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Start with China spending ~$2 billion to start DeepSeek by training in on OpenAIs outputs, and more to falsely claim it was an independent operation on only a $5million [0] . It did initially create a problem in the markets, and put out a bunch of bad assumptions. But the mere effort put in to undermine it shows it is in the front — OpenAI is the one out front with the target on it's back.

Will OpenAI be brought down? Maybe. But they do have the lead, and are running like they mean to keep it. The future is not yet written.

[0] https://wccftech.com/ai-markets-were-deceived-to-believe-in-...
Eh, respectable looking people were responsible for the Holocaust, slavery, segregation, and plenty more.
This is the biggest risk of AI imo; almost by definition your thoughts regress to the mean when using it
Not sure if this works as an argument, but in this case Google added the new US name even in international versions of Maps as a secondary name. That does feel a bit odd.
I hate it, it represents the ugly stupid jingoism of the times … but it is the “official” name now, so I can hardly fault Google for updating the name. Myself, I’m calling it the Gulf of Fuck Trump, but a lot of things are going to get that name in my house.
Asymptotic analysis is only relevant if you have some series (or a function).

The series 0.9, 0.99, 0.999,... is asymptotically close to 1 and also asymptotically close to 0.9999... (with infinite 9s), since for any epsilon, I can find an index N after which all elements of the series are within epsilon of the target.

Since a single series can't have two limits, 1.0 should be equal to 0.999...

Note that real numbers are allowed to have infinite digits after the point, otherwise they wouldn't include things like 1/3.
Some snark in here, I'll try and give it a fair shake. Whitney's site mentions '300 spartans' as the rough number of people using k, although it's probably more than that.

Two reasons k folks like k: first, if you believe that programmer working memory, as in the number of chars or lines of code you personally can hold in your head is limited, then it might make sense to be as terse as possible -- this will significantly increase the range of things you can reason about.

Second, if such a language were to focus more on array and vector-level manipulation, then for certain sorts of math tasks, you might be pretty close to grad student nirvana -- programming looks like using a chalkboard to work out a strategy for some processing, and then straightforwardly translating this strategy without mucking around with all the 100s of lines of weird shit say python or java make you do to process something in bulk and in parallel.

On top of this, whitney is a mad genius, and his k interpreters tend to be SCREAMING fast, and, like a couple of hundred kilobytes compiled. Over time the language has built connections to large-scale data processing jobs (as in, you run a microsend-or-shorter-timeframe strategy based on realtime depth data from 500 different stocks, say), and it has benefitted from the path dependence you get there.

Anyway back to the top - it exists as both a rallying cry for and a great tool for a certain sort of engineer that wants to make millions of dollars and refer to him/herself as a "Spartan" of coders.
The real news here is that GNIS has been updated with the name. It doesn't seem that Google made an independent decision to change the name. Resistance to this change would really have to happen at the government level, not the tech level. Which really seems to be the point that's being made with this whole ordeal. It's a symbolic move to demonstrate to everyone that what they say goes and that the system isn't resisting their power.
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How many hurricanes did Germany have in 2023? How many tornadoes did Germany have in 2023?

Let's not think that weather has nothing to do with any of this. That would just be beyond insulting
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>I like to wonder what would be the maximal amount of damage to humanity an extremely wealthy person could do entirely legally.

Run a government. No single person has ever been responsible for more death, suffering and harm as a person wielding a monopoly on violence. Even the Church only managed its bloody conquests, cultural genocides and colonialism because it had the power of imperialist states behind it. If not for Constantine, Christianity would have remained a weird apocalypse cult in the Levant.
The rational take is to understand it within the context of recent expansionist rhetoric which includes the annexation of Canada, strong-arm purchase of Greenland, and conquest of Gaza and Panama.

You don't have to go that far back in a history book to understand the dangers of expansionist rhetoric in a globalist world and how it is directly against American interests to threaten war with our neighbors and allies.

Threatening war with neighbors and allies is not a Christian thing to do.
Poor, poor C++... cries in C
I agree, the coastline is mostly shared between the two.

Since you brought up Turkey, they renamed themselves recently. Practically a lot of people just can't keep up every countries nuances and just use the old names. It's fine. It seems like a lot of people still use Bombay over Mumbai too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It is definitely odd. It seems as if Google wants to cozy up to Trump like other tech companies are trying to do.
There's nothing hard to prove about the current nonexistence of the technology. Indeed, nobody is even working on the technology as far as we know.
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Is there any actual evidence that the reasoning tokens output by current models actually represent the computation happening in the hidden layers?

In both cases, the model is doing a ton of processing that you can't actually inspect, except here, you at least get some efficiency gains.

Even more importantly, you're also less likely to convince yourself that you know what the model is thinking.
Look, I love LLMs and even implement them for customers, but I am very sceptical about them 'replacing' ERP and CRP systems. What some AI folks don't seem to understand is that traditional ERP and CRP apps are completely driven by auditable business rules because they have to be. If you're running a company, there's no discretion at all about how money and other assets and liabilities are accounted for. It all has to be strictly according to the rules. This goes for most everything else - management are responsible for the business rules implemented in the system and they need to be precisely spelled out. Sure, AI can and should be used extensively for the human UI piece of it. To simplify getting data into and out of the system for example. But the engine inside and the database are all strictly rule governed and I definitely dont expect that to change anytime soon.
Just in my van -> RV conversion. ;-)
I haven’t used coins since about 2009 (I mostly pay with card or phone, and if I don’t, I just leave the change behind.). The exception to the rule was probably some tolls and parking meters.
I’d probably ditch but quarters. Those still make sense otherwise I’d expect all the points where you can pay with coins to jack up the prices to the nearest dollar, regardless of how you pay (and each item individually).

I also don’t know how I feel about $1 coins. One buck has such a low value in these days that it almost doesn’t make sense to have it in “paper” but I cannot imagine going back to coins.
And it has the benefit (depending on perspective) of further weakening the US by harming diplomatic relationships with the two nations with contiguous borders.

Canadian statehood and renaming the Gulf of Mexico were never brought up during the campaign. These actions serve no interest other than to antagonize American allies. They weaken the security posture of the United States, and that is ultimately the point, like soon to be DNI Gabbard.
They’ll take notes from Blackberry and give it to carriers like BIS.
> If OpenAI actually values OpenAI-NP at $40B then they will surely sell it for $97B. The point is the $40B is obviously a dramatic undervaluing and the fact they won't sell it for $97B shows that. This is the wrench.

"We believe an OpenAI-P owned by Elon is fundamentally against our mission."

While I'm not saying Sam's being an angel here, I do think it's reasonable to say that llms aren't an existential risk and spinning them off to a consumer thing while xrisk and super alignment stays in a nonprofit is plausibly mission aligned, and certainly moreso than giving any amount of control to the guy who's proven his devotion to care and safety in progress by checks notes taking a sledgehammer to the US Treasury.
Yes, I see that all the time on Facebook too, top-most 10% of a thread is actual comments, bottom-most 90% is "Friend McFriendface" name reffing. It's quite annoying.
So many points of interest have been renamed in the past 20 years. I'm expecting the same level of endorsement for those renamings to carry over to this one.
I see Gulf of America when it's zoomed in, but Gulf of Mexico when zoomed very out or very very in.
There will always be youngsters who love to dive into machine code and low-level stuff. And there will always be a need for developers who can code low-level efficient device drivers, game engines etc.

So software abstractions is not something I worry about when it comes to the survival of civilization. Nukes seems to be more of a real threat IMHO.
Underground powerlines are the norm in Germany, hurricanes, tornadoes or not and their grid would still perform vastly better.
Like another poster on this topic said, it's not pointless or silly. It's a demonstration of power.
why not just synthetise a matching aggregate as well as a function that takes that aggregate and forwards it to the normal function?
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Might not be enough data for good statistical significance yet, but IIRC the "die in a fire" probability in a Tesla Refrigerator is something like 17x the Ford Pinto based on current numbers.
OED says it was remodeled with the diminutive:

> Alteration of pumpion, variant of pompion n., with remodelling of the ending after words in ‑kin suffix.
well, how dare to show a mistake without the actual good thing to do? :D
by all means, keep letting those charlatans take your money.

Are you denying that private equity avoids reporting standards that are mandated for public companies?
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The median car in service in the USA is 13 years old, so I think your mental model of car lifetime is pretty outdated. For cars made today you should figure 22-25 years.
Where does it end though? If he decides tomorrow to start calling Canada "Beaverland," will all our maps change again?
> We need to fight over whether .999 repeating == 1.000 repeating

Because we've already agreed that 9 repeating the other way is equal to -1.

It must be because if you add 1, you get an infinite string of zeroes.
tbh if y'all sat in front of it I don't think you'd find it that compelling in reality
Why can hedge funds negotiate such high fees despite lackluster performance?

You answered it in the prior sentence: portfolio theory is incredibly robust. They (claim) to provide diversified return. The idea is that although they may not provide a net return comparable to low cost equity ETFs, they provide diversified return. And portfolio theory tells us lower yielding assets can actually increase your portfolio's risk-adjusted return, as long as it's not perfectly correlated with your existing investments.

Whether this plays out in practice is a different story, but that's the idea and selling point.
I've tried for the last several years to go the other direction: tech -> finance. I've sent thousands of applications to hundreds of trading and finance companies, and gotten zero bites in the last two years.

I am currently just assuming that there aren't as many finance jobs as there are jobs at big tech.
As of a little while ago, he’s gone from X
> The free market will always chose to go to the places for the cheapest material and labor.

That's absolutely not true and anyone who has been involved in sourcing knows this.

There are plenty of other factors other than price alone. Reliability of source, quality, ability to response to changing volume demands, reputation, customer service, sustainability, overall capability, regulatory compliance, IP protection, financial health, quality management systems, etc.

It's the reason why any large corporation has a months long supplier due diligence process.
why waste time and energy discussing silly things he might do when he is literally doing silly things now, for real?
I'm too smooth brained to see the obvious reason. Would love for someone with more folds to say what the reason is instead of hiding it behind its obviousness.

OpenAI-NP can either have a $40B from spinning out OpenAI-P or $97B in cash. In theory, they could literally just go and buy back their stake in OpenAI-P and have $57B left over for other AI endeavors if the valuation of it at $40B were remotely reasonable! If I'm on the board and I believe the $40B number, I'd do this in a heatbeat.
He’s vulnerable to more than that, but it is definitely the biggest risk.

I genuinely think that a political recall over his language and promises regarding self-driving are the most likely downfall of this man. (Outside maybe from his drug use and rapid political agenda as a target). I think he’s get political green-light from Trump admin to roll out nationwide self-driving and it’ll be a deadly mess, and that will be the unwinding of Tesla and Musk. The rapid recall and mess that will result will tank them in the market, and start a crisis.

Precisely, states will react to the self driving vehicles, allowing consequences outside the control of the federal government, who will happily protect him.
It took a while, and a huge investment from the US to avoid the locals flocking to the DDR.

(The Soviets, unable to put in as big an investment, built the wall to stop DDR citizens from making the opposite trip).
Sounds like a bit of survivorship bias. Every success from people following well known principles does not translate into a blog post or research paper. You also don’t hear about all of the people who failed because they tried something novel and it didn’t work.

I would suggest positive takeaways is to: trust but verify. If you’ve got a novel solution idea and don’t understand why others aren’t doing it that way, do both and compare. You’re guaranteed to learn something one way or another. Also: if you reinvent the wheel or do something suboptimal then that’s okay too. Sometimes the solutions don’t make sense until you see what doesn’t work. Likewise: be open to learning from others and exploring solutions outside of your predefined notion of how things should work.
The paper is not targeted at laymen, but other members of the research community, who are aware of the author ordering convention.
> TSA’s own internal tests have people getting handguns through.

> eventually everyone will have [pre-check]

How do those two things follow? The government does a /bad/ job yet I have to submit to even /more/ monitoring to fix it? They're the greatest exploiters of the transport monopoly we have in the USA and so strong is their grip people don't even avail themselves of the obvious solution.
the shoes, the tooth paste, the water… are all necessary security theatre. the real work is happening behind the scenes. but the theatre is also necessary (albeit not as dramatic as we have it now :) )
It's a very minor thing in the face of the idiotic insanity going around, but I just saw and was annoyed by Altman's twitter bio: "AI is cool i guess".

Is this like some kind of ironic detachment? It almost makes you long for corporate pablum about building a world for us all.
> Where does it end

Same way every naming fight does. Each side requires its own labels.
You do realize the saudis for almost a century are way richer, more powerful, and way way way more corrupt right?
But nonexistence of technology isn't a proof of impossibility, or even particular hardness.
Literally one month. JHC.
Finally, a good use case for LLMs that isn’t just trying to anthropomorphize some already solved automation problem.
As well as an example of the "flood the zone" strategy designed to overwhelm and distract.
I'm just here hoping that the billionaires can get a little richer while no one's paying attention.
>It's easier to grow the assets than the returns.

A certain famous Italian gentleman had the same realization.
This article ended too soon :( I was having a really good time reading it, very nice work!
There’s regional differences in airports.

In a post-9/11 world, I took an airplane to university and back, and on a regular basis from [SMALL CITY] airport. I could, as a disorganized young adult, be at the airport within 10-15 before boarding time with luggage to check.

Pre-9/11, my family travelled internationally and it was always a 3+ hour, pack-a-lunch affair to be at [MAJOR CITY] airport.
Likely cached tiles either on your end or Google's servers
Many people are currently desperately trying to figure out where it will all end, with possible outcomes much worse than renaming places on maps.
This is a theory of CS paper. The algorithm might not even be implementable.
This reminds me of something I remember having installed years ago that would format `man` pages as a nice document (using... grotty or something??) and open them in Preview or something. I think it was on a mac and it was 15+ years ago.

Genuinely my least favorite thing in the terminal is when I forget some detail about... usually CURL, since they use the capitals AND the lowercase letter arguments for very different things. So I end up having to use the / command in `less` to search for some common word for 3-5 minutes because the manpage is so disorganized. We have a much better tool than the Terminal for viewing long-form text content, so maybe I just need to alias `man` to open a website that publishes manpages.
You are pointing to a disrupted market as evidence that the market didn't need to be disrupted. A quick search suggest that EU ban on CO2-emitting cars was from 2022, 5 years after Tesla started selling the Model 3. The global trend toward EVs was largely started by Tesla showing that EVs were a viable product with real demand.
A funny thing: I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in Mumbai, and there definitely seems to be a significant number of native residents who still call it Bombay. It was to the point where we briefly wondered if this was referring to two different parts of the same city (south of the Sea Link bridge is Bombay, the rest is Mumbai, maybe).

Names are complicated! Germany/Deutschland, Holland/The Netherlands etc.

Interesting that Wikipedia keeps “Turkey”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

They also keep Gulf of Mexico.

As a programmer: localization is a PITA.
I wonder how much each company spends internally on damage control/mitigation re: Musk. I don't think he's as much of a chaos monkey as Trump, but I try not to pay attention to him so I could be missing things.
I think it's 2 different approaches, some enjoy the one (playing with the thing itself) and some enjoy the other (playing with the various secondhand abstractions that refer to the thing).

They are different tastes. They deliver different results.
My biggest pain point with bookclubs has been keeping everyone motivated to continue reading. It's fun for the first few months but every time it drops off rather quickly. Don't really have an answer to this, apart from finding a new group to read with.
I meant more literally than metaphorically, unless something drastic has happened in the last 2 hours that I'm not aware of (given Trump, this is not impossible).
> it’s the most Christian thing folks have done in a long time

Shoehorning conquest as uniquely Christian or even European is ahistoric. Almost every civilisation did it. And the Church was expansionist because Justinian was a literal emperor.

(The exceptions to the rule being in the most recently-settled parts of the world, e.g. Australia. Mostly because they didn’t have time to get on with it.)

We’re an expansionist species. That’s a curse and a blessing. Above all, it’s human.
Nice! I'm kinda curious -- what do you see as Zapier's advantage when it comes to building agents? It seems like everyone is doing something similar? (e.g Lindy, Gumloop)

Agents have a pre-iPhone feel to them (when everyone was making phones with keyboards). What do you think the ultimate Agents looks like?
Insane idea: Load people like cargo.

Seriously. Just have the whole passenger section setup like cargo pallets and wheel them in and out of the plane. Why bother walking up and down a narrow aisle? Just have a "passenger marshalling facility" away from the airport, have the interior section in parts there, have everyone comfortably load up, put that on a bus, wheel that straight to the plane, then load them in like large scale cargo through a huge side door.

Lock them down and send them wherever. Do the same in reverse at the destination.
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I think only their definition of ”acceptable ID” is changing. The section for ”Don’t Have Your Acceptable ID?” stays the same.
I spent years renting/owning apartments. Now fortunate to own a mortgage/house.

The amount of freedom open to you is ridiculous. It is like becoming a "first class" citizen - a "homeowner" that the politicians pander to. It is ridiculous.

To deal with apartment living is to deal with bureaucracy/politics/bullshit. And even when the people are lovely - like my last apartment building - the incentives don't align to make for sensible long term decisions for the whole building.

Solar panels with or without battery? Electric car charging? Bike shed? Heatpump-everything? Upgrade building insulation? Arrange the garden to be useful? These are now options available to me on the basis of money alone - no permission from others required.

It is stupid. I know that apartment living can be more efficient per capita in so many ways, better for city planning and public transport etc etc.

But fuck that. A lot has to change until apartments become desirable as anything than a temporary stayover.
The counter reaction is strong as well. I don't agree with this so I must just hate Trump, right? It's a feedback loop in both directions.

Frankly I just think it's a waste of time and energy. I'm referring both to the original action, as well as the continuing ramp up of divisiveness.
>Rubio assessed the agency, decided to keep 300 people and let go of the rest.

With all due respect this is a complete joke. Rubio has been basically cut out of the process and is along for the ride.

And no, the President can't unilaterally do that, and if they want to argue that they can, they need to have that proven out by the courts, instead of proclaiming that the executive branch is the arbiter of what is and isn't constitutional.
Drive up or value it fairly? If Sam and the board are unwilling to even consider the $100B offer then it seems to be strong evidence that it is worth much more than $100B.
It's more or less a loyalty test. Are you going to use the correct term, or Trump's term. Which side are you on?
If you measure the position of the plane very accurately that will cause the momentum to become unknown due to quantum mechanics, which could make it hard to control the thing I guess.

Hmm. At least you weren’t threatening to measure the momentum very accurately. Since that would make the position unknown. Would that turn the plane into a slab?
Probably a caching issue