I say sell. 95% of the time, if you have to ask, you won’t need it; use that cash for something else, and let someone else use your Switch.
One caveat: my sibling’s Switch 2 broke soon after buying (WiFi just died), and they had to wait a bit for an exchange. My impression is the Switch 2 has some QC issues.
So maybe keep the Switch 1 a bit, as a backup in case your 2 is a dud.
I mean, you can do both?
Why is it a competition?
WiFi is perfectly acceptable for tons of stuff, but if your streaming box or desktop or something is placed somewhere that can be wired, that’s the obvious route.
Isn’t the Aston Martin Valkyrie sorta a homoligation special?
But… yeah. I thought Koenigsegg would do one for sure, given their first car was literally built for GT1.
LLM weights aren’t code; the engines that run them are completely separate, so they don’t have traditional “backdoors.”
It’s possible some elaborate prompt trigger was trained into the weights, but there’s never been any evidence of that, for years. I’d say worrying about that is paranoid unless you work at the DoD or something, and some full-weights finetuning would scramble it anyway.
In case anyone forgot, Meta was the pioneer of open weight models, with Llama 1 released/leaked February 2023.
They literally set the standard. Yes there was GPT-J before it, but basically everything in the open weights LLM space is derived from the Llama series, its footprint is still in newest Chinese models. The world was Meta’s oyster.
…And after one bad experiment, an experiment Zuckerberg allegedly meddled with (Llama 4), Zuck fired the whole Llama team, paid millions to a bunch of tech bros in their place, who proceeded to nothing for a good long while.
Muse Glimmer is obsolete, IMO.
Muse Spark is… not terrible? Its architecture (GQA + sliding window attention) is about a year or two out of date, but it… could be worse.
But this is just a reminder to anyone who thinks Zuck won’t find some way to feel insecure and fuck Muse up.
He will.
It is what he does. Zuck caused incalculable damage to his company, single-handedly, and he will do it again with zero repercussions.
Same with Musk. And Altman. Not to speak of Microsoft vacuuming up promising startups into a black hole. The U.S. AI industry was basically doomed from the beginning.
Fuck the adtech industry, too. Fuck corporate consolidation and Big Tech. It’s absolutely destroying anyone but clickbait farmers; this problem is bigger than just generative ML.
I’ve seen a few creators say they don’t know how they’re going to continue. They can’t out compete spammers, clicks and views basically make them nothing, no one seeks anything beyond algorithms anymore.
Hence I’ve been throwing more money at Patreon or similar artist subscriptions recently, even if in short bursts.
It was a test.
Meta is seeing what they can get away with, and the answer is “a lot.”
This ^^^
It’s a, err, medium term problem. There’s going to be a serious deficit of attentive human problem solvers before anything can “automate” that away.
Out the back. Top Gear said it vacuumed the dust off their track:
It is most definitely “pavement only” with those tires, anyway.
And all around it! If you can see water, gators can get there.
One night, a bug gator spotted us, ran away and just started tearing up a neighbor’s patio trying to hide. I kept thinking they would open the door and find it right there.
Not many:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks_in_the_United_States
They are everywhere in parts of Florida and Louisiana, though. When I was out walking the dog, I’d see them scurry across the street, or scamper into nearby bogs/lakes. You definitely have to watch out for them.
A EV called the McMurtry Spéirling can do that “drive upside down” trick. A fan under the body + adaptive curtains suck it to the ground like a vacuum cleaner, for extra grip on tracks.
IIRC they have patents on the curtains, so Tesla isn’t doing that.
Doing it with compressed air or whatever is… actually kinda impressive. But it seems like it wouldn’t work for very long, and like a significant safety hazard in a crash.
Another factor is that model capabilities are topping out, but inference costs of cheaper models are absolutely plummeting.
In other words, it’s a race to the bottom. And inference will become a dirt cheap commodity.
…And what do we need all those datacenters for if inference is dirt cheap?
Washington worried about political parties overpowering the checks before he was even president, and worried until his deathbed. This was taught in school, IIRC.
It’s not that simple, as:
Other companies/institutions have heavy investments in OpenAI.
Other companies’ expected long-term revenue depends on OpenAI.
They are the “face” of LLMs to finance world. If they tank, the illusion shatters, and investments pulls out of “AI” everywhere.
I agree that Google, Meta, the companies will be fine, as you said. Nvidia/AMD will be fine. Even XAI will be fine. The physical companies and their business aren’t going anywhere.
But their stocks will drop precipitously, and drag others into the rut with them like a black hole.
But that paragraph links to this as a reference: https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations
In that link, it’s clear “abusive users” means users trying to repeatedly bring up prohibited topics. Anthropic is many bad things, but not insane; they know their models can’t be “abused” themselves, they can be abused as a tool.
Well, the actual post is talking about users, not “hurting the model’s feelings” like the header seemingly implies.
I’m not a Claude apologist or anything, but this is a misleading post, IMO.
Yeah.
I don’t like Anthropic’s long term prospects, but OpenAI is specifically in trouble, near term.
Their whole premise was becoming a Facebook-style “where else are you gonna go?” captured market on the consumer side, and that is clearly not happening. They wanted an enterprise monopoly, and those business customers are looking elsewhere.
Their ass is cooked.
I used to think this, and maybe I’ve been lucky, but I get fresh produce whenever I try.
I would never get a huge produce order curbside, but I use it for the odd thing here and there.
Also, one thing I hate is the disparity in consumer stuff.
WiFi 7 is already everywhere. Everything new supports it.
2.5G, though? Switches for it are expensive. Heck, our new smart TV comes with a 100mbps Ethernet port, one so bad we had to switch to WiFi because it was dropping streams.