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Until <5 years ago, AI was almost entirely a purely academic field, theoretical at that.

Those same academics admit themselves that they're surprised at how well LLMs do considering how simple(?) rudimentary(?) the logic underneath is.

I don't quite understand what you're saying. That these academics were being lazy by not properly investigating/publishing their findings? That doesn't seem right.
Depending on the website, you can archive it as a static site and just host it for free on something like cloudflare pages.
> Is ECOWAS also imperialism?

Hell yeah it is. Its a French-backed organization.

> Is it ok to let countries fall to Islamists because helping them even if they explicitly ask is "imperialism"?

Funny how the people who criticize other countries for imperialism when they do it try, to use it for themselves when they need to justify something. Russia helped the UN-recognized government of Syria clean up the Islamists that - ironically - the US was funding and training. They were called imperialists.

> I doubt you even have surface level of the topic

Calling out doublespeak does not require much. Just like the one above.

> "west bad"?

Yeah. Precisely that. As of this very moment its still trying to cling on to a world order it set up for exploiting everyone on the planet - including its own people.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/26/blinken-biden-china...

It murdered ~1 million Iraqis for their oil, it backed head-cutting Islamists for controlling the oil just recently. It even kills its own people when they cant pay for healthcare, and it exports that system to everywhere for profit.

But its still blabbering about 'democracy' and 'values'. Just like you.
This is just another one of those cases where the actual github is more informative than the homepage.

https://github.com/tobychui/zoraxy

All you need to know about this Software is at a glance there.
This is easily the best overview of unity builds in C/C++ that I've seen. I'll definitely save and reference it in the future.
Isn’t the result of that research Kubernetes?

What do you expect about the new solution that will be better?

Genuine question, btw. While I see how kubernetes can feel overcomplicated, it has always felt as a consequence of how complicated it is to run such a large number of workloads in a scalable and robust manner.
I thought facebook was all 'old fogeys' now?
I do remember. I never really bought into the dogma about property accessors. Sometimes they are good. But mutable object fields might be fine too. In fact, I even think goto is appropriate in some circumstances.

I guess the modern conception of FP says 'all values and state are best modeled immutably'. Whereas I tend to think it's only some of them.
It's your type of black/white thinking, and making the association that everyone in support of a specific idea shares an identical set of ALL values with everyone else interested in that idea, that enables fascism to rise to power.

Someone is interested in privacy? They must be a criminal, better watch closely and prosecute on whatever we can before they get too dangerous.

Someone is interested in crypto? They must be fully anarchist. Better lump them in with the anti-government crowd and make sure they are denied police protection.

These were multimillion dollar trades being done by white collar investors with the trading bots, I don't think they mind the police help one bit, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anti-state messages from any of them. They are just rich people taking advantage of a system to get richer. Nothing more nothing less. It is not possible to extrapolate political views based solely on participation in part of a capitalistic system.
Heh. The "50 years ago" part was an intentional stretch to add more weight to how disappointed I am. But seriously, the first demo they presented is an immediate rejection.
And he always ends with questions about love, just to pour some more oil on the quiet seas :-) nothing wrong with that, but like you say he asks safe questions.
For a company that is actively pursuing AGI (and probably the #1 contender to get there), this type of behaviour is extremely concerning.

There’s a very real/significant risk that AGI either literally destroys the human race, or makes life much shittier for most humans by making most of us obsolete. These risks are precisely why OpenAI was founded as a very open company with a charter that would firmly put the needs of humanity over their own pocketbooks, highly focused on the alignment problem. Instead they’ve closed up, become your standard company looking to make themselves ultra wealthy, and they seem like an extra vicious, “win at any cost” one at that. This plus their AI alignment people leaving in droves (and being muzzled on the way out) should be scary to pretty much everyone.
And yet the blog post still got it wrong:

> Now you move forward with what the team calls Round 1. Keep going through Hamlet, adding new words as you go. If you come to a word that’s already on your list, flip a coin again. If it’s tails, delete the word; heads, and the word stays on the list. Proceed in this fashion until you have 100 words on the whiteboard. Then randomly delete about half again, based on the outcome of 100 coin tosses. That concludes Round 1.

It's not just removals you test with N coin flips in Round N, it's whether to insert the new item at all.
> making the vote more democratic.

"More democratic" so that the French colonists can vote. Yeah, that sounds good.

> The independentist never wanted democracy

It doesn't matter what the independists want. They are the original owners of the land. Colonialism is illegitimate even if the locals want to set up a fascist, Islamist, monarchical or feudal system after throwing the colonists out of their country.
Who designs the training set for your putative "fact checker" AI?
Did he just create the code or also manage the infrastructure and services through which the transactions happen?

The former - I don’t think anyone could convict him. It’s just code in a git repo somewhere. The latter - he is responsible for kyc like all other financial applications.
The phrase really should be about force rather than possession. Possession only really makes a difference when there's no power imbalance.

Banks have the legal authority to take the home I possess if I don't meet the terms of our contract. Hell, I may own my property outright but the government can still claim eminent domain and take it from me anyway.

Among equals, possession may matter. When one side can force you to comply, possession really is only a sign that the one with power is currently letting you keep it.
And be sure to protest about things that don't impact the bottom line of capitalists in any way whatsoever. Protest all you want about genders but don't even think about unionizing.
Or maybe they'll understand that it's intertwined with history, culture, etc. Aliens being super intelligent and all.
Combined with broadcasting its fast.

Under the hood it’s doing the same thing with a vector of ints (64 bits for bitvectors) and all the bulk manipulation is handled that way so SIMD in inherent as well. Worth a shot.
Yes, if you take a problem you don't understand, ask a GPT to write a solution, do nothing to check the solution, trust it blindly, and then use the solution for some safety critical problem, you're playing with fire. But there's a spectrum, and please don't assume I'm at that end of it.

Lots of the time you understand the problem, but the problem is repetitive. Parsing a weird file format might well be that. Beyond that, you have solutions that are easily checked. For example, if I ask ChatGPT to optimise an algorithm for a certain CPU cache, I can easily read whether it did that. And then, there are parts of a software job that are crucial and subtle, and parts that are not.

As a practitioner, traditionally that leads to a shift in the focus and speed with which you approach a task - some pieces of code are 100 lines that took you 2 weeks to get to and were hard fought, some are 2000 lines which you wrote in a day.

Lastly, so much of solid software is being able to understand a probably unfamiliar domain, and ChatGPT can be a great buddy in terms of gaining problem context, finding the limits of your own understanding.

I don't use co-pilot like things, but I've found ChatGPT to be a massive enabler in terms of being able to be productive in unfamiliar problem-spaces.
> denialists

I don't think that's a very good word.

It stratifies people into weird binary groups, while ignoring the reality that people have nuanced opinions, and many of those are quite reasonable.

It's a subtle form of "you're with us or against us", and disparages people who don't see things exactly the same way you do.

It's also used to move goal posts. I.e. if a person believes that yes, it's likely that humans are having some effect on climate, but that we aren't sure exactly what it is and how harmful it will be over a period of time - are they a "denier"?

It has its roots in holocaust denialism, and tries to paint folks skeptical of a single climate viewpoint with that same brush.

It doesn't further the discussion and encourages tribalism.

Inflammatory words like that are a barrier to quality discussion.
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> After 1850, I think mass printing took off, or something, but you can feel books were not luxury items anymore.

I guess it depends on what you think of as "mass printing", but estimates have it that in the 16th century Venice alone produced around 25,000 editions of books. You can also find references to Italy producing relatively mass amounts of paper by that time, distributed to western Europe and Constantinople through Venice. You really didn't need to be "enormously wealthy" to buy a paper book at the time. Wealthy, to some extent? Yes, moreso revealed by the fact that you were literate, but not crazy wealthy.

Also, in general, people simply often had a different relationship to books than we do today. They were not regarded as priceless objects, or as things ruined by marginalia. Writing marginalia was seen as a fundamental part of reading and owning a book, part of how one understands a book and makes it theirs. Having a personal library was as much about having the books on hand as well as having your margin notes.
It’s a space draft but the image they have their definition has orca similarities
Great comparison.

The comparison itself is pretty telling; that the brain and AI work so similarly in specific ways
This has nothing on it about llms, where in context learning, retrieval augmention, tool using, and multi modality is really blazing ground. Ideally we'd have papers about these methods, because we need these tools to implement stuff, and they're changing how we do business.

Without in context learning, self critique and tool using, for example, it's easy to think that LLMs are stochastic parrots bound by their training distribution, instead of last mile learners that can adapt to out of distribution contexts. And business applications need RAG to overcome hallucinations. Without these concepts, I don't think people will really know 90% of what matters today, or be ready to take on what matters tomorrow.

I could be wrong here, with my focus on so many llm specific topics. Things like in context learning and RAG exist as engineering workarounds for LLM limitations. They are not definite paths to tomorrow's AI, which won't need our cajoling and hand holding. There's a possibility that we'll move past them, so more speculative and theoretical papers are better.

But I think there's also a possibility that the AI scaling is done for this AI bubble, and we're stuck with building larger scale systems out of imperfect buggy LLMs for the foreseeable future. In that case, maybe some next generation Zen of integrating LLMs into a working mind eventually emerges as a way forward.. so we should pay attention to engineering efforts around LLMs!
Submission note: I’d normally chalk this up to user error and a lapse of recall and not give it a second thought, but given the other commentary on the issue and the unanswered questions (it does seem to affect photos that were deleted from iCloud altogether, so either they’re still kept or else there’s a device where they weren’t wiped that ended up re-uploading them) I figured this would be an additional datapoint worth at least accounting for when discussing this iCloud bug.
Seeing how we got a brand-new and very shiny `HTTPS` RR type instead of using the existing `SRV`, I'd say the hope for improved email is not zero. Still very close to zero, but not zero.
I find the term denialist really unhelpful. It’s a polarizing thought-terminating cliche.

Outright denial that climate change is happening is now rare. It’s hard to argue with hard data so only the looniest attempt it. We have a fair few people arguing that climate change is happening but that it’s natural and the human impact is negligible. These people are mostly ignorant and could potentially be described as in denial. But then we have a lot of people who agree that climate change is real, agree that humans are a major causative factor, but disagree on what to do about it. I don’t think these people deserve to be called denialists even if I disagree with them. It shuts down dissenting views, and I’m not ready to declare that I definitely know what the answer to climate change is. I think it should remain possible to express different views. I worry that someone will eventually decide things have got bad enough that we’re going to try some drastic risky geoengineering, and objectors will be denounced as denialists because that’s what we do to heterodox thought.
> Capitalism is the engine that has lifted more humans out of poverty than any other. Countries which have embraced that fact have been better places to live than others

Capitalism didn't lift anyone out of sh*t. In its heyday people were living and dying in industrial slums at a ripe old age of 40. Only after the USSR won Ww2 instead of 'crumbling down like a house of cards' how the capitalist press was expecting before the war that the sociopaths in the West had to give concessions to their people to compete with the Eastern Bloc so that the people wouldn't overthrow them.

When the USSR dissolved, they declared 'We won', and they started taking back all of those concessions. As a result, there are countries where people are killed if they cant pay for healthcare now.

> Cost/benefit analysis of medical treatment for the terminally ill does not suggest capitalism is "destructive"

It does.
If you are to use Avalonia, which I highly recommend, it may be best to start with WPF. The Visual Studio Community Edition has really good IDE support for WPF and there is a huge amount of information on how to do things in WPF which thankfully hasn't changed in a very long time. Plenty of old books and blogs that go into all manner of detail. Once you have what you wanted working as you want it is straightforward to port the WPF to Avalonia for cross platform support.

Yes this would necessitate using Windows, an OS which I abhor, but as of now . In time I hope that will change with improvements in both JetBrains Ryder and Avalonia.
Tough times create tough men comes to mind.

Leadership in the UK is absolutely pitiful. Yes, you can work on multiple problems at once, but in reality both the public and private discourse is focused on utterly trivial and stupid stuff.

The top level goals of a government are to ensure that the state exists and can protect its' citizens. We enacted income taxes on that basis in the first place for wars.

Now we have people arguing the toss over whether cars should emit a particular thing because it reduces life expectancy by a few months or landlords should put triple glazing in because tenants would pay slightly less on their bill or men can pretend to be women or whatever else. Fiddling over 0.1% issues whilst ignoring the elephant in the room.

I fear that there's going to have to be a big shock and we'll wake up from this collective delusion much like in the early days of Covid when everything just... stopped.
Is that a sign of temporary supply chain issues due to a large shift in demand patterns combined with an attrmpt to diversify supply of intermediate product and end product away from china, or a sign of end game collapse though? I would argue the former.
Flat earth theories also have evidence, imo they are on the same level as psuedoarcheology grifters like Graham.
or justification with just "9-11" - is that still the ultimate rejoinder?
Subsection 3 in the Nevada law is pretty broad, likely protecting the farms fully.

> If the example of Null asking his users to harass someone doesn't count, then at what point can something be considered organized harassment?

If he asked them to, and those specific users committed illegal harassment in the manner he requested, that would be organized harassment.
I was trying to explain so that you might understand, that there is a continuum between copying (the identity function) to more complex combinations of other transformations via your memory/ intuition.

I am definitely not trying to conclude that copyright or licensing is bad.

I have read the scheduler implementations in a number of different operating systems. If I were to implement a scheduler in a operating system, would you say that there is a probability that my scheduler will be a derivative to some extent of those that I have read? How is this materially different from training a GPT on those same pieces of code, and then asking it to construct a scheduler?

I would argue that while there are differences, there are also similarities. That means that the dichotomy is not true.
I assume that is with the V6 twin-turbo? I know a couple people with that one and they get shockingly good mileage for a full-size pickup.
I really think that the Lazarus Component Library took the right approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library

I wonder why the idea of widgetsets never really went anywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widgetset

You could take a program that says you need a button in the window and it would make one for you on Qt, GTK or whatever else was supported, on any platform that you were compiling for.

We might as well have gone a step further: your programming language --> UI toolkit bindings for your language --> programming language independent GUI toolkit --> widgetsets for GTK, Qt, WPF, Win32 or whatever else --> executable for that specific platform

With that many layers of abstraction it's likely that we'd get the lowest common denominators for all functionality across platforms, but at least it would run better than web technology does, with the accessibility and platform look & feel you'd expect.

Of course, for whatever reason, seems like nobody wanted to undertake the borderline crazy effort of creating something like that, something foundational for others to build upon, so that's why we get super fragmented frameworks that are bound to specific languages nowadays and each of them have to reinvent a wheel a lot.

Either way, FreePascal/Lazarus were pretty amazing for RAD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(software) except that the community and ecosystem isn't exactly getting bigger.
Vampire romance?
Archive link: https://archive.is/2024.05.18-075301/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Isn't the whole "Flutter team layoffs" narrative somewhat debunked at this point? My understanding is that some positions were cut and some were moved, but no more than any other engineering area at Google.
They would be more relevant if the hostile or snarky users were effectively quietened.
Another project locking its communications to the Discord black hole.
> ... the Puritan patriarchy part?

BLUF (bottom line up front): It's all about ads.

Content must be acceptable for apps to be in app stores. Content must be acceptable for ads to be wrapped around it.

> Could you point me to ...

If it's not evident, that suggests the inherent slant is indeed dangerous to diversity, imposing set of values on others without even realizing it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_homogenization ...

Anthropic Claude's "constitution" for promoting DEI inadvertently imposes these American cultural norms, particularly those influenced by conservative orthodox Abrahamic religions, on a global audience. I mean, if you're even allowed to use the API in your region...

“Orthodox” Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, shaped by figures like St. Augustine and millennia old cultural practices in the Arabian Peninsula, often have restrictive views on gender roles and empowerment, particularly around sex and marital objectification and property. Secular humanism, Eastern philosophies like Taoism and Confucianism, and Dharmic religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism accept and promote more progressive perspectives on gender equality, empowerment, sexual freedom, and even species egalitarianism. (See "Three Body Problem" for a non-Western take.)

Ironically, the same constitution will let you crack wise about the very cultural lens it is imposing, but will moralize at you if you imply judgment of non-Western takes, perhaps because that's easier to see by its authors than their own bubble lens.

Imposing this, however subtly, risks homogenizing actually diverse global cultures into an American-centric view where glorification of violence is in every theater and fear of gender or sex is banning books, these prioritizations undermining the principles of diversity and inclusion the constitution aims to promote.

With Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism—collectively accounting for only (very roughly) half of the world’s population, AI guidelines should genuinely respect and integrate a full range of cultural norms and values related to human issues, not just those dominant in Western contexts, particularly not those deemed "right" in American monoculture today.

TL;DR:

I blame today's society being powered by ads, driving capitalist corporations' fear of outrage-machine driven reprisals. Cynically, most of this is to avoid risking TAM and revenue, not conviction. Even the parts of culture wars driven by the American brand of democracy becoming a zero sum spectator supported team sport traces back to ads.

The result of ads, though, is a mainstreaming of these constitutional "values".
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> But if you need to spend $1 million keeping a death row inmate alive who tried to commit suicide, that money might be better spent on infants with heart defects. Money being finite (and being an abstraction of medical equipment/expertise/hours which are also finite), you ultimately have scenarios where you have to choose one or the other.

These are fallacies of the capitalist ideology - it creates scarcities and then imposes these as truisms. There is more 'money' in the capitalist west than what's needed to treat every single person living there. Its just being hoarded.

> In the United States, insurance companies are heavily regulated, and premiums must reflect how much it costs to pay out claims, plus some small percentage for overhead. Nor do the hospitals themselves strictly seek profit... their adversarial relationship with insurance companies compels them to overbill in the theory that if one claim fails, the next can succeed... so price it for both.

You are talking literal nonsense. The most expensive healthcare with the worst results on the planet is in the US. Statistically. Every argument you made above is null and void.