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And it's a fallacy to assume that critical thinking is something that you're born with. In addition to the media landscape being completely ingrained into society. I can't really escape recommender engines anymore when consuming media.
If your exposure to media is curated since you were born, how are you going to tell if you're being deceived? It's pretty much the allegory of the cave.
I used to own (well, technicall I still own) a Jolla Phone when it was released in 2014 and what was way more beneficial towards my privacy as a user, was the fact that it was a full fledged linux phone where I could have potentially installed any piece of software I would have wanted, with full root access in a custom linux terminal with bash. I think I once tried to run a Minecraft Server on it.
I was hoping that they'd port aircrack-ng to it, like it was possible with the Nokia N900, but sadly that never happened.
If you can fit your entire software stack into L3 cache, you never have to access memory and benefit from insanely good latency.
This was a thing in HFT like ~5-7 years ago, where you might have bought a 28 core Xeon, disable all but one or two cores and benefit from ~30mb L3 cache, which can fit an entire Linux Kernel, an SSH server and your trading software.
I was hoping for some documentation on how to get networking but I can't find anything immediately in the README
Then the effort sucks.
From my perspective as a German, this almost looks like a scam. It's a bunch of OSS software rebundled as a package by a company which would like to make money off of support for the software. Which inherently sounds great, except that their only original contribution to the software package is a mid tier project management app.
The vibe I've been getting so far, is that they're trying to resell OSS software and accompanied support, except the underlying software already has great community and commercial support (Nextcloud and Collabora for example) and to make up for that, they're getting the german government to slap a "Made in Germany" label onto the package.
The horror of finding out that my employer lies to me and invades my basic human right to privacy, because they know they can only get what they want from me by manipulating me.
> The tragedy of being ignored when bringing up office equipment in a discussion about saving costs in a tech platform.
The tragedy of pointing out, that apparently only some deverse clean water, while others don't, and having it fall on deaf ears.
> The inhumanity of having workers hired to make food and do dishes on a Friday.
The inhumanity of devaluing people based on their misfortune in life, that didn't enable them to jump into a well paying tech job.
> The absolute gall to be asked a question about the identity you are proud and obnoxiously open about.
The absolute gall of my employer to berate me about my pride, my _identity_ they find so obnoxious, only to take advantage of it once it serves their purpose.
The water purifier thing was CARTOONISHLY evil, like you took it from the fucking Fallout Universe!!!!
As I understand it, it's exactly this. Specifically, representing neurons in a neural network via a probability distribution of logic gates and then collapsing the distribution into the optimal logic gate for a given neuron via hyper-parameter tuning in the form of gradient descent. The author has a few more details in their thesis:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00616
Specifically it's the training approach that's patented. I'm glad to see that people are trying to improve on his method, so the patent will likely become irrelevant in the future as better methods emerge.
The author also published an approach on applying their idea onto convolutional kernels in CNN's:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04732
In the paper they promise to update their difflogic library with the resulting code, but apparently they seem to have conveniently forgotten to do this.
I also think their patent is too broad, but I guess it speaks for the entire ML community that we haven't seen more patents in this area. I could also imagine that, given that the approach promises some very impressive performance improvements, they're somewhat afraid that this will be used for embedded military applications.
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2023143707A1/en?inventor...
What model is the author talking about? I would pay for that. Is Claude really THIS good, that it could manage the codebase of say, PostgreSQL?
Can you please provide a source? Genuinely curious as this would be fatal to the US economy. Imagine working 2 years to get out from Covid chip shortages only to hammer progress down with tariffs.
If you assume that every good or service can be infinitely commoditized, then yes, perhaps this will hurt businesses that use this kind of technology.
Realistically though this just isn't the case and there are a lot of products, commodities and services that are unique in their own right and dont't have that kind of competition. So your Visa and Mastercard example is completely moot.
For example, you wouldn't really tell this agent to get you "the best rated shooter game on steam" because that's just not how purchasing decisions in gaming are made.
And on that point, from reading their announcement this sounds more like what critics of AI have been talking about, are you seriously going to automate something that gives you _pleasure_? Like selecting a game that you want to play? Wtf? Because in the scenario youre describing, thats exactly whats happening.
enenenshittification.