@Pallavi_345 I don't think it's their aim. Gemini is the end user, do all the basic tasks from a phone model. Ultimate goal being integrating it directly into Android like a way better Siri that can control anything you want it to
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In 2016, a rare Vaporeon spawned in Central Park.
People abandoned cars and sprinted through the park to catch it.
For one summer, Pokémon Go turned adults into wildlife.
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@bonchieredstate I really doubt it but I'm more wondering why they have their mics clipped to metro cards. No one buys metro cards any more they just tap their phone. Personally I did neither and stepped over the turnstile while I was living there but to each their own
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Do you think she realizes the broader implications of what she’s saying?
Or nah?
SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma@SubwayTakes
You have to be born in New York to be a New Yorker!! @JLo
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HOLY SH*T
Bellingham High School in WA held a pride event where drag queens danced provocatively in front of CHILDREN
They are coming for your children.
You can contact the school here: 360-676-6575
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@libsoftiktok Crazy. Go on reddit and it's like the bizarro world from superman. "World news" posts are notification pushed to everyone on reddit and the top comments are the opposite of what's going on in the world. It's like after elon bought X the vampires started controlling reddit instead
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This should tell you everything you need to know.
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Every single Democrat just voted against $100 million to fund operations for Child Exploitation Investigations and save children from s*x trafficking.
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To celebrate #SummerGameFest...
We have a GeForce RTX 5090 up for grabs👀
Want it? Comment #RTXPowersPlay to enter.
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So it turns out ABC used AI all throughout Game 1 whenever they went to commercial. Check out this sequence where a modern championship tag spontaneously blooms on the back of Hakeem Olajuwon's jersey, followed by another where Kobe and Ron Harper twitch awkwardly w each other.
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@FoxNews I generally support this admin but decertifying an entire state is horrible. Im on Medicaid and rely on medically necessary meds. If my entire state was decertified by the wave of a federal wand I would lose my job, where I live, my sobriety time, and likely be dead inside a year
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BREAKING: The Trump administration is putting every state on notice in a massive crackdown on Medicaid fraud.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson just announced that Hawaii has been officially decertified for failing to enforce the law and address the fraud problem plaguing the state.
"Everyone is on notice. And today, Hawaii is being decertified for its abject failure to enforce state and federal law to prohibit fraud."
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GE appliances has this really cool, very well appointed, prototype lab that turns into a free maker space every evening. It’s in Louisville.
I met a guy who is now a factory program manager who got started by doing personal projects in the maker space when it opened.
It was totally random that I ran into him there. Not part of a PR stunt or anything.
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@David_Hambling Yeah go ahead and buy one of those, you'll find that your car is being followed everywhere you go and you're unable to pass TSA checks to fly. Pay 7k plus to be placed on a terrorist watch list
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Now you can buy an anti-aircraft weapon on eBay for $7,000 -- and because this Chinese kinetic interceptor drone does not use rocket propellant or explosive, you don't even need a gun licence. A potential terror threat emerges -- Story below.
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@benjamin_horne I agree. Llms are great at **language** tasks. I tried using chatgpt once for help with a sysadmin problem, it was horrible
It's the equivalent of someone being book smart, and another who has substantial real world experience
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As a programmer, I don't think this is far off from what's actually happening.
For reasons that now feel overdetermined (codebases = 100% of context, verifiability, etc.) software development was/is uniquely shaped to get eaten up by LLMs.
But almost no other fields/industries are shaped in this way, except for a few select niches like translation, low complexity customer support tickets, etc.
Sure, everyone uses LLMs for the specific things LLMs are actually quite good at (e.g. summarizing documents, translating things, searching the web for you, proof reading important emails before sending, etc.) but the only full-blown industry where LLMs truly thrive *at the core value proposition* of said industry is... software.
Because us software engineers and other tech people are insufferable and think we're the center of the universe, we just assume automatically that it's only a matter of time before LLMs make the leap into other areas of the economy, and disrupt them like they've disrupted coding.
"Surely if LLMs can put a dent in *my* job, it's only a matter of time before they do the same to others!"
Idk... I'm just not seeing this yet.
Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky)@ShriramKMurthi
What if it eventually turns out that the ONLY profession programmers managed to utterly decimate was…programming? That would be poetically funny. Whole new spin on "bitter lesson".
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@FrankRundatz That's a cool assumption. I don't need to read another one of your posts
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@justbriton Your mental model of this business is limited to inference. For OpenAI and Anthropic, there’s a lot more to it. And it costs a lot.
Frank Rundatz@FrankRundatz
I agree that Inference as a Service or Model as a Service can be a viable business. Buy hardware. Host open source model. Sell metered access. For OpenAI and Anthropic there are a few more steps that radically change the equation. OpenAI alone has committed $600 billion to compute. About 3/4 of that is for training with 1/4 inference, Then add the astronomical salaries of their 5,300 employees projecting to grow to 8,000 employees by end of 2026. Then add the need to 100x the investment of the people that are burning cash to fund all of this.
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“Penetration pricing” is the term used when a company burns through Venture Capital money selling a product under its cost to build market share.
Remember how cheap Uber and Lyft used to be? VCs subsidized the drivers and the riders for years. Then they went public and now it costs me $20 for a 3 minute ride down the road.
DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart.
MoviePass, Netflix, Hulu.
All of these companies sold below cost to get market share then massively raised their prices, added ads, diminished their products, etc.
AI today is no different. OpenAI and Anthropic are giving us all cheap rides. To do that, they’re selling $1.00 for 10 cents.
Get it while you can before a different kind of penetration begins.
Frank Rundatz@FrankRundatz
You have 9 months - at most - to use AI tools to finish your application. Then every AI company will ask you to pay for the compute you’re using and you won’t be able to afford it anymore.
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Well...the interesting part isn't Node/Python. Security ppl adopting hardware like this want their own agent stack - local, policy-enforced, auditable. Mine's a single Rust binary. Real question: what does your Linux expose? KVM? namespaces, cgroups, seccomp? That decides isolation depth.
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Who wants to rip a Topps Chrome Football Mega Box?
- Follow @CardPurchaser
- Like and reply with your favorite NFL player
Winners drawn 6/7 at 9pm central! US shipping please! Scroll my feed daily for cool card stuff.
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On our side this is a projection, but even if we are off by 5x on machine cost, it will only slightly increase the cost to you. WE WANT TO SELL YOU PARTS CHEAP
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this is the part of the open-source push i actually love.
google dropped a 12b clanker that eats text, image, video and audio natively, no separate encoders, apache 2.0, 256k context. at bf16 it's ~24gb, lands on a single 3090.
they say it nears their own 26b moe at under half the memory. bold claim. the real question is whether a 12b can take qwen 3.6 27b dense, the current king on my bench on single 24gb vram tier. so i'm running it. receipts incoming soon anon.
Google Gemma@googlegemma
Meet Gemma 4 12B! A unified, encoder-free multimodal model designed to bring high-performance intelligence directly to your laptop, and released under an Apache 2.0 license. Bridging the gap between edge efficiency and advanced reasoning. Here is what’s new with Gemma 4 12B: 👇
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