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- Comment on Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists 1 month ago:
I was just trying to be funny. Like imagine if they called it “The Irrelevant Institute of Technology”.
Also thinking about royal jelly found in bee hives being renamed “irrelevant jelly”. Or a royal flush in cards being renamed an “irrelevant flush”.
- Comment on Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists 1 month ago:
I think the operative word is should. It should be irrelevant (or renamed).
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 month ago:
The fediverse just doesn’t have the audience nor ease of use to be the smart investment for most people, at least in the short term.
In the long term, I believe the fediverse would be the right move. However most people struggle to think long-term outside of their own fields, and scientists are not immune to this phenomenon.
- Comment on Whats your favorite domain extension? 2 months ago:
.sucks
I maintain that this was made purely as an income stream for registrars. Every single company and brand should be rushing to buy companyname.sucks. Every town buying yourtown.sucks. Every political candidate getting into bidding wars over candidate.sucks or opponent.sucks.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 3 months ago:
Fair. We’re using 4o and o1-mini right now, because access to the full o1 is waitlisted in Azure. However based on some brief review of their pricing for o1, I’d say we’re still going to save a metric fuckton of money compared to per-user subscriptions.
- Comment on What do you host on your backup servers? 3 months ago:
First I laughed, but now I’m seeing the genius.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 3 months ago:
I run tech for a midsize business, and consult for several small businesses. Aside from one 4-person company, all of the businesses I oversee found it less expensive to host their own LLM in Azure than to pay for OpenAI’s subscriptions. I’m talking 10% of the cost of subscriptions for the same functionality.
The midsize business in particular has only seen measurable benefit from more specialized/global applications of “AI” tools, such as integrating machine learning into data analytics. There are a ton of people who use the LLM chat, but I think the mishaps caused by the LLM may have undone any efficiency gains. Either way, I’m sure glad they’re not paying hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for it.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 months ago:
Obligatory Poe’s Law mention, since Lenny seems to have agreed that it’s important.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 6 months ago:
I think the average family’s net worth is a negative number, so you’re technically right.