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For me personally, when doing development with LLM's, you've won me over towards using safer languages rather than looser ones. Because for one thing, the developer working with an LLM still has to remember to ask it to check for things like memory leaks and security issues. And (as I understand it), LLM's are statistically in the way they work and some level of randomness is always apart of their answer, so there is always a chance they will miss something. Interesting

Yeah, in my personal opinion, seems like Boshalfoshal's conclusion was too strong for me too, but I haven't done development enough with LLM's to make my own determination.

Interesting. Have heard many times that Google has become risk adverse. Maybe fomr something like Android, they just don't want to rock the profitable boat that it has become by switching out the core OS? ... Also now that we're talking, maybe it's just too much work to do so. Backwards compatibility seems like it'd be a nightmare, especially with all the device drivers.

Had the same thought. On the wikipedia, it only mentions Fuschia used on the Google Nest Hub, which probably means it's used on a decent number of devices, but would think it was such a great OS, they would have used it for something like the upcoming GoogleBook.

Hmm, I don't disagree with you that LLM's remove the need for type-safe languages, but as the blog mentioned, Google is porting their C++/C code to rust. Does this mean the port is waste of time and that they should just rely on the LLM's to catch memory errors?

Agreed, the murder scene is very realistic in its "make it up as you go along" feel to it. Really also liked the scene where Raskolnikov, after days of carrying the tremendous burden of guilt and shame of these murders, finally confesses what he did to Sonya. You could feel this enormous weight being lifted off his shoulders. Both great scenes.

Re-read Crime and Punishment - read this as a teenager in high school, and (not suprisingly) think at the time had missed the main point behind it (and warning, if you haven't read it, spoilers ahead!).

When I was young, thought that Raskolnikov was an example of an intelligent, moral person who was struggling with higher concepts which led him to murder. And moreover back then, thought he was a overall a good protagnist who was just in an impossible situation.

Now, realized the novel is more about psychology and how people who are overall good and others who are overall bad make choices, and then they have to mentally deal with these decisions. Yeah, think Dostoevsky is saying Raskolnikov was actually very misguided in the reasoning behind his murders. Eventhough his intentions were in many respects actually good, they were egotistically and overly idealistic. Eventually, Raskonikov realized he had deluded himself and that he was hyperinflating his own merits and value as a person over other people. And also, at a more basically level, he struggled with his conscience on whether to avoid being caught, commit suicide or turn himself in. He himself didn't believe he was an immoral person, and when he realized he had deluded himself, he struggled in the end on what course of action to take.

One downside of the book is by today's standards, it is very long-winded and often take several pages to go through something that would take a single page by many writers today. But think this also makes it more realistic, because most people in actual life don't get to the point that quickly. Really fascinating.

Agree with your take on it, the struggles of the characters are so true to life. The world feels entirely real, while still having a sense of beauty. She's an amazing writer

Middlemarch is so amazing. And for me at least, really like George Eliot's writing, maybe even more than Austen. I heard it said that George Eliot is the one author that writes for adults, think this is true. As much as I enjoy Austen, Eliot's world and characters are more real and true to life. The characters are more balanced, almost all with strengths and weaknesses, and in many cases, these weaknesses either leading to their downfall, or something they mightly struggle to overcome.

Also, Eliot's language is incredible. On one hand, it's a lot more difficult to read than Austen, but on the other, it's so descriptive while still often being laced with a sense of beauty. Really wonderful prose.

Ah, didn't know the term for this, but vaguely remembered articles multiple models being trained together. Good to know:)

Umm, as a man myself, I've got to say that I am always well behaved and have never gratified my sexual needs, ever! Sheesh, you neanderthal (haha:)

Eh, think you might not have read my comment well enough, because actually I partially agree with you in that two models may not be the best way to train an LLM. Yeah, I did say "In AI, maybe two models should be developed and trained in conjunction," meaning this is just some random idea based on the two system idea that might be useful.

Was just implying we don't know all the useful ideas (not just in tech but in medicine, genetics, evolutionary bioligy, mathematics...) that might be developed because we now know that the brain is two separate systems. It's all good though.

Ah, I stand corrected:) Maybe a better diagram might be to merge our ideas:

Fish Brain = brain stem + pallium + other parts of brain[1]

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Human Brain = brain stem + gigantic cortex(which directly evolved from the pallium) + other parts of brain[1]

Good to know:)

[1] Am using "other parts of the brain" to cover any parts of the brain not covered by the brain stem and cortex

am no expert in brain development, still have read about evolution. I like aspects of the way you mentioned this, but seems that putting cortex separately from fish brain isn't quite right. As you mentioned, the cortex is simply a part of the fish brain that evolved much (much, much) larger than a fish's. Maybe:

Fish Brain = brain stem + small cortex (+ other parts of brain)

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 (evolved into)
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Human Brain = brain stem + gigantic cortex (+ other parts of brain)

Sorry, know this is splitting hairs, but just thought it a useful distinction to make.

Interesting, but for me at least, this new research did not seem to promote the dispelled hypothesis about the reptile brain. Because the reptile brain hypothesis says a primitive reptile-brain evolved first (lower brain), then a separate part of the brain (upper brain) evolved later that was responsible for complex thought.

Actually, the upper and lower brains evolved together and most animals have both, including reptiles.

Didn't read it thoroughly, but your [2] reference seems to be saying this too.

Agreed. This isn't being oversold.

And actually, the fact that the brain is actually two "developmental" systems combined into one seems like big news to me. We might not know its other uses, but probably for cognitive science and even AI research this might be super useful. In AI, maybe two models should be developed and trained in conjunction that talk to each other, each with different functions and roles, because brains work better this way.

And from what I read, evolution did this type of combined evolution somewhat often. The parts of the ear evolved from different "Gill slits" from when we were fish, meaning the ear isn't evolved from one group of cells in the embryo, but from multiple groups of cells that evolved into one organ system, the ear. Yeah, the middle ear evolved from a different "gill slit" from the outer and inner ear.

easy there:)

Like the thought:) But actually have read that the hypothesis that the hindbrain (or lower brain) had evolved directly from our lizard ancestors while the upper brain (which does more complex types of thought) evolved later turned out to be wrong. Like the study has shown, they evolved at the same time, and many animals had both. It's just in humans, the upper brain evolved much larger in proportion to the lower brain.

https://thebrainscientist.com/2018/04/11/you-dont-have-a-liz...

But yeah, evolution is fascinating.

That was my take too:)

Me and the friends of mine who didn’t vote for him feel the same way. What did the Trump supports expect when they voted for him?

… although, even we didn’t expect him to be as unhinged and impulsive as he has been. It’s been crazy here.

Ah this is true too (seeing as I didn’t vote for him, it doesn’t bother me that he’s done the opposite of his campaign promises).

But as for competent alternatives during last election, would think a young, vibrant, thoughtful Kamala Harris would have done a better job - Still, if I’m being honest, I was not a big fan of hers even though I would have voted for her (was out of state during the last election and voting got too complicated). So, I can understand if this turned off voters.

… although, if you were referring to Biden, then yeah, truly neither were competent choices.

? Don’t think I was implying I wanted to replace him with another far-right candidate, just someone who is competent in general.

But do agree that we did all voted for him twice, so saying that maybe this is actually what it means to be an American could hold some truth. Still, don’t think so, he’s clearly one of, or the most divisive person in modern American history. It seems like most people here either love him or hate him with every fiber of their being.

Thanks, it’s been a real trial, but we can feel the momentum shifting - when Trump is truly let loose, he’s his own worst enemy. And agreed, hope our institutions hold up too:)

As an American, would say more than half our country actually agrees with you. Trumps approval rating has fallen to 39% while 58% disapprove. Yeah, a lot of us in the US are in just as much amazement as the rest of the world at the crazy and petty actions he takes.

So we’re just bidding our time, waiting until the midterm elections to weaken the right, and then afterwards, we’ll just be counting the days until he’s out of office. Hopefully he’ll be replaced with someone who is at least halfway competent - it amazes us how almost everything the touches gets completely screwed up

Am no expert at French history, but this feels like cherry-picking to me of what happened to France. From what I read, one of the biggest reasons (besides the defeat at Waterloo) for the downfall of France to Britain was that in the 1700’s, France had wild speculation in the colonies in the Americas, specifically, in the Mississippi Company. When the bubble started collapsing, the Prime Minister at the time (John Law), put a lot of the French treasury into trying to support that bubble, but it collapsed anyway. Now the French government was relatively cash poor, which eventually led to losing a lot of its colonies to Britain, a great deal of unrest in France and the French Revolution.

And I am no history expert, so am unsure of this myself, but in my humble opinion, the idea that monarchy is why France lost its place in the world doesn’t seem like a major factor.

Actually, not sure how to take it, because it can be viewed the opposite way than trying to escape blame for crimes, that it’s a parody of something AI did that everyone is making a big deal about.

Not sure what the poster of the mastodon’s tweet was??

Thanks for the info on this. Hmmm, maybe Leqembi isn’t such a bad option.

And, would be very surprised if none of the drugs in clinical trials panned out in the next five or six year. It seems like they’re on the verge of making a major breakthrough. Here’s hoping:)

Hi there. Actually, Leqembi is a 1st gen Alzheimer’s drugs and targets amyloid plaques. But, like other responses, amyloids doesn’t seem to be hugely responsible for Alzheimers, which is why targeting things like tau proteins is being explored.

Agreed that that it’s an interesting question on how to detect Alzheimer’s and also how to treat. My Dad is starting to show signs of mild mental impairment (he’s 87) - more forgetful than usual, more confused than usual, not able to work his computer like he used to…

He has taken a personal interest in preventing dementia and wants to take the first generation Alzheimer’s drugs, specifically leqembi that works on amyloid plaques. And this is definitely a tough choice, because eventhough it does show some slowing of the disease, it has lot of side effects that may not be worth it.

Personally, I am against it and don’t think it’s worth it as he could do permanent damage to himself. Think he should hang on until the second generation of drugs come out, which should be in the next 1-3 years (there a lot of Alz drugs in the pipeline, but you never know of course if anything will pan out). It’s a tough choice and don’t know if there is a good option at this point.

This is what I was thinking too. Ports are probably where AI has the one of the biggest time savings over humans.

Although also agree, that even if human's did it, they probably would try to automate as much as possible and speed up development, and maybe that original 5 year estimate was if it was done completely manually.