That actually has a simple answer, for most businesses it's not that you can't do what your suppliers do for you, it's that you'd rather use your resources (time and capital) towards something else because that's where they generate the most value.

For a simple example, I know how to make sandwiches but if I'm throwing a customer event I just want to buy them from a catering company. Then they have to deal with buying ingredients, hiring people, doing health code inspections, getting liability insurance, etc. Even if an AI could do all the management of it for me, I still wouldn't want to put in the capital resources towards it.

  > I still wouldn't want to put in the capital resources towards it.

do these ai-startups require a lot of capital?

Not to mention, there are already (pre AI) machine-generated proofs that we've pretty much agreed not to try to explain fully, like the four-color theorem which ends up with brute-force verification of 600+ cases (down from close to 2,000 when first demonstrated)

> there are already (pre AI) machine-generated proofs that we've pretty much agreed not to try to explain fully, like the four-color theorem

Algorithmic verification is a very unsatisfying answer to the problem (e.g., surely it's not just dumb luck that every single case happen to have this exact property), but that's an entirely different issue than saying that no one follows logic of the proof method itself.

That was essentially the point made by America in allied-occupied Germany, which completely suspended free speech. It does happen.

The $13b doesn't go to hugging face's bank acct to pay for anything like S3 egress fees... It go to hugging face's owners' Bank accounts for them to do anything else. New cohorts of billionaires and centi millionaires getting minted.

I think he was telling something called a joke. It's funny because S3 is expensive and they just got some money.

Dont the American investors (Salesforce, GV, IBM, Nvidia) get any of that?

> billionaires and centi millionaires

I think you mean hecto-millionaires.

I think you mean people whose net worth, expressed in millinaires, exceeds 10^11

I think you mean mibionaires

Decitrillionaires

I think you mean Dodecahedrillionaires

> The world would probably be a healthier place economically if every town and region could support a strong network of supermarkets, department stores and independent shops.

I don't know what you mean by that. I used to live in a tier 2 European city pre Internet and there were lots of things that were a pain to buy. We'd often have to check multiple stores. Specialty hobbies were served by one or two shops that you had to drive to. I remember having to take the train to a different city to buy a memory card for my computer. There was real consumer cost and societal cost.

The warehouse and online order model is economically a lot more efficient. The real question is what to do with the surplus it generates, make Bezos richer or something else?

The model doesn't particularly "know" which tokens within its output are "comments", it's not so easy

It knows when several tokens are about equal vs. times where one token is vastly preferred. In the latter case, that’s usually code or math or something similar and so it won’t alter those tokens.

Curious why isn't it using an ADSB receiver?

Kamangar, Wojcicki, Mohan were all CEOs of YouTube

Didn't at least some living generals fight in Vietnam?

For the US? No. The mandatory retirement age is 64. The fall of Saigon was 1975. So the youngest you could be to have served in Vietnam is 69. The last general with Vietnam experience retired in 2010.

No for China. Apparently Zhang Youxia was one with combat experience in Vietnam but got purged recently.

Ok now do date math, does the day-of-month accurately jump over the non-existent numbers?

This "civic vs proleptic" split is a good use case for composite calendars: glue a few calendars together at their historical cut-over dates and the result behaves like one ordinary calendar.

I maintain an Elixir library (Calendrical) that does this. England, for example, is just three segments spliced onto a Julian base:

  defmodule England do
    use Calendrical.Composite,
      calendars: [
        ~D[1155-03-25 Calendrical.Julian.March25],  # year starts on Lady Day
        ~D[1751-03-25 Calendrical.Julian.Jan1],     # New Year moved to Jan 1
        ~D[1752-09-14 Calendrical.Gregorian]        # the 11-day jump
      ],
      base_calendar: Calendrical.Julian
  end

The "missing" days simply aren't valid dates, and stepping across the boundary jumps:

  England.days_in_month(1752, 9)              #=> 19
  England.valid_date?(1752, 9, 3)             #=> false
  Date.shift(~D[1752-09-02 England], day: 1)  #=> ~D[1752-09-14 England]