Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan. This applies to you even if you are US citizen and post from US and they think it is a blasphemy. They can arrest you and execute you if you ever visit to Pakistan. This is the law and no government official will deny it or will say they will not implement.

Similar laws may exist in many other countries.

Will US ban Pakistan (and other countries') official's visa? I bet it won't.

I often take screenshot over remote video call (E.g. Zoom) to capture url people are using for presentation (instead of interrupting speakers and asking for the url). Often times people jump around multiple pages and only one or two are interesting to me which I don't have, so I just take a screenshot. I hate when users use safari and all you can see is hostname. As long as it shows enough information that if I copy/paste, it will go to the right url, I am ok.

Fusion power is not there yet. But that is not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that the most optimistic commercial calculation (assuming the technology will work perfectly) do not show any profitability. Earlier, there was some indirect benefit in terms of clean power, but now solar/wind/nuclear/hydro can provide almost all the electricity needs.

So in summary, fusion as a commercial power will never be a reality. Most scientists that I know working on plasma physics agree on this. However, it is a beautiful science and they need research money, so publicly they cheer such achievements.

Microsoft has a monopoly over Xbox and every developer has to pay commission and can only distribute games after Microsoft signing. How is that any different? Microsoft takes commission off of every sale, why can't Apple take?

Apple provides more service than Microsoft. It allows hosting of the software, manages payment, user feedback, and so on. Microsoft provides no such facility to developers. Plus you have to be a large company to begin with to develop a software for XBOX and you can only develop certain types of games and approved software. You can't even develop a generic app like browser, Adobe, ProCreate etc.

Government is giving far more latitude to Microsoft co tightly control XBOX but not to Apple to tightly control iPhone and other iOS devices. They are no different than XBOX apart from the form factor.

I got a direct response from Zuckerberg and he said that Linux is for high paying developers at FB and AWS and they don't have time to waste on FB. FB is primarily for losers and they don't know anything about Linux, so the ban is justified.

/end-sarcasm/

In 2018, I got a laptop with 1060Ti graphics card with 6 GB RAM for under $800. If NVIDIA chips performance has increased 1000x in 10 years across the board, then I would expect 64x improvement in graphics as well. Mr. Huang, please send me a link where I can laptop with 64x speed improvement over 1060Ti and cost under $800.

Based on the benchmarks, desktop version of RTX4090 is 5.6x faster than GTX1060Ti and RTX4090 is way more expensive than GTX1060Ti was in 2018. The recently announced RTX5060 with price of $549 (that Huang claims has speed of 4090) matches 6x performance improvement at similar price to GTX1060Ti. So in 7 years, we get 5.6x improvement. That is way slower than Moore's law.

It is highly annoying typing alt-space to launch CoPilot. Why can't they simplify by just pressing space?

Govt should raise minimum H-1B salary to 130k (or whatever is reasonable) minimum irrespective of profession. Also add 3-6% extra payroll tax. That will make companies look for US workers over foreign workers.

There is nothin wrong if you make your decisions on technicality. But if you make based on content, then the responsibility of that content may fall on you. Sun (or was it some other paper) decides to hide Karen McDugal story after paying 150k. Obviously, this was not a technical decision but a content decision. Math decisions can be made in one cultural/political environment and can be applied at another. Content based on cannot. What is censored in Pakistan is not same as what is censored in US or China. If you promote articles which says "riot", "kill", "burn" blah blah, then you are responsible. If you say put top 10 viewed articles on front page, you are not responsible for what those articles contain.

--> Supreme Court opinion that platform algorithms reflect "editorial judgments."

IANAL, but the algorithms based on technical metrics should be exempted. The algorithms based on contents can be considered as editorial judgments. Thus if TikTok or any other recommendation engine is simply recommending based on likes, dislikes, comments, viewership, geolocation, language preference, then they are not editorial judgments. But if it is based on contents like "challenge", "Trump", "election fraud", "illegal immigration" etc, then it is clearly editorial judgments. There have been several cases where insiders have been accused of promoting/demoting specific items based on what they contained and article 230 should not apply. But if a company is just doing using mathematical tools, then they should be exempted.

Making it one step closer to iPhone. Took less than 2 years to copy the feature.

Likely.

Doesn't Coke pay billions to Walmart for better placement? Everyone does that. The only issue I see here is that it is exclusive for Apple.

Maybe Apple can provide same pricing to 3-5 top search engines and then put each of them randomly based on the bid. So if google buys 500 million devices and pays 10 billion, and Bing buys 200 million devices, then it will be required to pay 4 billion and 2 out of 7 devices will have Bing as a default search engine and 5 of the 7 have Google.

A search engine may disqualify for next year if more than x percent of those engine users switch the default back to something else. So Bing will have to maintain quality if it wants to be on iPhone. They won't be able to complain if Apple shows that it is creating sub-par experience for iPhone users.

Commercial fusion has missed the boat. The most optimistic calculations puts it far behind solar. Solar disadvantage is that it is not a base load power generation. However, coupling it with fuel cells using hydrogen/something-else can work. According to US dept of energy, a system with 15 day backup would be commercially possible by 2050, at which point, it can supply 90% electricity to 90% consumers. Fusion on the other hand, on the most optimistic basis is not possible before 2070. Solar is ramping up. Current generation is too low to worry about it being not a base load station. As it is ramping up, the fuel cell, and other utility storage is ramping up too leaving fusion in cold (with the fairy tale about cold fusion was true).

I am still about funding fusion research purely as a scientific curiosity. Just like going to moon, fusion reactor needs to be made just for the heck of it. But China will not benefit from it just like US didn't benefit from moon landing.

Since it says that it had higher accuracy if the problem was published before 2021, I am guessing that it may be doing verbatim copy of the existing solutions. More the solutions, more likely it will fit in one of the patterns that it had seen and more likely that it picked up that solution.

A better benchmark would have been to compare with what you get from search engines and see if they materially differ. I have tried dozens of coding problems with ChatGPT and all I get is usually a boilerplate code. As an example, I asked ChatGPT to write a code about moon phase. Its code was correct but it used horrible formula which gave pathetic answers. Fixing one line formula made it work. ChatGPT had no idea which of the dozens of solutions on the internet was a correct one.

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