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You can't fight Gartner, no matter how wrong they are, so the work stopped, now everything is a badly implemented graph.
That's a long way to say, if there is a comparison, a link would be most appreciated
But yes referring to base models. I'm also not convinced that the average book is any more trustworthy than the average webpage, whether that be a purely technical book, where you really need to webpage of errata to be able to use the examples. Or the more pop-sci books that cherry pick data and jump to completely unfounded conclusions (I'm thinking of the ancient engineers - aliens built the pyramids books).
The feedback is great and might work in some areas, technical knowledge. But once you step outside of the physical sciences and engineering, you don't so much end up with better quality information, just a curated experience that aligns with the model owners (think DeepSeek and Tiananmen square)
Fusors are somewhat dangerous, they use extremely high voltage, in the thousands to hundred thousand volt range. x-rays become an issue above around 30,000 volts, but they are frequently made by high school students, and I'm not aware of any deaths.
lots of details available here: https://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=4843
That assumes that the correct amount of disinformation is zero, personally I wish to maintain my right to be wrong, and my right to tell others of my wrong ideas, and I hope they maintain the right to tell me I'm full of it.
Your position on censorship, moderation, as you call it, is your opinion, and your opinion only, and it is at odds with the position of X, and now Meta, who are taking the position that the point of moderation is to respect everyone's right to speech, while making it very obvious to those that care, that the speech may be less than truthful. Essentially everyone gets to speak, and everyone gets to make up their own mind. What a concept!
I also maintain a position of truth dies in the dark, and lies die in the light.
Most people aren't stupid, community notes breaks the echo chamber and provides a counterpoint.
That debate of free ideas has been working pretty well so far. So much so that we can usually tell who the bad guys are by how much the create darkness; how much they take on the role of arbiters of truth, how much they silence critics, think Soviet Russia, or North Korea for some good examples.
But facts are facts right?
Zuckerberg did say Facebook was pressured by the Biden administration to censor covid misinformation, and the Hunter Biden laptop story [0], [1], [2] (multiple left-wing references for good measure). If Zuckerberg is telling the truth, that is a clear cut first amendment violation.
A private company can censor whatever it wants (mostly) but not at the behest of the government, there's law against that.
[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh...
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxlpjlgdzjo
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/27/m...
Has always made sense to me, if you think how these models were trained.
My experience with great stackoverflow responses and detailed blog posts, they often contain "think through this step by step" or something very similar.
Intuitively adding that phrase should help the model narrow down the response content / formatting
Source?
How do you define reliable?
Why is the authors identity important?
Facts don't change because you know the authors name, or trust the source, or like the person telling lies.
The idea that anonymous sources, or "untrusted" sources (for someones definition of trusted) cannot be the source of facts is gaining ground right now, and it needs to be pushed back on wherever it is seen.
It's a lazy Ad hominem, and it's down right dangerous.
I don't care if it's elected officials claiming Russian malinformation or a random chess thread, this is the hill I choose to die on.
you're really not joking
Pneumatit® is a liquid additive that permanently anchors a fine biological activity (liveliness) in the concrete Many people experience adverse effects that come from concrete - regardless of the design. This ranges from slightly subliminal discomfort to irritability, inner cold sensations, joint pain, exhaustion and organic disorders. Underlying such sensations is a reality, because the production of cement breaks through the bottom of the natural processes of life. Result: a lifeless building material with an absorbing effect on our organism [0].
[0] https://www.lehm-laden.de/en_GB/shop/pneumatit-pneumatit-50-...
> I think that outsourcing was a symptom of this disease. Not MBA cancer, not poor software, not anything other than a deliberate cultural shift which led to all those other things.
That is the MBA cancer. Focusing on shareholder value instead of making a great product.
80 years ago racists had power and tried prevent those looking for racial equality from speaking.
Now the anti-racist have power and are using that power to prevent the speech of the weaker group.
Always look at the power dynamic, not whether you agree with the speech or not.
"[Popper] does not however want us to silence or censor them, but to fight them back with reasonable arguments. He does however say we should have the right to be intolerant (even violently!) to them if they are not ready for a debate, as they may prevent "their followers [from listening] rational argument, because [they say] it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols." [0]
The Paradox of tolerance advocates violence against those that would prevent speech, not those with intolerant views, unless those be the same group.
Using the Paradox of tolerance the idea of censoring speech you do not agree with, especially when using government authority to do so (monopoly of violence and all that), would be an intolerant view point, and as it prevents debate, should not be tolerated in a tolerant society, and in the end should be met with violence.
The issue with the current generation of models is that they can't reason, they may do very well at pretending to reason, but they can't [1]. Reasoning requires the ability to identify and reuse patterns, and while there has been some advancement in this area [2] with getting models to learn the underlying pattern and rule, it doesn't generalize. This results in models that will happily tell you that a statement is both true and false, and be unable to identify the logical problem with that.
Even creating summaries is difficult, and LLM's are more than happy to hallucinate even when summarizing documents, providing incorrect, or entirely made up facts [3]. The general workaround is multiple runs with the same work and averaging the response, but that's a lot of work, and energy.
[0] https://win-vector.com/2024/05/21/i-want-flexible-queries-no...
[1] https://medium.com/@konstantine_45825/gpt-4-cant-reason-2eab...
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15071
[3] https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4o-hallucinating-at-temp-...
Jokes aside, and i know its only 1 small area, and the effect might not scale, but where I'm living the weather forecast is suggesting October is going to be worse, the next 2 weeks is expected to be 7 degrees celsius higher than average all day every day
isn't this just the VC playbook:
1. enter market
2. undercut incumbents by burning VC cash
3. wait until the incumbents fail
a. if you're getting close to burning all the available cash, sell to an incumbent and try a different market.
a. if you fail to reach monopoly status plan an exit (SPAC) before it all comes crashing down
a. if your product is free, harvest more of your customers data
a. harvest all the data you can get away with
First the population size, as per the article, was half what it is now. So you can either double the asian flu deaths or half the covid deaths to account for this.
That still leaves a huge gap, but this is where demographic analysis comes in.
Usually you see this as age adjusted deaths.
In this case, the population of the US has been aging for a long time so you would expect more deaths from covid than the Asian flu for an equally deadly virus.
The other demographic change that is important, especially when talking about covid is rates of obesity, which is something else that has grown over time in the US population.
That's a really long winded way to say you can't just compare raw numbers.
The article doesn't give an explanation of how they came to their conclusion, but if you take population size, age distribution, and obesity rates into account, I could see the adjusted numbers being close.
"R_{0} is not a biological constant for a pathogen as it is also affected by other factors such as environmental conditions and the behaviour of the infected population.
R_{0} values are usually estimated from mathematical models, and the estimated values are dependent on the model used and values of other parameters. Thus values given in the literature only make sense in the given context and it is recommended not to use obsolete values or compare values based on different models. R_{0} does not by itself give an estimate of how fast an infection spreads in the population".
That feels like premature optimization; split when you need to and not before
2. You've outsourced a large portion of your development to a number of agencies
Then your developer count is likely not in the 10s (you need to could the agency developers), plus if you've already outsourced your development in that manner, it suggests you already chose a micro-services architecture and tendered accordingly, this feels like a post hoc justification.
3. You have a team of individuals who know nothing but microservices
If a team can build a set of microservices, they can build a monolith, the skill sets are not that different, a microservice is after all just a really small monolith.
4. Your chief compliance officer is intimately familiar with the data protection benefits that microservices bring and is leaning heavily into it in their regulatory submissions as a way to compensate for some other gap in the business
That's an interesting one, you're trading technical complexity for compliance, and it may well be a use case, there is not enough data to comment here. But there are many ways to be compliant with <insert framework here>, micro-services might be one, but is it the optimal solution for all involved, well that depends...
5. You're building anything to do with image processing at scale
This doesn't require micro-services, it probably requires horizontal scalability, if its offline processing you might want a batch process you can turn on and off as required, but that doesn't have to mean microservices, at this point it becomes a semantic argument of what constitutes a microservice, but I would argue the idea of batch processes predates the idea of microservices. Also just because you might need to use microservices in a small part of your application stack, the rest of the solution can still be a monolith: a hybrid architecture if you will.
6. You are a subsidiary owned by a parent company with tons of experience and tooling for microservices
Again, if you have tons of experience with microservices that can be easily translated to monoliths, just build a microservice but bigger
7. One of your VCs has offered up a dev team they own to speedboat your MVP, who specialize in microservices
It its 10 devs or less, does it matter, build a monolith and optimize when it makes sense to do so
8. You've received a buyout offer by a party interested in specific IP within your product, with the condition that the IP is isolated from other parts of the system
Unless that is your goal from day 0, I'm not sure how you could anticipate this, again this feels like a post hoc justification. If, in the unlikely event that that situation occurs, that might be a good time to consider splitting out that functionality.
Yeah, there was a little backlash this time. The police have issued an apology, maybe a few front line officers will be disciplined (somewhat unlikely), then it'll all be forgotten and next time it will barely make the news, and after that its just an everyday occurrence.
The opposition (Labour) party is refusing to say they will repeal the legislation if they win the next election, they haven't said they won't, that's not the politicians way, but what they did say was “We can’t come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it” [0].
make no mistake this isn't a law our government wants, its a law our parliament wants, both sides of the house, and it is here to stay, whether we the people want it or not.
It's almost like people that want power and control become politicians to enact laws that give them power and control... Maybe we need some kind of checks and balances on the power of parliament, or maybe, the desire to be a politician should make you ineligible for the role.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/08/labour-urge...
It is the United Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Northumbria, however, does not exist anymore, its now a bunch of English counties, and the southern half of Scotland (south of the Firth of Forth).
Without more details on which part of Northumbria is meant it's impossible to know if Enlgand should be included, it may also be wrong to include England if its only a small part and its most / all of Scotland, Wales, and Northen Ireland
The author may be getting confused with the similarly named modern county of Northumberland. You'd be surprised how often the border region between England and Scotland is confused, misplaced, or forgotten about.
[Source: I'm from Northumberland, technically Tyne and Wear, but thats splitting an already split hair]
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In the UK when my mother got told she was terminal and had a couple of months left, she chose to spend them at home. In the end she left hospital in mid-December and died the following May. 5 months at home in a specialist bed, provided by the hospital, all of the equipment required to keep a dying person comfortable again provided by the hospital. Nurses and doctors there every day.
Because of her illness, the government paid her rent, it paid my father a carers allowance, so he was able take time off work.
Total cost: £0.
5 months of excellent at home care for £0.
You shouldn't be dismissing the article as clickbait, it shouldn't cost $145k to die, there shouldn't need to be a discussion here.
You should be so very angry that a country that takes in $3tn a year in federal taxes won't support a working healthcare system
I think you're missing the point, yes it is legal for anyone to appeal a conviction.
In the US (and I assume most of the rest of the world) that is dependent on your ability to pay a lawyer to do that for you and your likely outcome is impacted by the price you are able to pay for that lawyer.
The other point is, this is a conversation about a two tier justice system. Rich people get to spend their appeal in a mansion, poor people sit in prison waiting on an appeal.
So I would say, she's been convicted of a crime and has been given time for it, send her to prison like everyone else.
Once her appeal is successful, then let her go back to that life of luxury.
the scene involved pointing the gun towards the camera, which means the gun is pointing towards the crew.
> Trigger discipline
How do you maintain trigger discipline when the scene requires you to point a gun at someone, or in someones general direction, with your finger on the trigger?
> check the chamber, identifying cartridge types, emptying the chamber before setting it down
If an actor tries to check the chamber, messes with the cartridges, the gun immediately goes back to the armorer to be made safe before being handed back to the actor, if the actor check again, guess what happens?
It's very important to understand that on a film set the standard rules do not apply, or more precisely the rules apply in different ways.
Archaeological landfills are called middens[0], and they're more like trash heaps than landfills, but there's a lot of them around the world.
A quick primer from dig it Scotland on middens: https://www.digitscotland.com/a-load-of-old-rubbish-what-mid...
Sweden is not a particularly good example. A better example might be Latvia (or any of the other areas invaded as part of the northern crusades), which was invaded by a group of Catholics spreading the faith[1], Latvia could not be called a colony of the Papacy, but it certainly moved the area into Romes sphere of influence, with all the religion and language that entails.
1. Don't pressure young people to get the vaccine, some will end up in hospital, some will die.
2. Pressure young people to get the vaccine and 6 times as many of them end up in hospital from the vaccine, taking up more space, and putting more pressure on the system [0], some of them will die [1][2]
[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...
[1] https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tragedy...
[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/death-boy-14-three-...