Andrey 🤔 Upadyshev
@oliora.bsky.social
C++ and art! C++, coding, modern art, architecture and politics. Ex AWS, currently HFT. Born and raised in St.Petersburg, got a new home in NL
Recently come across expression "privatizing profits and socializing losses" as a concept of how some companies do their business and I think it is just brilliant
“We are not optimizing for fewer tokens,” he said. “We are optimizing for more impact per token." Someone should tell him that doing work without AI is infinite impact per token
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMicrosoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company.
Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...
The AI Demand Bubble
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There is a real anti AI pushback among artists futurism.com/artificial-i...
Jorge Gutierrez Cancels AI-Generated Animated Series "Punky Duck" After Wave of Online Hatred
Director Jorge Gutierrez became the target of an astonishing amount of online outrage after announcing he was making an AI show for Amazon.
futurism.com
А в сабстаке сломали логин в мобильном Сафари смешным образом: там нужно вводить имэйл, а потом одноразовый код из имэйла и когда переключаешься между приложениями, то форма для ввода кода закрывается и нужно начинать логиниться с начала
Tolstoy@tolstoy.cloud · 3d agoРебята что-то сделали с веб-версией iCloud и теперь она просто вешает сафари, и тупо не логинится в хроме.
An interesting read from Matt Stoller www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Are Big AI Firms Cooking the Books?
If we're going to dump trillions into AI, it's time to audit the books of the big AI companies to see how the business actually works. That's how New Dealers would have done it.
thebignewsletter.com
It's almost like a Greek myth. The thing that is a good tool for the skilled people is being sold as a thing to reduce the number of skilled people hired.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoThe other question Suresh implicitly raises is, "How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?" 67/
The coral reef around Bonaire has fallen to about 5% of the seabed, down from more than 60% fifty years ago.
Bonaire’s coral reef is disappearing, researchers warn - DutchNews.nl
The coral reef around Bonaire has fallen to about 5% of the seabed, down from more than 60% fifty years ago, researchers told broadcaster NOS on Monday. The figures come from fieldwork on the Dutch…
dutchnews.nl
Офигенные французские вафли со вкусом как у стропваффлз, но без сиропа: соленая карамель уже в тесте
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.” www.wired.com/story/europe...
Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”
wired.com
I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/
I'm curious how this interplays with ADHD and whether ADHD drugs like Dextroamphetamine can cut some long covid symptoms
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4d agoThe COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...
Next week OpenAI should hack at least 100 companies to keep up with Anthropic in this useless PR war
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 5d ago
The reputation-laundering operation known as AlphaFold has been shut down. It changed culture in damaging ways, and similar protein-structure packages carry the mantle of black-box short-cuts that break the "chain of custody of why", offloading labor to often-haphazard and de-emphasized validation.
Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini - Engadget
DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.
engadget.com
Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · last mo.The "chain of custody of why" is a load-bearing element of science. In numerical solutions of PDE (as in fluid and structural mechanics), the modern practice of verification (solving the equations right) and validation (solving the right equations) as distinct emerged from painful epistemic flailing
There is an anti-surveillance pricing bill in California. More countries should ban this practice
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d agoI thought up that example. I don't know if it's really happening. But here's something that really *is* happening: ecommerce sites charge parents of newborns extra when they order thermometers in the middle of the night. 14/
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Just a reminder that the solo course of actuons of MBA managers is to reduce employers wages www.nber.org/papers/w29874
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last wk.After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
Блин, нужно создать новый праздник: кабачковый день, когда все ходят друг к другу в гости и дарят кабачки
Танцующий хариус @sjavar.bsky.social · 7d ago(Я больше не одинока, понадобилось 4,5 года эмиграции)
