Not sure where you’re going with that, but it’s a perverse incentive, just like the engagement algorithm.

Elon is a problem because he can literally force himself into everyone’s feeds, but also because he always posts polarizing/enraging things these days.

Healthy social media design/UI is all about incentivizing good, healthy communities and posts. Lemmy is not perfect, but simply not designing for engagement/profit because Lemmy is “self hosted” instead of commercial is massive.

live service games make up a significant amount of what the average consumer wants, and those customers largely play on PC for all sorts of reasons

You are leaving out the elephant in the room: smartphones.

So, so, so many people game on smartphones. It’s technically the majority of the “gaming” market, especially live service games. A large segment of the population doesn’t even use PCs and does the majority of their computer stuff on smartphones or tablets, and that fraction seems to be getting bigger. Point being the future of the Windows PC market is no guarantee.

How about the outlet checks and finds out?

I did, and I couldn’t get low-temperature Gemini or a local LLM to replicate it, and not all the tariffs seem to be based on the trade deficit ratio, though some suspiciously are.

Sorry, but this is a button of mine, outlets that ask stupidly easy to verify questions but dont even try. No, just cite people on Reddit and Twitter…

It’s ironic how conservative the spending actually is.

Awesome ML papers and ideas come out every week. Low power training/inference optimizations, fundamental changes in the math like bitnet, new attention mechanisms, cool tools to make models more controllable and steerable and grounded. This is all getting funded, right?

No.

Universities and such are seeding and putting out all this research, but the big model trainers holding the purse strings/GPU clusters are not using them. They just keep releasing very similar, mostly bog standard transformers models over and over again, bar a tiny expense for a little experiment here and there. In other words, it’s full corporate: tiny, guaranteed incremental improvements without changing much, and no sharing with each other. It’s hilariously inefficient. And it relies on lies and jawboning from people like Sam Altman.

Deepseek is what happens when a company is smart but resource constrained. An order of magnitude more efficient, and even their architecture was very conservative.

Heh, that’s a good future.

The one we’re speeding towards is where they all collude, and all the service is shitty and the same (or worse) as its ever been. If its not just monopolized. That’s why Night City is a relatively good place to live in CP2077: There’s still competition.

Tesla is sort of a public-facing proxy for Musk’s wealth, and is becoming a lightning rod.

It’s not so much about practicality, but desperation and an opportunity to send a message.

Trump/Musk (especially Musk) could totally come out against this if it gains traction.

I guarantee, your family’s tune would change

Ace Combat Zero! Or 4, 5, and Zero (in that order) if you want a lot of it.

It doesn’t seem that big, right?

If WW was stuck in development hell, cutting Monolith makes sense I guess. PFG only did Multiversus, WB SF seemed to only work on/support mobile games, with no recent credits.

AFAIK no, but it takes awhile for everything to sink in, and hosts like John Oliver only have so much air time.

Uh, title is a bit clickbaity, editorialized. Amazon isn’t changing books yet, they are planning to make it possible for publishers to do so, I think, and also recoking ownership. And the video is not great either.

Its semantics, and a subject of ongoing debate.

Per wikipedia, I really like this proposal:

Astronomer Jean-Luc Margot proposed a mathematical criterion that determines whether an object can clear its orbit during the lifetime of its host star, based on the mass of the planet, its semimajor axis, and the mass of its host star.[210] The formula produces a value called π that is greater than 1 for planets.[c] The eight known planets and all known exoplanets have π values above 100, while Ceres, Pluto, and Eris have π values of 0.1, or less. Objects with π values of 1 or more are expected to be approximately spherical, so that objects that fulfill the orbital-zone clearance requirement around Sun-like stars will also fulfill the roundness requirement[211] – though this may not be the case around very low-mass stars.

It basically means a planet should be big enough to consolidate all the stuff in its orbital area, not be part of an asteroid field. That makes sense to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_star

“Dwarf” stars are even more confusing, as it basically a synonym for “normal,” as opposed to “giant” stars (which are relatively puffy and big for their mass/temperature), or more exotic stars. But the term is also used for special cases, like the relatively exotic white dwarfs (remnants of exploded stars with very strange properties, extreme density, and not “burning” like a star traditionally does), or “barely a star” brown dwarfs.

TL:DR: If an astronomer asks you to name something, you should say ‘absolutely not.’

Well, Gemini 2.0 is bad. Flash seems to have regressed to be worse than my local 32Bs, and pro fails some prompts 1.5 gets.

Maybe they are trying to compensate?

Beautiful.

But…

Republicans have been generally older folks, and what they’ve seen in the last 60 years is a rapid turnover of the world they knew.

This is an iffy assumption: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/28/gen-z-men-conservative-poll

The very youngest voters — 18-to-24-year-olds — say they’re more conservative than the cohort that’s just older, according to the latest Harvard Youth Poll.

The younger generation of men is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal.

Between the lines: They were hardest hit by COVID-19 and felt ignored by the establishment, John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, told Axios this month.

The youngest members of that group were just 10 years old when Trump was elected president and see this chaotic political era as normal.

“They think of Trump as an anti-hero and not a villain. … I think it’s less about policy and much more about personality,” Della Volpe said.

Welcome to the TikTok, podcast and Discord era. It’s not just disillusioned older folks that turned to Trump, but younger folks who are completely immersed in algorithms, influencers, and echo chambers, and understandably feel the system has failed them.

More like cover for banning certain subs.

Deepseek is like an ant compared to OpenAI/Anthropic/Google, and they come from a completely different world, the actually competitive open LLM dev scene with dozens of companies publishing good models. I think this is a bad analogy, as AMD is not that small and new compared to Nvidia.

I don’t see how that’s relevant, Deepseek was trained on, and is served on, Nvidia hardware.

And while I don’t disagree about AMD gouging, if AMD was to act like “scum,” they would screw over Nvidia’s pricing strategy.

But… they don’t. And lose for it.

It’s some combination of ignorance, corporate stupidity and straight up collusion, but it’s also the opposite of greed.

Very true.

But also so stupid because their user base is, what, a good fraction of the planet? How can they grow?

I can’t see the context because it’s freaking X, but I bet that’s in reference to local ML hosting.

There’s a big movement to get away from corporate AI, and I don’t need to explain the importance of that to the Lemmy crowd. But Nvidia is indeed artificially crippling consumer VRAM to stop them from being used for that too much, and protect their enterprise GPU market.

The most bizzare thing is that AMD is inexplicably complicit even though they have like zero market share in that space. 48GB 7900s (and so on) would have obliterated Nvidia and sold like hotcakes, much less actually using their modular memory controller architecture… But no? They restricted their OEMs from doing that because they… Don’t want money, I guess.

Engagement is engagement, sustainability be damned.