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Thank you

You can't entirely judge a George Sand novel partway through. For my money, it destroys any Brontë, Austen, or Dickens.

Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

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We're getting so much of this junk with the IPOs pressing.

The mimicbots are impressive but they're frustrating. We've hit the limit for pre-training data and now we're relying on RL for the next progressive steps and that gets asymptotic fast. The truth is that unsupervised learning hasn't inched forward and we don't know how it will, so we're left with benchmaxxing and LARPing about how they're escaping air-gapped configs using themal sensors, all in a desperate attempt to make the projected numbers look less insane so these people can cash out at IPO time. Everyone knows what's happening and it's embarrassing.

very cool!

Thanks for doing that!

For more context on these numbers: when I started posting these, first, I wasn't consistent, and second, I was doing something that, to the algorithm, looked suspicious, so I think the posts had a negative weight.

In 2024, HN reached out and it got more of an official blessing for me to run these, and we set an official day of the month (the second Sunday), which in turn made me more consistent.

The thing you love and made your identity was always the cruft middleman of getting from one place to another.

People were sad when we moved from horses to cars; they loved their horses, they named them. That didn't stop the slow, glacial, detached march of the calendar, of progress, and in this example, of the wheel.

Well put and succinctly put. And if OxA is a flash model? it becomes: goodnight

The news we read is optimized for edge-event cases. Here it's about a particular number being hit.

What's more interesting is the long, overarching news stories that span decades, e.g. BRICS, and the demise of the petro-dollar

Is this a stunt? Or is ARC-AGI-3 not an interesting bench?

This is exactly my take. Except I think there was never an interest by China to make the yuan the new global reserve currency but instead slow walk it back to a gold standard, and that's what has been happening since 2008.

If a single country's currency is the global reserve currency, all you're finding out is whose thumb you're under.

Ready for a change.

Suddenly, wildly, pertinent to today's world.

This is fantastic and exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Very cool

Just a fun thing I do: editing films to music. https://brodlist.com/sfe

P.S. Credit to adityaathalye for the change of phrasing for these posts to add "what are you curious about?"

right? I didn't do that one. But, wow.

Not for my short films, but here's where I put some existing films I've cut and edited to music (and a few from others)

https://brodlist.com/sfe

oh, it can be anything, in the same way a short story can be. A lot of times it has a music track which is central to it.

I'm interested in film making. Writing, directing. Mainly short films, often without dialog.

The 1990's

Your argument is silly. Europe is more content than the US and a big part of that is the social protections such as universal healthcare.

I like accelerator pedals on cars, I do, but I also like the brake pedal.

It's a subjective measure each way, to be sure, and really applies to the the coasts. If you want to see it that way, no one can correct you.

But as an American who has spent decades living in Europe (across five different countries), I'm confident that this isn't just a mistaken impression.

> I think a part of it is the individualism we’re raised to embrace.

> We don’t care for our children, our elderly, or our communities. It’s all me me me. How do I get mine and fuck the other guy.

Capitalism, I'm looking at you.

Will we call it "The Big Short 2" and just reuse footage from the original?

I would need more information. Maybe make a small website that shows some screenshots, etc.

Fantastic. The additional context for each work is wonderful.

I would prefer if I could restrict it to a style or movement, say, "Baroque" or period "1400-1600". I think it would make it both more interesting and the learning more memorable.

This is a better article than the initial paragraphs reveal.

The author is saying that what James Joyce called ‘proper’ art is essentially a stepping stone for our understanding of the world and ourselves. And if that's true, it could possibly be a candidate for human exceptionalism, and that would be a differentiator between AI and humans, where AI can only mimic what has been done -- up to this step but no further.

Unfortunately, the author is a poor lawyer and argues against his own case. One exhibit is Rothko. Yes, Rothko was important in expanding our ideas of color and composition... but he did that through such works as a big red square. Could silicon randomly generate a big red square? Yeah. So where is that line? Sometimes it's our interpretation of a work that moves us forward, more than the work itself.

Which means humanity invents humanity.