I'm always mystifed as to why the heck this is on any goverment phones in the first place? With the exception of perhaps PR wonks whos job it is to be on "the socials" (thank you PR wonks, btw).
"Why are so many (of .003% of the male population)..." This feels like some kind of weird PR resurge effort to promote a fake trend into real popularity, for who or what reason I can only guess.
Not a finance guy but I think that would literally be the opposite of how banks work. They have to lend out customers money in various forms, including giving that money to other customers in the form of loans, loaning it in huge chunks to companies for larger percentage rates than they give customers who keep their money in said bank, and so forth. Not sure how a bank that kept every customers money on hand all the time would work.
I always find the wording of these discoveries interesting where a certain thing started at a particular time, instead of by a particular time. The difference might seem small but I think using "by" better conveys some temporal distance of ramp-up to that technology could be considered, wherease "started at" seems quite abrupt.
If this isn't just playing "follow the leader" behind companies like Meta and Amazon, I wonder if it's related to loss of revenue from customers balking at the exorbitant rates for Jira and Confluence. I understand there's a balance between selling as wide as possible and then having to support that wider dispersal (to eventually diminishing returns) but from the outside the numbers seem rather unreasonable. I know at least two large companies who are actively looking for a replacement because of that (even with the understood compromise in features this might entail).
Basically "We've got so many empty desks you'll have to share them until we have more people filling desks...".
The quote here was interesting though: Pichai said in a companywide meeting last week, according to audio obtained by CNBC. “There are people, by the way, who routinely complain that they come in and there are big swaths of empty desks and it feels like it’s a ghost town — it’s just not a nice experience.”
Personally I don't go into the office to measure up "the feel of the crowd", or to get a social experience. I do it to get work done, and only when I have to. We can coordinate social experiences outside of the office if need be. It'd be interesting to see an experiment where workmates only get physically together to do social events like team sports or the like, but work mainly remote relative to each other. I bet this would be just as cohesive to teams.
There's something unspeakably captivating watching a cowboy-dressed academic outside in the apparent wilderness with a backdrop of snowy mountains demonstrating examples of reconstructed ancient proto indo eropean language.
I'm of the opinion that officials who declare a site is "safe for habitation" or whatever it was termed originally should personally guarentee this by habitating onsite for at least 3 months thereafter, drinking and bathing in the local water, visiting the outdoors locations, and so forth.
Ever since they decided to paywall I've been skipping them as the actually valuable content can often be found elsewhere. Even more of a reason to do so now.
I'm sure some will decry going elsewhere as inciting the move to generative AI by not generating revenue to pay writers, but I think the more honest take is that "news outlets" or "publishers" or whatever they're calling themselves these days have always been looking to cut costs any way they can, no matter the site traffic.
I'm with you there on hoping for more concentration on local training and inference, especially on something like the new Orin (open to donations, NVidia!).
I think there's still something of a financial disincentive to promote selfhost over cloud capabilities for just about every party involved except the selfhoster. NVidia loses out if they're selling a few Nano or Orin platforms relative to the much pricier datacenter cards sold in huge lots. The cloud hosters are making up for the cost of hosting in terms of end-user pricing, snarfing all that lovely customer data and likely selling analytics, and probably other measures I can't understand yet. And the large companies that fund research and initial model development want to know what's being done with their models so as to gain any possible competitive advantage. They can't necesarily guarentee that intel from a self-hoster. Almost nobody is willing to spend the time explicitly to make it easier for the individual dev at a small lab or at home to do this because that's essentially a donation and not a business expense that might yeild obvious returns.
It's interesting to note that the premise of DIARI is "[to] foster the development of new AI systems created by and for Black people in the US and Africa. DAIR will prioritize leadership by members of these communities and create spaces where contributors are able to do this work with psychological safety." which explicitly declares a substantive bias itself. Will this also be amplified?