This would be a neat gimmick if it came with free tickets to the movie. Considering the price of the cars and the fact that only newish ones get the ad, they could afford it. It might even be positive PR.

And if you ask an AI to be critical, it’ll also tell you why this is useless lol.

The model itself is structurally very similar to LLMs. It’s just that the tokens aren’t words.

It’s a actually fairly similar to LLMs architecturally. Tokens go in, pretrained transformers do black box magic, tokens come out.

Advancements in one may very well carry over to the other so maybe there’ll be an alphafold 4 one day but for now universities have access to 3 and can run it if they have the compute.

I’m pretty sure they buy those books by the pound (or tonne), ain’t nobody giving them rare copies of culturally significant books to destroy lol

Aren’t they legally mandated to do that when they scan books? That way the amount of copies doesn’t go up technically.

Also unfortunately it’s easier to scan without the bindings.

I do hope the paper gets recycled at least.

I’m assuming American carriers demanded feature parity with Android where they install system apps that do exactly this.

Doubt it would fly in the US.

If they were archiving digital versions so they could be read by thousands in the future, this would be a totally different conversation.

Unfortunately that would be illegal.

I’m assuming they were hoping you don’t actually believe it to be possible, not hoping that it’s impossible.

As far as I know, there’s no viable way to get water out of energy. All the different hydrocarbons we burn tend to produce water as a result of the burning process (CO2 and H2O being the results of a clean burning hydrocarbon).

The trouble is, you need energy to break bonds between atoms, and energy gets released as bonds are created. H2O has some pretty strong bonds and there’s nothing you can easily make it react with to get more or stronger bonds in there.

Water can be used in internal combustion engines to cool down the combustion chambers if you’re running super high performance, but that doesn’t meant water injection is adding energy from water, you’d still be burning more fuel to get more power.

It’s a mixed bag.

The major companies that use it, contribute back to it (think Netflix, Sony, Apple, etc). If they didn’t have a copyleft option, Sony and Apple would’ve built completely closed-source and wouldn’t be contributing to anything. Netflix is different in that GPL wouldn’t force them to disclose their modifications, they just preferred FreeBSD because of its networking stack, they would’ve probably just gone with Linux if FreeBSD didn’t exist.

Of the ones listed, Apple and Sony have definitely contributed back to FreeBSD. Apple hired the lead LLVM dev and paid him to keep working on it. Sony has paid for LLVM development in particular, but also development of other parts of FreeBSD. Source on the Sony bit, which also mentions that for example Netflix is an even bigger contributor

There’s plenty of benefit in contributing back to permissive projects you use, because you have less maintenance overhead if the diff between your fork and the upstream source is smaller.

FreeBSD release engineering team lead says Sony is a major contributor but prefers not getting credit so people wouldn’t be able to deduce their future products tech stack

Well, Sony contributes, but not as much as Netflix (mostly by paying for development, especially LLVM development)

Apple hired the founder of LLVM and paid him to work on LLVM.

LLVM is pretty important to FreeBSD.

Plenty of big companies contribute to BSD financially or let their devs commit code to BSD because maintaining your own fork is tedious work and the smaller your changes from the upstream source, the easier your life.

It in fact doesn’t matter much which one you buy from, they all sell the same product and the product they sell is the problem.

Yes, it’s impossible to effect change as a single person so government action is needed… But the necessary consequence of that is that we also stop consuming as much fuel.

You start it remotely if you don’t have a preheater. Not that idling is great for a car engine, but at least you’ll have clear windows by the time you get in the car.

In the summer you can use it to have a cold car to sit into.

Remote climate control doesn’t work on ICE vehicles without Remote start or auxiliary preheater.

My phone has access to my bank app, my car does not.

Can’t find any near me, I’d have to fly to another country to get one that’s not full of rust holes and decommissioned due to failing safety inspection which doesn’t allow for perforation.

It’s not necessarily that any of the open models are cheaper to train (for similar model size), it’s more that China has deeper pockets. And MoE inference is cheaper than dense models I believe

The people who buy new vehicles usually do it for the warranty that lasts several years so the cost structure of ownership is entirely predictable.

You can also buy a 25 year old Volkswagen 1.9 tdi. Some years your cost of ownership will be fuel and oil changes (and those cars basically take no fuel), but at some point you’ll need new unit injectors costing 2-3x the car’s value for a set. Will it be the month after you buy the car, or will it be in 5 years? It’s a lottery and you’re better off replacing all 4 when it comes to that, rather than doing one at a time.

Cars in the range of 5-15 years of age are even worse because they’re more complex and some of the parts are super expensive. And it takes around ~10-15 years to know if an engine or transmission design is truly reliable (if it has big problems, we might find out sooner).

I’m going to use German cars as an example again because those are the ones I know best, but for example when BMW had the M57 diesel, that was basically the best modern diesel engine. 500k km? 700k km? No problem whatsoever. Only real issues would be the occasional injectors, turbo and maybe some coolant hoses, but those usually started surfacing after 300k or 400k km, at which point you expect SOME issues.

Then N57 came out as its replacement and a few years later we knew about the potential chain and valvetrain issues. Kinda sucks, because they’d also moved the chain to the rear of the engine, but you can get it done for a few hundred euros yourself, or somewhere between 1500-3000€ at a shop. But it took nearly a decade before we knew about the crankshaft issues and those are an engine killer. I’m talking a full rebuild of the bottom end with a NEW, not re-ground crankshaft since these have a special coating from the factory IIRC. Prepare around 10000€, which incidentally could be more than the car is worth by the time you find yourself doing this work.

Now that engine’s replacement, the B57, has been out for 8 or 9 years and as far as is currently known, it has nearly no typical issues beyond some plastic coolant pipes that get brittle over time. But we don’t know what other common issues might start surfacing as more and more of those engines reach high mileages.

Now if what you’re thinking is “just buy a Toyota and you’ll have no trouble”, well, Toyota has made absolutely horrible engines in the past, for example the 2.2 diesel. Head gasket failure was notoriously common. Again, something that you wouldn’t necessarily know when you’re buying a 5 year old car because the issues haven’t started surfacing en masse yet.

Might very well be that they were talking about the PS6 since the announced date was 2028 and they’ll probably have the PS6 come out around that time or even before?

Remember, PS4 release date to PS5 release date was 7 years. PS3 release date to PS4 release date was 7 years. Logically they’ll try to shove the PS6 down our throats starting November 2027 and any new games coming out on PS6 only, are going to be digital only. Game releases aiming for Christmas 2027 are still expected to target both platforms, hence free to ship both physical and digital.

It’s just a single lost sale so it doesn’t matter to Sony or R*, but I was considering getting a PS5 to play some Sony first-party games and GTA VI assuming good reviews… But then we got the digital-only announcements for the future of PlayStation and GTA VI… And apparently GTA VI is going to lock you out of some singleplayer content if you don’t get the ultimate edition or whatever… Yuck.

This was going to be my first ever console, as I’ve only owned PCs so far in my life. Okay I also had a Gameboy Advance SP lol