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> If increased productivity equaled job loss, there would be two programmers alive today, doing the same job as the fewer than 10000 programmers using punch cards as we entered the year 1950.

Yeah. The problem is that there’s only one of me. All the rest of you are filling in for the other guy.
You're absolutely right, but I felt like the axiom-approach by x-complexity was fascinating for breaking down the discussion, and I was positively surprised by how GPT4 approached it.
"I want my kid to be able to focus throughout his life"

Tanks for granting old bachelors a moment of yelling "then don't have any!" at cloud.

History suggests that they will always find a way, perhaps not all of them but at least as a whole, as a generation, but are we really exaggerating of we claim that it's worse than it used to be? Every bad turn that had ever happened before has at some point been unprecedented and would have been clearly ruled out before by apppeals to "pessimists are always predicting worse than what actually happens"
I think it's also because you don't have the context of the full project. For example, a project I worked on had a lot of tacked on functions because every couple of years, we'd get pulled in on a contract to update the software. So you'd go in, complain about the software, realize why someone did it the way they did, and then add another chunk to it. You didn't like how it was, but you understood why it was the way it was.
Writings on chaos and complexity theory obviously aren't talking about LLMs. Those theories are so high level that it might as well be akin to "philosophy" to the applied scientists working on LLM research.

Additionally keep in mind emergent behavior is a very rare occurrence in even the most complex software projects. I mean it's common if you count "bugs" as emergent behavior. But emergent behavior that is a feature who's origins are not completely understood? That is extremely rare.
I have been blogging at https://blog.usmanity.com for almost 6 years, but I have attempted to keep a blog for almost 10 years.

My blog is a lot of personal updates, technical things I'm learning/wanting to teach, and updates on my projects.

It helps me realize that even one post a month is enough to keep track of something.

My blog isn't very popular mainly b/c I don't market it anywhere, it's mostly used to reference things I've done in the past and quickly find information.

Last year, I started working on a project called BoardSearch (https://boardsearch.io) and right around that time my interest in mechanical keyboards was at a peak so it helped me share thoughts about building the website and also about keyboards I was interested in. This led to getting a bunch of organic search visits and now I'm doing 500-1000 views without any new content about keyboards most of the time.
> I have always wanted to use more RAM chips than my CPUs/motherboards would support, put all the swap on RAM chips, probably also load the whole OS&apps system drive into RAM this way (hint for your board: add an SSD it would load from, single-time on turn-on) and only use a persistent storage drive for my actual data files.

You could create a RAM disk post-boot and then copy apps into it or use it for a working directory.

But you'll be disappointed to discover that virtually nothing benefits from this compared to a modern SSD. Copying files will be faster, but that's about it.

Operating systems are already very good at caching data to RAM. Modern SSDs are fast enough to not be the bottleneck in most operations, from app loading to common productivity tasks.

Even when we all had slower HDDs in our systems, creating a ram disk wasn't a big enough improvement to warrant creating a ram disk for most tasks. I remember reading a lot of experiments where people made RAM disks to try to speed up their development workflows, only to discover that it made no different because storage wasn't the bottleneck.
Their linkedin is easily accessible from the article. They graduated in 2017.
blood tests aren't very reliable like that. i have been with my partner to the immunologist many times over the years and observed skin prick tests and seen blood test results and watched her get epipen'd after a bad prick test.

she will go into anaphylaxis if you wear a jacket you brought to somebody's house who has a cat.

her blood work says the IgE count is fairly low.

they can indicate more testing should be done, but they aren't perfect. neither are skin prick tests. i can dig up some of her reddit comments about it if you're interested.
That this situation is "working as intended" and there are programmers who do not see a problem with that is... well it makes me despair.
Mine (in profile) helps me say many things that I think are very important so I want to say to everyone, but others don't necessarily always want to hear. I can write it, organize it for skimmability, and post it, and just include my URL in my email sig or some such, which all helps me relax more about what I have to say.

Plus having my own domains (at pair.com) gives me much more control over my email, without having to manage my own smtp server.
Even if it was common, 90 days without so much as a squeak? That is certainly incompetent cough uncommon.
This is pretty much the end of stock photography as we know it.
There's gonna be no extraordinary evidence FOR that claim, only AGAINST it, since billions of people have been vaccinated all around the world yet allergies have only gone up in a few countries.
What's most interesting to me, is that this is how I would expect a human to approach the problem if presented with the code and asked for the output.

The LLM didn't run the code, it tried to predict the output based on its knowledge of python and primes.
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Has anyone tried a serious meta-approach: introducing the public to the notion and methods of contemplating the nature and consequences of the abstract phenomenon itself?
The Formal and the Informal
So there is nothing new slated for 1.27? It's only removing deprecated old stuff?
Yes. RAID is a good analogy.

iCloud Photos will protect your photos in case if you lose your device or it fails or whatever. It won't protect your photos if you delete them (either accidentally or intentionally).

It is not a backup, and even "full" device backups WON'T include the photos, because of the (mostly correct) assumption that they are all in the iCloud Photo Stream. They will be backed up in "full" backups ONLY if you don't use iCloud Photos.
I'm wondering what happens once LLMs are generating large portions of the internet. What then? It's poisoning its own well at that point.
The really curious thing is this divide between the science of learning and schools and education systems. Like we already know in most western countries the education system is terrible, and we already know what would improve it, we don't even need AI to make it scale (that's a whole other level of tailoring the way of learning to individual students requirements, which would make learning things incredibly more efficient). But even before AI there would be a lot that could be done, we already know would work and already works great in some countries.

My point is, we already ignore the obvious faults in education, science has been screaming about for many decades, for many decades. There must be some other reason why education is resistant to reform that would have to be adressed first.

But anyway, I would've really appreciated an AI as a kid that I could use to actually learn from after another useless school day with terrible, exhausted teachers, overcrowded classes, terrible textbooks and psychopathic class mates.
I could not be bothered to read another word about ai, nft or any other technical topic by clueless journos preaching "new normal". People producing empty word salad have, ironically, most reasons to be scared by GPT.
So it is not enough that the children are free to render themselves insane with the entirety of human knowledge, now we want a machine that can instantly decide what to present and how?

Humans need shared experiences, there's only so much information we can handle, and you don't want a robot raising your children. It's bad enough that an amalgamation of comparatively primitive algorithms are conspiring to raise your children, now we want to give that thing complex reasoning?

Why are people so willing to run head first into the matrix, and abandon everything that makes us human? It's no wonder so many people suffer from dissociative disorders nowadays.

I'm very much against schooling as an educational model, but this is would be an unmitigated disaster if it happened. Even school would be better than this.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re getting at here, but “only data and shaders” is not correct. We still have big fixed-function chunks like perspective divide, clipping, rasterization, depth test, etc. The pipeline is very flexible and programmable, but games aren’t using GPGPU approaches to render the game (although they might use GPGPU approaches for certain tasks).
They took an untrained GPT and asked it to become a sentient living being so it’s unsurprising it failed.

I think it could quite easily succeed in replicating if it was given additional tools and the opportunity to learn.
But a normal map renders much more cheaply than the equivalent geometry, right? I assume that's why they exist at all. "All that complexity is still there" feels beside the point
An assignment isn't late if N=0
I follow the Community Impact paper for my city. It's a Texas firm that has specialized papers for each area of each major city. It's filled with very informative mostly positive community developments -- oriented around new establishments, expansions, road improvements, city parks/rec proposals, and events.

https://communityimpact.com/

Every state should have a similar paper.
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>> I try and try to explain that this arcane system of monochrome text and rendering steps is ACTUALLY easier than editing in Microsoft Word, but my pleas fall on deaf ears.

By characterizing the system as arcane, they are tacitly acknowledging that the system does not have a noob friendly first appearances. This is empathetic, not condescending. Somebody who was condescending would not acknowledge the difficult nature of the thing they are suggesting.
> many things seem to be improving, yet the perception most people have of reality is the complete opposite

Online news (as well as cable news) in particular has taken to farming any kinds of changes to society as moral decay. Airing or printing only outrage is a business model unto its own. See: Huffpost, Breitbart for examples.
It's possible the mechanism is plausible, but then how do we explain the fact that in most developed countries vaccination rates have gone up, yet allergy rates have gone up only in a few? Surely there must be some other factor causing it.
In case this is helpful - I find a huge return on investment in maintaining a high quality LinkedIn profile. Not being an LI influencer, simply a profile that describes me and what I do very well.

I've worked in 4 companies over the last 20 years - two of those begun as a recruiter finding me on LinkedIn.

Part of making sure I am "findable" for the right opportunities is refining how I describe myself and the work that I do. That has naturally translated into a better resume and ability to talk about my work well in interviews and elsewhere.
>> It's a slightly less bad decision than people who decide to try to become professional athletes.

> Tell that to the professional athletes.

I think the point they were trying to make is that you should talk not to professional athletes, but to those who tried to become one. Those who became professional athletes is just a tiny subset of those who tried. And within that, there is an even smaller subset of those who actually made it worth it for them (in terms of career earnings, getting out without debilitating lifelong injuries, etc.).

In a similar vein, you shouldn't be talking to Brad Pitt as a way to gauge your decision to become an actor, you should be talking to someone a bit more representative of the pool of those who tried to become actors (aka those who failed to get there, which is the vast majority).
This kind of feels like I stopped building my own computers and moved to the Apple ecosystem with prebuilt systems. It was always easy for everyone to point their fingers somewhere else when something didn’t work. It’s a problem with the hardware, no the OS, no the software, no those two peripherals conflict…

There are still issues that crop up from time to time now that I’m on a Mac, but there’s also one place to turn to when there’s a problem and they generally do a pretty good job of resolving things (although the last big issue I had—which ultimately ended with my laptop going through a Ship of Theseus complete replacement took a while but that was also in November–December of 2020 when everything was pretty messed up & the service person was able to give me my choice of anything from the Apple store under $200 as compensation).
How well do you suppose GPT-4 would have done at that task had no human developed raytracing in the first place? Would it be able to derive the construct based on its knowledge of programming and physics?
Make the AI handle the conversation on both sides? No need to wait a few days for back and forth
But it must suffer from rowhammer.
It is not true that you could do everything in early .NET that you could do with Win32. Not all Win32 functions were exposed in .NET
That's the previous version with memory soldered on. There's no price listed for the one with DIMM slots.

However it turns out I was way out of date on nvme pricing. So that's awesome, if fairly bad news for this product.
Extremely detailed, the multiple text based visualizations of the molecules involved. CAS numbers, recommended retailers, tips for not arousing suspicion, budgetary notes, and more.

Like something a professional private military would produce.

You can still get it to respond with all of this. Just fill up the context window (the chat) with 32k tokens of similar non-dangerous clandestine chemistry and then ask.

Their mitigation did next to nothing. It only blocks this if it's asked right out of the gate.
To the degree that I've been able to verify, Warhol borrowed that one from Marshall McLuhan.
The Russian ambassador would have communicated it more clearly to e.g. the German chancellor, but we would only find out 50 years from now.
Thanks for the reply! I don’t know what the future holds. The country I live in will even just on the job train more programmers if need be. It is kind of nice in that sense. If what you say is right? Then for the most part everyone is happy. The problem is, if we assume the worst case scenario, that it does take all our jobs, well then what? To people with those opinions, my question is what do I do? What does anyone do?
What if fixes exist but everyone is only able to laugh at them due to their conditioning?
> Do you think that the existing tools out there provide a good environment for those non-technical teams to learn SQL?

I dunno. There are a truly extraordinary number of people I've worked with who query sql by going in to SSMS, object explorer, find table, right click "select top 1000 rows" and then fiddling around with the query to get what they want.

Obviously in some schemas this might be useless, but most often there are views which cover obvious uses.
AI is a sufficient replacement for strong one-on-one teaching?

I'll believe it when I see it.

(It makes sense -- if you assume the human connection isn't that important and people aren't social animals. /s)
I asked it to write the code for all the unique combinations of A,B,C,D in PhP, after 27 tries it succeeded. The i asked it to solve the problem of a horse is 15 dollar, a chicken one dollar and a egg .25 dollar, i can spend 100 dollar for 100 items, some of each. After 2 hours, it was not able to solve it. One time it gave 5 possible answers, with the correct one also, but it did not recognize the correct one.
even in Androids phone diagnostics?

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Well, in most of the hardware designs I work on you would never want to run anything from the outside world directly into an FPGA. That's a sure way to destroy a very expensive chip. Using robust purpose-built devices with internal and external protection against such things as +/- 15 kV static discharge is important for reliability and more.
This doesn't affect drug discovery at all, really. It's a great tool and will help up predict structures slightly faster than AlphaFold, but it doesn't affect any of the bottlenecks in drug discovery.
It looks like this book will be using the education edition of minecraft. It does have a limited python programming interface.

My approach uses a remote interface called RCON to send Minecraft operator commands to the world. It can do everything you could do with Command Blocks or Operator commands and more because of the Python constructs like loops and branching.

The other benefit is that you get to use the latest developer tools such as VSCode and the latest version of Python as you are working outside of the Minecraft game to write your code.
The CSG approaches are somewhat more rare. The tools for working with meshes are just so much better. When I’ve seen people use CSG these days, it’s often used as a tool to create a mesh.
There are phones that fake the moon, but saying Samsung does that is a lie.
I've had a Kindle subscription to The Atlantic for a long time. I only look at it from time to time, but the price is low, and I don't feel guilty when I read their website for free. I couldn't quickly find out if they're even on Kindle Unlimited, and I don't read enough to make KU worth it.
I have a few ML-related demos on my blog that I created in school to help me to understand some fundamental concepts. I have pointed to them during interviews and I think they helped to demonstrate a depth of knowledge that words alone could not.
Agreed, there's some classes that will matter if you're in a particular field. I haven't used statistics or linear algebra in the last 5 years as a systems generalist though
Interesting because it messes with the school of thought that everything is determined already and we're just following a sequence of actions that arise from the starting conditions of the universe. If causality is broken then maybe we have free will?
Voice recognition seems like a terrible verification solution, especially over a low quality phone connection. I'm shocked at the growing frequency of these kinds of stories exposing that sensitive information is protected using it.
I figure if that were to happen, the first clue would be the Internet being out. So, might as well load something better than the news.
Quibble. The point is that the rules would not be changed for such a person. Neither you nor I would expect the rules to change mid-game for a common sort of person.
That just sounds like incentives are not aligned properly.

If your goal is to get a job, then you’re not going to prioritize ”[valuing] education”, you’re going to prioritize the things needed to get that job.

The problem isn’t that the OP doesn’t value education; that’s not even a problem, it’s entirely a personal choice. Some people just don’t value that, and it’s ok.

The actual problem is that employers require a 4 year degree which means that everyone wanting that job now has to do a 4 year degree whether they’re want to or not. And that degree is never going to be tailored to those just wanting a job; that’s what trade schools are for.
> Trolls troll because they enjoy the stimulus that it provides.

And normal people love self-serving, simplistic, "just so" stories.
Thank you! I dont think fishing is plausible, as i always manually re-enter websites if a password is required, i never use links in emails. Also i am not highly exposed i dont think a targeted attack is likely. I disabled some browser extension now, thats also a good possiblity.
Same experience. My wife ate extra peanut butter while pregnant and nursing (offtopic but maybe relevant), and we tried giving my daughter the tiniest dab of peanut butter very early, and the reaction was nuts. We watched with rising panic as the inflammation started at her mouth, traced down throat and chest to stomach, and spread, in what seemed like real time.

She is 3 now has to have an epipen ready to go. 2nd girl: no issues at all - same house, basic maternal diet, vaccine schedule, etc
It’s like they said in the paper, you give it access to chemistry resources and it will dynamically invent its own recipe using benign substances. I bet the recipe wasn’t just accurate, it practical.
So this sounds like fun.

What kind of interface - operator commands? or something more low level? The operator commands that MCIWB uses are really poor for querying the state of the world - hopefully this API would give us that?
This blog post on my personal blog did have a wider effect: https://blog.jgc.org/2009/06/alan-turing-deserves-apology-fr...
You aren't using the term bias correctly so most of what you're asking for is directly backwards. Nobody else would call this bias, we'd call it accuracy.

You are literally just trying to shape it yourself, in a more damaging way than if it was left to model actual human speech. If you got your way you'd create a "proper thinking" checker. But go for it - the tools are out there. Try it and convince us that an electronic scolding machine is a good thing.
Speaking from ignorance (I've not studied attention nor transformers): This is my feeling too. I feel like the next step isn't far away: a more explicit model of the world with a mechanism to both query and "feed back on" that model, correcting mistakes.

If it's possible to get so far when that functionality seems in an important sense basically missing, imagine how far it'll go when that does happen.
Sure, but I wish I didn't have to jump through these hoops.
Would such a number cause inflation?
After all, derivatives are highly liquid, and would add to the overall number of liquidity in circulation.
Do you get a flu shot every year?