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  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • Let me clarify what I wrote: I can't access the google stored document because they send it only to approved people. Do you have access to it and can you share?

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • They seem to be focusing very much on NOT using LLMs yourself, but buying an SaaS offering providing LLM instead.

    95% are failing, and:

    Companies surveyed were often hesitant to share failure rates,

    Oh. So it's at least 95%?

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    Source is MIT Nanda project - isn't that an university project? I can't access it, can anyone share? I'm curious about the methodology and data set

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • The very first internet connection occurred on 30 October 1969

    No. Earliest cross node connection was early 1969: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL_network

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237130669_How_the_Internet_came_to_be

    This is the book be Vincent Cerf where he explains that ARPANET isn't the Internet. Good to know that the people who created the Internet are wrong.

    I get it. You were taught in school that US government created the internet. It's a good explanation to the 4th grader. It's also simplistic and incorrect, but that's how elementary schools teach. It's like that with a lot of knowledge, it becomes more nuanced the more you know about it.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • That is an interesting point of view. Very USA exceptional. It's also dumbed down a lot. ARPANET is a computer network, but it's not internet, nor it was the first. It kickstarted popularity of computer networks in the USA and provided first FTP and (I think) first remote login.

    Popularity of computer networks in USA definitely was a formative quality over the 20 years of international development of the Internet.

    But saying ARPANET was the internet is like saying gramophone is Netflix.

    First computer network to send packets to another computer was British NPL network. Then US government founded ARPANET, built upon that. Except that DARPA besides having own researchers outsourced to Stanford, BBN and University College of London ("How the Internet Came to Be", quoting I forgot whom from DARPA).

    Then French Cyclades computer network built upon ARPANET and proposed that multiple networks should be able to communicate with each other.

    Then USA non-profit IEEE looked at all that proposed TCP/IP for cross-network communication, and that is the thing that (after many iterations over a decade) led to the Internet not being separate networks like AOL or Computerverse or whatever.

    Now we're getting closer to the internet and it's time for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_data_network

    First was Spain with RETD , then France, then USA with Telenet. Then Canada. Then in 1978 we started connecting those separate networks. I think the first properly working project was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Packet_Switched_Service between British post office and USA post office.

    On those public data networks the Internet's physical layer was built.

    In USA U.S. National Science Foundation was founding more and more computer networks, including CSNET. That's still not internet. It's 1980 and it will take a decade of new inventions (Ethernet, LAN, DNS) and improvements & implementations (like to TCP/IP) before we will get the internet.

    Here's a nifty source for that decade, because I spent 50 minutes writing this post before I noticed I'm arguing with a guy over the internet about the internet.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet (there is a nice timeline list there).

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • It is so complicated that you're both correct and incorrect. US government added to it, yes. I'd argue the fundamental work was independent researchers from multiple countries (UK, USA, France). I'd argue the critical infrastructure was multiple non-profits.

    Also the question is "what exactly is the beginning of the internet". Is it usenet? Telnet? Arpanet?

  • Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings

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  • Same document, section about Shareholders.

    There's no such thing. There COULD be something like shareholders voting on smthing and those votes are binding, but the agenda is declared by the company and can be only shiet like dividends rate, certain acquisitions, etc. Not the company strategy itself.

  • Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings

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  • Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

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  • What is wrong with you?

    þink ðat’s

    The fuck is that.

  • But yet the DPRK is still "a threat to world peace"? Interesting 🤔😁

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  • Roberta Cohen's organisation reported, that that's what some of the survivors/escapee's from NK reported.

    She's an ancient woman who has been going around the world convincing Western (mostly USian) people to help others (including when the USA made them refugees).

    Just by the virtue of her trying to help people I believe her.

    You on the other hand are a random nobody in the internet acting like someone poisoned by the USian propaganda (but with an opposite vector).

    Did you know that most people during WW2 believed Nazi death camps are Allies propaganda?

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  • You were going down few kilos. That's easy. The challenge is to lose 40kg and keep it that way. It's not a short journey, it's multiple Lords of The Rings travelling to a volcano and back (from that book we know though that walking a few hundred miles does not make a hobbit skinny).

  • The twitter account of Homeland Security is run by nazis

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  • Yes. And NASA spelled something (forgot the details) is SATAN according to Youtube Shorts.

    /S

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • Well, semantically yes, not all telemetry is spyware. However regarding Windows telemetry it's indistinguishable from spyware - you have no idea nor control over the data gathered, measured and processed.

    The crux is that Windows telemetry is opt out, opting out can't be done during installation, and historically opting out wasn't sticky. Additionally some Windows telemetry is still being sent despite opting out.

    That makes Windows telemetry fulfill all spyware criteria.

  • YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

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  • What I can’t stand is people claiming that North Korea is not a dictatorship, China is democratic and Russia, poor them, was forced into invading other countries

    I signed on .ml because that was the second most popular instance at that time; there are so many people in .ml enamoured with USSR, whitewashing it, that I tend to skip local posts because it's not worth it. They behave like people brainwashed by USA propaganda but with different polarization.

    Sometimes I think they might be CIA shills/bots created to discourage people from socialist movements.

    Btw - China does have local elections where people pick their local representative. So people can pick a person, but not the ideology - that is mandated from the high. It's not exactly what I would call democratic, but hey, the more you know

  • YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

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  • Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing?

    But... You do. Example - no US invader can be charged with crimes against humanity, as the standing US policy is to then invade Hague. Another example - operation Gladio. Or even fucking TikTok from recent years that bent the knee and started spewing american R/Trump propaganda after last election is USA

  • YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

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  • There are things China does right.

    Like retirement age of 55. Like nationalising billionaires when they get too big.

    It also does a shitton of things wrong, but credit when credit is due.

  • Heroic Red Army 🫡

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  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365316318_Stosunki_gospodarcze_miedzy_Polska_a_ZSRR_Economic_relations_between_People's_Poland_and_the_USSR

    For some reason some Western and all of Russian researchers say that P oland being occupied by USSR did wonders to Polish economy, while Polish researchers say otherwise. I wonder why. Oh, btw, the same is true if you look at any other colonized country.

    The idea that you consider the removal of pipeline to be national plundering but ignore the expansion of heavy industry under the Soviet economic program shows you don’t have a grip on what plunder means. You could count any reallocation of machinery as plunder if you are willing to ignore the entire other half of the balance sheet.

    You mean rebuying similar equipment to stolen one, from USSR, on credit, and then processing the resources for them and selling them back by the price USSR dictated?

    You pretend that the USSR plunged Poland into an agrarian bronze age

    I did nothing of the sort. You said you're unaware of systematic wealth transfer, plunder, by USSR. So I showcased, with sources, an example of that.

    Foolish

    Yes. So far you've proven that you're unable to think or say that USSR did anything wrong, and glorify all the actions undertaken.

    If that's not romanticizing, I don't know what is.

  • Heroic Red Army 🫡

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  • It was designed to be rehabilitative.

    Yes it was. On paper. And maybe the first one tried to be. Be the 1930 they were designed to mine, chop, place rails and so on. With an impressive death rate and population.

    I think you're confusing "taiga gulags" with "sharashka" or lagry near western USSR part if you think it was anything but slave labour camps in general.

  • Heroic Red Army 🫡

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  • It's going to be a separate message to keep the discussion focused.

    Gulag literally means prison.

    That's the end of discussion here. You know nothing about gulags. It does not. Gulag is an acronym. Even wikipedia knows better.

    Prisoners in the Gulag worked, but they were paid the national minimum wage and it was saved for them when they left prison.

    Source please. Because while not everyone died, and gulags differed, my great-grandfather was not offered "salary" for forced slave labour.

    I'm not an USian, we're not talking about US here. Don't steer the conversation there, as it's "whataboutism" and bears no relevance to you romanticizing USSR.

  • Heroic Red Army 🫡

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  • You can stop being condescending, it's not welcomed.

    As for national plunder, all of the claims I have seen are of soldiers taking things. Not exactly a massive wealth transfer.

    In 1956, when First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party Gomułka was summoned to Moscow, he made some secret notes (that are now public) counting what infrastructure did Moscow stole (as in - systematically took apart, moved to USSR) from Poland (by 1956!):

    • hundreds different factories lost all machinery
    • thousands of small manufactories (think pa & ma small manufactories)
    • 8 (!) power stations (from Górny Śląśk)
    • coke oven gas pipeline 115km,
    • all big chemistry factories from Polic to Kędzierzyn (value of 1 200 000 000 pre-war $)
    • 4000 km of rails!
    • heavy machine factories in Jelcz, Łabędy, Zielona Góra, Wrocław, Elbląg, Szczecin
    • machinery from Mines in Bolesławiec
    • about 2/3 of machines from the biggest shipyard in Poland (the rest were too big to move)
    • 14 factories of paper and cellulose

    Source - Rolicki “Gierek”, pages 110-120 summarized Gomułka notes

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