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New comment by TrainedMonkey in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

TrainedMonkey — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:46:53 +0000

It is rarely a challenge to turn $100 into $50.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

TrainedMonkey — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:45:29 +0000

Obviously not the same thing as lying, but Anthropic had also been juicing the revenues with making smart models incredibly verbose. In August my org 3x more in API credits vs July. In September the spend returned to July levels partially because they made models less verbose, but mostly because we've changed how we are using them.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"

TrainedMonkey — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:26:45 +0000

Speaking of ants having a survival instinct, ant death spirals are a thing. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

TrainedMonkey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:33:39 +0000

Higher rates means USG will need to print more money to pay for $40TN debt which will increase inflation which will force higher rates.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For"

TrainedMonkey — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:18:27 +0000

I am getting more and more peeved by using GDP as a single number. Cost of existing, aka housing and healthy food, skyrocketed compared to median income. But hey, the tech got cheaper.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

TrainedMonkey — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:10:00 +0000

In my experience Astra writes python code modifying the filesystem and then uses nix build to execute those python scripts without asking me for permission.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses"

TrainedMonkey — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:21:48 +0000

Grok confidently said it can be done by the end of the year when Elon asked so it must be true.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

TrainedMonkey — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:57:24 +0000

Apple used to have principled UX before designers got to innovation. There might be an argument that new UIs are better for people with no prior experience... if they did not completely change them once a decade or so.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one"

TrainedMonkey — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:44:53 +0000

I see this as liability shifting exercise first, scalability tool second, and Elon's desire to deliver on his 2016 promise third.

The scalability point is compound. We are talking charging, storage, and cleaning infra as well as regulatory burdens. Scaling that is hard and local, so it does make sense to outsource that. I believe the deal is really raw because of the risks involved, but Elon does have a decent track record of delivering on investment. Some of these entities will be able to perform regulatory capture and become a decent cash cow.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

TrainedMonkey — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:36:50 +0000

Do you think we will ever need more than 47 of them agents?

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

TrainedMonkey — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:27:54 +0000

> But the software has become bloated to the point that you need to run the latest generation of CPUs such that things are not sluggish.

As the old saying goes what Intel giveth the Microsoft taketh away.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

TrainedMonkey — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:53:45 +0000

I think it's all about incentives. The power to governance was given to prolific and tenured accounts who wanted to govern. Over the long timeframe their incentive averages to making their life easier and keeping the governance. Wikipedia is going through something similar.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

TrainedMonkey — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:11:34 +0000

Worry not, Pelicans on bicycles had been ranking pretty high on your favorite search engine for a while. I struggle to imagine a world in which it was not already scraped and turned into training data by at least one provider:

1. Models need to be good at the questions we ask them, not the questions we could ask them.

2. The questions, at least partially, are correlated with information people consume.

3. People mostly consume viral content.

4. Ergo you should scrape viral content for training data.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "A dock that wakes up reliably"

TrainedMonkey — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:30:06 +0000

The author does not call it out, but I think the point is that it's not only the dock. I've been struggling with MBP wakeup issues for a while. We have a whole zoo of various apple devices attached to a number of docks. All of the monitors are Odyssey Neo G9. TL:DR an issue with MBP port, MBP to Dock link, Dock, Dock to Monitor link, or the monitor itself could cause the unplugging dance.

In addition, it takes some time for Apple to squash bugs after releasing new hardware or software. M5s used to be unreliable with Anker TB4 until 1-2 months ago.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

TrainedMonkey — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:27:14 +0000

Be honest now, it would take at least a few months for the rest of us.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

TrainedMonkey — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:35:51 +0000

My understanding is that, if confirmed, this demonstrates that AI can find novel solutions. This is a strong counterpoint to generative-AI-is-strictly-limited-to-training-data.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

TrainedMonkey — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:27:26 +0000

It's almost like it is based on the training data and regimen that is largely the same between versions.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

TrainedMonkey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:42:17 +0000

I really enjoyed fantasy part of many small farmers. It felt rustic. However based on my understanding the modern world is moving towards megacorps and economies of scale.

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks"

TrainedMonkey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:17:32 +0000

Why is that?

New comment by TrainedMonkey in "Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra"

TrainedMonkey — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:32:03 +0000

> it doesn't dramatically reduce screen brightness or image quality.

AFAIK it significantly decreases the brightness. Jerry Rig Everything demonstrates this here - https://youtu.be/TRW4W7KkJXs?t=32