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Cloud is only a very limited and literal part of scalability
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wouldbecouldbe commented on Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight bmj.com/content/389/bmj-2... · Posted by u/lxm
So, the excess energy in your model is just excreted? Does that also happen in the human body?
Yes. On the other spectrum, the body becomes more efficient when moving a lot.
It is frequently suggested that once one of the AI companies reaches an AGI threshold, they will take off ahead of the rest. It's interesting to note that at least so far, the trend has been the opposite: as time goes on and the models get better, the performance of the different company's gets clustered closer together. Right now GPT-5, Claude Opus, Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro all seem quite good across the board (ie they can all basically solve moderately challenging math and coding problems).
As a user, it feels like the race has never been as close as it is now. Perhaps dumb to extrapolate, but it makes me lean more skeptical about the hard take-off / winner-take-all mental model that has been pushed.
Would be curious to hear the take of a researcher at one of these firms - do you expect the AI offerings across competitors to become more competitive and clustered over the next few years, or less so?
It's all based on the theory of singularity. Where the AI can start trainig & relearning itself. But it looks like that's not possible with the current techniques.
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wouldbecouldbe commented on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator thephp.foundation/blog/20... · Posted by u/lemper
It’s not really chaining
More like thenables / promises
It looks like chaining, but with possibility of adding custom functions?
wouldbecouldbe commented on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator thephp.foundation/blog/20... · Posted by u/lemper
Meanwhile the JS world has been waiting for 10 years for this proposal, which is still in stage 2 https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator/issues/23...
It’s really not needed, syntax sugar. With dots you do almost the same. Php doesn’t have chaining. Adding more and more complexity doesn’t make a language better.
The difference is that the tube driver (assuming there even is one) can't just decide to take a slight turn from the planned route, while the car driver really might.
Yet of all the traffic accidents, the one you describe never happens. So it’s not much difference
wouldbecouldbe commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired
This could have just been TOTP.
At that scale, the amount of support getting a city of people to understand that is overwhelming.
wouldbecouldbe commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired
I understand but it’s not always with bad intentions.
In the Netherlands we have a system called DigiD to login into to most government websites like your taxes and city, etc.
When I contracted for the city of Amsterdam I learned they’ve been pushing hard for the DigiD app to two factor authenticate instead of text message, because of contracts Digid charges a lot per text message validation and none for app.
This is the first technology wave that doesn't just displace humans, but which can be trained to the new job opportunities more easily than humans can. Right now it can't replace humans for a lot of important things. But as its capabilities improve, what do displaced humans transition to?
I don't think that we have a good answer to that. And we may need it sooner rather than later. I'd be more optimistic if I trusted our leadership more. But wise political leadership is not exactly a strong point for our country right now.