[-] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 5 hours ago

You can already follow the journals you want via RSS.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 5 hours ago

What does "instance" in this case refer to?

Does he mean something along the lines of advanced search filter/engine? because it can be done now, using the usual tools.

There is no way that I could think about his comment and make sense of it.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 6 hours ago

What do you mean exactly by federated in this context?

What is getting federated in your ideal scenario?

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The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is the only Arctic land mammal that dives into water to hunt. Despite thermal insulation provided by blubber and fur layers and low Arctic temperatures, their fur is typically observed to be free of ice. This study investigates the anti-icing properties of polar bear fur. Here, we show that polar bear fur exhibits low ice adhesion strengths comparable to fluorocarbon-coated fibers, with the low ice adhesion a consequence of the fur sebum (hair grease). Lipid analyses reveal the presence of cholesterol, diacylglycerols, anteisomethyl-branched fatty acids, and the unexpected absence of squalene. Quantum chemical calculations predict low ice adsorption energies for identified lipids and high adsorption for squalene, suggesting that sebum composition is responsible for the observed anti-icing properties. Our work enhances understanding of polar bears and their interactions with their environment and builds on Inuit knowledge of natural anti-icing materials.

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Stable understory microclimates within undisturbed rainforests are often considered refugia against climate change. However, this assumption contrasts with emerging evidence of Neotropical bird population declines in intact rainforests. We assessed the vulnerability of resident rainforest birds to climatic variability, focusing on dry season severity characterized by hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall. Analyzing 4264 individual bird captures over 27 years, we found that harsher Amazonian dry seasons significantly reduced apparent survival for 24 of 29 species, with longer-lived species being more strongly affected. Our model predicted that a 1°C increase in average dry season temperature would reduce the mean apparent survival of the understory bird community by 63%. These findings directly link climate change to declining bird survival in the Amazon, challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions.

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[-] Cat@ponder.cat 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Here is a interesting quote from the article:

"How The Hell Is This So Much Cheaper?

That's a bloody good question, and because I'm me, I have a hypothesis: I do not believe that the companies making foundation models (such as OpenAI and Anthropic) have been incentivized to do more with less, and because their chummy relationships with hyperscalers were focused almost entirely on "make the biggest, most hugest models possible, using the biggest, most hugest chips," and because the absence of profitability didn’t stop them from raising more money, efficiency was never a major problem for them.

Let me put it in simpler terms: imagine living on $1,500 a month, and then imagine how you'd live on $150,000 a month, and you have to, Brewster's Millions style, spend as much of it as you can to complete the mission of "live your life." In the former example, your concern is survival — you have a limited amount of money and must make it go as far as possible, with real sacrifices to be made with every dollar you spend. In the latter, you're incentivized to splurge, to lean into excess, to pursue a vague remit of "living" your life. Your actions are dictated not by any existential threats — or indeed future planning — but by whatever you perceive to be an opportunity to "live."

OpenAI and Anthropic are emblematic of what happens when survival takes a backseat to “living.” They have been incentivized by frothy venture capital and public markets desperate for the next big growth market to build bigger models and sell even bigger dreams, like Dario Amodei of Anthropic saying that your AI "could surpass almost all humans at almost everything" "shortly after 2027." Both OpenAI and Anthropic have effectively lived their existence with the infinite money cheat from The Sims, with both companies bleeding billions of dollars a year after revenue and still operating as if the money will never run out. If they were worried about it, they would have certainly tried to do what DeepSeek has done, except they didn't have to, because both of them had endless cash and access to GPUs from either Microsoft, Amazon or Google.

OpenAI and Anthropic have never been made to sweat, receiving endless amounts of free marketing from a tech and business media happy to print whatever vapid bullshit they spout, raising money at will (Anthropic is currently raising another $2 billion, valuing the company at $60 billion), all off of a narrative of "we need more money than any company has ever needed before because the things we're doing have to cost this much.""

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Deep Impact. (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[-] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 8 hours ago

Ahh, how many zeros can you count?

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Takeaways

  1. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach joined a lawsuit because Kansas is likely to lose congressional representation to states with larger noncitizen populations.
  2. Advocates say the census count needs to be as accurate as possible. Not counting noncitizens would be a mistake, they warn.
  3. Ohio, West Virginia and Louisiana have also joined the lawsuit.
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TikTok’s last dance. (verfassungsblog.de)
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Podcasters and social media influencers will be permitted to apply for credentials to cover the White House, the new press secretary announced Tuesday.

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[-] Cat@ponder.cat 3 points 16 hours ago

💜Thank you.💜

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am super confused about the whole thing.

This is literally a perfect fit for this community.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As I said on my other comment:

Cromite, Brave(with privacy setup), DuckDuckGo browser, Vivaldi.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 5 points 1 day ago

After understanding your opinion, your comment seem to be reasonable but was put with bad presentation, imo.

I think being cautious might be a good point here. We are very early here and we will definitely see a better benchmarks for this model as the time pass. Which will prove or disapprove their benchmarks.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 6 points 1 day ago

The title is "how a small Chinese AI company is shaking up US tech heavyweights."

I am not saying that this criticism is not valid, what I was arguing for here is that the best USA LLM is also censored in comparsion, so the fact that we got something opensource that we can uncensor is better than ChatGPT closed and censored model.

As far as I know, the only used LLM family that is uncensored and can function locally is Mistral AI models.

To put it simply, DeepSeek could be decensored. But it will take time to do so.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Obviously I am hyped about DeepSeek. With that in mind:

fake benchmarks

Any proof for this?

censored llm

Is ChatGPT uncensored?

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