Always cool to see ‘retro’ tech brought back, especially with major overhauls. Kinda wish Apple still did dedicated ‘dumb’ MP3 players, if I’m being honest.

It needs to be viable first, which obviously won’t happen when the management keeps stumbling into PR nightmares weekly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Define ‘we’. Not all of us are communists.

Musk has moved on from trying to create an ‘internet bank’. Dude now wants to make something like LINE or WeChat, which is absolutely hilarious.

Yes. Technology is hard; doubly so for wearables.

I care. This thing’s already thick and heavy enough, and I don’t particularly care about popping the back off my phone to replace a battery. It’s like…once every two years that I have to replace it.

Same, I just can’t bring myself to care about a movie that’s about toys I have zero nostalgia for.

solidarity with a wannabe Tsar

But why?

It’s also funny how all these aliens keep crashing into the US, where three-letter agencies are fantastic at coverups, and none of ‘em end up in countries where it’d be much harder to hide something like this.

Good to know!

interesting yet complex

Makes sense that an explainer on the technology would be an appropriate match for it lol

From my extremely limited understanding, it’s because of the sheer scale of the data that’s been fed into LLMs, and because of the (admittedly small) possibility that the people working on LLMs never really took the time to understand what sort of connections the LLM was making between all the datapoints it was interacting with and drawing connections between, or at least a deeper understanding of how the math worked; just that it did.

As the scale of the project kept growing and LLM companies just kept throwing ‘more data, more neural networks, more hardware!’ into the mix, the black box became…well, blacker and it kept getting harder to figure out the internal ‘logic’ used by the LLM to predict the next word. Now, the people who’re trying to figure it all out are working with extremely large amounts of data with nothing to go off of.

In short, the people making GPT were somehow smart enough to make it, but not smart enough to understand what they were making.

You mean that extremely old operating system that no longer gets security updates?

It’s the fear and guilt of having destroyed the planet their children and grandchildren (especially their grandchildren) will inherit. What they’re doing right now is shoving their heads right into the sand and selling themselves on whatever climate change denialism is out there right now.

Because it’s more important for businesses to be able to compete for your eyeballs than it is for you to get a usable product out of the box.

Wow they were right, you really did tell us you use Linux without us asking!

Microsoft is, if anything, late to the party on this kind of anti-user BS.

…do you not know about the IE lawsuits?

…so you were talking about a phone you don’t use or plan on using, in a comparison against work software that you’re practically forced to use?

Chip design, especially ARM, has come a long way in 7 years. Nintendo will have to try really hard to find a chip that isn’t significantly more powerful than the garbage they put in the Switch.