skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its super easy to start ai companies, its difficult to make them meaningful. The ai generated image in the twitter post has an asian woman with 3 arms and some of the most horrific AI face placements I've seen in a while - Is this the quality control we can expect our future AI education systems to embody?
I've got some similar use-cases. So, do I understand correctly that you take the source keyword and generate an embedding vector of it, then compare it using dot-product similarity or something to the embedded vectors of the target keywords?
Already restored. https://pony.social/@thephd/112796553030454194
>The pandemic showed us exactly what children would prefer to do, when they don't have a physical teacher standing over them, which is bugger all.

Amend to: The pandemic showed us exactly what children's parents would prefer to do, when they don't have a physical teacher standing over their children, which is bugger all.
To do anything resembling terraforming, you'd need a whole lot more atmosphere. Moss doing this:

CO2 + sunlight => O2 + more moss

does nothing to change the "space suits mandatory" situation.
Data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security
Of course it's a good business. Just not at the price points people can afford.

Watch the video I liked to above. It's about a person that owns a laundromat in SF who wants to convert the building to affordable house. He basically wants to do the right thing, but the regulations make it impossible. It was EYE OPENING for me.
ambition is cheap, value is expensive.
They are the official body, and they are in the bookselling business.
Chatbots can't teach critical thought or ethics. They need to be able to understand language and bias first, and that's an as yet unsolved problem.

Until a chatbot is provably correct and ethical in its output, it must not be used to teach.

Case in point: the slop image attached to the announcement has the typical malformed hands and ghoulish faces problems.
You're asking me to provide a recorded observation, as evidence that the people recording "facts" didn't make observations. My theory (as stated) doesn't expect that evidence to exist! If this were debate club, that would be a foul.

Fortunately for my ELO rating, they did make observations that contradicted their bigotry. Per the great-grandparent:

>> In reality, the promise of medical treatment, usually reserved only for emergencies among the rural black population of Macon County, Alabama, was what secured subjects' cooperation in the study.

(Racists always do this. Such comorbidities are part of why we have a special name for this special category of "being wrong".)
Have you looked at using mermaidjs instead of SVG as an output? It might translate easier and plug into other solutions easier.
Oh comeone people. Answer is simple. Money! Complexity means more money, means spending for developers are justified! Its so complicated after all! Simple solutions that just works will not pay you bills.
I think this perspective is belied by the vast over-subscription of free public education in places where it has previously been paid only[1] (at this point, mainly in Africa). It does seem like there is strong evidence that most children and parents recognize the value of education and are self-motivated to pursue it where it is accessible to them. I believe it follows that lowering cost and barriers to quality education will improve outcomes without a need to otherwise coerce participation.

[1] See, most recently, Zambia
Coming from the other direction, there's a book about all the plants that were dependant on megafauna for processes like seed dispersal that are sorta hanging around still called "The Ghosts of Evolution".
I remember when the future was MOOCs. Let's get the top 30% (or 10% or whatever) of teachers to record high-quality videos, then everyone can have a top education. Even the rest of the professors might learn something!

AI based education might or might not be "MOOCs 2.0". Even for the less good teachers, having a real human in the room is one of the features that lots of people appear to be ready to pay lots of college fees for.
I appreciate attempts to disrupt things, but education seems to be one of those verticals that seems to be allergic to disruptive technologies. Education seems like it can either be very specialized, or very generalized, but at the end of the day it should be egalitarian. If this approach to education works, would we be able to have every teacher in every school in America adopt it? I have to imagine the resources needed to train the teachers, distribute the technology, acclimate the parents, and then do this all on a scale such that no one is left out or treated better if you didn’t happen to go to an “AI” school makes for a tough hill to climb.

I think a lot of the real issues with solving problems in education is that they have trouble applying to the larger picture of compulsory education.
Yes, there's pastebin as well. You can use ShareX on Windows or Horizon Alpine on macOS and some Linux distros (not 100% compatible with all, but Ubuntu seems to work just fine).

No command line tool yet, but the paste API is pretty simple to understand through network inspection.
The ignorance of this post is astounding.

You and your kids are not typical of society at large.
AI would engage individually with each student via those earbuds
If I'm going to augment my education with AI, I'd at least want to know it could get basic numerical facts right. If a computer program struggles with the concept of a number being greater than another number, how do I have any confidence that it can teach physics?
Ladybird and servo are not replacements for a feature full web browser and are years away from fulfilling that role if at all.

The hype is unfounded. Yet another browser engine designed using the same tools with the same methods isn't going to yield an organization resistant to the monetary and social problems that Mozilla has faced.

It's not about the tech. It's about the org making the tech. Dev time is expensive, and there isn't a way to pay for it. Eventually people get tired of working for free and begin to treat life realistically - f#@$ you, pay me. That is the correct and expected outcome.

Ladybird as a browser has nothing special going for it other than hype. It's a walking vulnerability that has to play catch-up to be a contender as a web browser.

Chromium was/is "the" open browser, and it only happened because google and friends footed the bill.

Where ladybird and servo could shine is as an embeddable renderer that doesn't have to have all the other features of a fully kitted browser.
I also noticed the material of an entire day can be learned or made in a few hours. So indeed I also realized it's mainly daycare with a bit of, or slow learning.
That's interesting, thanks. I suppose the key then is the removal of it retroactively, and actually practicing that sensibly (like your drunk-driving example).

In the US, not having a parliament in the same way, I suppose what's missing (unless it isn't?) is for the congress/senate to be able to take it away in that way. I'm not at all familiar enough with their set up to know if that would be a completely wild precedent ('president is supposed to be supreme to them' etc.) though.
RCS is already here on Android, but I keep it disabled in order to avoid read receipts and typing indicators.
That's kind of cool that, in Java, there exist real-life garbage collectors.
The article is about:

- feeling like an outsider

- feeling like an insider

- how small towns fill their time with gossip and molehills

- identity

- the human condition

You can't fix the human condition by getting approval for your fence
so put the 10 cent button in the middle, or at the end of the article?

microtransactions exist within the realm of individual video games already though. spend $10 to get 5000 in-game tokens and 150 tokens gets you better gear.

for the calorie and cost conscious rice eater, why should I pay $10 for a bowl when I'm only going to eat half? per-grain is ridiculous, but a la carte pricing on food isn't. Not everyone is a fan of buffets.

I don't want to pay for a whole newspaper when I'm just reading the whatever section, and micropayments would let me do that. Whether or not that's a good thing for the newspaper is a different question.
Growing what? Weed?

Do they still believe these shit? Should be already warned from last time.
I'd really like to try this out! Or try out something built based on this paper.
His point is an AI teacher cannot force someone to learn, while a human teacher can (maybe).
> its super easy to start ai companies

And only barely an inconvenience.
>> >Today, we have the technology and knowledge to create tools that prevent developers from wasting valuable development time deciphering static, outdated diagrams,

"Outdated", imo, is subjective to the content and is bias'd by the time since creation.

As long as wireframed thought is the bare skeleton, the diagrams are merely a read-only user interface to communicate to a particular end-user audience.
> and then spammed me to boot

There is a misunderstanding about how this works and how email works:

* Rejecting an email during the SMTP exchange results in the /sending/ server returning a response to the sender. This is NOT spam and it not under the control of the receiver.

* Rejecting an email post-acceptance and sending a reply is called /blowback/ and is typically considered poor practice and a type of spam. (But not UCE.)

* Adding a header to an outgoing message which causes the recipient's email server to possibly generate an email message to the recipient when they reply has nothing to do with the sender. The recipient's email provider is doing this, and the problem is you.

Let's recapitulate:

1) You use Microsoft as an ESP.

2) Somebody sends you a message, received by your ESP with this header.

3) Your ESP takes an action based on this header which results in you receiving feedback.

The whole thing is a shitshow, oblivious to externalities; but whatever.
One thing I've not understood about this is how do you create an AI course to teach people things... without creating an AI that can DO the very thing that will make that very same knowledge obsolete?

For example, how do you create an AI language teacher without creating an AI that can make learning languages obsolete? If you've got an AI that can, in real time, hear other languages and translate them (as you might have for an AI language teacher), then why would a human need to spend countless hours learning this other language? Just hold your phone up and let AI do the work for a fraction of the effort.

For a harder, non-solved problem, consider math. For an AI to do math will require something unknown at this point, if it can ever happen. But assuming it does, why would we want a human ever to "do math" ever again when we have the AI that can teach it just do it for us? The AI will almost certainly do it more cheaply and with more skill than a human IF it can be done at all.

It's this sobering realization that I struggle with. If someone can tell me where I'm wrong I'd be greatly pleased
Kids would just take the ai earbuds out
Not to diminish the work of OP (the website looks really clean), but I don't think I know any serious experienced engineer who couldn't create an image sharing website
For maximum efficiency, you should work in binary instead of base 10. Handling carries becomes more straightforward with the right primitives, for example __builtin_addc with GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Integer-Overflow-Builtins...

You can also implement it in C if you want a more portable solution: https://github.com/983/bigint/blob/ee0834c65a27d18fa628e6c52...

If you scroll around, you can also find my implementations for multiplication and such.
Sounds fucking afwul to be frank.
I don't have the time to evaluate the effects of context length on my use cases so I have no idea. There might be some degradation when I attach the Qt book which is probably already in Claude's training data but when using it against my private code base, it's not like I have any other choice.

The UX of drag and dropping a few monolithic markdown files to include entire chunks of a large project outweighs the downsides of including irrelevant context in my experience.
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> ... in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman ... with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable.

Actually, this seems to be absurdly beyond any of the recent progress in generative AI. This sounds like the kind of thing people say when their only deep knowledge is in the field of AI engineering.
Well, they kinda have it with their hipify tool, although this is for porting CUDA code to AMD's HIP which supports both AMD and NVIDIA. This supports CUDA C code and libraries with AMD equivalents like cuDNN, cuBLAS, cuRAND, but doesn't support porting of CUDA C inline PTX assembler. AMD have their own inline GCN assembler, but seem to discourage it's use.

There are also versions of PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX with AMD support.

PyTorch's torch.compile can generate Triton (OpenAI's GPU compiler) kernels, with Triton also supporting AMD.
Means you were about to say something the donkey didn't want to be made public.
> the real answer is: it does not, they are not wrong

The real real answer is that it probably does, but on a much longer timescale that we generally consider and it is really hard to explain why. Something like better math skills lead to better life outcomes. Maybe due to a better model of the world and sharper thinking, but I am just guessing.
Sure, but if the model takes multiple seconds to execute, then even 100 milliseconds of network latency seems more or less irrelevant
Learning stuff is secondary? Found your problem.

School shouldn't be primarily about experiencing social interaction. It's an artificial environment that disappears as soon as you graduate, and which you'll never find again anywhere else in society. You can learn social interaction in plenty of other settings, most of which are vastly more efficient and realistic. Admittedly, none of them function as daycare...

School should be (and used to be) about learning to learn, building mental discipline and a base of knowledge sufficient to bootstrap whatever other studies appeal to the student, even more so than memorizing a particular list of facts. But it seems that that position has been largely abandoned.
Totally incorrect. The vast majority of the population are relying on schools and teachers to potty train, teach manners, instill excitement for learning and basically do everything a parent should be doing. Large number of kids have no real parent figure and thats from all types of backgrounds. We are not talking about kids who have strong households where learning and general manners are being taught.
Yes! +1 And it's possible to disable Read Receipts and a lot of people do. A lot of people mangle beacon pixels too.
I was walking to my classroom last Thursday, and a kid pushed another kid down the stairs, right into me. I went ballistic, and sorted it all out, but there is no way an online AI tutor can deal with that kind of behavior. So if you want social education, you need physically present teachers. If you want online education, then parents are going to have their work cut out.
It's specifically mentioned in the dissents.
I think it takes some experience in getting a Shakespeare text from the page into a form that really clicks with people. It's not because the words are unfamiliar, but because Shakespeare has a fondness for long, elliptical sentences and convoluted grammar. It can be hard to figure out where the emphasis goes.

It helps that the poetry gives you a lot of cues. Iambic pentameter gives you a framework. Deviations from it are cues that something is important. It's not a formula for performance, but it reveals just how much more Shakespeare was directing you than just the words to say.

John Barton's "Playing Shakespeare" course has been how they teach that to RSC actors, and that has given us some of the greatest Shakespeare lights of the last 50 years. The videos of it with his students are magnificent views of a comically young Patrick Stewart, a ridiculously baby-faced Judi Dench, a positively embryonic Ian McKellen, and many others.

Inexperienced readers may not be able to get that just from reading it aloud by themselves. But if they listen to somebody who has practiced it, they'll have a huge leg up on comprehension.
Here is the authoritative video of an English radio engineer explaining how VOR works.

It truly is 60s level wizardry.

https://youtu.be/tZ2gG1v9Xg8
Underlying paper: https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.2489...
If you're texting with an iOS user and they use a reaction, Apple "helpfully" forwards the reaction as text. Which is OK. What I don't like is that it also quotes the complete text that the person reacted to.
> Er, today. The UK monarch is completely immune from prosecution.

Eh, if you like.. the main problem with this kind of discussion is it's just so unthinkable that it's hard to really reason about.

But yes, strictly in principle, it is of course His Majesty's prison service, King's Counsel, etc.

I suppose what I meant really was that they are not today (practically speaking) in law-making or executive office.
Yeah that's rough, the world isn't friendly to dumbphone users.

A website blacklist is pretty easy with the parental controls on most smartphones these days. Unless you're like me and you just disable the whitelist when it slightly inconveniences you :) I guess a better option would be to use a really low-spec smartphone, like the Cat S22 Flip, so that you can browse the web but it's really painful and less habit-forming. I used the S22 for a while and did kill my smartphone habit. The only problem was that it would crash randomly, which isn't acceptable for me. No silver bullet I'm afraid.
Be sure to CC everybody. /s No. The technology isn't built for this.
Unrelated, all my devices freeze when accessing this page, desktop Firefox and Chrome, mobile Firefox and Brave.
Is this the best alternative to access code ai helpers besides the GitHub Copilot and Google Gemini on VSCode?
> I don't think creators or consumers want to use Bitcoin.
That's right.

> Consumers also want to pay in local currency.
Taproot Assets will bridge this.

In Fewsats for example the user prices the services and gets the payouts in $ by default.
Today I got a this email by xandr

Thank you for your inquiry. We take privacy seriously at Xandr and appreciate the time you’ve taken to contact us.

Although we are unable to confirm whether we maintain any personal data relating to you, if the identifier you provided exists in our database, we will delete it.

Regards,
The Xandr Privacy team

Proving that they ARE able to identify someone if they're provided the uuid2 identifier
Could you elaborate? I would like to be less ignorant, if possible.

I went to public high school, public community college, and college. None of these experiences have changed my opinion, but rather informed it.
I think hedge funds, at least the advanced once, definitely don't use time series modelling anymore. That's quit outdated nowadays.
Is this not the same as human teachers?

In the language example, people still want to learn to read/write other languages despite many translators being available. The tech to teach might be less sensitive to latency than the skill in humans, or it might be very expensive, or it might be useful to non-tech-literate people.
Well, for instance, because hearing other languages and translating them is not even the primary use-case for knowing a language. It would take a suite of purpose-built AIs, and the knowledge and ability to use them in-situ, to replace knowing a language.

AIs can also teach us to do things they cannot themselves do, for instance you could have a driving-test tutor. It could teach you a lot of things, despite us not having full self-driving AIs.
I have more questions than answers after reading this.

"They’re lit by a twilight sun catching on ice crystals and seeded by rocket exhaust and space dust." and

"Exhaust from rockets, which have been launching in growing numbers lately, can also seed the clouds, as the AIM satellite research showed."

...are a pretty startling notion.

Should we expect, then, that this phenomena will be constant / worsening moving forward as the proliferation of rocket launches increases thereby pumping more water / alumina / particulates into the very upper atmosphere?

I'm not an alarmist normally, but taken further, then is it too hyperbolic to say that SpaceX and its high-frequency launch competitors are already changing the global weather within just a few years of ramping up operations?

Can we say with certainty that the occurrence of these clouds is not an harbinger / indicator of future weather changes? Like, does having more ultra-high altitude clouds increase or decrease greenhouse effects, for example?
This is the fundamental problem with education: everyone treats it as some problem to "solve" with tools, and technologies. The issues with education are human ones -- interpersonal and policy -- not because it's lacking some tool or technique.

They just installed some state of the art AI-enabled, "smart" mega drawing screens w at my daughter's schools touting all the supposed immeasurable benefits it will bring, and most of the parents, including myself, just rolled our eyes.
I agree with you, but fail to see how our viewpoints are mutually exclusive?
> Yes, most diagrams are frustratingly static

Most source code is static. In case you want to show a diff, you normally do this with a side-by-side view, regardless of whether you show the diff as textual source code, or as two diagrams.

The transformations you sometime see in Youtube videos of moving and removing small bits of code to e.g. show the differences between a piece of functionality in an object oriented vs functional language are only useful because they require your eyes to follow relatively few points of interest.
I agree. Also, if the message proposes any action, it should be appropriate to reply with "Make it so.".
A large amount of engagement is reading and responding to body language. There are also no social ramifications of ignoring your laptop.

Don't get me wrong, I think AI has a role in the future classroom, but that should be lead by professional educators used to dealing with children.

There is also the social side to education that goes beyond course content. Teachers are not just there to dole out information, but to act as role models and part time parents.
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Meditations on a (Lisp-2) Macro