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Comment Re:Are you telling me.. (Score 4, Insightful) 148

No, only that people can't read, which is nothing new. This is the literal quote from the deepseek v3 paper: "Note that the aforementioned costs include only the official training of DeepSeek-V3, excluding the costs associated with prior research and ablation experiments on architectures, algorithms, or data."

In other words, this is only what deepseek has been saying from the very beginning in its public tech report.

Comment Re:credit union bank some random startup (Score 1) 53

Exactly, and N26 or Revolut are getting pretty big in Europe. They are app-only with literally no physical branches. (Revolut isn't quite a bank just a credit card though that's often enough, but N26 is a real one.) It turns out that banking can be quite simple, a breeze with a well-designed app, and completely remote.

Comment Re:Paper money is not going away (Score 1) 250

China *already* proved you wrong. Even the beggars in the streets wear alipay QR codes. For daily use, cash already effectively went away in China *right now*, not in the future. No reason this is not going to happen in the rest of the world, Africa might be next. No opinion when it will happen in the US in particular, but who cares.

Comment Re:Scaling to the real world? (Score 1) 272

Lightning Network (http://lightning.network/) will allow Bitcoin to scale. Maybe not to VISA-level yet, but at least further several order of magnitudes.

The lightning network allows to keep most transactions off-chain - for example all your daily payments can go through a LN operator, and the only thing that needs to be stored in the blockchain are channel balance settlements - say once per month you settle the balance with a single transaction. It recently left beta, with the protocol finalized and three interoperable implementations. Now, UX and client support is needed, and adoption by major Bitcoin operators. But that'll happen.

Bitcoin adoption just went a bit ahead of the software ecosystem, but don't discard Bitcoin because of that just yet.

Comment Siri is many things - many open source projects! (Score 2) 186

Siri is a complete stack of text reco engines, intent recognition tools, and backends. There are many initiatives like Sirius, Mycroft and YodaQA, and each does something slightly different - either focusing on the speech reco infrastructure, or just answering factoid questions...

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