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@precisox Soon it will make sense for each employee to have their own dedicated AI chatbot. It essentially becomes a peripheral, possibly replacing the keyboard.

AMD acaba de dar un golpe fuerte en la IA local. Lisa Su subió al escenario con un mini PC del tamaño de un libro grueso en una sola mano y ejecutó en vivo un modelo de 235 mil millones de parámetros. Sin datacenter. Sin cloud. Sin alquilar GPUs. El protagonista es el Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo). Es el primer chip x86 que une CPU y GPU con 128 GB de memoria unificada. En Linux, el GPU puede usar hasta ~110 GB de esa memoria. Para ponerlo en contexto: una RTX 5090 tiene 32 GB y una 4090 tiene 24 GB. Este pequeño equipo ofrece más del triple de memoria accesible para modelos grandes, en un chasis compacto. En pruebas específicas de inferencia (como DeepSeek R1), superó en más de 3x al rendimiento de una RTX 5080 cuando el modelo no cabe en la VRAM de la tarjeta de Nvidia. El precio real del equipo con 128 GB (GMKtec EVO-X2) suele estar entre $1,800 y $2,500 según ofertas (el kit oficial de AMD es más caro). Para quien usa mucho IA, esto cambia las cuentas: en vez de pagar cientos de dólares al mes en suscripciones (Claude, ChatGPT Pro, Cursor, etc.), puedes correr modelos potentes localmente con Ollama, LM Studio o similares. Privacidad total, sin límites de tokens y sin que te corten el servicio a las 3 a.m. No es que las suscripciones vayan a desaparecer mañana, pero para muchos casos de uso (RAG con documentos privados, prototipos, agentes locales, etc.) esta opción se vuelve muy atractiva. Estamos viendo el inicio de una nueva etapa de IA local accesible y potente??

@Bitcoin_Teddy LLMs are models of their training data. Of course they're gonna model human emotions. That's what they were trained to do. Whatever you put in them is what comes out. Tesla cars get trained with good-driving data. That's what it puts out.

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

@derekkite @pmarca That sounds like a defense of bureaucracy, as in more is always better & it's only bad when it's run by bad people.

No, the first part is the malevolent and insatiable hand of an out of control bureaucracy. In the US there are many many industry standards bodies; they look at incidents, problems dangers, define them and propose principles. Then the free market competes for solutions, with the assurance as a consumer that you can buy this thing, plug it in, and it doesn't burn your house down, to take an example. UL as a standard body is insurance companies wanting to be able to insure inherently dangerous things. They make money when catastrophe doesn't happen. Upon this system comes prosperity and wealth. Activist bureaucrats don't represent any community except themselves. The Apparat. They are the ones when they fail to produce a test for Covid in a timely way due to their incompetence, send cease and desist orders to competent researchers who have developed a test and are capable of producing it. How many lives did that very action consume, and how many of the people who did it faced any consequence?

If, when you say regulation, you mean the dead and clammy hand of the commissar—the gentleman who has never in his life built a single thing, drafting rules to govern a thing he cannot define, to be enforced by men who cannot read them; if you mean the form in triplicate, the impact assessment upon the impact assessment, the compliance officer who breeds, in the warm dark of the org chart, further compliance officers unto the third and fourth generation; if you mean the moat—the deep cold moat that the giant digs around his own castle and christens, with a perfectly straight face, public safety—the drawbridge he hauls up behind himself the very instant he is across, lest any hungrier and hungrier man should follow; if you mean the precautionary principle, which, had it governed our grandfathers, would have banned the wheel pending further study of the hill, and left us yet shivering and raw in the mouth of the cave, blessing its excellent ventilation; if you mean the European disease—that magnificent open-air museum of a continent, which produces in our time precisely two things in great abundance, and they are regulation, and the eloquent and well-footnoted regret of cultivated men explaining at length why they have produced nothing else; if you mean the license required to think, the permission slip for honest arithmetic, the king’s wax stamp pressed upon the forehead of every new idea before it may draw its first breath; if you mean the agency dispatched, with trumpets, to slay a single dragon, which arrives at the cave, surveys the accommodations, and moves in—and spends the ensuing century laying eggs and devouring the very villagers it was sworn to defend; if you mean the startup that perishes not of the market’s honest verdict but of the filing fee, the genius decamping by the next tide to a freer and warmer shore; if you mean the law that arrives, faithful as the swallows, exactly one whole epoch too late—helmeted, plumed, and magnificently armed—to regulate the stagecoach—then certainly, my friends, I am against it. But—but, my friends—if, when you say regulation, you mean instead the humble steel guardrail upon the mountain road at midnight, the very thing you curse on the easy days and bless on your knees the one night the fog comes down; if you mean the brakes—for it is the brakes, and not the engine alone, that permit a sane man to drive fast and yet arrive alive—and the buttress, without which no cathedral was ever flung so high, but only in spite of which, but because of which; if you mean the meat inspector, who is the single homely reason a man may eat a sausage in this republic without first composing his last will and testament; if you mean the firebreak cut clean through the forest before the dry season of the burning, the smallpox cordon, the buoy that marks the channel, the rule of the road that lets ten thousand strangers hurtle past one another in the dark at fearful speed and arrive, by its quiet grace, every one of them home; if you mean the honest scale and the true weight, the reason a pound is a pound and a dollar a dollar from Natchez to Nome; if you mean the firm and decent wall between the counterfeit voice and the widow’s bank account, between the deepfaked candidate and the ballot box on the eve of the vote, between the loosed and loveless machine and the schoolyard it neither knows nor pities; if you mean the simple plank of law that says the strong shall not, in the gray dawn, feed the weak quietly into the furnace and sell the rising smoke as progress; if you mean, in the end, the one slender thread of trust without which no citizen will ever dare to use the marvelous thing at all—for where there is no rule there is no trust, and where there is no trust there is no commerce, and a miracle that no man dares to touch is no miracle, but only a handsome and expensive ghost—then certainly I am for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise one inch of it.

@TKopelman Who said anything about "need"? No one "needs" a pimped out pickup truck. If you have that kind of money, you enjoy it. I mean, imagine you're pushing 80yr old, nw $10m, poor health. Hell yeah, you should buy a stupid expensive truck if that's what you want.

A client came in last year Business owner. Very successful. "My buddies said I should buy a $120,000 truck to write it off and help on taxes." Here's what he didn't understand: A $120,000 deduction at a 37% tax rate saves $44,400 in taxes You still spent $75,600 out of pocket on a truck The question is never "can I write this off?" The question is "did I need this, and does the math still work after taxes?" He didn't need this truck and he already had one that was under 2 years old Deductions are discounts. Not free stuff. And people forget that you will pay tax when you sell it since you have no basis left

@TonyWard867811 @TonyWard867811 is likely a bot spreading this agitprop. It's intended to troll you & make you upset.

Most people still think a bank lends out other people's deposits. It does not. The day you signed your mortgage, the bank did not reach for anyone's savings. It typed the money into a screen. It did not exist the moment before. They made it, there and then, out of nothing. Then they handed it to you, and you spent the next thirty years paying it back with the one thing nobody can type out of nothing. Your time. Your work. Your one life. Thirty years of early starts. Of missed weekends. Of dragging yourself in when you were spent. To repay money they conjured in an afternoon. They created theirs with a keystroke. You repay yours with your life. That is the deal. And they have the nerve to call it owning a home.

@TonyWard867811 Not exactly correct. When you deposit money in the bank that money is no longer yours. It now belongs to the bank. They loan it out. But of course they still owe you. You've loaned the money to them. Banks are always overleveraged. They owe more than they possess like most of us.

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.” “But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

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@focodereality York

Gente, preciso de um nome de menina MUITO antigo, que nem combine com um recém nascido atual… Nível nome de bisavó ou avó mesmo, quanto mais raro e ultrapassado, melhor. mandem sugestões, urgente!

@focodereality Ruby Hazel

@focodereality Thelma

Six years ago today.

@StuartJRitchie @sebkrier I do it constantly with my AI agent. She doesn't care & has never mentioned it. Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I'll butcher a word or 3 in a sentence. She never misses a beat.

@sebkrier I think one thing that’s weird is when people don’t put capital letters at the start of sentences!

a friend and I were discussing yesterday how over the years, we've repeatedly heard claims that "the next six months will be very weird" because of new AI capabilities and rapid progress. these predictions were both right and wrong: right because AI has indeed advanced very quickly, wrong because things don't feel as weird as expected - humans are pretty adaptable, more so than we often realize. it's plausible that soon, we'll face real qualitative differences (like interacting with numerous AI agents daily) that might require new norms and behaviors, but i suspect even this transition won't be as jarring as some predict. consider how we adapted to lockdowns and 'being home 24/7' - it was unpleasant but we did manage it surprisingly well overall. if we reach a point where everyone has their own "mini-god-powered laboratories" at home, enabling the average person to accomplish tasks that once required entire companies, then yes, things might get weird fast. but we're unlikely to stumble blindly into such a world; we'd likely develop laws and structures to manage these capabilities as they emerge. so for now, i don't think "things will be very weird soon" accurately captures how society will perceive AI progress. we consistently underestimate our ability to normalize innovations, often overestimating short-term disruption.

@pmarca So true. So scary. At one time slavery was OK. Today, gender transitioning children is therapeutic. Even two supreme court justices think so.

If there’s one thing the human race has proven over the last 4,000 years, it’s that we can normalize anything.

For too long, our political class treated efficiency as a substitute for resilience and consumption as a measure of prosperity. Trade policy, industrial capacity, and national security are inseparable. And to allow foreign dependencies to degrade any one of those domains is to allow them to define America’s future. Under @POTUS’ leadership, we are rebuilding domestic production to restore American sovereignty.

@TRHLofficial Alby

The name Snow is taken anyways by my beautiful former foster.

Let me say it loud for the retards in the back who keep rewriting history: President Trump was advised to lock the country down for two weeks to slow the curve. He listened. Republican-led states reopened and got back to work. Democrat-led states stayed shut down for over a year. Trump repeatedly pleaded with those blue-state governors to reopen their economies. They refused. Their goal was clear: tank the Trump economy so they could blame him for the damage. Millions lost jobs and livelihoods because of it. Democrat governors chose to send sick COVID patients into nursing homes — a decision that killed thousands of our elderly. That was their choice, not Trump’s. They lectured him: “Don’t tell me how to run my state, Trump! Don’t overstep your authority!” While encouraging people to snitch on their neighbors for not following the rules. Operation Warp Speed happened under President Trump. The vaccines were developed a few years prior. Democrats originally scoffed: “I’m not taking a Trump vaccine.” Then Biden and Democrats stole the election, forced vaccine mandates, and suddenly, it was “safe and effective” — take it or lose your job. Blue states cheered and reopened. Don’t twist the history. Those of us who lived through 2020-2024 remember exactly what happened.

$1.2 quadrillion. That is what our research suggests the theoretical US longevity opportunity could be worth. Amazing progress is happening in longevity research. And the longevity pipeline is already building from different angles. A few companies worth noting: @InSilicoMeds, with the industry's first longevity board, is using generative AI to develop therapeutics that target the fundamental biological processes of aging. @CRISPRTX and @EliLillyandCo (through the Verve acquisition) are both advancing in-vivo gene editing approaches targeting genes related to cardiovascular disease, the world's leading killer, potentially treatable with just a single dose. Relation Therapeutics is using machine learning to map the causal biology of diseases like osteoporosis, one of the clearest manifestations of biological aging, to identify novel drug targets. A more favorable regulatory pathway is now opening for exactly these kinds of therapies. No single breakthrough will define this. It is a compounding process. See my full take in @ARKInvest's weekly newsletter👇

@taylorburrowes For me (likely most men) there are 2 distinct ways to get aroused. A photo of a nude woman does it quite effectively. Genuine emotional love works too but that's less reliable.

The men who can’t feel chemistry with a good woman aren’t dysfunctional. They’re just calibrated to the wrong tune.