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  • Calling these new LLM’s just if statements is quite a over simplification. These are technically something that has not existed before, they do enable use cases that previously were impossible to implement.

    This is far from General Intelligence, but there are solutions now to few coding issues that were near impossible 5 years ago

    5 years ago I would have laughed in your face if you came to suggest that can you code a code that summarizes this description that was inputed by user. Now I laugh that give me your wallet because I need to call API or buy few GPU’s.















  • To be fair US is lacking proper database of all people living in it, and also people identifying properly. Current system is a huge mess. This OF COURSE should be done by the government and never in a million years should this be in hands of private companies. This will never happen in current US system because that would be communism, if country knows who exists.

    Edit: people misunderstanding that I would support this shit. No, definitely this is not the case.



  • Adding little bit extra context here.

    In Finland large number of homes are heated by district heating. This means there is heat plant or combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which heats water to around 70C - 110C (158F - 230F) and that is distributed to homes.

    In this system heat batteries are useful, and near all CHP plants in Finland have done heat battery in last few years. These heat batteries are just 7-store high insulated water storage. Usefulness to store just water is that system is relatively simple. Water in - water out. This makes it that the turbine in CHP can be run more freely towards electricity price, not the network heat demand.

    Plain heat plants generally don’t yet have these, because the buffer created by heat battery is not that much needed. But if these sand batteries can store heat longer, and because they might be cheaper to build, it can make sense.

    Source: I work in company that owns 19 district heating networks.