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What's the distinction between what TVM does and FlashAttention type optimizations?

I am not up to speed with British politics. What are the biggest differences of opinion between the leaving Conservatives and the new Starmer Labour government? What's going to change?

I agree with you. Also taxes are generally higher in Germany.

The whole blog post is genius from a marketing perspective.

Is this true? I think the difference in ROI between land speculation and investing in the stock market is minimal. At least according to my napkin math. And both incur their own risks. BTW, I am not making an arguement for renting instead of buying. But if you had a spare $1million, becoming a landlord won't make you significantly richer than just putting it in the stock market.

I have an example in mind, a very recent one, in which case it was indeed the government abusing hate speech laws to silence critics. Ask Greta Thunberg.

Hate speech accusations are a bit like being accused of rape. Once it happens you automatically get tainted and it is very hard to defend yourself in the public sphere, even if the accusations are totally unfounded. This is of course abused by evil people. Moreover, what counts as hate speech can very suddenly alter depending on whoever is in charge, and even if the public don't go along with it, it can still be used to silence people.

If you want to make an argument that employees are underpaid and don't capture enough of the wealth they generate, fine, I would agree with you. But this is not just true of Africans who are employed by Americans. This is almost the general case.

I don't think invoking this debate in the context of lack of jobs in Africa, is useful. These are two completely different problems with different causes.

More job positions in a region that desperately needs jobs is a good thing.

I see no evidence of "exploitation" here. Somebody is employing Nigerians to do a boring job. What's wrong with that? It probably counts as a decent job over there. Probably more fun (and ethical) than working at a call centre.

Actually, thinking about it, it's probably not even that boring.

I did a search and the only thing that I came up with is the Airbus/Boeing mutual industrial espionage.

Funny because I'd have said, if there would be any country to dare to spy on the US, it would be France. Anyway, the number of incidents going in the other direction are much more numerous.

In even EU country we have some parties that are more pro-West (pro-US) and others that are less, although nowadays, these latter are a minority. But openly criticizing US policy is not the same as spying on their dirty laundry.

No way. I doubt a single EU country dares to spy on either the US or Israel. They are too scared to attempt that.

A notary should be able to verify your identity in France as well. That's one of their main services. I think this is one of those situations where you have to send them legalise for them to feel reassured.

> As I do not own a US phone anymore, the number they have on file is that of a friend, and I was calling from my French number.

They tend to have zero tolerance policies for stuff like this so it is no surprise that they locked your account. It's terrible that they have no alternative identity verification protocols in place. Offer to verify your identity through a notary.

Yours seems like an unnecessarily cynical take. For sure oil companies try to green wash themselves with investment in green tech that seems too far fetched. Sure. But there are also many genuinely good intentioned people working on that green tech because they genuinely see a possible future application.

For that matter oil companies invested in battery tech as well. For the most part they just want to appear like they are doing something. But their green washing shouldn't discredit the green tech itself.

What do masculinity social norms have to do with the possible danger that comes from meeting a lone stranger in the woods? You don't trust strangers because you don't know them. It has nothing to do with masculinity, men or some gender wide conspiracy.

If I met a tiny petite girl in the woods, while I was hiking, and if she wanted to stick around with me, I would also be wary of her. I would think that she's maybe part of a some elaborate robbery scheme or something. Stranger danger and all that.

And if a man, or anyone, finds themselves in a position of power, and they decide to abuse that power, that is on them. There is no social norm that teaches men to take advantage of women whenever they feel like it.

Ultimately this is a worthless discussion because you cannot legislate evil away. Some people will always behave badly and no amount of preaching about the patriarchy will change that.

EU regulates tech companies because they are foreign. Go see the EU regulation on ICE cars to see the stark difference.

Europeans like you need to realize that you have been fed a whole lot of moral superiority propaganda by pro-EU entities; none of which has any merit. Go look at how much they regulate Bayer to give but one example.

In tech markets if your product/service is good, it very easily becomes a monopoly, because adoption is easy and there is no reason for users to stick with an inferior product. Of course monopolies are still harmful. But that is beyond the point I am making. US tech companies aren't monopolies because of lack of regulation, but rather because they just have better products.

There are things like NAS (neural architectural search) but all you are doing is just growing the search space and making the optimization problem much harder. Typically you do the architectural optimization by hand, using heuristics and past experiments as guidance.

Startup philosophies become outdated fast.

Early 2000s it was: just put it online and it will sell, at a time when online businesses were still new.

Paul Graham's Y Combinator was: create a good product and it will sell, at a time when online businesses were these half-assed 2000s era products.

AirBnB/Uber's generation is: get a fuck ton of funding and do mildly illegal shit fast, and then use your funding and lawyers to rewrite the law. So called "disruption".

(I am not going to mention OpenAI and other AI startups because they are a class of their own.)

Is every heterodox narrative immediately "intolerance" in your view?

> Why should we throw open our digital borders to Chinese influence campaigns?

Because we are not China and our institutions are built on presumption of freedom of speech and freedom of thought and democracy. If we start emulating China, we will become China. Our institutions are supposed to be robust enough to handle local and foreign propaganda and if they are not, then censorship is certainly not a solution that would be compatible with the liberal democratic values that we are supposed to hold.

Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner? Isn't this largely a question of how much you trust the official narrative of the local elites?

Young people getting bombed by the US and its allies, are posting videos of themselves getting bombed and American teens have enough empathy to find such content moving.

Service industries like technology and finance are huge productivity multipliers. With the more traditional manufacturing here in Europe you don't really experience that huge growth, even if ones particular niche is still healthy. Europe is stuck operating with 20th century principles, whereas the US and China have both reinvented versions of capitalism that work better.

Different narratives for different crowds.

Head to your local physics/engineering/geophysics/climate physics department and offer your help. They will have tons of C++ code requiring work. They will even pay you while you gain experience.

Pesticides scale really well. The alternative would be to control the environment more, but that does not scale so well. Maybe with increased automation we could do some inroads in this direction.

Consumers are to blame too. They won't accept blemished produce, but a potato with some insect larvae in it, is really not that much of an issue. You just remove around the larvae and cook as per usual, and that is much healthier than dosing your produce with pesticides, that cannot easily be washed off.

The emphasis should be on "general". The easiest way to understand this is by thinking of the opposite: we can already build AI systems that are very good at one specific task: folding proteins, playing Chess, detecting cats in images, translating from one language to another, detecting market inefficiencies...etc But a human, the same human, can do all those things. A human has a sort of general intelligence. This is the goal of AGI. One can think of it as a some kind of unification theory for AI systems. One model that can be capable of excelling at vastly different tasks.

AGI has nothing to do with surpassing human intelligence. However, the idea is, once you have a general intelligence running on a computer, you could easily scale it to create a super human level intelligence.

Because the Palestinian people have been at the mercy of Israel for 76 years and Israel has shown nothing but cruelty to them.