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Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Well, if you want to get exact, sure. But if we're talking about half units, like 11 and a half billion, then 11.4 is so close to 11.5 there's no difference and calling it just about 11 sorta implies that it's a more significant difference IMO

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You need to be as precise as your resolution, otherwise the precision is meaningless. I guess you could argue that your resolution is units of half-billion (since some things are measured like that), but the initial value of 0.1B, and your use of 0.5 rather than 'half' suggests a resolution of 0.1B.

    This is different to the aphorism 'The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion', both because of the difference in scale, and the quoted resolution.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    11.4 bln is 100 mln away from 11.5 bln. I'm not sure "so close" is correct here.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    59 seconds is 1000000000000 pico seconds away from a minute, so I'm not sure you could say 59 seconds is "so close" to a minute.

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