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Will see Sundar speak today – If Q&A, what should I ask him?
Going to attend a lunch 'fireside chat' at my university today where Sundar Pichai will talk about AI innovation.

If there's a Q&A, what should I ask him?

One topic that's on my mind is how he sees the recent advancements in AI increase the need for companies to develop custom silicon, and if he believes a result of this will be an increased demand for hardware engineers in the coming decade.
I also said "and you actually have to be promoted to [it]"
In my case I write Python like this because the colleagues who are using my software are hardcore engineers but only intermediate or beginner programmers. Well-designed APIs with IDE support and safe patterns protect them from a lot of potential mistakes they didn’t know they could make. I won’t be able to ask them to learn Rust out of time constraints.
Tech has undergone a seismic shift over just the past few years while we creaked under covid, accelerating at a quicker pace everyday. Yet our political systems are legacy, defunct and dysfunctional and chronically underprepared to handle the change that is occurring.

I look at my own country (UK), and we still have an antiquated political system, full of grandiose pompous ceremony and old boys clubs, like its still 1806. We elect people like Jacob Rees Mogg to lead us, someone stuck in the 18th century about as out of touch with modern life you can get.

There are no grand minds in the one area where we badly need them most.
"Hey Siri, what is 99ft 7in in meters"
Or even better, start your own Reddit clone, so you're not beholden to their side-wide rules.

Some examples:

https://ovarit.com

https://rdrama.net

https://www.saidit.net

https://patriots.win

https://hexbear.net

https://www.thefemaledatingstrategy.com/forum
Yep that's the one. Curious roughly how many A100s it'd take to train a 65B RWKV on that.
Rumor I heard at the time was Symbian "owned" GSM and was golden goose and wasn't about to let another project encroach on it.

Ie political, not technical or even strategic, decision.
Jesus, that sounds so boring. Do they have robots (single devices) that can do it? I always thought having a pot that can gently stir itself would be helpful in a home kitchen.
"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" [1] applies to many things. In this case, a book, could reasonably be reasoned about almost no matter the length as you argue, given the scope of a book is usually limited to a few topics (the French invasion of Russia). Similarly three to seven chapters could be retold, but not every 361 chapters. A "580,000" word long book about 58,000 things would be unfeasible for a human, but probably feasible for an LLM with a 580k context.

That in essence, I believe, is the difference. An LLM (while still predicting the next word, given it's context), seem to care less about the number of subjects in a given context, than humans do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus...
Absolutely! I remember adding a bunch of rail to my cities just so I could do more train rescues or catching robbers on the trains. It was huge fun at the time…
Hot Pixels: Frequency, Power, and Temperature Attacks on GPUs and ARM SoCs
The drive to create thinner, lighter, and more energy efficient devices has resulted in modern SoCs being forced to balance a delicate tradeoff between power consumption, heat dissipation, and execution speed (i.e., frequency). While beneficial, these DVFS mechanisms have also resulted in software-visible hybrid side-channels, which use software to probe analog properties of computing devices. Such hybrid attacks are an emerging threat that can bypass countermeasures for traditional microarchitectural side-channel attacks.
Given the rise in popularity of both Arm SoCs and GPUs, in this paper we investigate the susceptibility of these devices to information leakage via power, temperature and frequency, as measured via internal sensors. We demonstrate that the sensor data observed correlates with both instructions executed and data processed, allowing us to mount software-visible hybrid side-channel attacks on these devices.
To demonstrate the real-world impact of this issue, we present JavaScript-based pixel stealing and history sniffing attacks on Chrome and Safari, with all side channel countermeasures enabled. Finally, we also show website fingerprinting attacks, without any elevated privileges.
Thinking of it as "the training dataset" vs "the context window" is the wrong way of looking at it.

There's a bunch of prior art for adaption techniques for getting new data into a trained model (fine tuning, RLHF etc). There's no real reason to think there won't be more techniques that turn what think of now as the context window into something that alters the weights in the model and is serialized back to disk.
US textbook: In this 16th edition we improved all the problems and nothing else is new. By the way what means by "improved", it means that changing exercise 2.11 from "10x+2y" to "11x+2y".
I have a cherry tree. Grown from a sapling.
A few years ago I noticed the leaves turning in. Aphids.
I then discovered that Ants farm those aphids.
They place a guard ant to stop predators (lady bugs) and let this black little fellas grow and grow.
Then the other ants feed off their sugary goodness.
Incredible. Where does that direction come from? Collective consciousness with inherent intelligence?
I would love to hear it, would you please say more?
Right, just like Trump's strategy. Immigrants are bad for 'merica. Don't mind the details or ask for proof. It's the story that counts, and in the story they are all rapists taking the jobs of hard-working 'mericans.
If that protocol is a technical solution to the problem and match our requirements toward privacy, I don't see why it would not be adopted, then:
- The TCP header is not encrypted and thus publicly exposes the IP address of the client
- I don't see why the Apple Relays would emit that information since that would defeat its purpose of obscuring the original client IP
- It looks like it is a custom protocol between two HAProxy Enterprise instances
- It seems to be a feature of "HAProxy Enterprise" which sounds like it is not available under an open source license.

We do have direct point of contacts with engineers at Apple, Facebook, Google etc and do collaborate with them on a wide range of technical topics. The foundation has a dedicated team to vandalism, blocking etc https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-Harassment_Tools . I forwarded your remark and maybe they can update the wiki page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Apple_iCloud_Private_Relay (it is mostly from November 2021 and looks like it might use a refresh).
Honestly if she can nab my fingerprint while I’m sleeping that’s some kind of feat. I’ll wake up to a cricket fart.
You named no brands for comparison and ignored a specific call out for comparison. Wanting something to be true doesn't make it true and as a novice cook this was the most obvious time I learned it.
Have you considered donating an hour or so of your time every month instead? This could be instead of or in addition to a monetary donation.
And if you want the even older skin ?useskin=monobook
While in theory GDPR claims global jurisdiction, in practice (pre-Brexit) UK ICO conceded they can't do much about US companies (Washington Post to be precise) as there's no EU presence, so there's that.

I guess it's a bit like if South Korea tried to enforce their North Korean songs ban in the US.
> Except when screen sharing comes into play. That’s still a nightmare for some reason.

It was bad even when in the same room. Finding out which input of the projector the cables are connected to, adapters for vga/hdmi/dp, getting the laptop external output to work, ... screen sharing is resolved much quicker on average.
I really don't get why so many posts need to be removed. Other than bullying and harassment, isn't that what the vote buttons are for?
My girlfriend and I were hanging out at a lake east of Issaquah near seattle and suddenly two Growlers came down low over the lake and we were subject to two sonic booms which was amazing. They sounded sort of like a resonant crack of thunder but much louder. They flew over a boat in the middle of the lake and I shit you not someone on it screamed "AMERICA F YEAH." It turned out this lake was one of the ones they filmed for the new Top Gun film, but it was common for Whidbey pilots to buzz it on their way back to the NAS.
That isn’t a law but a court decision, isn’t it?
Apart from having a more pleasant conversation, couldn’t this also be because the model is (partially) trained on this style of interaction, so it gives better answers?
Well, they didn't need to read much about Java in this case, frankly. Just creating a simple Java project with Maven would have showed the groupId concept (namespaces preventing top level squatting), for example.

https://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html#h...

Anyway, too late now, now Python & co. are finding their own, alternative, ways to retrofit stuff like this.
If you need more than one tablespoon of oil then maybe you just don't know what you're doing. Meat contains fat and vegetables contain water. Consider learning patience (i.e. using lower heat) instead of criticizing people on the Internet for being better at cooking than you are.
When I started my career, I only had a phone and slow email. Then, email got faster. Eventually, I got chat. Things got so much faster with chat. Then, I got alerts for chats. Again: Faster because you never miss an alert. Then, chatbots appears to show alerts and help with simple things. Again: You go faster and get more information instantly. The places that delivered the most monetary value all had very high information velocity.
Being creative, or mastering new skills, after a suffocating 9-5 isn't the easiest task.
> You should give modern Gnome a good honest try

This long time Debian user does not understand why he would choose Gnome over the incredibly satisfying out of the box experience of KDE Plasma combined with its easy customizability. I suspect that I am not Gnome's target segment... What sort of user is Gnome targeting ?
My first email account was in 1989. That's also when I started doing online chat.

> Chat did not exist, but wouldn't make sense anyway.

Perhaps not to you, but for others it had been around time for some time, along with its problems. Microsoft, for example, distributed WinChat starting with Windows for Workgroups in 1992.

Here's a description of events which took place at Microsoft no later than early 1993, as described in the 1996 book 'Showstopper! : the breakneckrace to create Windows NT and the next generation at Microsoft', https://archive.org/details/showstopperbreak0000zach_p7g1/pa... :

] WinChat was a variant on electronic mail; it allowed two or more people to type messages back and forth as if they spoke on the telephone. These “interactive” conversations were quite popular and illustrated the benefits of a computer network. It was important to test WinChat because NT was supposed to incorporate all Windows networking features. In his memo, Manheim was informing the team that they could use WinChat if they wanted. While his group was testing WinChat, others using it might also turn up problems.

] Manheim’s announcement bothered Cutler. He felt WinChat would distract people from bug fixing. He didn’t want it used. “This isn’t a fun app. It is a waste of time,” he wrote to Manheim. “VMS had this program 10 years ago. It was a waste of time then and it is a waste of time now. Anyone I see wasting their time with [WinChat] is apt to get some verbal abuse.”

] ... Using Winchat “is not a waste of time,” Manheim wrote, his anger rising. “It’s part of the product that will be used by the customers and if it’s trash we'll get shit for it.

] ... I have direct experience with this kind of application at Digital. It is easy to get everyone to sit around and type at each other rather than fixing the bugs they should be fixing. If I had my way we would not ship this app. But then we wouldn’t be compatible with Win 3.1 and we have to do that.

The book also mentions email,

] It was a neat ploy, since colleagues mainly conversed via electronic mail, or e-mail. No matter Whitmer’s whereabouts, his e-mail address remained “Chuckwh.” At Microsoft, e-mail was the most trusted and intimate means of exchanging messages.
The article says the majority of EU countries want to scan peoples' messages for illegal content. If this ends up being implemented, then it has crossed the line and we are now living in an authoritarian state. A watershed moment indeed.
sauteing spices makes a noticeable difference, according to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsYzWK3cxOM&t=840
There's also Foundation, a medieval city builder that works like this.
Prompt design is definitely a huge one shifting to rwkv

Sadly too many folks copy and paste what works for openAI and move on when it fails
I personally feel. If I ask politely it would steer the model towards more constructive answers. Because the dataset contains all manner of conversations. Not sure it works like but it does feel better.
Dude, look up what SeriousEats is and its history, and save your grievances for another target.
FDA Approves Prescription Nasal Spray to Reverse Opioid Overdose
Even if fuel economy was somehow better, it would still lead to more fuel getting burned. Because the super rich only have so much time in their lives to spend in the stratosphere or elsewhere and shorter flight times could noticeably shift their trade-off decision about the inconvenience of flying vs the inconvenience of not being where they'd like to be. Outliers in wealth aren't quite as much outliers in ecological footprint because fortunately there's only so much you can consume, but a supersonic revival would help close that gap.

A part of me sure loves the nostalgic idea of technological bigger-better-faster, but the rest is fully aware that this is not the progress we are looking for. It's bad enough when private investors put money into destructive technology like this, but if it was my tax money, I'd be shouting at them.
Why would asking the question first improve quality? Is it because the model will be better aware of what info it Can and can’t throw away at each step? This seems like the opposite of transformers.
You can use basically the same ideas to arrive at ANS compression (current sota, in terms of speed).
Flask Codebase Visualized
Pat them dry before you put them in the pan. No splatter.
How do microservices factor in this conversation? Do you find that they actually reduce complexity?
This is really interesting! What motivated you to start? It’s not like SWE are poorly treated on the scale of all professions. Do you predict some really bad times after the boom times?
I think it based on the u/MaxwellHill account going dead at the same time Maxwell was arrested.

Personally, if it was me and I was tired of the moderating role - I would use the name coincidence to create an absurd conspiracy and have an absolute laugh about it all! Sort of Andy Kaufman kind of thing.
Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT
> The West is not prepared for industrial warfare

The west cleared the floor with massed russian equipment, twice, maintaining 1:100 attrition rate while crossing an ocean.

But the rest of the post is not far off. ukr is on the back footing, and fog of war is very unidirectional, which means we're consuming propaganda, and its best not to form opinion out of it.

> plenty of Western gear

one fact tho remains, which is that we haven't seen yet combat footage from ifv and tanks delivered, so ukr forces are not yet fully committed, which seems positive.
Wait 30 minutes for your steak to reach room temperature. *Measures with instant read thermometer* Wow it's 48 °F.
It's currently on sale on steam.
Because of the low quality, normally no.
But since you asked:
DOS was not a bootloader for Win3.1. Win 3.1 cannot run without DOS. There were TSRs which were loaded in DOS which interacted with Win3.1.

And multitasking: only one program was active at a time (just like in Android today). When you minimized the program, it was suspended.
All in game achievements should be around negotiating bureaucracy. You should be able to look at a city and have fond / traumatic memories over all the compromised mess. Campaign mode should include trying to build new subway expansion downtown, ranked on time. Cheat code activates is maximum authoritarian mode for old school bulldoze everything / eminant eminant domain / rich petro state pay with migrant worker experience. Or maybe that's just easy mode.
> KDE Plasma

Is this what Zorin uses? They look very similar.
I guess everyone is in SF now but in the office 2/5 days per week.
Fascism always uses an excuse, it stokes widespread fear and panic, so that it can subject the population to authoritarian rule.
No. "Time" for recipes by convention starts with all of this done. This is always the case and allows for easy comparability of recipes.

You might not like this convention, but nobody is lying. It is somewhat surprising that you genuinely thought "writers routinely lie" and never thought to stop and think whether your understanding might be wrong.
> Very few games do that today

I’d say quite a few. Just not AAA publisher shovelware.
My trick to convert to meters from feet is: just convert it to yards and ignore the difference.
It's the same here in Sweden. It just feels natural that _obviously_ we should have access to what goes on in the public sector, unless there's a very specific reason not to. There was a huge backlash when the current government decided to hide who received electricity subsidies this last winter, as it was seen as a way to hide corruption.
Brands of what? Comparison of what? What specifically would you hope to be able to compare between either slow cookers or knives that would have any serious effect on how good the food you can use them to make is?
I’m not sure if that’s true. We’d have to account for all the externalities of “harvesting” a gallon of gasoline and frankly that seems like an actually difficult thing to do (either unintentionally or entirely intentionally).

Regardless, it still seems like it would’ve been incredible to live in a time where cars didn’t exist, and then they did exist. I have to imagine the next leap like that would be around the time humans couldn’t regularly travel off planet, and then they could. Probably outside of my lifetime.
Funny enough, this post was initially shadow-blocked here. But I noticed I couldn't comment on it and wrote to dang asking why. He unblocked it and explained that submissions pointing to redd.it are automatically shadow-blocked.
The thing that makes spices spices is volatile light aromatic oils.

Blast them on high heat and you drive off most of them, and polymerize the rest to creosotes.
can i just point out the sublime, crystalline irony of something called “vanilla os” using one of the most spuriously patch-happy distros in existence as a base?
It could be interesting to compare with marketing efforts.
Follow the money..
Underrated by whom? Most of these movies are well regarded classics.
I have used 4 different makes and models, from a really old one on my grandma’s kitchen that only had a on/off switch, to my newest one, a programable hamilton beach. I would say everyone worked the same, at least for beans, rice and some stews.

I only did caramelized onions twice with the same one, but based on my experience, any brand/model should work. And I agree, crockpot is the best way to cook caramelized onions.
I love SimCity 2000. I remember back then the most legendary build: MAGNASANTI (6 million residents, 2.523.010 commerce and 644.173 industry. 9172 million total population) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
Although only getting camera support in 2006 was rather late, and I wish I could find a good contemporary source for the Mike Lazaridis quote circa 2003 that "Cameraphones will be rejected by corporate users." (and thus Blackberrys won't have cameras, as their customers are companies, not end uses) from a couple of years earlier[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jun/29/rim-chief... is an example of a second hand non-contemporary one. Although I did dig up https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/it-s-small-addictiv... from 2004 which does at least have the fun quote "If you think about web browsing, shopping or banking services, how many of those are compelling enough to want to do from a phone?".
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Nice, what tools did you use?
I would hope that they censor lots of stuff, especially when they are legally required to do so.

There are a lot of more cases that just "snowflakes".
There isn't, and of course they will not spell it out. Read Google's policies (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US). Google makes it very clear they collect a tremendous amount of data when the account is active, and reserves the right to retain data as necessary for business or legal purposes, security, fraud and abuse prevention, or financial record-keeping.

It's data on their servers that they control, that no longer has a user. The data then can fall into any of the categories mentioned above, to include the possibility of transfer to 3rd party entities. That they may eventually delete it, is different from how they may have used it or to what entities they may have sent portions to.
Did you watch Rick Beato's take on AI effect on music? Monetizing music is a totally different thing that requires fan interaction and that takes both time, a live avatar (human or not). I'm thinking when a group comes up with a live avatar that can do concerts for AI songs and interact with fans, then monetization is doomed. Not for now though...
The first step in carmelization is to remove most of that water so the onions can reach maillard reaction temps. Try doing it without oil and an equivalent amount of water instead. It's much more temperamental.
Reads like someone who doesn't cook, but went too deep down the YouTube product minmax research hole with America's Test Kitchen.
"invaded the rest"

The USSR took back what your lovely European hyena bit off from the corpse of the Russian Empire 20 years before that [0][1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Bounda...
I've used this in the past with my instant pot, though it's been a while and I don't recall the exact recipe. I've actually taken to par-cooking my onions sous vide, draining them, and then caramelizing them on high heat on the stove.
Chomsky didn't mean overt producing of sound, but rather syntax and semantics.
When speaking of votes, "plurality" doesn't just mean many. It means the candidate with the most votes.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/majority-vs-plurality/

> Plurality is a noun that, like majority, can mean more than half of the whole. However when it comes to voting, plurality refers to “the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate.” This means that someone who wins the plurality of votes received more than any of the other candidates but not necessarily the majority. (emphasis stripped by copy-paste)

Hillary Clinton won the plurality in 2016, but since this was not a democratic election she was ultimately not elected president. Joe Biden won the plurality (and majority) in 2020.

Unless you're talking about the electoral college vote, but I don't see how you can link the word "mainstream" with an electoral college vote, as that is a vote of elites.
Why not board planes by calling out the row numbers working from back to front?
Is there any potential improvements over transformers for interpretablity or alignment?
If I burn 10^21 gallons of sustainable, carbon neutral, aviation fuel every year, what would happen?

Somehow I think the CO2 sensor on Mauna Loa would need to be dug out from a piece of percipitated carbon.