No pricing yet, and who knows where tariffs will land.

That’s shortening!

The market can be irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.

The number of lepers will double every two years?

“Meanwhile, in the former United States …”

For the security tradeoff of sensitive data not heading to the cloud for processing? Not all businesses, but many would definitely see value in it. We’re also discussing this as though the options are binary … models could also be hosted on company servers that employees VPN into.

There are already large local models. It’s a question of having the hardware, which has historically gotten more powerful with each generation. I don’t think it’s going to be phones for quite some time, but on desktop, absolutely.

I don’t expect anyone other than … I don’t even know what the current term is … geeks? batshit billionaires? to be doing training.

I’m very much of the belief that our next big leap in LLMs is local processing. Once my interactions stay on my device, I’ll jump in.

This is an interesting take in that only doing one thing but doing it well has been, historically, how businesses thrived. This vertical integration thing and startups looking to be bought out instead of trying to make it on their own (obviously, VCs play a role in this) has led to jacks of all trades.

I was at a startup in 1999 … in Seattle. I actually ducked out because it was clear that about all they could do was arrange outings for the staff.

I don’t think it’s going to come down to these absurd datacentres. We’re only a few years off from platform-agnostic local inference at mass-market prices. Could I get a 5090? Yes. Legally? No.

Wow … thorns in the wild! Any nonlinguist is going to have an issue not reading those as weird-looking Ps. But points for using both uppercase and lowercase correctly.

… while high-profile banks like JPMorgan Chase and HSBC have started enforcing in-office policies, London-headquartered bank Standard Chartered is letting managers and individual employees decide how often workers are expected in the office. In July, Standard CEO Bill Winters told Bloomberg Television:

“We work with adults. The adults can have an adult conversation with other adults and decide how they’re going to best manage their team.”

The differing management methods come as numerous corporations have pointed to in-office work as driving collaboration, ideation, and, in some cases, revenue, while numerous studies point to RTO policies hurting employee morale and risking employee retention.

When Standard Chartered is who comes up with a humanist approach, you know you might be doing something wrong.

Still, artists will see nothing.

That presumes precedent still matters. cough Dobbs cough

If that were the case, we’d be awash in desal plants.

That’s going to spit out a very weird dataset. There may be edge cases where data for the back half of December from 2011 forward would be useful, but I can’t think of one.

Aspiring’s pilot plant, which opened in February, is in an anonymous industrial estate east of the city. One corner of the main floor is dominated by a large stainless-steel tank, which is connected to a series of smaller tanks arranged in a stepped line. “Apart from our electrolysis system, the hardware is more typical of dairy plants,” says Colum Rice, Aspiring’s chief commercial officer. “The process is elegant but not massively complicated. Our inputs are rock, water, and renewable energy, and our products come with no CO₂ emissions.”

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Danczyk explains that at the end of the extraction process, they’re left only with a salty brine. “This goes to an electrolyzer, which recycles and regenerates the acid we use for digestion and the base we use to separate the products. It’s a closed loop. We’re using the whole rock, and we’re processing it at low temperature and ambient pressure.”

This sounds great, but scaling electrolysis would require shedloads of renewable energy.

He’s pro-prose about the po-po.

I’ve been assuming I’m under surveillance each time I drive for decades at this point, starting with red-light cameras. The trend was never going to be toward fewer cameras with everything being sandboxed and tight restrictions on sharing.