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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">No disrespect intended, but where in that lengthy article did they actually explain just what Deepseek is doing which is different from other LLMs? </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Well no worries, there are other, less technical but more to the point articles about just what's so disruptive about Deepseek.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>DeepSeek explained: Everything you need to know</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/DeepSeek-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know#:~:text=DeepSeek%20uses%20a%20different%20approach,and%20less%20cost%20to%20develop." rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/DeepSeek-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know#:~:text=DeepSeek%20uses%20a%20different%20approach,and%20less%20cost%20to%20develop.</a><span></span></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This article is much more at my level, both in terms of technical understanding and in terms of attention span. I'm sure it doesn't cover as much material as the longer article, but I find it much easier to follow. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 05:42:37 PM EST, Adam Broun via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191"><div>Thought these might be of interest to the group.<div><br></div><div>First link is to an On The Media (NPR) interview with Ed Zitron giving some perspective on Deepseek….he’s quite scathing about the Silicon Valley approach to GenAI</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display:block;"><div style="display:inline-block;" data-url="https://waaa.wnyc.org/e68b6750-ddde-4b56-8121-be01a1922ff5/episodes/ac4a1e36-3a94-487d-892f-c864cce8d6d4/audio/128/default.mp3/default.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_e32d0fa3ef5b1952c05ce11ced49bdbb_43222227.mp3" class="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191apple-rich-link"><a style="border-radius: 10px; font-family: -apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; display: block; width: 300px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://waaa.wnyc.org/e68b6750-ddde-4b56-8121-be01a1922ff5/episodes/ac4a1e36-3a94-487d-892f-c864cce8d6d4/audio/128/default.mp3/default.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_e32d0fa3ef5b1952c05ce11ced49bdbb_43222227.mp3" dir="ltr" class="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300" class="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable"><tbody><tr><td><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td width="30" class="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191lp-rich-link-captionBar-leftIconItem"><a href="https://waaa.wnyc.org/e68b6750-ddde-4b56-8121-be01a1922ff5/episodes/ac4a1e36-3a94-487d-892f-c864cce8d6d4/audio/128/default.mp3/default.mp3_ywr3ahjkcgo_e32d0fa3ef5b1952c05ce11ced49bdbb_43222227.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="blob:https://mail.yahoo.com/6aa78d32-0406-42aa-b235-68d26cba4759" style="display:inline-block;width:30px;min-height:30px;" width="30" height="30" class="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191lp-rich-link-captionBar-leftIcon yahoo-inline-image" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></a></td><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="ydpdb3c72yiv2825165191lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width: 100%; 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