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So you want to also turn away the people that dismiss Ayn Rand too harshly?

So turn away the people really super into Ayn Rand, and also the people that dismiss her to quickly?

Kind of weeding out the Left and Right?

That is a narrow band.

I've seen some pretty smart people that react very negatively to Ayn Rand. Sometimes just as a reaction to the fan-boys of Rand that miss-interpret her and have made such a thin philosophy so popular.

It is possible for people that would give her a fair argument intellectually, but get tired of dealing with the fan-boys and not want to engage anymore.

Unfortunately, Rand has become part of the culture war, so it is hard to find anybody talking about her actual philosophy. But, guess that is the group you are finding.
It's great! The first really good commercial open source SaaS app in my opinion and a big inspiration
The outcome was positive for Libya, as it experienced only a fraction of human suffering compared to Syria where the United States did not intervene against the regime.

Either way Libya operation was spearheaded by France with Obama joining only reluctantly later.
Update: it was something else entirely, that we worked around for now and will fix soon
Microsoft is just waiting in the wings with Tay for just such an occurrence.
A large part of the problem is ARM itself and the ecosystem around it. Broadcom, Qualcomm and the rest of the closed source driver/firmware mafia who make it physically impossible for anyone to support their SoCs even if they wanted to.

RISC-V can't catch up soon enough.
Why though? The Turing award exists.
> First, it affects my app ratings in the application store/shop

good example of systemic failure - we are destroying a real thing (functionality) to optimise for a fictional thing (rating). There is plenty of old windows software with no support, I have a game that is old enough to drink and it still works and I still sometimes fire it up out of nostalgia.

There is no reason software cannot be like an old motorbike - a 40 year old Honda motorbike can still work, if that’s what the user wants.
Just making sure that you saw the point where we will do an impartial third party audit!
"I think such high-ranking men are probably not representative of the typical Yanomamo man. Rising to the top of such groups likely requires a good deal of psychopathy. "

It is not at all that clear to me. The thing with psychopathy at least. We have about 15 per cent of psychopaths up there (compared to the societal average of 1 per cent). Contrary to the general myth, even most high-ranking Nazis were paper-pushing conformists rather than psychopaths like Oskar Dirlewanger. Would the Amerindian society fare very differently?

First, the groups are relatively small. 100 to 150 persons at most, not a whole country like Weimar Germany. Given high mortality and the fact that women didn't become chiefs, your purely numeric chance of becoming a chief was reasonably high if you lived to be 35 or so, just from the fact that you lived and had a lot of valuable experience (in an illiterate society, the elders are a vital knowledge source). Also, this was a fission-fusion society: smaller groups separated under their own chiefs, went their own way, then came back and fused for some time again. Which opened some positions of "junior chiefs" to prove themselves.

Too much eagerness to engage in violence will likely get you killed at a younger age. Serious injuries amount to death in the forest, and even many lighter ones. If you really "optimize for max violence", odds are that you will be killed soon. You cannot win every battle, and some of the deaths described by Valero were basically murders from behind.

There was certainly luck involved, but also a mix of other attributes, including your ability to fight. But it is not clear to me that psychopaths would have a decisive advantage. It is fundamentally physically dangerous to be a violent psychopath in a society with zero healthcare.
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A very long and detailed blog post incoming. Spoiler alert: the Nobel prize should have been awarded to Gödel/Hilbert (and Schmidhuber).
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It assumes that "Skill" is a 1d value. But the ability to write quality code and the ability to debug are a bit orthogonal.

Being better at debugging doesn't necessarily makes you better at writing less complex, more approachable code. Though debugging should teach you which patterns cause bugs or impede debugging.

And what do you do once you are so skilled your software doesn't have bugs? :P

Regarding self improvement, Aaron Swartz put it better here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240928215405/http://www.aarons... (tldr: do things you don't like)
Rust does not seem well suited for GPU programming. Current shader languages could be improved and are only C-like probably for ergonomics.

What's the benefit here? The only one I can see is if you don't want to learn a shading language/compute platform and you are already writing in Rust and you want your codebase to be in a single language.

It's cool that this exists, but it really is oversold and a bit off putting calling it "the future" of GPU programming.
very little to do with neuroscience
(Sadly, it feels like my use of the colloquial term "barrel" has triggered a "proclaim authority, dismiss straw man" reflex.)
Well, the easiest way to enter the ML field is to pivot from theoretical physics.
First though, you would have needed to find a picture you can be sure isn’t in copyright. Or which is licensed appropriately.
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Indeed, for many years we've been running multiple systems with X86_64 kernels and a 32-bit userspace, running many standard 32-bit applications (including browsers); only thing we've ever needed to do is run 'linux32' before starting X so that 'uname' reports i686 rather than x86_64.
Would you write an article about self-hosted alternatives?
I'm pretty sure at the rates they get paid they'd be better off selling the wire strippers and keep burning the insulation.

Like this is Marie Antoinette tier behavior of someone so out of touch with reality from their own privilege they can't even see it. "Hello, I, a benevolent westerner have bestowed upon you a dirt cheap tool so you can keep digging through cancerous muck for pennies. Am I not a gracious god? Thanks bye"
You'd require a secure biological hash like the stuff worldcoin is doing (iris biometrics). Otherwise I don't see how this doesn't end in a detection-circumvention arms race.
My recollection of history is that the standardization of stdint.h happened long after the transition to 32 bit, and is only just finishing up becoming available on some major compilers after the transition to 64 bit is well behind us
> North and South, free labor and slave labor

That summary is overly simplistic. Northern textile mills did not get their cotton from free labor.

Also, "From an economical standpoint, the emancipation in the West Indies and the general abolishment of slavery was a failure for Britain", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cotton .

Opinions of course differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#Effects_o...

The US has non-free labor in the form of penal labor supplying some $10 billion in goods and services. Last I checked it was not being buried by countries with only free labor.
Residual connections are also worth mentioning as an extremely ubiquitous adaptation, one will be hard-pressed to find a modern architecture that doesn't use those at least to some extent, to the point where the original Resnet paper sits at over 200k citations according to google scholar[1].

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
War criminials got Nobel prize in peace.
The methods may be inspired by physics, but they have made no contribution to understanding physical laws or phenomena.

It's mathematical/CS work. The connection to actual physical laws or phenomena is even more tenuous than the prize for exoplanets a few years ago.

The Nobel prize physics committee has made itself a joke, and probably destroyed the credibility of the prize.
This is totally bizarre, no precedent for it really. The reality of the prize means that less and less are the winners names every physicist has heard of, but even today they're still big names in each subfield. For e.g. Kosterlitz, Thouless and Haldane weren't exactly household names but they really deserved the prize in 2016.

In this case, there's a good argument that Hopfield had conducted strong work as a physicist and in physics, but Geoffrey Hinton has never worked as a Physicist, at best adopting some existing things from physics into cognitive science use cases. In any case, what they've been given the prize for is work where they've not contributed to the understanding of the world of physics - it's not even really an arguable case where this is work that crosses over between Physics and another field either. It'd be like if Black or Scholes had been given the Physics prize rather than Economics because their famous equation can be re-written in Schrodinger equation form.
Well maybe in time ML will help break through the high energy physics roadblocks.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Turing award! Oh wait...
thanks the feeling is mutual since comp scientists sneer at physicists too, just for other reasons
Hinton was never going to win the Nobel Prize while working for Google, right?
Have you considered doing it off machine?

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-shell-tutorials...

https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/samples/langu...

I'd suggest v2:

https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/classifying-t...

Here are built in content categories (which feel consumer advertising oriented, natch), but it handles other classifications as well:

https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/categories#ca...
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"A Canticle for Leibowitz"

I'd recommend also "Anathem" by Stephenson
I'm going with this one for now on. Thanks!

Thanks also to all USians that commented. As a fellow American, I think we should be more United! :)
I mean fish eat each other, so it's fine that you roasted that guy.
Except Ukraine, because Ukraine invaded by nuclear country. Read the agreement, please.
If Physicists could split atoms with only their arms and legs with some safety equipment, I bet they would get paid even more than 3.5 million pound salary.
https://archive.ph/D68Dq
Europe is running the same scam as America. https://www.dw.com/en/activists-slam-europe-for-dumping-on-a...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/07/uk-worst...

The same way the dairy industry doesn't exist in Africa due to the EU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a2sJz8G3fE (DW Documentary)

Africa has become a dumping ground for the Western world's problems while being wrapped up as feel good.

Best summary of the problem
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/despite-the-hazards-ghanas-i...

>political science Professor at the University of Pisa in Italy, says: ‘If hazardous waste leaves European ports illegally, that’s because it’s easier to export illegally from [European ports] than to import to the European Union (EU).’ He says while Europeans control what enters their soil, ‘they don’t care very much about what is exported from their countries.’
Moreso genuine curiosity than as a gotcha: A lot of comments are saying this was the wrong choice. I'd find it really interesting to hear who the nomination should have gone to instead, in your opinions.
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> They have already been awarded prizes for [..] peace

Since 1901.
All I got to say is I'm highly highly impressed if that 13-year-old claim is true. You could be using your own AI stuff to be polishing up your writing a little bit but even then the maturity that's on display here and the attitude you have is amazing.

Go on and do amazing things!
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LLM can continue anything, chat is simply what worked best so far. Outputs being bland and soulless, and lacking in global structure, if I may add, is just architectural. There's nothing behind that.
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The Java applets here don't work, but there are some screenshots in articles from 2013: https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/3/4179632/mark-zuckerberg-an...
My bet would be willingness to invest.
The US intervened in both civil wars, though in Syria its involvement early on was much more through funding and arming of various armed groups - notably Sunni fundamentalist groups. How you can say that the outcome was positive for Libya is beyond me. The country was utterly destroyed. It went from being the one of the most developed countries in Africa to a war-torn country with competing warlords and open slave markets.
Exoplanet science is not physics, it's chemistry or planetary science. By your logic prizes to teams who send probes to the outer solar system planets could also be given prizes.
Zelenski (which presidential term ended) complains every day that they can't properly fight with what they have. This looks like losing for me
Not all modelling is physics, but a rather large part of modeling is. My PhD is in complex systems, and you would be surprised by the range of systems we did study. My work was on a more "traditional" field of high dimension fractal surfaces, but we had a student working on public transit models, another on ecological pattern formation, and so on.
We're seeing the same thing - our compilation times literally double because of Defender activity, you can go into resource manager and see defender using like 50% of the CPU, it takes our project from about 12 minutes for a full rebuild to 25 minutes. And the thing is - you can add whatever exceptions you want, they work for a while and then it breaks again with updates, I literally keep having to re-add and fix exceptions in Defender every month or our compilation times slow down to a crawl.
My perspective as a PhD in theoretical physics, who's been doing deep learning in the last 4 years:

1. The prize itself makes zero sense as a prize in _physics_. Even the official announcement by the Nobel Prize Committee, taken at a face value, reads as a huge stretch in trying to link neural networks to physics. When one starts asking questions about the real impact on physics and whether the most important works of Hinton and Hopfield were really informed by physics (which is a dubious link to the Nobel prize anyway), the argument stops holding water at all.

2. Some of the comments mention that giving prize for works in AI may make sense, because physics is currently stalled. This is wrong for several reasons:
2.1. While one can argue that string theory (which is, anyway, only a part of high-energy theoretical physics) is having its "AI winter" moment, there are many other areas of physics which develop really fast and bring exciting results.
2.2. The Nobel Prize is often awarded with quite some delay, so there are many very impactful works from 80s which haven't been awarded with a Nobel prize (atomic force microscopy is a nice example).
2.3. It is wrong to look at the recent results in some sub-field and say "okay, there was nothing of value in this field". For example, even if one completely discards string theory as bogus, there were many important results in theoretical physics such as creation of conformal field theory, which was never recognized with a Nobel Prize (which is OK if Nobel Prize is given to other important physical works, but is quite strange in the light of today's announcement).

To finish on a lighter mood, I'll quote a joke from my friend, who stayed in physics: "Apparently the committee has looked at all the physicists who left academia and decided that anything they do is fair game. We should maybe expect they will give a prize for crypto or high-frequency trading some time later".
I'd rather they withhold the prize this year, if there isn't really anything interesting happening in physics.
We just had a news story where an active AM station had its tower stolen and no one noticed until the landscapers reported it was gone.

And what bubble did I reveal, because it could be that I’m able to afford cars that cost ~$30k, like used Teslas or a new Toyota Camry, it could be that I like technology (but that’s mostly a given here), did you mean I’m an early adopter? Stop discounting me and my opinion baselessly by placing me in a bubble you won’t even define. How am I to even discuss with you when you use weasel wording.
I don't think there is a take I can disagree with more strongly. New technology can always be used for good or bad. His work in ML sets the course for a better future in spite of the people who use it for ill, whether advertisers or warlords.
> His work is a net negative for the world.

Bit early for this very Hacker News type blurt.

Eg: Personalized medicine, predictive medicine, protein folding, climate modelling, smart grids, fraud detection, disaster response, food production modelling, etc.
Chinesium devices are far more riendly in that respect, usually use standard cells.
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One of the very early successful applications of ML was using neural network and other models in particle identification systems in particle physics experiments.
are you saying that's part of his reason to leave Google?
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The photo is still there by the original post is gone. Any idea what e-ink device that is?
> Linear scan is very fast, but it's not competing against a worse scan it's competing against not scanning which is what the hash table is going to do.

Not sure I agree since "not scanning" would imply that we have a hash-table where no probing ever fails beyond the initial step. That is not a very realistic workload so I also think that N=4 is way pessimistic. Memory prefetchers, especially with linear access patterns in your code, will hide the latency so I would expect that N should be much much larger to show the diff.
That's my suspicion, yes.
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Companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft effectively have infinite money. It’s not a cost issue for them.

And if it’s a nuisance for them, they could release the specs and source code. The source code is effectively worthless to them. Why bother withholding it when it could be used to maintain old devices?
I'm confused about why you need yolo and llava. Can't you simply use yolo without a multimodal LLM? What does that add? You can use yolo to detect and grab screen coordinates on its own, right?
Splitting atoms? Nah, that's the easy one, you can do that yourself even if you're quadriplegic and in a coma.

Even fusion is high school science fair stuff.

Spallation, antiprotons, quark gluon plasmas? Now you're talking.
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Weirdly, if you sniff the XHR from [0] (when it loads a new page), it claims there's 1171 players for 24/25. Except if you look at a few of the teams individually, they're between 30-35 players. Which is much more in line with your ~540 than their 1171.

> the remuneration is insanely disproportionate

I once pointed out that Kevin De Bruyne, on his own, gets paid almost half as much (~21M) as the entire salary cap of the Rugby Union Premiership (~2022, 50M) (to make the point there's much more money in football than rugby.)

[0] https://www.premierleague.com/players
what makes you say/think that?
Please see: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/1cmhvzs/new_accoun... --Katie (Hetzner Online)
The age too, and the fact that Google lost prestige in AI over the years.

It's the company that didn't see the potential of Transformers, and that presented a half-assed Bard when LLMs were already in production in other companies.
it already had, bottom-quark tagging has improved O(10)x in efficiency in the last decade without any new "physics" understanding, just from training with more low-level data and better ML arch (now using Transformers)

but we haven't found new physics with or without ML, making this prize a little weird.
> Maybe he deserves a nobel prize but in physics?

Which category fits better?
Domestic violence is pervasive even today. There is unfortunately nothing special about Fusiwe breaking the arm of his spouse in anger, it could have been some Dr. Frank in Minneapolis in the very same year instead.

The only difference is that tribes living in an open forest don't have much "familial secrets": nothing can happen behind closed doors if you live in a place with no doors to begin with. So everybody knew, and in absence of strong taboos to the contrary, such behavior was normalized.
America clearly wasn't using anywhere near all of the power it had

It wasn't sending every last teenager and pensioner to the front, like in the final defense of Berlin. But the simple fact is, it was throwing everything it reasonably could have at its optional colonial project, short of causing major instability for itself on the domestic front, or endangering its real (as opposed to imagined) security needs.

Until it was defeated in the way all the Western colonial powers were -- by simply being outlasted by the people that it had a delusional "need" to perpetually occupy.

Neither is Russia now.

An equally unsupported belief.
Well I got a lot from it, but human nature? I may have missed it.
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I don't see a problem with that. You can have it done locale-aware or not and "not" seems like a sane default. QString will uppercase 'ü' to 'Ü' just fine without locale-awareness whereas std::string doesn't handle non-ASCII according to the article. The cases where locale matters are probably very rare and the result will probably be reasonable anyway.
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I literally blew my coffee all over the table.
Generic Android, I agree. Stock Android shipped by Google in Pixel? It’s that clear!
OTOH drones are used by Russian forces for "human safari" hunting in cities now, so war crimes will always find a way if the will is there.