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elgordino , 18 days ago

Because it’s actually really hard to achieve technically. When ads are served outside the stream you can easily serve different ads to different viewers based on their profiles. When the ads are baked into the stream you can either

A) Create a whole bunch of different copies of the video asset with different ads baked in and then rotate these on a regular basis. Which would be expensive to update and store and limit the range of adverts that could be served to a particular user.

B) Dynamically create a stream on the users request, which while possible means standard CDN caching isn’t going to work so there’s a distribution challenge.

Or some other alternative they’ve come up with. I’d be really interest to know what their approach is here.

elgordino , 21 days ago

He called the software integration between the two companies “an unacceptable security violation,” and said Apple has “no clue what’s actually going on.”

I’d be very surprised if corporates wouldn’t just be able to disable it in MDM for their worker’s phones. Not sure it’s Apple who has ‘no clue’ here.

elgordino , 21 days ago

Yeah I thought it was a NPU tops issue that’s keeping it off the 17 non pro. However since it runs on a M1 I think it’s more to do with needing 8GB RAM to fit the model.

elgordino , 21 days ago

The A16 Bionic has as Neural Engine capable of 17 TOPS but 6GB of RAM.

The M1 had a Neural Engine capable of just 11 TOPS but all M1 chips have at least 8GB of RAM.

So the model could run on an A16 Bionic if it had 8GB of RAM as it has 54% more TOPS than the M1, but it only has 6GB of RAM. Apple have clearly decided that a model small enough to fit just wouldn’t give good enough results.

Maybe as research progresses they’ll find a way to make it work with a model with fewer parameters but I’m not going to hold my breath.

elgordino , 20 days ago

There are no M1 devices with less than 8GB of RAM.

elgordino , 22 days ago

If they keep burning $100k/w on their Vercel bill they might not be around that long anyway!

elgordino , 3 months ago

I imagine SMS authorisation texts are Telegrams biggest single expense, they are for Signal https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Telcos know that authentication is about the only remaining use case for SMS and are not going to turn down the revenue stream.

That said this idea from Telegram sounds absurd. Not least I expect most contracts prevent reselling free SMS’s like this. The security implications have got to be significant too.

elgordino , 3 months ago

What does ‘unaffordable with fiat currencies’ even mean? This guy knows you can divide BTC right?