If they could, they would ship an apple version of the internet only available to apple devices.
Well Microsoft tried to do the exact same thing with that dreadful Microsoft Network in the early days of the web. So it's not inherit to Apple only, all large corporations would like their users locked up in their ecosystems.
Privacy isn’t only, I don’t want anyone to have access to my data. It could also be, I don’t want anyone to know my use case because it’s niche and highly profitable.
Same in Greek. It's "ekatommyrio" with a prefix of the order of magnitude "dis" from two for billions, "tris" from three for trillions, "tetrakis" from four for quadrillions and so on.
Meanwhile, canned sardines went 20% up in the last month in Greece. And that's while we have plenty of local production. I can't imagine what it would be in countries where they import everything. Give it a few years and all fish food prices could go up substantially.
It hasn’t gone up yet here in California but I see from the boxes I usually eat that these are sourced from Vietnam (in spite of Monterrey being a short trip away) so these could come from China (one of the usual tariff bypass mechanisms) and hence anywhere in the world (ghost fleets) and possibly not reflect real world ecosystem pressure until multiple fishery collapse.
Multiple fishery collapses are probably incoming in the next decade or so. For as much as we have and do catch from the ocean, it is as a whole a fairly nutrient bare place by comparison to the land. Its scale and exploitation beyond recovery has allowed it to look far more prosperous than it really is.
I built from scratch a sparse text embedding model trained on a 13T token corpus. Not the same as an LLM because there’s no transformer in the mix, but still I learned a shit load of things in order to solve all sorts of problems that emerge when you try to access big datasets and daily update tables with billions of rows. But if it wasn’t for a specific use case that I tried to solve I don’t think that whatever knowledge I gained could be utilized in the market. Sparse models are a very small niche and most people I’ve come across with similar knowledge are in academic circles, not business related ones. So even if LLMs are all the rage these days I doubt the demand for people who know how to build them is that high. Someone who knows how to setup an open weight model and expose an API might be more valuable to a company these days.
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