The reasoning is because it costs more than the face amount in the coin to create the coin, right? I always wonder whether that's relevant, you use that coin several years and it allows for small payments. Is the price when compared to face value then really relevant?

Maybe you are but they're also angling for your co-conspirators, ever considered that?

And also, to your other point, not enough of my peers seemed to care

Problem is made worse by the fact that B2B software gets sold to people who are not its users. Worked for a company who sold B2B software, product was painful to use for me, not even the smallest of error handling was done well, users got used to it cause they didn't have a choice.

True, I can't find the article anymore, and cannot recall the name unfortunately. I did think it was based in EU but that maybe doesn't mean anything

I'm also a bit surprised at this, because I thought during his election campaign his biggest financial backer was rumoured to be deeply invested in military production. Can't recall the name anymore. So I always thought this attitude was for show.

I can assure you that this is not how the 'tech' sector thinks. If you're lucky the AI got tested with a different AI

It indicates the average travel time between Gent and Brussel I think.

I've always found it amazing how musical a howl can be. I once recorded my dog's howl cause it sounded so beautifully undulating.

No but people who cannot recognise complexity anymore, usually because they (just) wrote it and it's currently (maybe) clear to them how it works. Example, large loops that do a lot of different things. LLMs also tend to produce lots of code that tends to get complex -> insensitive to that problem.

I think I agree, but at the same time it's also not the full price, it's already subsidized. Why not 100%, don't know whether there's a good reason except sometimes people hate poor people over here as well

I know that's a touchy subject but most European countries have an identity card for these purposes, where the picture is provided digitally by the government, they just snap you when you pass by town hall. Think I paid 12 euro for mine a year back. Of course then no pure mail in of cards.

Indeed, it got a lot worse when people stopped using the term machine learning and started calling everything AI because there's money in doing that, that's for sure.

Still not totally clear to me how the software industry is so chill with the approach the LLM companies have taken wrt IP. All while sending their own IP to those companies through eg Claude code. What holds them back in training on that code too and likewise leaking it to competitors.

Moh! It looks a lot like Sint Pieters in Gent, even comparing it from my window right now. Admittedly a bit further away

I think I have never seen SintPietersabdij from inside the abbey garden. It is Sint-Pieters seen from the garden isn't it?

Likely smuggling a masterpiece by Von Klump out of the country

Had a similar argument once with somebody who came to the conclusion that Albert Einstein was not a refugee. I think that this might mean the definitions weren't great.

I thought these things didn't 'keep' long, reasonably short shelf life, so is all of that inventory meant for the war in Ukraine then? Don't know a lot about it, but if seems like a lot of grenades.

He always looked happy and carefree. Enjoyed a good, healthy year after his back surgery iirc. I suspect he went without regret. Sorry for your loss, it's always terrible.

Likely not, but I find it usually charming that those games usually don't really follow a recipe the way modern games often do. As if it's all labor of love. But I currently don't find the time to even get through the Alpha Centauri tutorial and remember how it all works afterwards so maybe later.

Alpha Centauri is the one I feel I missed out on, a lot of friends talk about how great it was but I never owned it. There's a project to get it working on new systems but I can't get into it anymore, too large a learning curve. Pity.

Anyway I'll drop it, very speculative. Find it an interesting evolution, LLMs not my expertise so I'm really curious how it will get solved/guardrailed

It's very difficult I think. ISO would, I think, have to treat LLMs as black box, so set of verboten questions or similar, but ISO is public-ish (I thought) so you can reformulate. Other side, cut into training data, but how deep, could become useless. Interesting conundrum

Yes I expected a non disclose, is why I asked whether you could talk about it. Don't think it's rude, you could have ignored the question too. It's still very interesting cause I don't exactly see how and security though obscurity isn't usually sustainable. Will stop now, no need to violate NDAs ;-)

You'll have to send them a $ first

If you can disclose, in which part of the stack are they using your expertise? Training, post-processing/reasoning, ...? Find it interesting how you can protect yourself from certain AI answers reliably

This is Balto. He told you he knew a spot with a great view. Didn’t tell you what he uses that spot for. 12/10 (TT: loresa_ukaj)

Reading this, I suddenly recall the old first class compartments on the trains with the curtains and the animal drawings, smelling of cigarette smoke. Dishes are very proto-french though, strange they call it un-french.

I think there's also patent issues with part of the production process that has a veto from the US, mainly in the form of export restrictions to countries the US doesn't like. But still...