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Great news for UW-Madison and all the work that went into such a forward thinking, creative scientific instrument!

Is getting rich important?

Non googlers aren’t gonna get that

I'm looking forward to the day where pelicans aren't the first thing in discussion threads about model releases... no offense(!)

Not sure why this is interesting; it seems like anything that becomes "popular" could be cast as a "virus", including things like "having a fridge". Why does this give particular insight?

That is woefully naive. But even if so: aren’t you against it?

No offense, but "the idea that families with wealth offer easier paths in life for their children" - like isn't this obviously the case?

The amazing thing about America is that there are paths for those not as wealthy, but of course they are harder, as much as we might not want them to be... no?

What about Page? Brin? Etc.

I love this idea. At least make them turn it into some form of a public good.

I’m sorry to hear that about your parents.

It’s because of the opportunity to truly learn responsibility to others, instead of selfish responsibility to self.

Blockbusters were like the worst business ever and embodied enshittifying before the term existed. Once in a rare while there was a local video rental though that was cool. And the General point is true.

I would describe him as a leading educator / explainer / teacher in this space.

"US government bans floating point numbers"

ah cool - thanks for the clarification. some of the comments here read like nothing like this has ever been done before ...

Lots of great work that pioneered here (I wish the website did a better job showing that?)

e.g., Dr. Brett Seales and his decades of work: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1601247

No that is not true. Read about PARC and all the crazy tech they built some time. It was ahead of its time!

Come on. It reads all the code in the world; then, you ask it to produce code; then, it gladly writes out something "new" which is a synthesis of what is out there, often with direct copying. It's more than reading.

Also connected: many composers would write out previous great works, to learn them more deeply. Bach as I recall would do this.

Which Hamming quote, btw, do you refer to? I think he mostly talks about talking with other "smart" people, and communicating what you are working on a lot (like giving talks, etc.). But, this doesn't read like much of a case for the humanities, per se.

this is true in all human endeavors. Tech is not special in this regard, alas.

It didn't strike me as modest, to compare oneself to another who is known to be great.

"Van Gogh is almost certainly a better painter than I am" -Monet

You know, there seems to be a hidden thought here that it's either just (A) let the Founders do their thing and of course they will provide great value and happen to become billionaires as a result or (B) tax those crooked cheaters who are taking our wealth.

There could be alternatives. For example, laws that ensure ownership of said companies is more widely held, so that the wealth is more evenly distributed among those who created it, for instance.

written with confidence too. I'm amazed at the levels of confidence people have in predicting the (unclear) future.

I'm having a hard time putting much faith into posts like these, especially as they near IPO.

I read this differently: they are actually seeing that it's hard to keep advancing frontier models, and now are moving the goal posts so that when they start getting evaluated more harshly, they can point to something like this.

"Links No Longer Mean Credibility" - did they used to? I mean, I mostly agree with this article but a person could have written this about the internet. I remember people linking to all sorts of random web pages and using that as a source of credibility.

I'm amazed by all the "people hate AI therefore this won't get anywhere". This is a first (perhaps real) attempt to envision what a desktop of the future looks like assuming AI progress continues. If I'm Apple, I'm very concerned about this, because it is the type of thing that will be tough for them to compete with if Google can pull it off. A traditional computer experience may be very different in a few years, and Google may suddenly be the company that can pull this all together...

Really? I see this all the time. Maybe I'm going to all the wrong places. I see "couples" on their phones, I see groups of friends on their phones, etc., etc. Maybe different parts of the country / world?

so is the Unix command line ...