skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrible analysis.

He claims that Cisco lost all its value because their HW was commoditized. I mean in some ways, sure, but the fall in value was almost entirely driven by the DOTCOM bubble bursting.

There is also a claim that networking equipment is easy, "it's just moving data around". Moving data around is what a computer does. LLM's and GPU's are just moving data around.
I was working on this tool for a while now, the reason that let me create this tool is that there are no many tools out there that lets you to convert markdown files directly from a GitHub repo, allowing me to choose which files that I want to convert and apply a theme, change page size, orientation and so on.
Sometimes, particularly in mathematical code, I want the focus to be more on the operators than the variables. I see this style all over the place on Shadertoy.

# hyperbolic and contrived example in fake c
for (int i = 0; i < len(a) - 1; i++) {
s += a[i] ^ 2 + a[i+1] ^ 2;
}
# vs
for (int index = 0; index < len(array) - 1; index++) {
sum += array[index] ^ 2 + array[index + 1] ^ 2;
}

Arthur's style takes this way past my comfort levels, and it make sense he'd prefer array languages! Check out his Game of Life implementation:

a:{3=s-x&4=s:2(+-1+/':)/x}

https://web.archive.org/web/20220926225051/https://kparc.com...
Probably. Apple published a paper back in 2017 about improving synthetic data for the purposes of training models (though not transformers).

The examples they give are for eye and hand tracking -- which not coincidentally are used for navigating the Apple Vision Pro user interface.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/gan
QWERTY keyboards show the English dominance of tech
> but we really want it to be internal and automatic.

Why? We have specialized semi-isolated lobes of our brain. Some "external to the LLM weights" guiding system just needs to be transparent to us. It doesn't need to be internal to the LLM/weights.

> because what controls the internal thought process is itself not necessarily language-based

Most of the interesting AI things can't write a sentence (weather simulation, protein folding, inverse kinematics, driving cars, etc...). Language isn't a requirement, only some sort of meaningful mapping to the latent space of each is. I think one could claim that "meaningful latent space mapping" is the language of neural nets, including those in the brain.
Good for you, but that's the opposite of most people's experiences.
You really don't have a problem with someone quietly ignoring your request to stop photographing you or your family minding your own business, and just continuing? It feels like a massive invasion- I am pretty shocked that it isn't illegal already.

I have had people do this to me, and I used body language rather than words to show that I was going to physically take the camera from them if they didn't stop- and I would do so, but it never got to that point.

At one point I did demand a stranger delete the photos, and I watched until they were done, under the implication that I would be doing it for them if they didn't.
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I've heard a theory where the inner monolog was emergent, and some of the first people to recognize thr 'voice in their heads' attributed it to god/angels/etc

There's conspiratorial lying and lying from ignorance, one is much less credulous.
Search provides the attention to the ads, doesn't it? From that vantage, the product is attention or views or eyeballs, whatever phrase you want to use. Search becomes a loss leader or similar.
> UK
Country
> EU
trade union, kinda
> Asia
Continent

You're well versed in all the possible hurdles he'd run in to in all of Asia, are you? If you are, you're more impressive than Elon Musk I think.
Most people can't do 1 + 3x = 22 without any words or symbols. People who can don't realize that most people can't. I'd argue one isn't using logic when they do that, it's just very good pattern matching.
That was almost 100 years ago. I'm talking about 20 years ago here.
here are some mdpi papers i have in my bookmarks file; all of these seemed pretty decent, if i recall correctly

http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/9/8/622/htm a 2016 #paper on #solar #energy payback times and EROEI (“EROI”) and life-cycle analysis (LCA) and net energy analysis (NEA). In particular fixed ground-mounted “multicrystalline” silicon #photovoltaic cells have EPBT of 0.9 to 2.1 years depending on irradiation (insolation), and an EROEI of 15 to 35. This is surprising because that’s pretty much what it was when NREL published an EPBT analysis around 2001 or so.

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/2/1/1/htm “#Energy Inputs in #Food Crop Production in Developing and Developed Nations,” Pimentel’s #EROEI #paper where he found about four joules returned per joule spent on industrialized #agriculture, #CC-BY, Energies 2009, 2(1), 1-24; https://doi.org/10.3390/en20100001

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/2/438 Elfring, Torta, and van de Molengraft’s more comprehensive #particle-filters #tutorial #paper (with #PDF) which supposedly has example code that I can’t find. This is recent (02021) and open-access (#CC BY, I think), and many pages long, and has an overview of a lot of the motivation, but in some sense not very approachable.

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/2/220 #CC #paper describes various excavation methods (plasma, foam injection, etc.) including #expanding-grout, which it says works by hydrating lime under confinement and also producing ettringite, but lists four different types: type K (4CaO·3Al₂O₃·SO₃ + 8CaSO₄⋅H₂O + 6Ca(OH)₂ + 74H₂0 → 3(3CaO⋅Al₂O₃⋅3 CaSO₄⋅32H₂O, can be enhanced with silica fume and plasticizer), type M (CaO⋅Al₂O₃ + 3CaSO₄⋅H₂O + 2Ca(OH)₂ + 24H₂O → 3CaO⋅Al₂O₃⋅3CaSO₄⋅32H₂O), type S (3CaO⋅Al₂O₃ + 3CaSO₄⋅H₂O + 26H₂O → 3CaO⋅Al₂O₃⋅3CaSO₄⋅32H₂O), and class [sic] G (CaO + H₂O → Ca(OH)₂). Calls it “SCDA” and mentions ASTM C 845 “Standard Specification for Expansive Hydraulic Cement”. It says they work too slowly (12h) to replace explosives in the usual mining cycle, but I suspect that’s not true of class G, where the main problem is keeping it from reacting to completion before you can pour it into the hole.
This is absolutely fabulous - the simplicity of it and the opportunity it gives to novices like me, who are too often nonplussed by the Abletons and the Novations.

Great job resisting the urge to add bells and whistles !
It feels unlikely. Much smaller companies (Broadcom, Qualcomm) have no trouble writing compliant Vulkan drivers (let alone singular people), so I find it hard to give Apple the pass here. Assuming good faith on their part, Vulkan should be available; or at least some kind of cross-platform API target. Otherwise people are just going to ignore Mac and keep focusing on DirectX, like the status quo.

Vulkan is everyone's ticket out of that mess. Not only does it provide Apple an industry-standard API for third-parties to develop on, it flips the DirectX problem on it's head. Because you support Vulkan 1.3 you get DXVK support alongside DX9, DX11 and DX12 support. Now it doesn't matter what third parties do, because you win every time; Steam Deck politics.

The status-quo is simply detracting from the value of using MacOS; the only feasible explanation is that Apple is hoping to somehow force developers into using Metal natively. Outside Tomb Raider and Resident Evil, I just don't see it happening.

> The Apple Metal platform surely is customized to the needs of Apple

That clearly doesn't stop anyone from writing Vulkan drivers for the hardware, though. OP appears to be blatant evidence of this.

For example; CUDA is well-customized to Nvidia's specific hardware, but their hardware also supports Vulkan drivers. Same goes for Intel with oneAPI and AMD's ROCm; all of them still support Vulkan. Apple is quite literally one of the only mainstream manufacturers that does not support it.
No, they were a competitor that pivoted away from government contracts to more commercial applications because there was too much red tape (palantir had some features that were interior according to our contacts but basically was already entrenched in the space by that point).

It has been a long while since I worked with them- the basic idea was that you could identify how people related to each other via their public posts, identify communities by topic, then identify how people influenced each other.

Some topics were harder to automate- if we took as an example b the keyword "abortion" you'll find multiple opposed groups. Searching for terrorists was somewhat similar- their public mouthpieces would use certain words, and their detractors would use the same words in opposition.

I won't go into too much further detail because while the company closed in 2022 I really respected the owners and I suspect they're going to find a way to bring the idea of the company back in a new form.
The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life
IMO he is the main design engineer of all products in all his companies. This is why I admire him greatly and don't get the MSM parotting about him being a terrible person because -insert random half true MSM story about some emerald mine or being born into a rich family- or whatever other clickbait bs.

His companies where all founded based on his own engineering idea about how an important (existing) product/service could be fundamentally !at least an order of magnitude! better in multiple areas by designing it with a different approach or even different goal (going to space as a country vs commercially building a precense on mars for example).

His vision about the future, substantiated by (simple) physics calculations + drive to actually do it make him outright unique in the world right now.

There would be no SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, etc without Elon Musk. Period. I don't get why people must insist on what a terrible personality he has (often based on gossip and outright lies).
> They are not reasoning or thinking in any sense of the word and yet a lot of people are already considering them general purpose AI.

You yourself did not use reasoning to arrive at this conclusion. It's quite obvious. I'm not trying to belittle you here. But LLMs are black boxes, we do not actually know what they are doing at a high enough resolution where we can call it "not reasoning" or "reasoning".

We can only characterize these AI's as a best fit curve between datapoints which is a way to high level view point to come to any conclusion about "reasoning"

This paper presents evidence of failed reasoning, but how does that prove anything when LLMs exhibit many instances of successful reasoning on complex topics they were not trained on?

You are biased and honing into information that supports a biased conclusion. LLMs are an AI we do not understand at a low level. Hence we talk about the attributes of these AIs in the same way we talk about humans, "Oh the LLM hallucinates", "it tries to justify it's answer..." etc. etc.

You characterize the Danger of these AI's as the result of Human stupidity. The danger according to you is solely from a human mistakenly believing that the AI is anything other than a stochastic parrot.

This is a belief arrived at in the same spirit as your claim. You did not use reasoning to arrive here.

The only logical way to characterize what is going on is that we do not know. It could very well be that these AI's are in fact reasoning. And that in itself presents a different kind of danger. A danger that may be more clear in the far future.

The irony is that your conclusion lacking correct reasoning is similarly parallel to the LLM's lack of reasoning. LLMs are more alike to us than you would like to believe.

Can you give me the step by step signal path ways of an LLM processing a query to prove that it does not reason? Or do you have to use black box anecdotal evidence to prove your point? For any "evidence" where an LLM failed to reason, there is another counter example showing where the LLM succeeded. Contradictory evidence can only lead to a vague conclusion.
the entire US government is deeply compromised by agents of the Israeli state, including nasty coercion campaigns by Mossad
Their chipotle sauce was good I guess.
David Wasserstein, Professor of Jewish History: "Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth."

https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/so-what-did-the-muslims-do-f...

https://jewishstudies.stanford.edu/events/david-wasserstein-...
It was closed as a duplicate because you asked 3 separate questions in your post, and the most prominent one (the title) was a clear duplicate of the original. I doubt it would have been closed if you had asked only "how powerful would the waves have to be?"
Apparently younger people find ellipses come across as passive-aggresive… which is often not what the older writer is trying to convey.

https://www.purewow.com/tech/why-do-boomers-use-ellipses
I cant say I'm a fan of Elon but he got it right with SpaceX. Space is expensive, stupidly expensive. There was zero chance SpaceX would've been able to survive this long if they'd not focused on profits. Reusable rockets brought general launch costs down by millions, reusable farings even more (people underestimate how much they cost. $6 million a pair. At ~$62 million a launch thats a fairly sizable chunk of money to be throwing away).

Starlink was a fantastic way to ensure long term high profitability, and is set to bring them $6.6bn this year alone. For some context the Falcon 9 development costs were estimated by Nasa to be around $300 million, and Starship's development is estimated to going to have cost anywhere from $5-$10 billion by the time its fully operational.

Starlink's profitability is what's going to make it possible for some monumentally huge projects once Starship is in full swing.

In terms of Elons involvement in SpaceX it does seem to be a bit more than just a money making venture for him.
> I've seen so much ridiculous hype about AI becoming godlike super-geniuses before the decade is out

I’ve actually seen literally none of that from proponents, like I’ve probably seen 100x as much strawmanning and uncharitable summary from opponents. Essentially nobody thinks we should hand the kingdom over to an unsupervised savior machine, like, can you show me a candidate from a major political party (doesn’t have to be US, but let’s say >10% electoral share) who supports such a platform? Or a ceo who supports moving leadership decisions for his company over to an AI?

As far as I can tell, that whole thing is a strawman cut whole-cloth from the imaginations of detractors. I’d be delighted to hear counterexamples of the sort I discussed but I frankly don’t think they really exist outside some feverish imaginations.

Everyone just got so busy pointing out that it’s not a good idea that they failed to notice that, in fact, nobody thinks it’s a good idea yet. And it’s a self-reinforcing cycle because obviously there are lot of other people who agree that it is not, in fact, a good idea, so they feel very supported and emboldened to point it out constantly, such that they’ve forgotten that nobody argues that in the first place.

I’ll be the one to say it: it isn’t a good idea to grind down the mountains and fill in the oceans and pave over the entire earth’s surface to drive rocket-powered hypercars at unfathomable speeds. Was anyone serious actually proposing that? No, but really you’d have to be crazy to take that position, wouldn’t you? It would be super harmful if we let people just argue unhindered that we should do that. So really it’s a public service, right? Don’t let the crazies grab the wheel, vote against paving the earth.
The argument I'm making is that self sufficient colonies are so far away that building non-self sufficient colonies isn't on the critical path.

The basic problem is the productivity needed is enormously higher than what we have now. Today, a large number of people can support a small number of people in space -- and that's with the high productivity we have with industry optimized for Earth (where, for example, repairing things and dissipating heat are much easier.)

To make a colony self-sufficient, industry has to be so productive that supporting one person in space takes the work of fewer than one person. And, that productivity has to be in space. Not just building spacecraft and stations, but all the necessary materials and interlocking webs of devices and services that an industrial economy uses.
A decent number of folks can jump straight to the answer on something so straightforward, no steps.
The point of this paper is not to claim that LLMs are dumb. It's applying rigor to the notion that they "reason" in a way that's fundamentally non human. They're more like search engines than abstract reasoning machines. There will always be problem structures that are too different from anything in the training set for them to solve
> He has an extremely dark side that impedes him and everyone around him, regardless of the extraordinary success he experienced.

I think people have a hard time separating out the good work someone has done vs the bad. We humans are imperfect, but ironically have the tendency to put a binary label on people as good or bad without leaving much room for gray area.

Ex. Shockley got a Nobel prize for his foundational work on transistors and semiconductors - inarguably one of the most important 20th century inventions, but he was also an extremely vocal racist and eugenicist. Was Shockley a brilliant scientist or a vociferous racist? He can be both while acknowledging the good contributions to society he made.

I find this is often the case of many historical figures that made their mark on humanity. Is Elon Musk a brilliant entrepreneur or a micromanaging arrogant narcissist who carries some deeply rooted insecurities? (Among other "flaws" such as being an absentee father) Why not both? Perhaps the dark side has enabled their success to some degree? Who knows.

Its hard to do anything important without a carrying a little bit of controversy in life.
Source? A brief perusal around the internet seems to indicate this is an urban legend.
Amazing comment for two reasons:

The idea of asking an LLM to generate code for a more rigorous but still high-level language is under-explored. This way you can experiment with AI - but at least have an intermediate code artifact that you can review and test before it gets published! Exposing the raw token stream is reckless.

I had never heard of "spherical cow" science before but I love the imagery.
I'm not sure this so much shows the significance of the IR period, as the fact that progress is exponential. All these graphs appear to be long term exponentials plus noise.
> Maybe cities could extend outwards instead of making existing BY hellishly dense?

This is what we have been doing. It's not working

> What about the investment in the house and the quality of life of those having the BY?

As the neighborhood gets more dense you'll probably hit a point where the value of your land gets to a point where you can move somewhere slightly out of the city and have a chunk of money in your pocket.

> hellishly dense?

I dont see why you equate density with hellishness, with density comes more services, entertainment options, (ideally transit options) and unless you sell your land is still your land. And generally we're not talking about turning your suburban neighborhood into Manhattan usually more something akin to a european neighborhood.
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If you're a man living in the suburbs and don't like "man" things (sports, cars, hunting and/or fishing in the South), you're in for a very rough time. 2x difficulty if you don't have kids.
I Built a Monster AI Pi with 8 Neural Processors [video]
You can also sidestep that "quirky OS limitation" by just setting the first unprivileged port to 0(ip_unprivileged_port_start), no need for an new stack.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysct...
For people who don't live in a Waymo market, it's easy to think that self-driving cars are vaporware, and perpetually 5 years off. For those that live in a Waymo market, self-driving cars are at once amazingly futuristic and mundane.
I’m excited to hear work is being done on models that support function calling natively.

Does anybody know if performance could be greatly increased if only a single language was supported ?

I suspect there’s a high demand for models that are maybe smaller and can run faster if the tradeoff is support for only English.

Is this available in ollama ?
About the finite element method (1975) [video]
This is an honest question, not a critique - because I don't know enough about this space to critique it. I am trying to understand when this is useful. It is not complete enough for a full CRM (phone calls, customer centric rather than workflow centric interface, basic replacement variables like %name%, push/pull integration with other communication suites like google workspace without jumping through hoops with custom webhooks,etc). So it can only be a partial solution, and it is quite expensive if you need to jump up a tier from the base tier. I can't see why I personally would pay for it, and I would not use it as an open-source library for a business application with that relatively viral open-source license.
The difference is that Russia is sanctioned and basically treated as a hostile nation, and Israel gets subsidized arms, unconditional support and any attempt at boycotting it is met by state sanctioned punishments (at least if you are a federal or state employee in the US)
It proves that the idea that Apple avoided OpenCL is ludicrous.
A centralized authority shutting down conversations is not a first amendment issue because of qanon and January 6th?
Musk confirms 12K H100s ordered for Tesla were instead prioritized for xAI
I'll pay for one of these that look good in vscode and supports ligatures. One can dream.
https://archive.ph/jz774
His evil agenda of "please dont kill children" has been identified and discredited.
I also think FNA is pretty cool as well. It’s kind of “mid level” instead of low level, more or less like a light Direct3D. I think MonoGame is supposed to be comparable but I haven’t used it.
What operations did Israel support? If anything the US is over involved in the MENA area because of Israel. Before the cringy evangelical push for total support for Israel, the middle east wasn't hostile to the US. Actually the US was seen as the good guys (in the 50s and arguably 60s) because they were strictly pushing Great Britain and France for decolonisation.
Russians are pretty close I would think.
Omega Tau Podcast did a really great episode [0] on container shipping, including the optimization of container placement and route planning, highly recommended.

[0]: https://omegataupodcast.net/146-container-shipping/
You can do that. Random programs cannot. Our CLI, which also does user-mode WireGuard and TCP/IP, doesn't even want to run under sudo. You're seeing the point, now: you want to build interesting network features that work the same way everywhere without demanding that your users be system administrators. Hence: user-mode TCP/IP.