geysersam

I wish they trained the bots to be a notch more relaxed and less hysterical. Less is more.

But maybe that's just a consequence of the RL training being essentially AI torture to make them do what we want.

That is certainly pretty far from what was possible 25 years ago.

Is every case of dementia diagnosed accurately? Is there a difference between professions how likely their dementia is to be diagnosed accurately?

Is there a correlation between dying early and being pre-disposed to have developed Alzheimer if having lived longer? If there is, then the "correction" for age is not correct, because the correction assumes the fraction of the group that died early were equally likely as the rest of the group to develop the disease if they had not died early.

I don't know anything about Alzheimer but it doesn't seem unthinkable that the factors that cause people to die early also could also play a role in causing Alzheimer.

I find it interesting that presumably the LLM was trained on millions of legit examples where people generate uuids, but still it decided to do something different and unexpected, because it "reasoned" itself into thinking it was necessary.

I wonder if that's also how I'd behave if I had a reinforcement learning harness around me that dived hard on and punished me for every small mistake.

A couple of years ago you could add some pixels to an image to change it's automatic classification from cat to ostrich. But the tech has improved and I think the race has now firmly been won by the side trying to de-obfuscate images, and only in rare scenarios can images actually be obfuscated efficiently and consistently.

The rhetoric right now is just bizarre. Why should the EU force countries against their will using military? Do you have zero idealism or regard for internationally agreed upon rules? Do you want a world where might is right?

One minor correction - the `summarize` function in duckdb can also be used in CTEs etc.

But you have to wrap the `summarize` in a `from` clause like this:

  with
    some_table as (from range(10)),
    x as (from (summarize some_table))
  from x;

Then there are also HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.

That's just HTTP, curl supports 27 other protocols.

It's true the US economy has grown faster than the European in the last two decades, for sure, I agree with you. It's just that the apparent magnitude of the difference depends on what metric you choose, and I just mean that the value of the stock market seems like a poor metric.

Besides, it's a bit strange to argue that it's impossible to make a change, and as proof of that take the fact that there's been a big change over the last 20 years.

The fact is the billionaire managed to extract value from the market. The ethical question is: who deserves to get the value that was created by the market? The answer could be "the founder" but it could also be the funder, the worker, the customer, the political structure that enables the market economy, the mother of the funder who raised them to be hard working, the nurse that treated the founders minor illness in an early stage and prevented it from causing a physical disability, etc.