I have never been an officer, but the C-suite in the military is like "flag rank" which is above Colonel (Brigadier General.) Colonels are more like high management. But they likely won't be promoted, won't have an actual command, and rank means little more than the title.
If private industry were the military, most companies would be headed by O5 or O6; the scope of duties and responsibilities of an eg VP or CFO are actually quite comparable to a lt colonel or navy commander, CEOs are fairly like captains & colonels. These ranks are enough to head a large ship, air base, or training facility with hundreds or thousands under their command. Only extremely large companies (50k+ employees) have anything with a role comparable to admirals or generals.
I have found it's the most brutal of all of them if you simply tell it to be "hard-nosed" or play "Devil's Advocate." Brutal partially because it will destroy an argument formulated in Gemini or ChatGPT. Using whatever I can get without subs across the board. Debating seems to be one of Claude's strong points.
Right, I'll have one main chat open for high level planning and guidance. It can knock out big chunks for me. But as soon as I take it on a side quest to fix something that doesn't work, it often starts going off the rails. Better to open a separate context for that fix. And often there's a good reason that it created the issue, like it patterned itself into a wall and a dead-end. At that point you should either start back from where it started drifting or take over (but still starting at the pre-drift point.)
Seeing these announcements make me nervous. I feel like I found some sort of cheat code by using AI Studio for free. Seeing them build it out, makes me wonder when they are going to start charging for it. Though Grok has been very generous as an alternate. I guess there's a lot of good options out there. I'm just used to hitting limits most places, and not as good models.
Agree. And for some reason I find responses from AI Studio is much better than Gemini for the same models. I _already have_ Gemini advanced, bit still mostly use AI studio just for the quality of the responses.
It's just a copy of all other models in terms of functionality. I didn't find anything controversial nor extra-ordinary in it. Image generation sucked.
Some Indian twitterers found a way to get it to utter Hindi profane words, that's probably the most controversial thing I know about it.
Just a few days ago Grok started inserting paragraphs about the contested nature of white genocide in South Africa and the 'kill the boer' chant into almost every response it gave, with the vast majority of prompts having nothing to do with South Africa, white genocide, or boers.
Wasn't it Google's models that showed America's founding father's as being black women? They all have their issues. I just want to get things done, before AI just takes over everything.
I care much more about text quality in May 2025 than image generation accuracy in Feb 2024. Generated images are not advertised as 'accurate', whatever that even means.
But VMware still excels at running desktop Linux on Windows. Especially for distros that use 3D accelerated desktops (aka literally anything that uses a recent GNOME or KDE release).
One thing that I notice nobody mention about VMWare on Windows is what about the issues with "Virtualization Based Security"? If you have this enabled VMWare uses "Windows Hypervisor Platform" which I think is also tied in with Hyper-V for running VMs through VMware making them noticeably worse and more unstable especially when dealing with USB devices. During the installer, you'll be warned of this too if memory serves correct. Cons are you cannot use WSL2 and reduced security. How much in reality does it reduce security I'm not exactly sure but I wish it wasn't like this or there was a better workaround for VMware on Windows. VBS feature is enabled by default on all Windows 11 and I think most later releases of Windows 10.
The Windows Hypervisor does suck in terms of an actual virtualization features, but it does reduce security significantly by disabling it. It’s a big front line defense against memory attacks.
You don't have so much platform risk when you're hosting a static site. It's not like spending a fortune on development time to build on AWS just to find that the platform is a liability for the company, but you're locked in to the vendor.
As a board member, you would be unhappy? The board members represent the investors. As an investor, what would your assessment be for Tesla as part of your portfolio?
The stock is down nearly 34% this year. Would you be happy with those metrics as an investor and/or board member?
If the CEO of a company you invest in decided to alienate the majority of said company's customer base, would you be happy as an board member?
Tesla's sales are dropping, in large part because many EV buyers would be embarrassed to be seen driving a car made by a company run by a guy that's actively dismantling the US government and who gave a Nazi salute at a rally when Trump was inaugurated. If they weren't selling carbon credits to other manufacturers, they'd be operating at a loss.
If I were a Tesla shareholder, I'd be pessimistic about the company's future as long as Elon's name is associated with the brand.
They were a highly successful company that made some of the most popular cars, but now their brand is toxic solely because of the actions of their CEO. Tesla is would be much better off without him.
He has also not shown the ability to design new products. All of their vehicles except the Cyber Truck where in design when he bought the company. His one product is a flop.
It's not free. And it's legit one of the best models. And it was a Google employee who was among the authors of the paper that's most recognized as kicking all this off. They give somewhat limited access in AIStudio (I have only hit the limits via API access, so I don't know what the chat UI limits are.) Don't they all do this? Maybe harder limits and no free API access. But I think most people don't even know about AIStudio.
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