Yeah, whenever I think of an AGI as a coding assistant I wonder “will it just have days where it’s not in the mood to code just like I do?”.
Yes they do: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ljery5/gemini_just...
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rodonn commented on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab nytimes.com/2025/06/12/te... · Posted by u/RyanShook
>One would expect companies to be judged based on following the spirit of the law, rather than nitpicking and allowing wide holes like this.
The letter of the law is what people follow. The spirit, or intent, of the law is what they argue about in court cases.
If the regulation says 49% and a company follows it, who's to say they're exploiting a loophole? They're literally following the law. Until there is a court case and precedent is set.
The Clayton act explicitly includes partial acquisition as still being covered. "No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock... [where] the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly."
There may be some other regulations that are avoided by a partial acquisition, but it doesn't bring it wholly outside of the relevant antitrust laws.
rodonn commented on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab nytimes.com/2025/06/12/te... · Posted by u/RyanShook
Would buying 49% prevent any government investigations into the deal?
It might reduce scrutiny, but not completely prevent it.
Clayton act says
"No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no person subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another person engaged also in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce, where in any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly."
rodonn commented on How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server digitalspaceport.com/how-... · Posted by u/walterbell
Privacy, for me, is a necessary feature for something like this.
And I think your math is off, $0.20 per kWh at 1 kW is is $145 a month. I pay $0.06 per kWh. I've got what, 7 or 8 computers running right now and my electric bill for that and everything else is around $100 a month, at least until I start using AC. I don't think the power usage of something like this would be significant enough for me to even shut it off when I wasn't using it.
Anyway, we'll find out, just ordered the motherboard.
Depends on where you live. The average in San Francisco is $0.29 per kWh.
rodonn commented on Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations apnews.com/article/drug-p... · Posted by u/geox
I understand that those drugs are very useful, but in a way it feels for me like ancient Rome with its orgies and vomit inducing so they can eat more. At least looking at USA from Europe. The problem of sugar content, dietary choices and portion sizes remains. It is similar to gas guzzling cars.
Sorry if it seems not empathic enough, that was not my intention. I know that the use of such drugs may be medically necessary.
Edit: To serious answers: I was wrong, I stay corrected.
These drugs (mostly) don't allow you to eat more unhealthy food, instead they make it easier to have the self control to avoid over eating / choose healthier foods.
Iron Gall ink was used on both the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. It can last for many centuries, unfortunately it can fade if exposed to strong sunlight, which is why the declaration of independence is so faded. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3206_charters.html
rodonn commented on Apple found in breach of EU competition rules theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/malermeister
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. If a product is already priced optimally, lowering the price to capture price-sensitive users would reduce overall revenue, right? Profitable developers set prices based on what the market will bear, not the cost structure. Also, I'm not sure all developers would reinvest additional earnings into their products rather than just increase profit margins or divert funds elsewhere. I agree on the economic redistribution point though.
The profit maximizing price after a 30% cut `q(price) * (price - 30%price)` is not the same as the profit maximizing price without that cut `q(price) price`.
As long as the demand curve is downward sloping, there will be some pass through of Apple's cut to customers, though the fraction that is passed through will depend on price elasticity.
rodonn commented on Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI patents.google.com/patent... · Posted by u/yololol
I don't get this bombardment with ads anymore. For all the talk of targeted ads I routinely get them for products like tampons which I definitely do not need. Most of the time it's some noise I hear until I can press the skip button. I can't really remember what's the last time I bought something I saw on an ad.
This is why targeted advertising is so much more effective than un-targeted. On Facebook/Instagram I frequently see ads for products I was not aware of that are relevant to my interests.
and here is a Polars library if you use R:
https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars
If you prefer dplyr syntax you can use https://tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/
Before I ask my questions, here is an idea for your pandas book, if you haven't covered it already. The support of basic operations, like `round`, depends on the underlying data type (regular float and numpy's float16, float32, float64). Some np floats get rounded while others simply get ignored (they will not get rounded). It took me many hours to figure it out and fix resulting bugs. Maybe others would appreciate some information about this and similar gotchas.
Regarding polars, would you have time to answer these questions?
1) How are polars supported by popular data science packages, e.g., for plotting?
2) I know it is a bit silly: is there a way to get around typing `pl.col`, etc. all the time?
3) Besides `tidypolars`, are there any reasonable packages that add support for dplyr-style pipes or operation chaining?
I haven't run into any friction for (1), since worst case you just call `.to_pandas()` at the end of your pipeline before you start plotting. For any plotting apis that rely on the direct column vectors, no conversion to pandas is required.