>Big announcements were made for sub-10kg laptops (22lbs).

I had a backlit Macintosh Portable (actually, I still have it, but it needs recapping). In its carrying case, and with power supply and spare battery, it came to 26 pounds.

Which was the same weight as the desktop Macs of the time.

I actually hurt my shoulder lugging it through an airport once.

I think it was the powerbook 180 that replaced it on which I had a problem with airport security--they wanted to see a C: prompt. I think it was finally a manager that told him to let me through.

To be fair, "tagging images", i.e. supervised learning, is pretty widely supplemented by unsupervised techniques today because it usually works a lot better. He also says things like just scaling up won't work forever, which seems to be true; the current LLM models are not just scaled up versions of previous ones, and the current LLM craze itself is the result of architectural innovation.

He also says things like "I argued that 'deep learning is hitting a wall'" which suggests he doesn't really understand the difference between deep learning, which involves the very fundamental observation that deeper computational graphs can be much more efficient than shallower ones, and specific examples like a particular LLM architecture.

Paragliders: the only aircraft that you assemble while you're taking off.

This guy was an adrenaline junkie. The very kind of guy who is attracted to aviation and the last kind of guy who should be practicing it.

Lots of assumptions. He completed a lot of flights, many of them more carefully planned than anything most of us have ever done, flying or otherwise. He died on what sounds like a pleasure flight and "fell ill while flying" might be Italian police speculation for "had a heart attack."

You don't jump off a balloon at 100,000 feet without a lot of calculation. Baumgartner was the spam in the can but there are whole teams behind these things, from figuring out whether it's possible to designing the spacesuit that kept him alive.

How did the stock market get into this discussion?

And the list concept concerns me. Are these lists appealable? If not, then they're abusable.

Also, the line between "AI generated" and "non-AI generated" is ever more fuzzy. AI is used for upscaling. AI is used in cameras to enhance images taken. AI is used to make the sort of minor edits that are done the world over in Photoshop. Etc. There's also the fact that this is done with image fingerprinting, which is fuzzy, so then any images that have minor modifications done with AI which get added to the list will get the raw images flagged as well. The thing people want to stop is "fake images", and in particular, "fake images that mislead about the topic at hand". But then that's not "AI" that's the problem in specific, that's image fakery in general (AI just makes it faster / easier).

And re: fingerprinting, take for example, the famous case of the content-spam creator who took a photo of a woodcarving of a German Shepard, flipped it horizontally, ran it through an AI engine to make trivial tweaks to the image, and then listed it as his own. I'd think any decent fingerprinting software would catch both versions. And if it's not flexible enough to catch that, then I have to wonder how useful it is at all, since images constantly change as they move around the internet, even accidentally, let alone deliberately.

People have been getting caught sneaking around by low tech means for thousands of years too. Feeling up your subordinate in public has always come with some risk of getting found out, especially if you're rich and a somewhat public figure.

better yet, set an activation time at which a few weeks worth of drones will simultaneously activate and attack a range of Russian sites . . .

uhm . . .. let's see . . . "In soviet Russia, the data backs *you* up!" ?

Exactly. In the 90s we still used to try to optimize C code by using register variables and complex function structure that happened to suit the way the processor worked.

Then we stopped doing that because we realized the new compilers could optimize it a heck of a lot better.

Now we typically don't even write programs that generate machine code any more but feed everything into a VM that generates code on the fly.

I don't remember having to do any serious optimization for years, and it was mostly stuff like batching up messages so we weren't trying to process them one at a time with all the overhead of starting and stopping the processing operation each time.

If nearly 100% of their code is written by AI that means it's not under copyright then. Interesting future when this becomes the common case across all companies.

Prison for a civil suit? I don't think so. Leaving him financially destroyed, on the other hand, is definitely what Apple is aiming for.

Apple has launched a civil lawsuit. If it was criminal, federal prosecutors would be the ones executing the case, which they would do if there really was a case for it. So no, not criminal.

WHAT is right there on video? That is NOT one of Zelensky's bodyguards. That's a random soldier from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade, which recaptured Izyum, during Zelensky's visit to celebrate the victory. Do you think bodyguards spend all their time taking selfies with the person they're protecting? Grow some common sense circuits in your brain. And it's not like Zelensky was handing the man an award with the patch prominently featured in front of the camera while he received it or anything. The Russian volunteer ranks are absolutely littered with Nazis.

What, you mean like the Russian governor of occupied Donetsk outright giving an award to a guy with a Totenkopf patch? Or all of the numerous Russian officials who have praised or given awards to the puppy-eating, unabashed Nazi, Milchakov?

Also, contrary to the misinfo sites you read, that was not a photo of "one of Zelensky's bodyguards". That was from his visit to Izyum where he was posing with random soldiers from the 25th Separate Secheslav Airborne Brigade to celebrate the retaking of the city from the Russians. That's why everyone has their phone out to take selfies.