There are three AI bubbles. I'm not sure that they are bubbles. This is the direction we need to go. The question is only whether it can be achieved. This is why I'm invested in nuclear as well. Did you see how these two stocks shot up recently (NuScale (SMR) or NANO Nuclear Energy (NNE))? Wow!
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The
Metaculus Cup is an award to forecasters, and an AI model won eighth place,
even beating humans. I can see that. But will it keep winning? Who's going to feed it the right data? And how often? Until I see repeated success, I'm going to call this a one-off.
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Here's a list of imminent layoffs:
Washington and
Oregon. Since the law says you have to give people a lot of advance notice, it's public knowledge now. There's a lot of people slated to be jobless. It's going to hurt both states, and the new H-1B visa laws are going to trigger a new batch of layoffs, too. Just in time for the holidays.
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What? Google is pinching pennies? What happened? They were supposed to be rich. What does this say about the tech sector? Or is it just Google?
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Join the club. Well, well, now the
Kaiser healthcare workers are striking. I guess they were jealous that OHSU, Providence and Legacy workers were getting all the strike action. So why not? Let's all raise hospital expenses and put Oregon's healthcare industry and the region's largest employers out of business. Or make them suitable takeover targets.
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Gordon’s Fireplace Building is Again Headed for Auction. I'm going to miss that symbol of Portland when it comes down. It so represented what the city has become better than the Elk Statue or Big Pink. The anarchy. The filth. The impotence of law enforcement. The ineptitude of city leadership. All in one ugly building.
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For computer science, if you just graduate with a degree and nothing else, you’re going to be working at McDonald’s....That’s just a reality; this isn’t an overstatement.
Unbelievable. CS schools really need to change, but I bet the professors don't know how to teach the new stuff.
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LLMs are bad at some simple tasks. Like
list comparison. This could be a tokenization problem. Needs further study.
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San Francisco officials accused the company of having “knowingly overspent” hundreds of thousands on pay bumps last fiscal year, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Of course, it's the Homeless Industrial Complex. They don't want homelessness to end. It would mean the end of their business model. Mayor Keith Wilson loves them, though. Thinks they're doing a great job.
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