https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation for the reference

ML algorithms are compression algorithms, the trained models are compressed data.

"Bring your own AI" or "Provide your AI API access key" will probably be coming to a lot of services/apps that we want 'our' AI's to interact with.

I can see this also bringing strongly tiered AI's, there will be commodity/free AI's a and expensive ones for rich people/power users.

I just hope I live to see the day personal agents are empowered to make ad hoc use of paid services on our behalf—via eg AITP (Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol), which is specifically designed to enable autonomous, secure communication, negotiation, and value exchange between agents across trust boundaries. AITP includes explicit capabilities for "Payments" (AITP-01) and "Data Request" (AITP-03), allowing structured sharing of sensitive information like addresses and passwords that can be programmatically verified and executed.

Similarly, the Coral Protocol aims to be an open and decentralized infrastructure for "The Internet of Agents," with "built-in economic transactions" at its core. This means agents can be compensated for their contributions via on-chain micropayments

Oh, damn, no, that sounds like an expense-tracking nightmare. Budgeting becomes the principal executive input.

Last line of your comment is what I was thinking the entire time. Another layer of abstraction between our minds and our wallets.

JFC, these crypto people never stop! No matter how many times their tech has shown itself it be just about useless other than for illegal activities or for scamming people, they keep pushing it in every new tech space that exists.

I swear 100 years from now someone will be inventing faster then light travel, and there will be some tech scammers posting on HN on "how much better it would be on chain". Or how "the engine could be better if it used a decentralized crypto protocol."

The allure of being in the ground floor of a new scam just must be that great.

> "Provide your AI API access key" will probably be coming to a lot of services/apps that we want 'our' AI's to interact with.

Considering provide your own API key is banned by a number of larger players (Reddit, Google Maps) to stop large numbers of users cashing in on the free/cheap low usage tiers I'd expect AI vendors would enforce the same rules soon once all this free VC hype funding dries up.

any details on this? how they can even detect it or ban it?

It's in their TOS. Trivial to ban you when they see thousands of different keys coming from a single IP.

not sure what CORS rule they have but in edge apps most likely your users will run AI API directly from their devices so not like their key will be used more than on few edge devices they have.

Snowflake does revenue sharing, it’s possible that AI providers can start doing that too.

do you have a link where I can read more about it?

Doesn't support NVIDIA GPU's!? Is this a display or gaming specific thing?

All the ML people are using NVIDIA GPU's on Linux.

There are indeed nvidia drivers for Linux and they're reasonably good for gaming, but the feature set sometimes lags far behind windows. There is no DLSS 3 for Linux, for instance. (as of a few months ago anyway - I haven't checked recently)

There is though. I'm playing Hitman 3 with all RTX options enabled, DLSS and frame generation

Ahh rightio. That's a shame.

Nvidia support across the desktop ecosystem is poor, for example practically nonfunctional in Sway. And just buggy in other Wayland based desktop environments (kde seems to be the best in my experience).

WRT Nvidia+Sway this was certainly true not so long ago. But since the latest Ubuntu release and with a recent driver I am running this combo and it works flawlessly.

Really! I'm happy to hear it, I'll give it a try on my desktop this weekend. I would love to get all my machines on the same desktop environment once and for all.

I'm doing PCI passthrough of a 1080 to an archaic tiling X11 window manager and so far it Just Works with noeveau. XFCE also worked fine before I decided I don't want a full DE. Rock stable. I will move dists before I move to Wayland by the looks of it.

i3 should be pretty easy switch from sway if you haven't tried.

> noeveau

Hasn't Nvidia locked most functionality away from the open source drivers?

You either have the choice of using drivers that work well with Linux, or drivers that are fully featured.

That is what made me click.

You have awakened some incredible memories. I know exactly what you are talking about.

Rearden metal...?

Not as strong as steel, real or imaginary.

Milder steels have yield strength in the 200-300 MPa range, while this alloy reaches nearly 1000 MPa.

Well not as strong as the best steels, but still stronger than many common steels. Even some less special bronze alloys can beat common steels in strength.

That's a copper-iron alloy.

thank you for this laugh

Wouldn't have even been a believable April fools joke even 5 years ago.

Search engines are still required for me. LLM's still get lots of very important things wrong.

Last night, I asked Claude 3.7 Sonnet to obtain historical gold prices in AUD and the ASX200 TR index values and plot the ratio of them, it got all of the tickers wrong - I had to google (it then got a bunch of other stuff wrong in the code).

Also yesterday, I was preparing a brief summary of forecasting metrics/measures for a stakeholder and it incorrectly described the properties of SMAPE (easily validated by checking Wikipedia).

I constantly have issues with my direct reports writing code using LLM's. They constantly hallucinate things for some of the SDK's we use.

Asking for a list of companies in a specific sector also gives you made up tickers, or at best a list it found on some blog.

Was a bit more useful at questions like "Rank these stocks by exposure to the Chinese market", as you can prioritise your own research but in the end you just have to go through the individual company filings yourself.