To be clear, I wasn’t talking about a leap in LLM design. I was talking about a leap in hardware capabilities…

I remember my computer not being fast enough to even play an MP3 file. Two years later, my computer was capable of running 3D accelerated games, browsing the internet at broadband speeds and playing videos.

Sometimes technology advances fast. We could be entering such an era as there are major investments taking place and global competitors will rise to the occasion to market these to a broader audience.

I think it will be entirely possible for consumers to use a decent LLM on their computer in a few years time.

It means new opportunities in Europe. If you live in the US, it might be interesting to know that many master studies in countries like Germany are given in English and have extremely low tuition.
Work/life balance, healthcare and public transport are all better as well.

Not very common. Those engines are 50 years old and are only powered up a few times per year to stabilize the power grid as they can quickly scale up and down in contrast to nuclear, wind and solar.

Most countries do not use them as they are only about 30% efficient and loud. A modern gas power plant can reach double that efficiency.

Firefox doesn’t include a keylogger. It does have the infamous privacy preserving attribution but this can easily be disabled in settings.

In contrast, Chrome is literally a tool for Google to gain as much personal information as possible for Googles advertisement platform. It has the worst privacy features of the three major browsers and cannot be fully made private due to crippled extension support.

Firefox engine has some catching up to do, but the Safari rendering engine is behind Firefox on features.

From the same article: If you prefer tapping, you can select Summarize Page under More in the three-dot menu.

Nice that they use the Mistral AI, supporting European innovation.

Safe: yes, the process is safe and can be guarded just as with any processed food.

Energy efficient: it needs to scale up in a smart way to become more energy efficient. Right now production is small scale and therefore energy consuming. Investment is needed.

Taste: it’s actually really hard to taste just as good as normal meat, as meat is not only meat but also fat, tissue and blood. For simple meat it can work well, but it isn’t an alternative to a juicy steak. That doesn’t mean that it is without purpose. There’s a growing group of vegetarians/flexitarians and people that are generally fed up with the way humankind mistreats animals on a mass scale. For them it doesn’t have to be a 1:1 replacement.

Lab grown meat doesn’t have to compete with real meat, it has to compete with the meat alternatives.

Well, in crypto all your assets are on the blockchain. But you can access them using wallet software. You can have multiple addresses that have a balance, and most of the time anyone can see those balances, as the ledger is synchronized and transactions are checked by all clients.

However, in order to access and send the money, you will need proof that you are the owner. Therefore every address has a keypair. In older desktop clients, there was a local file called wallet.dat which stored all of the owned wallet addresses and their private keys. That file could optionally be encrypted. Newer clients often use a mnemonic phrase and derive all keys for the addresses based on that single phrase, but the person in question still had the original wallet.dat, even unencrypted, meaning he could access the keys all along. Not sure what the mnemonic had to do with it. Perhaps that belonged to a newer wallet where he imported the old addresses into.

Same in Europe, it’s generally not allowed to have distracting lights or signals on cars. Advertisements on trucks are only allowed if they are passive (e.g. painted or printed).

Opus is a hybrid codec, it combines codecs for both speech and higher quality audio/music.

Now try it with chrome

All Android phones support Opus which makes it a great format if storage space is limited, as it’s optimized for low bitrates. You can go as low as 64 kbps if you are not picky. 128 kbps is near transparent and certainly enjoyable, while 192 kbps is basically a 320 kbps mp3 equivalent.

At 128 kbps, one can store 5000 songs even if they have just 20 GB to spare, as mentioned above.

Same here. Moved away from Spotify and store the music straight on my phone. I use Poweramp to play and manage the library, which has excellent Android Auto support as well. And I use the Seeker app to use Soulseek straight on the phone. I also convert to Opus using Ffmpegme to save space as I don’t need lossless on my phone and a 128 kbps Opus file sounds just as good as a 192+ kbps mp3.

The quote is obviously incorrect, perhaps the engineer meant to say “absorb 1.2 GWh and start providing power to the grid in a matter of milliseconds”, and it was lost in translation.

From what I read, it does 800 MW max, which is still a lot.

1.2 GWh is just the capacity. And response time can indeed be quite fast as the system is always on standby, but I would guess it would still take a few seconds to go from zero to full power

There’s always a catch, details matter.

Some chemistries can only work if heated up to a certain temperature.
Some cannot supply high currents. Some perform badly at lower temperatures. Some are expensive to produce. Some have a very low energy density per weight or volume. Some are hard to create consistently and require a lot of balancing. Some cannot be scaled up easily. Some are prone to aging regardless of cycles. Some even require manual maintenance.

It’s hard to make a cell that does everything right. Cycle life is only one out of a huge list of parameters.

Not really. WordPad supported rtf and things like embedded images. It has been obsoleted by MS.

Notepad doesn’t do rtf, but they did add markdown support. Which I think is an ok feature. The bad part is the application now also includes AI and other unnecessary features and doesn’t feel as snappy and fast as the old one.

I have mailbox.org for a side project and although it works well, I don’t really like the experience since several parts of the site default to German instead of my own language.

Hoping the new calendar will finally have a search. That’s the one reason I have to revert to Google calendar at times