NoSpotOfGround

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[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

...in some cases with an abundance of merit.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Gasp! ...Legendary earths?

 

Tesla Cybertruck appears to be facing significant sales challenges. After initial hype faded, and over a million reservations turned out to be as real as unicorns, Tesla is now enabling leasing options and free upgrades to move its inventory of the futuristic pickup truck. The company's recent silence on the Cybertruck, even omitting it from their earnings call, speaks volumes about the situation.

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year. After working through the initial reservation backlog with fewer than 40,000 deliveries, the automaker is now struggling to sell the remaining vehicles.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was a great watch, thanks!

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'm Battle for Wesnoth, after clearing a map it showed a statistic about how lucky you'd been in your dice rolls. Which really meant how often you'd rerun dice rolls by saving and loading. When it said something like "370% above average luck", I realized that, oh shit, the game knows?!

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's what's shown for Rainbow 6.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No, so try to keep it short.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

T-1000

nearly killed me a good few times

Hmm...

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

During the period fish and sharks would eat sea lilies, which are hard to digest meaning they would then "regurgitate all the chalk bits", he explained.

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Text below, for those trying to avoid Twitter:

Most people probably don't realize how bad news China's Deepseek is for OpenAI.

They've come up with a model that matches and even exceeds OpenAI's latest model o1 on various benchmarks, and they're charging just 3% of the price.

It's essentially as if someone had released a mobile on par with the iPhone but was selling it for $30 instead of $1000. It's this dramatic.

What's more, they're releasing it open-source so you even have the option - which OpenAI doesn't offer - of not using their API at all and running the model for "free" yourself.

If you're an OpenAI customer today you're obviously going to start asking yourself some questions, like "wait, why exactly should I be paying 30X more?". This is pretty transformational stuff, it fundamentally challenges the economics of the market.

It also potentially enables plenty of AI applications that were just completely unaffordable before. Say for instance that you want to build a service that helps people summarize books (random example). In AI parlance the average book is roughly 120,000 tokens (since a "token" is about 3/4 of a word and the average book is roughly 90,000 words). At OpenAI's prices, processing a single book would cost almost $2 since they change $15 per 1 million token. Deepseek's API however would cost only $0.07, which means your service can process about 30 books for $2 vs just 1 book with OpenAI: suddenly your book summarizing service is economically viable.

Or say you want to build a service that analyzes codebases for security vulnerabilities. A typical enterprise codebase might be 1 million lines of code, or roughly 4 million tokens. That would cost $60 with OpenAI versus just $2.20 with DeepSeek. At OpenAI's prices, doing daily security scans would cost $21,900 per year per codebase; with DeepSeek it's $803.

So basically it looks like the game has changed. All thanks to a Chinese company that just demonstrated how U.S. tech restrictions can backfire spectacularly - by forcing them to build more efficient solutions that they're now sharing with the world at 3% of OpenAI's prices. As the saying goes, sometimes pressure creates diamonds.

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[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (12 children)

our eastern neighbours

... you mean Ukraine, no?

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

"The ice taps back"

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, but how do (a good proportion of) voters decide who they support? They look at what the two parties do. And this is what the Democrats did: not even close to enough.

 

I thought this was a very insightful video. Anders is often able to discern stark simple truths and their implications without falling into the trap of common misconceptions.

The prediction about what Russia will do on January 20th seems very likely to me.

Anders was one of the very few analysts that predicted Russia was going to invade in the months/weeks before their actual invasion.

 

Imagine you were reborn as a female queen ant with an expected lifespan of about 15 years (worker ants live about half a queen's timespan), and had the ambition to make the most of your tiny new life. And you got to keep your current intellectual capacity and knowledge.

How much could you achieve as an ant?

 

The way our bodies react to mosquito saliva motivates us to avoid being bitten. Which must have had evolutionary benefits, keeping us away from diseases.

I.e. all those people that didn't mind them and never got itchy from mosquito bites appear to have died out. And mosquitoes really wish that wasn't true.

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