> Dear monkey, please run, and run far!
Where to? Article says they're in a national park already (and even there, hunted sometimes).
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Where to? Article says they're in a national park already (and even there, hunted sometimes).
Ouch.. I truly feel sorry for people who've never had the experience of "switch machine on, wait 1..2 seconds, start coding". All the machine's capabilities at your fingertips. No OS install to maintain, no updates, no viruses, no hassle.
It was sooo easy to get into (not to master!). Stores in my country would have a C64, ZX Spectrum or MSX running a demo or something, you'd come in, hit a key combo, type something like:
10 PRINT "RetroTechie was here ";
20 GOTO 10
For example an early machine code adventure: I'd read in a magazine some biggest prime number had been found. Fyi: a Mersenne prime, 2^n-1, with n being a big number (10k+).
I quickly realized that number could fit into ZX Spectrum's 48K RAM, if encoded 2 decimals/byte (packed BCD or plain binary 0-99). Worked out Z80 assembly code to do 1 doubling using pen & paper. Some POKEs, a small BASIC program, and voila some semi-big primes appeared. Upped the counter, machine was number crunching for hours, and... yes! Starting & ending digits matched those in article. All the digits from biggest prime science had found up till then, calculated by that humble machine.
Just one of many examples. Modern computers are many orders of magnitude more powerful. But imho much of that era's magic was lost. Windows 95/98 you say? Booorring...
So English title would be "99 air balloons" or just "99 balloons".
(Excellent choice btw, among German-language songs it's an all-time classic)
"The frontend — lexer, parser, semantic analysis (it’s called mkf) — hands off to two of its own IRs before writing WASM-GC by hand."
So those frontend tools do the writing, not the developer?
That's not "by hand". One might say "writes WASM-GC directly". But no that also doesn't happen, it goes through an IR first?
Personally I wouldn't put too much trust in a developer that even can't get their terminology correct. Well either that or I foobar'd my understanding of the writeup?
Anyway, looks like an interesting project.
Or -using same # of subpixels per cm^2- would perceived display quality be similar due to better color representation?
But does Limbo have any 'fatal flaws' like that? Especially compared to Go.
No doubt Rob Pike is a prolific and capable programmer. But seems like he needed quite a few attempts before arriving at Go (looking at C's flaws -> Alef -> Limbo -> Go, Wikipedia also mentions a domain-specific language called Sawzall).
In developed countries, people buy (or rent) the things they need. Most financial transactions are recorded, taxed, regulated, and with 3rd parties involved at every step (who also expect to get payed). Car insurance, home insurance, electrical bill, etc etc. Grocery prices go up, you pay more. Renting, and rents are raised? Tough.
But in less-developed countries it's not rare for people to grow their own food. They could be living on 0 income & still have food on the table. Swap produce & services with other people in town. No 3rd parties, no taxes (see: informal economy). Build their own home on family-owned land. Insurance? What insurance?
TLDR; there's many flavours & angles on what "poor" or "rich" means in practice.
A limited selection of CD/DVD/BluRay, a large collection of songs in mp3 & other formats (many ripped from CD myself @ some point, others downloaded), a bunch of movies in h264/h265 etc (mostly via torrents).
Books / documentation / retrogames & more on various devices.
Generally when adding anything, I look for replay value. Play/watch/listen once & never revisit stuff I save to /dev/null.
In common between all the above: storage media under my control, and useable offline.
Most countries didn't care much for the former other than historic reasons, but like the latter for obvious reasons (add £ to GDP).
That's changing due to "sovereignty". You can't build a satellite without metal profiles, wiring, tubes etc. Which requires manufacturing capacity for those. Which requires steel/alu/copper smelters & plastic extruders. Which requires plastic & thus a chemical industry.
This whole 'sovereign movement' is about keeping/bringing back capabilities across the stack which are deemed critical (like steel).
But I suspect there are few (if any) countries that have these dependency chains mapped out in detail.
So you're saying the site screams "Claude's style!" to you. Not too different from "I know a WordPress site when I see one".
Sounds to me as inability to delegate. Or implicit in the [acquire VC, aim for high growth] mindset as if that were the only path to success.
Companies can grow organically. With a positive cash-flow early on & reasonable work/life balance for founders & employees alike. Heck, there's even non-profits.
"Solved"? It helped us become dependent on fossil fuels for food. And more mouths to feed.
> What’s going to be the tech solution this time?
There might not be one this time. And/or the core problem(s) are not technological.
But you'll probably see large-scale crop failure first. It's simply not possible to grow the world's food supply indoors.
Migrant flows, political chaos & wars can do the rest.
Imho it's too strong to say that will happen worldwide. But on local (country/regional) scales? Absolutely.
It's not like the company hired 1000s of workers (each individually agreeing to YT's ToS) and have them dial model weights up & down.
"Laat niet, als dank voor het aangenaam verpoozen, den eigenaar van 't bosch de schillen en de doozen"
(old-ish Dutch spelling. From ~1930). Translated:
"Leave not as thanks for your pleasant stay, the owner of the forest the peels and the boxes". (google for pix, they're nice!)
Today, I'd be a happy camper if it were just peels & cardboard since both bio-degrade. Unlike most other litter (smoking-related and balloons among my 'favourites').
But it's definitely a cultural thing. Learn kids @ a young age, problem goes away.
No just use a text-mixer: in goes your text, set parameters to have output match <scapegoat> (or just pick "standard_Neanderthal_3"), out comes text conveying the message you wrote, in the style of your choosing.
Of course that would also strip the attributes that made it your creation.
Probably with the idea that if it's radical enough & you give it time, something might come out @ some point.
The bigger the animal, the harder it is to keep cool.
So it may just be too little, too late, with our species' extinction on the table (never mind all the 1000s of species we've already wiped out).
Don't get me wrong: every little bit helps (especially now), and sooner = better. So please keep deploying solutions, and stop contributing to the problem!
But I can't say I'm optimistic. Public at large does not understand how quickly the state of a system can change once underlying factors cross critical thresholds.
What stopped SGI from offering such $199 add-on cards, but with their name on it?
I searched the web but picked the Wikipedia page as one of the best resources on the subject. Some other pages you might enjoy:
Library of Congress - How to use the card catalog https://guides.loc.gov/card-catalog/using-the-card-catalog Developer of an early, widely used computer standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Avram https://www.allpurposeguru.com/2013/10/card-catalog-birth-an...
Possibly not even that: just a dumb terminal sending keystrokes & displaying text returned by the server.
Setups like this have been around almost as long as computers exist.
I recall that these replaced library catalogs in the form of drawers full of cards. Each card representing a book located elsewhere in the library (or available upon request from a central location). Man I'm old...
"Aim camera at QR code to put "open-link" icon on your home screen"
Does something like that not exist?
That said: safety. To prevent harm to who, by AI model doing what?
I can understand that in the context of a cookie-cutter model intended for consumption by a broad audience. With vendor (potentially) on the hook when it's abused for nefarious or illegal uses.
But in the context of AI models reshaped, fine-tuned and adapted according to end-users' wishes, what does "safety" even mean?
Prevent neighbours' kids from seeing images that are only generated & viewed in the privacy of one's home? To prevent AI model from wasting the $ on user's bank account? (people have let AI models do that). Give bad health advice? Who's the judge on "good" and "bad" there?
If the core architecture provides "safety" (however defined), that's policy built-in, right? (opposed to mission statement). If "safety" is just configuration & finetuning, that's in the user's hands, right?
Smartphones aren't, some apps on them are.
(besides being unneeded or a nuisance in some situations)
I suspect exact and/or universal definitions for intelligence, self-awareness, 'feelings' etc will prove to be elusive, and best we'll get is systems/robots etc behaving as if possessing those qualities. With some tests to put a number on them.
Downside is that may apply to us humans too.
The reverse: sometimes people care if you do. "Caring" and "effort" tend to be good indicators.
But imagine there's some yet-undiscovered <something> that has big implications, and conditions exist for its discovery. Then someone stumbles across it, puts out a hasty tweet, walks off & doesn't look back. Took no effort whatsoever, didn't care much about it. Or maybe some AI does that.
Would that reduce the value of the message? Imho: no.
I'm hoping we'll find ways to separate the gems from mountains of slop they're buried in, that don't require AI-powered tools to wade through that slop & pick the gems. Or establish incentives to not produce all that slop in the 1st place. Not sure if that's doable or how.
But I don't care that much about AI-generated or not (although I'd prefer if stuff were marked as such). Useful, well-written, interesting, exactly what you needed, providing a new angle on a subject, innovative: that's where it's at.
Btw I'm all out of soapboxes. Would a potato crate do, in a pinch? Not gettin' a tattoo!