It’s definitely a use case for this and would’ve saved a lot of pain IMO but also seems like it would have added confusing technology to what was a VERY Python-heavy stack that would’ve benefitted from other elements.
Hardest part is always figuring out your company’s knowledge management has been dogsh!t for years so now you need to either throw most of it away or stick to the authoritative stuff somehow.
Elastic plus an agent with MCP may have worked as a prototype very quickly here, but hosting costs for 500GB worth of indexes sounds too expensive for this person’s use case if $185 is a lot.
“Congrats all we maybe fixed the problem we created in the first place! Let’s celebrate!”
Also - wasn’t this program voluntary? This seems like the height of backslapping. Would have been better if they just sat on their hands and did nothing in the first place.
This gave companies permission to do things which would ordinarily be illegal under the ePrivacy directive, but did not make it mandatory for them to do so. That permission is now revoked (or will be when the derogation they were trying to extend expires in two weeks).
According to the Google search I just did, an average American hypersonic missile costs between 13 and 41 million dollars.
So that is between 131 and 410 of these. At that rate, and with enough disdain for my enemy and apathy for their people, I can just launch a shit load of them in the right direction and cross my fingers.
the concept of 'The average hypersonic..' makes me laugh.
in actuality the concept of equating real life dollars to defense budgets makes me laugh, too. It's not really a money thing, it's a production thing; and even if it were to be considered as a money thing the values involved in no way reflect a real life value.
It's like the NASA hammer story/packard commission. They're not going to say no to a 435 dollar hammer versus a zillion dollar project, but it's not actually a 435 dollar hammer.. .
Similarly a 41 million dollar weapon only costs that much until a wartime powers clause forfeits your factory to state production..
> Similarly a 41 million dollar weapon only costs that much until a wartime powers clause forfeits your factory to state production.
I seriously doubt such clauses still exist today. The entrenchment of the MIC in the US political structure is so deep and stretches for so long, that they have probably managed to avoid having such clauses by now. After all, that's their obligation to their shareholders.
Also, the more high-tech the weapon, the more complex and fragile are its supply chain logistcs. So, scaling up the production of high-tech weapons is much harder, especially in wartime.
> Nobody knows yet the true capabilities of the missile, but it doesn’t matter. The accuracy doesn’t matter very much, the payload doesn’t matter very much. If it’s launched at a certain target in Tel Aviv, it still is going to hit something in Tel Aviv. The Israelis have no choice but to attempt an intercept, and will spend millions to do so
Sounds like the massive price disparity more than makes up for any accuracy issues
iron dome is about $100k to intercept according to wikipedia. Millions is off by an order of magnatude. I suspect they can make it cheaper with scale as well.
$100k is the cost of the low-speed ~mach 2.2 Tamir interceptor, which is effective against shells and rockets but not going to intercept a maneuvering mach 7 glide body.
It’s not meaningless - it just shouldn’t be held up as the only thing. Sometimes having a couple proxies is Ok as long as you also look at value in other ways. /shrug
Man I loved programming TI-82s. So many fun ways to build things. I really didn't learn much math that year - I was too enthralled with writing programs to answer the problems for me.
It’s not a need - it’s a fun new thing - fun to see what’s possible and how it helps.
OpenClaw is not easy to set up or user friendly for most (BlueBubbles and Claw had an annoying bug recently) - but the way I have seen it work well requires an up front time investment and then interest compounds RAPIDLY to help manage things and be more productive.
My guess is maybe you’ve never had an assistant or tried a Claw instance? I’ve never had a human assistant but man I’ve had folks that took silly things off my plate and it’s worth it.
LLMs have earned their place in many jobs, but I struggle to see claws as more than a rather expensive waste of time and tokens. Downsides are gargantuan, effects of dead internet theory will be ubiquitous.
Maybe? But I guess I won't find out until I try it a bit.
For now, I'm not posting anything - just managing some calendars and inboxes and task lists and saving me some data entry. Not sure how that makes downsides gargantuan, or contributes to the internet dying. (Though obviously the bot will get worse as the internet continues to die if that's what it's using as a source)
Eh… Titanic did flood in the engine rooms so… might work?
That humor aside: I think it’s about risk tolerance, and you configure accordingly.
You lock it down as much as you need to still do the things you want, and look for good outcomes, and shut it down if things get too risky.
You practice free love, but with protection. Probably still fun?
Big difference between running a bot with fairly narrow scopes inside a network available via secure chat that compounds its usefulness over time, and granting full admin with all your logins and a bank account. Lots of usefulness in the middle.
This is great news. The 1M context is much easier to work with than compacting all the time and seems to perform and remember quite well despite the insane amount of data.
The assumption with these weapons was that they would require too much energy to be portable enough to be undetectable in all of these circumstances (at least based on other reporting on the subject).
If the device doesn't require a lot of power, then it's entirely possible that American military commanders and research leadership would miss it.
Add to that an incentive to avoid helping the victims from a cost and overhead perspective, and you get a big ol' mess.
Hardest part is always figuring out your company’s knowledge management has been dogsh!t for years so now you need to either throw most of it away or stick to the authoritative stuff somehow.
Elastic plus an agent with MCP may have worked as a prototype very quickly here, but hosting costs for 500GB worth of indexes sounds too expensive for this person’s use case if $185 is a lot.
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