Ukraine had already hit it by then.

There's a port at Sevestapol. It's also been hit by Ukranian missiles before, and even if not, it's not enough on its own.

Airplanes expend lots of fuel for not much cargo. You're not going to supply Crimea that way.

There would be no logistical options left for Russia. Holding those couple of km more would starve it out. Only question is if Putin tries to hang on out of stubbornness.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Search engines favor text earlier in the site. Text "above the fold" (the area where you wouldn't have to scroll to see it) is scored higher.

https://www.pedalo.co.uk/seo-experiment-text-position-keyword-rankings/

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The 2022 offensive failed because there wasn't enough support. Ukraine was saying they needed X tanks, shells, guns, whatever from the West, and they actually got around X/3. Even with that, they very nearly made it far enough that Crimea would have been logistically cut off. Russia would have either needed to come to terms or else Crimea literally and metaphorically starves.

There isn't really a way to hide what you're doing. You have to build up forces at your bases, move a lot of material, etc. The timing wasn't going to be a surprise, either, because local seasonal weather changes put a demand on when you do things.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.

This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.

Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago

If not for nukes, nobody would give a shit about Russia. Their army has fluctuated between being excellent and being worse than useless for its entire history, and they're currently on a low end of that cycle. As for the Russian navy, the Cold War might have been the only time period where it was worth a damn.

So no, they're not a superpower. They've been running on nukes and momentum since the dissolution of the USSR.

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