An elderly neighbour of mine caught covid the week before last and it degenerated to pneumonia.... I doubt he will be seen again outside without being in a box on its way for disposal.
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Yes - this phenomenon of 'hallucination' needs to be watched for and I know they are spending billions trying to stop it happening. The progress though is phenomenal. Apparently, much of the startling progress comes down not only to the large number of talented developers working on the problems and the investment, but to the very big collapse in the price of the graphics processors which are being stuffed into the machines in huge numbers. That is how the computation happens so fast. That question I asked was answered and on my screen in half a second after I pressed the enter button.
The REALLY clever thing about these Large Language Models is the way they seem to really know what you mean when you ask a detailed question. They actually understand in some way and address the exact issue you brought up.
the progress is on multiple fronts. Vertical transistors, backside of silicon used for power and signal distribution, uv lithography, software. Nvidia current chips delivers a million times more flops than 10 years ago but the price only gone up much less than e a thousand times. So performance per $ or £ is at least 100 times better. It won't stop there. Still at least 1 million times cheaper to come when we go for full atomic deposition. I bought yesterday a second hand ultralight LG Gram laptop for £115 to watch TV in bed because of its lower power consumption. Such a machine was stuff of dream in the 70s when I started in electronics.
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Good catch.
For the last four years or so, i have been using a small alu cased chromebook, called the Asus c101p. It it pretty tiny and suits the amount of moving about i do from one location to another. It is much less powerful than your new catch, but it suits me well and has a lovely screen. Anyway - it has had a hard life and i have dropped if countless times, usually falling off my lap when i fell aslerp watching something on it, and i replaced the keyboard after getting it too wet while cleaning it. So a couple of weeks ago. I spotted one going cheap on ebay, going for about £20 being sold by the Air Ambulance charity. I got it for £41 delivered and when i cleaned the stickers and dust off it it looked brand new. Better still. When i did the diagnotstics utility on it, the battery had only seen 20 charge discharge cycles! TWENTY! My old one had done 1453.
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The thing is brand new and virtually unused. I only browse on them and watch media. So they suit me.
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to me, Labour will take more from the ultra rich, especially the non-doms. They are not saying it out loud but there are plenty of places where this could be done: stamp duty on houses selling for millions, capital gain tax, pension contribution levy. The budget in March next year will be interesting.
Capital gains tax is a scam. Often, probably frequently, people are being taxed on inflation. If you bought an asset ten years ago, any gain needs to have the inflation over the period, taken into account. I dont think it is.
Better still, why not get a bit rich yourself?
Once you have eaten the rich, what will you do after that?
You can deduct a lot from your gain before tax is paid. The deductions exceed usually the original cost and inflation. Ther rate of CGT is also incredibly favourable: 10% for up to about £50k, 20% above that threshold. If you were to go to work and earn £50k, your tax is about 30% and you have expenses getting to work. I reckon CGT should be increased to at least the same level as or treated same as PAYE + dividend + rental income to be fair. Low CGT rate causes money to be diverted into buying shares for growth instead of dividend, pushing up house prices and rents etc.
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Probably not if it was his principal residence.
However, you will have to pay Capital Transfer Tax (death duty) if the total estate including the flat is over the threshold.
NOT an expert opinion, but I think I'm correct.
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