23 Feberuary 2025

When you "buy" and Amazon's Kindle book, you're really just buying a license to read the book on Kindle. You aren't legally buying the book. Kinda like a software license.

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Needless to say, we haven't seen anything like that yet. OpenAI's top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail's pace and requires constant supervision.

So Nadella's line of thinking is surprisingly down-to-Earth. Besides pushing back against the hype surrounding artificial general intelligence — the realization of which OpenAI has made its number one priority — Nadella is admitting that generative AI simply hasn't generated much value so far.

Well, that's because they're giving away so much for free. Using API-keys costs fractions of a cent per run, generally, and there's a free tier for everything, which meets most developer's needs.  If nobody pays, you don't make money.

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Elon Musk is not slowing down, even though he's at the White House now. Tesla autonomous taxis will eventually kill Uber and Lyft.  Imagine not having to have a driver who looks a bit scuzzy and has questionable morals. It might be safer and more attractive to have a robotic driver that will just take you where you want to go, without any scams. So Musk starts a new business and gets even wealthier.

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So someone stole $1.5 billion of Ethereum from Bybit, and the CEO says, no big deal. The loss can be covered. The company is still solvent. It's just digits in a ledger, I guess. That's why I don't like crypto, and if I deal with crypto, it's BItcoin. The reason why newer cryptocurrencies were created was because Bitcoin was designed to be more like a real asset, like gold, and people that got into this later didn't like that it was harder to get rich quickly.

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Chinese GPUs outperform NVIDIA's GPUs.  Who to believe?

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This report says that Alzheimer's disease might be due to infection from oral bacteria. Sounds crazy, but then I thought peptic ulcers being caused by H pylori was crazy, too.

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Tina Kotek once again proves the truth of this statement: "Democrats don't want to solve problems. They like problems they can promise to solve."  Existential threat, my assl.

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It's the pseudoephedrine story againSome lawyer wants to restrict computer spray air cleaner because ONE PERSON abused it. Get bent. Why don't you ban fentanyl or meth or heroin? Make yourself useful.

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Unexpected shape of lead-208 nucleus prompts reevaluation of atomic nuclei models.  You mean, all the nuclear physics I learned in college is wrong?

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Crazy. HP wants you to wait 15 min on hold, just because, even though operators are available and could take your call. How's that for corporate stupidity?

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