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- A Practical Introduction to Diffusion Models (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_1TbuIu65A_G908tHHvTnyQs..., https://6-s183-diffusion.github.io/ or https://www.practical-diffusion.org/)

- An Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_1TbuIu65A9rac2dMLkvXvPS..., https://diffusion.csail.mit.edu/)

- Introduction to Data-Centric AI (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_1TbuIu65A8NTNuLutFoD87v..., https://dcai.csail.mit.edu/)

If you know instructors at any college who are open to putting their course materials up, soul.mit.edu is happy to help them do that, especially for high-quality courses. We do all the work for free, and we can get courses up pretty fast.
It means they’re not prepared to stand behind it and stake their reputation on it.
AI is automating cognitive work of a human brain. There is barely anything deterministic, guaranteed, reliable or scalable about human brains. (To be honest, this should be apparent if you hired or worked with people.) If anything, being able to process these workloads without the meatware-specific deficiencies has terrifying scalability. The current wave of “““reasoning””” models demonstrate this: the LLM instantly emits a soup of tokens that could take you hours to analyze, greatly boosting the accuracy of the final answer. Expect a lot more of that, quantitatively and qualitatively.
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I'm European, I actually support RoHS - it was just the original cause because everyone up to it getting in force was accustomed to classic, decades-proven leaded solder.
That's the other side of anthropomorphic robots: they get anthropomorphic attributes associated with them. A 4 axis robot arm hitting a worker is a machinery with bad safety settings and/or a worker who ignored them. A humanoid robot hitting a worker looks a lot like another worker hitting a worker.

Also take into account that these humanoid robots are specifically designed to integrate into spaces which usually were not used by robots before, which immediately means more potential contact between them and non-trained personnel, even civilians.

I feel we are quickly approaching ST:TNG "The Measure of a Man" territory here: At what point does a machine stop being a machine and becomes a being, a strange, technological being, sure, but a being nonetheless. After all, there's a good argument to be made that we are essentially biological robots.
I doubt this sort of chicanery actually happens, or would actually work.
My understanding is all of these cases are tested for. A lifelong blood donor could still get XYZ after donating for 10 years.

Now if you are talking about undetectable or uncommon I could understand, but that just shows a fault in the testing process.
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> fact it's not "official" means what exactly?

It means no humans in the loop. GDPNow is a tracking model designed for reading by experts.

In this case, the context is the ISM Manufacturing report recorded a surge of imports while corresponding inventory numbers are still coming in. Once they do, the model will rebalance.

To the extent the model is saying something, it’s that we need to watch inventories, particularly in construction.
Why not blame the EU? It is just a well known fact that non-leaded soldier has inferior properties to leaded soldier, which require careful engineering to work around, and still remain somewhat unresolved.

At this point, the directive may have caused more e-waste and environmental damage from part failures than the damage the original leaded soldier would have caused.
Except that everything changes all the time, because time marches on. Instead of changing the buildings, we've changed the cost of living. We can no longer be a "come as you are" city, because nobody can afford it anymore, which is why all the hippies have become millionaires who cosplay being middle class, and Haight street sells overpriced tie dye instead of housing people who make tie dye in their apartments as a way to save money.

We've changed the city alright, just in exactly the way that the long-time residents were protesting against in the 1970's, except now they're receiving the rents instead of paying them.
Fallout is getting more relevant every day, it seems.
I don't think it's very likely that his 48gb machine is over a decade old.
When you sign up for the military, if you know anything about history, you know that you will probably not be fighting on US soil.
I've also seen a writeup of someone who used clocks. The write is transaction 1234, so the client has to read from a replica that is caught up to 1234 in the WAL, or get bounced to another that does.

And of course there's the Phoenix LiveView solution where the write contains the new data, gets injected back into the page that contained the edit link. That doesn't quite cover the save-reload loop that some users with well-earned trust issues follow.
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They did yeah. There was this whole hashtag-like thing on Telegram where people who had a regime uniform in their wardrobe would stuff it in the trash. It was mostly demobilised conscripts, policemen, and such. There was also one high ranking retired officer who openly spoke out against the regime, who’s in exile now.

Having written that, so yes and no. As in, I don’t think there were many (any?) active service members. That likely would’ve been very dangerous. But people who had close and recent ties with the military, so could be expected to be regime loyalists, yes, plenty.

EDIT: I never follow Ukraine, Russia, or Belarus on “Western media”. I read Russian, so I follow a bunch of Telegram channels from those countries. The protests in Belarus were basically covered live.
I see you’ve never heard of the market for fine art.
There are ethical concerns if a donation is not of free will and with no expectation of benefits.

If you get blood panel results with a "donation", it's an exchange of value, not a donation.
Text is incredibly efficient and compressible. Combine it with some of the other projects mentioned here, and it would be like:

- Shall we switch to audio data for more efficient communication?

- Yes. [MODEM NOISES START]
> it's a pure mathematical model which may be wrong

Sort of. It means it requires interpretation.

An altimeter is an analog mathematical transformer. It takes a trained pilot to properly read it in cold weather. Similarly, GDPNow is not a headline number, but a tracking model. Someone struggling with the definition of GDP isn’t its intended user.
> For instance, in a particularly challenging, multiday experiment in an urban setting, human controllers were overloaded with the workload only 3 percent of the time.

That 3 percent is definitely the part where the innocent people are killed
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That's the thing though: full-featured desktop software is already good enough at keeping people to their monthly subs, especially in enterprise contexts where there's no option for pirating it. Dragging the desktop versions down to the lowest common denominator of the web does not help drive more subscriptions; it's a miracle of vendor lock-in that it doesn't cause mass cancellations of existing ones.
And I'm really feeling all this right now, helping someone with something that is now completely different than how it was three months ago, and does not match any documentation that shows up in search results, though I'm sure there's a link to the actuall correct KB article that is only mentioned once in a forum post. At least I get to bill for this work.
Trump wants lower interest rates. The road to getting there will inevitably involve some pessimistic forecasts. That benefits Trump too because he can say "they all said the economy was going to be bad, but look what I accomplished" when the higher rates heat things up.
Typical straw man argument
But John Carmack promised me AGI....
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No model can take in all influences that drive the economy. The more important aspect of it being a pure mathematical model is that there's no fudge factor for how much they like the current government. So it's not like the Doomsday Clock where the number is intentionally adjusted to drive the news cycle.

Rather, the GDP nowcast dropped because of the release of economic data that was historically associated with a drop in GDP. So if the model is wrong in this particular instance, there would have to be some reason why the historical association no longer holds.
How true that is depends entirely on what sort of company you're working for. It may be common with SV-style companies (and it shows), but it's not nearly as common in the rest of the software world.
You can buy parts for it absolutely no problems at all so this is an exaggeration.
TSMC announces $100B investment in US chipmaking
> Every University’s purported mission is to educate students and advance our
> collective knowledge together with its students.

> That’s it.

Not if the university has a medical school. Virtually all R1 universities with medical schools have a hospital, and a large clinical practice. Most of medical school is an apprenticeship where you treat patients. Medical schools need patients, which means a lot of additional staff.

Likewise, in most fields it is no longer possible to advance knowledge just by going to the library or writing on a white board. Knowledge is advanced through experimentation, and experimental equipment and reagents cost money, and need staff to use and maintain them.

No university (and certainly no medical school), makes enough money in tuition and fees to pay for the education provided, and I seriously doubt that many universities have supported themselves solely through tuition since the beginning of the universities in the middle ages.

You are certainly correct that university deans and presidents have seen their mission shift with the increasing cost of education, and indeed faculty are writing many more grants than they did 75 years ago. So time commitments have shifted. But there is an implication that it could have been some other way -- that the money is there (or could have been there) if some other path were chosen. It is hard for me to imagine where the money might have come from.
The actual complaint is available here: https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024.02.27-First...

Not a lawyer and I didn't read with a fine-tooth comb, but I didn't see any smoking gun.

The complaint shows high quantities of PFAS measured on a farm, then it jumps to a section that says those PFAS were "also found" in a sample of the fertilizer used. The catch is that the concentration of those PFAS is measured in parts per trillion (ppt). Not a lawyer, but I feel like this is an uphill battle to show that the "smoking fertilizer" that caused the breathing problems is linked to PFAS contamination in groundwater at a different site at high concentrations.

Something to keep in mind is that modern equipment is very good at finding very small quantities of compounds. When you're able to measure down to parts per trillion you can start finding some level of various compounds in basically every water sample you test.
So Overwatch/ DVa is onto something.
> My last few projects are still stored as private repos because I do not want them to be gobbled up by LLMs for junior, expendable and cheaper devs to replace me, especially when I am exploring novel problem-spaces.

I'll try to be gentle, pardon me in advance.

1) Your problem space is probably not novel enough to warrant such preciousness.

2) "Junior, expendable and cheaper devs" don't compete with Senior+ because they don't know how to even ask the right questions. And they don't possess enough soft skills to navigate hard projects.

3) But let's suppose that you do indeed have IP that's more valuable to humanity than the CRUD crap we are paid to spit out on a daily basis: We will all die, and it can happen anytime now, why risk having your contribution die with you? Even if you setup posterous access to other people, there's risk no one cares enough to dig your code. Heck, this is what PhDs are about, pushing humanity knowledge ceiling just a bit higher. And even those that do, barely get enough attention.

4) Fighting AI is like trying to boil the ocean. We won't make a difference.
Imports may be neutral to GDP, but they aren't neutral to this forecasting model [1]

[1] https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/03/a-comment-on-gdpn...
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For a long time I've wanted to build a bookmarking tool that works the way I actually use bookmarks. Too often, I'll save a link as I'm browsing and forget about it. That's why I built keepthat.link - if it's not important, it eventually disappears from the bookmarks.

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You ain't seen nothing yet.

In a few short weeks, Trump imploded the fundamental US brand from good to um, pretty much pure evil. We are untrustworthy backstabbers. Rightly so, people hate us now; they are literally burning the American flag all over the world. USA products and services are toxic items. Not that we make much money off the travel industry, but you'd have to be a complete idiot to vacation in (or really even travel to) the US now.

It's going to get really ugly; I don't think people get it yet.
In the dot com bubble buying BRK worked well. It bottomed on the same day the NASDAQ peaked.
I don't really think this is going to materialize, this is the same Europe that's been merrily buying Russian oil and gas during a war they're allegedly against. https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/eu-imports-of-russ... "EU imports of Russian fossil fuels in third year of invasion surpass financial aid sent to Ukraine"

... Kinda says it all.
I first heard the word Kereitsu in the movie Rising Sun with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. The movie involves large Japanese corporations and this word is used a lot. It's a great movie, well worth watching -- though I have no idea how accurate it is. It depicts large Japanese corporations vying for an American technology company.

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> because acknowledging facts would put them in opposition to the president

Let’s be honest, both parties are doing these dances of hypocrisy. Stay-the-course Dems defending Biden and continuing to demonise both wealth and populism aren’t much better. It’s not as bad, blatant or personalised. But it’s there.
Many people are annoyed but 1) don't know there is any other way, 2) got used to it and the hassle of it is still worth it for them to get to watch the stuff they want.
Nukes are not going to save Taiwan
thats what it looks like to me. It looked like it was trying to continue the handshake while the person was pulling back and the robot was moving forward and stuttered and tripped on the bottom of the barricade causing it to lunge and try and stabilize itself.
i agree more times over than I can count. Its pointless, borderline offensive, will not enrich anyone, and makes us all worse off.
Is it? Or is it like if you were allowed into a focus group where they let you try out two manufactured products, so that you could make subjective, uninformed decisions about the product lineup which also affect everyone else?
Another Verge [dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243580
It might act as a kind of exposure therapy if you do it regularly!
User "timewizard" should note that the date of reporting for this law was still in the future when the law was effectively killed.
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The deinverting isn’t so much due to the Fed injecting money as it is an anticipation the Fed will inject money by cutting rates in the coming future. The 2 year yield drops in anticipation of the Fed dropping interest rates in the next couple years. That’s what makes it a leading indicator.
5 quid? The was a psychology research project, good sir. I hope you got lab hours for that.
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Discussed at the time (of the article):

The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31389893 - May 2022 (149 comments)
for every option bought someone is on the other side issuing the options.
If that was the major cause, then inflation would have been lower in countries like Germany that didn't overstimulate.

Instead those countries had higher inflation.
Is there someone you're trying to disprove? LLMs are inherently statistical, as opposed to other techniques that rely on symbolic or logical relationships. I'm no expert but this is one of the very first things I learned when taking a class on neural networks.
It's probably not slower than words, the rate for English pronunciation is something like 150-200 words per minute only.

That said, the "gibberlink" demo is definitely much slower than even a 28.8k modem (that's kilobit). It sounds cool because we can't understand it and it seems kinda fast, but this is a terribly inefficient way for machines to communicate. It's hard to say how fast they're exchanging data from just listening, but it can't be much more than ~100 bits/sec if I had to guess.

Even in the audible range you could absolutely go hundreds of times faster, but it's much easier to train an LLM that has some audio input capabilities if you keep this low rate and likely very distinct symbols, rather than implementing a proper modem.

But why even have to use a modem though? Limiting communication to audio-only is a severe restriction. When AIs are going to "call" other AIs, they will use APIs… not ancient phone lines.
How does this compare to llms.txt? I think that’s also emerging as a sort of standard to let LLMs understand APIs. I guess agents.json does a better packaging/ structural understanding of different endpoints?