We've gone really quickly from "local models are dogshit" to "local models are good actually" (like, a 12 month window from A to B). I don't think they're actually good ENOUGH yet. We need an Opus 4.5 quality local model. When that happens, I think the world will spill over.
Opus 4.5 is/was amazing, and is more than good enough for almost all tasks still as long as you pair with a frontier-level planner/judge.
It'll still require a hugely expensive machine to run it, I'm sure, like a $5K or more laptop or mac studio. But, that's going to be pennies compared to the API costs plus all the benefits of guaranteed privacy and so on.
There is a whale known as the “52 Hz Whale” (sometimes called the loneliest whale in the world) that has been swimming the oceans for decades calling out at a frequency of 52 Hertz, a pitch no other known whale species uses or responds to.
Scientists first detected it in the 1980s, and it has been tracked sporadically ever since. While most whales communicate in the 10–40 Hz range, this individual sings alone in its own unique “voice.” It travels vast distances, often following migration routes but never seeming to find companions.
When Lavrov says Ukrainian land was always theirs, he's admitting that russia never planned to uphold the multiple agreements they signed ratifying Ukraine's 1991 borders.
It's another reminder that agreements with russia are worthless. Remember that.
Hordas de inmigrantes y chusma destrozaron el centro de Nueva York e incendiaron autobuses escolares.
Imágenes nunca vistas en una ciudad como Nueva York.. pones a un musulmán tercermundista de alcalde y te convierte la ciudad más rica del mundo en el tercer mundo en tan solo 4 meses.
Nueva York ya está al nivel de Paris.
Russia lost so many bombers that it sent its bomber technicians to be front-line infantry (and die).
This is what it means to be a barbarian horde. The USSR was brutal and had a crappy economic model, but at least it was a technological civilization. Putin's empire is not.
On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.
The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.
Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.
He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.
He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.
A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.
@andreacarugati Questa è la domanda cruciale.
Lui è un miserabile, ma che dire di quelli che l'hanno promosso da sotto-tenente a generale (almeno 6 promozioni se conto giusto).
«Ciò che lega Russia, Cina, Iran e Corea del Nord non è la religione o l’ideologia. La Cina è comunista, la Russia nazionalista, l’Iran teocratico. Ciò che li unisce è la paura del linguaggio liberale: diritti, stato di diritto, separazione dei poteri e tribunali indipendenti». (@anneapplebaum)