guybedo

> Why are corporations announcing business deals from the White House?

You're answering your own question:

> potential job creation. Which could be significant

Instead of commenting on the switch 2 characteristics, i just want to take some time to celebrate Nintendo, and to say how happy i am this company still exists although it went through difficult times.

As some comments point out, Nintendo is the only console/video games company that's been trying to do fun things instead of trying to come up with the most powerful console in the universe.

This is the gaming i like, i don't care for 3000 fps and 1000Ghz consoles, i just want to have fun :-)

So, yeah, thanks Nintendo, i'll be buying this Switch 2.

Although i'm not a physicist and i have an average understanding of these things, dark energy and dark matter always felt to me like physicists had created mystical entities with magical properties because they couldn't explain some experimental results.

And my average brain always thought and still thinks that instead of chasing these unicorn entities that still can't be found, maybe we should reconsider some things, as it seems to be the case presented here in this article.

> This is a pretty terrible justification for maintaining obsolete infrastructure.

This is your own (wrong) conclusion.

The problem isn't about obsolete infrastructure as the infrastructure isn't bad (fiber).

The problem is about small companies in a small market (<500000 inhabitants) competing on price with an international juggernaut.

It's obviously difficult for Local ISP(s) to have a good ROI when you're deploying fiber for <50000 customers.

If Starlink comes in and provides slightly better service at half the price, it's gonna be pretty bad for the local companies.

As a resident of a small pacific country where ISP charges >$100/month for relatively low quality of service, i sure can understand the problem and how interesting Starlink looks like.

But one thing to keep in mind, is that usually ISPs in small countries can't compete on price because they don't have enough scale and enough customers, in the end they just can't compete with a juggernaut like Starlink.

Although as a customer i'd love to just use Starlink and pay less for better quality of service, these local ISPs are important actors of the local economy. If these companies shutdown because of international competition, it's money going to the US, and the local economy taking a hit ...

you should do robotic agents :-)

Seriously though, i think working at a startup at an early stage in your career is a great opportunity to work on a lot of things with lots of dedicated people.

On a side note, robotics is an exciting field as i do think robots gonna be everywhere in the not so distant future, from advanced drones, to agricultural robots, to humanoid robots, etc...

It's a welcome move as this "fact checkers" thing was doomed to fail, mostly because "who decides what the truth is, and who fact checks the fact checkers?".

Sad thing is, this move isn't motivated by Mark Zuckerberg having a eureka moment and now trying to seek out the truth to build a better product for human kind.

This move is motivated by Mark's realizing he is on the wrong side of American politics now, being left behind by the Trump/Musk duo.

Third episode in the trilogy "The Lord of the Rugs".

Episode III: The Return of the Kwon

I don't think it's as easy as "supply / demand" and everything is priced in.

There's many forces at play here, and many different ways to play the game.

Markets are not that efficient, not everything is priced in. Earnings would have 0 effect on price if that was the case for example.

Whether you play the market on higher timeframes or on lower timeframes, different factors come in to play.

I think it's obvious that chart patterns are a thing, (shameless plug here: i'm building https://edgefound.xyz, an app to create and backtest complex trading setups). It's actually interesting how many patterns (or setups) repeat across markets and timeframes. Mostly because prices are set by traders and traders react in the same way to the same events / price movements.

I didn't know about Jean-Louis Krivine's book, thanks

The Unplanned Impact of Mathematics is a great illustration of the mathematical nature of the world.

This is a fascinating relationship, is there a definitive answer / theory on this ? Why are Mathematics so effective to describe the world ? Are Mathematics a feature of the Universe or merely a Human tool ?

I haven't been reading on the subject for quite some time, what are good books on this relationship between Mathematics and Nature?

two things to keep in mind though:

1/ Yann Lecun probably is the one pushing for open source

2/ Mark isn't doing this for the greater good and for humanity. It helps his business because Llama is becoming a standard, and people are building / improving, which in turn helps Meta and Meta's business

Queueing systems haven't disappeared as thery're an important part of distributed systems. If you need to distribute work/data asynchronously to multiple workers, you're gonna use a queuing system.

Although queuing systems can be implemented on top of a database, message queues like RabbitMQ / ZeroMQ are doing a fine job. I use RabbitMQ all the time, precisely because i need to transfer data between systems and i have multiple workers working asynchronously on that data.

I guess these architectures might be less popular, or less talked about, because monoliths and simple webapps are more talked about than complex systems ?

it sometimes is a bit sad to realize we will probably never confirm the existence of intelligent life forms somewhere else in the universe.

Given the size of the universe, billions of galaxies, and each galaxy having billions and billions of stars, life obviously exists somewhere else, and we can safely say it exists in many places and intelligent life forms have emerged and have built civilizations somewhere else.

Given the age of the universe, it's highly probable that other intelligent life forms have built civilizations way more advanced than the human civilization.

Most of human scientific and technological progress happened in the last 200 hundred years. We can only imagine what a society with a 100 000 years head start would look like. I can't imagine what the human race will look like and will be able to do in 10 000 years.

Our galaxy has a 100 000 light years diameter, even if an advanced civilization somewhere in the galaxy, on a planet 20 000 light years away had invented radio 10 000 years ago, we still wouldn't be able to detect it. By the time we detect it, who knows what technological progress they'd made by then.

I tend to think that the answer to the Fermi paradox is that the universe is so big. Even if we could travel at the speed of light, the universe would still be huge and we would probably not be able to detect other intelligent life forms / civilizations.

EDIT: Oops, looks like i got this Proxima Centauri distance a bit off :-) Updated the comment to remove this error, as the main point still stands.

loved the game and especially the soundtrack, what a nice trip down memory lane

Didn't notice this but ChatGPT has clearly become useless for me.

Can't get it to do some actual work and write some code.

Latest disappointment was when i tried to convert some python code to java code.

90% of the result was :

// Further processing...

// Additional methods like load, compute, etc.

// Define parameters needed

// Other fields and methods...

// Other fields follow the same pattern

// Continue with other fields

// Other fields...

// Methods like isHigh(), addEvent() need to be implemented based on logic

i can't wait to have access to it.

ChatGPT has become an unusable lazy 20$ a month hole in my pocket. Can't get it to do some actual work and write some code.

Latest disappointment was when i tried to convert some python code to java code.

90% of the result was :

// Further processing...

// Additional methods like load, compute, etc.

// Define parameters needed

// Other fields and methods...

// Other fields follow the same pattern

// Continue with other fields

// Other fields...

// Methods like isHigh(), addEvent() need to be implemented based on logic

I think it's Ylecun who stated a few times that video was the better way to train large models as it's more information dense.

The results really are impressive. Being able to generate such high quality videos, to extend videos in the past and in the future shows how much the model "understands" the real world, objects interaction, 3D composition, etc...

Although image generation already requires the model to know a lot about the world, i think there's really a huge gap with video generation where the model needs to "know" 3D, objects movements and interactions.

Looks like OpenAI managed to burry Gemini 1.5 news.

I guess it was anticipated.

looks interesting enough that i wanted to give Gemini a try and join the waitlist.

And i thought it would be easy, what a rookie mistake.

Looks like "France" isn't on the list of available regions for Ai Studio ?

Now i'm trying to use Vertex AI, not even sure what's the difference with Ai Studio, but it seems it's available.

So far i've been struggling for 15 minutes through a maze of google cloud pages: console, docs, signups. No end in sight, looks like i won't be able to try it out

would be great to tweak a bit the UI:

- display news top to bottom to quickly see what's to do next

- keep the live civilizations on the left and push the collapsed ones to the right / bottom

probably billions. "md" would be "milliard" and "milliard" is french for billions.

> You might be surprised at how prevalent TBIs are among violent offenders.

Didn't know that, interesting to know.

> So successful AGI alignment (...) might be as simple as adding a secondary "impulse control" layer to the stack that reevaluates proposed actions and predicts the consequences of such actions, weighing projected net benefits and costs.

Problem is how the super AGI gonna weight benefits and costs.

What's the cost of stealing or killing to a super AGI ?

At some point can't that super AGI consider that all those rules we're trying to enforce, are rules set by an inferior entity and so could be bypassed ?

What does it even mean to align an intelligence? does it mean we want it to behave in a way that doesn't break moral/ethical rules, that aligns with our society rules ? Meaning do no crime, do no harm, etc...

Well, maybe we should acknowledge that we've never even been able to do that with humans. There's crime, there's war, etc...

We can see crime in our societies as a human alignment problem. If humans were "properly aligned", there wouldn't be any crime or misbehavior.

So yeah i'm rather skeptical about aligning a superhuman intelligence that would dwarf us by its capabilities.

a bug i guess :-) ? where did you see that ?

the explosion in creativity brought by generative AI truly is incredible.

yes there's a lot of monitoring services but in the end they mostly cluster around 2 groups:

- easy setup but nothing more than http monitoring

- complex platforms that can monitor everything but are expensive and a pain to setup

yeah i've setup monitoring for my mongodb and sql databases and rabbitmq queues too because it happened to me that websites were up, but new data wasn't coming in because of issues at the db or messaging queues levels.

Obviously that's something every software developper could add to his own project, that's not rocket science, but after the nth project, it becomes a bit tiresome :-)

you probably know you don't have to use a root user. You can create a user with minimum authorizations

strength training helps a lot in preventing injuries. I've been through years of achilles tendonitis and finally got rid of it mostly by doing leg/calf strength exercises.

Fwiw, here's some example exercises for Achilles: https://routineshub.com/public/1faae50e-8d36-4eec-84ee-ae3ef...