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I think maybe they’re implying that if the experiment lacks value, funding for it will dry up and our simulated reality will get shut down. So it’s only the end of the universe as we know it. I’m sure that doesn’t matter…

Please clearly define the meaning of “you” in your simple law.

Literally me? Okay, I don’t own 50% of the market—my company does.

Oh you mean my company? Okay, my company doesn’t own 50% of the market—each of my companies only control 25%.

Oh you mean me and my companies? Okay, well I only own one company and my wife owns the other one.

Oh you mean… I think you get the point…

Now move on to all the other words you used: what defines a “market”? What does “broken” mean here? What does “independent” mean here? I’m sure it’s quite clear to you—that you know it when you see it. I’m also quite sure others have different interpretations.

I agree with the spirit of your comment otherwise, but simple laws rapidly become complex laws because people are complicated and language is flawed.

There are also men with delusional thinking about women because of the bible. Lets ban that too.

I’m quite sure I don’t want a different bespoke UI for everything. And given the non-deterministic nature of these models it’s going to be different even for the same task. Now instead of hunting for the right buttons after a software “update” with some genius redesign: I’ll be hunting every time I use it? Sounds like a nightmare.

I do agree with the author though as to the deficiencies with a purely chat based interface especially for power users or technical interfaces. It’s simply a non-starter for me. That said LLMs will complement power user interfaces nicely by helping the new user learn them.

I dunno. This one seems trickier to me. Since it’s not really the code that’s the key part of the AI—it’s the trained numerical weights. Can you read and write in this language of floating point numbers? I doubt that. So perhaps yes you can write the code that could train a LLM and you could freely distribute that, but does freedom of speech allow you to train the model weights and distribute those?

Yeah, not sure why it missed it. But when prompted with the photo and "What's funny about this photo?" GPT-4 replied:

"The humor in this photo stems from the anticipation of an unfortunate event that seems likely to occur. A portable toilet is being transported on the back of a truck that appears to be entering a tunnel with a height limit, and a convertible car with its top down is closely following the truck. The implication is that if the portable toilet were to hit the tunnel entrance due to being too tall, its contents could potentially spill into the open convertible behind it, leading to a very messy and unpleasant situation. The text "WAIT FOR IT" plays on the tension of expecting something bad to happen, adding to the comedic effect."

I think because professional artists can’t typically make their software tools. Whereas engineers could in theory make their own tools. Naturally few do in practice though as tech has become far too large and specialized. But our roots are where our values and ideals come from.

Where have you seen it go from B to A successfully? Several states already have mandatory minimum wage laws that apply to waitstaff. The local culture of tipping still expects you to tip these people—I’ve had countless arguments with people about this to no effect. They don’t tip the minimum wage worker bagging their groceries, but by god you had better leave a tip for your server or else you are a horrible person.

What utter hypocrisy. Does Israel recognize Palestine as a state? I think not.

Not surprising of course. The US has always been biased in Israels’ favor.

Literally the first result when searched for:

https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/russian-lieutenant-colonel-mow...

Edit: not the person making the claim, nor am I particularly vested in this story or its validity. But it took me all of 5 seconds to find.

It granted them twice. You can see a Suraj S with the same apparent org id both times.

They did in fact.

> Methods: We recruited healthy adults aged 23-35 who identified as women currently using (n = 62) or having used (n = 37) solely combined OCs, women who never used any hormonal contraceptives (n = 40), or men (n = 41).

> Results: Compared to men, all three groups of women exhibited a larger GMV of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, while only current users showed a thinner ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Irrespective of the menstrual cycle phase, never users exhibited a thicker right anterior insular cortex than past users.

(Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2023.1228...)

I agree with you it’s somewhat confusing why they use men as their benchmark. But really this isn’t my field of expertise.

While they’re non-deterministic at a token level, they’re also still pattern following systems. Prompt Engineering is about (a) getting more deterministic outputs from the model, (b) using the models’ own bias to get more useful output, (c) refining the prompt to shorten it and reduce costs at scale, and (d) using them as building blocks for higher-level functionality. As a disciple (if it can even be called that) it may very well disappear as the tech progresses.

Edit to also say: you are correct that there are a lot of people selling secret sauce or magic techniques and those are pretty scammy.

It’s not rationalization. It’s preference. There were plenty of templating languages in Javascript before React came along.

Maybe because you’re thinking of it like a template language. It is not. It is JavaScript through and through. And mapping over an array is quite idiomatic. So are ternary operators. If you really prefer you can pop that out into a for loop with a full-blown if statement, but that’s not very common—at least not in React.

I think the long history of being served over the wire drove the community to prefer shorter, more terse code.

I didn’t finish reading the whole thing yet—need dinner first. But maybe the reason they never interact with gun loving, immigrant-hating, uneducated yayhoos is because they’re looking at a statistical amalgamation of individual beliefs. Most republicans won’t fit that mold because they’re a mass of individuals with different beliefs and these lumps of commonality are weak, but natural modalities of a social species. In other words they hate a caricature—an enemy that only really exists in statistics but not in the real world.

Only in legacy code we haven’t replaced yet as we switched to TypeScript a few years ago. We don’t upgrade the flow dependency anymore either.

They’re referring to a method of prompting the model that encourages it to think through something step by step rather than spit out the answer.

I think this is the paper that really kicked off this technique: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903

They’re sails in this configuration—nothing more. They harness existing force of wind. They get spun up and if they spin the right way they produce a force perpendicular to the wind.

The magnus effect is a byproduct of laminar flow of fluid/air around a spinning object. Without laminar flow there is no force. So that is to say if you spin a sphere really fast and it’s hovering in air without gravity and without wind it will not move because there will be no laminar flow to produce the magnus effect. So in order for your spherical craft to actually harness the magnus effect you would need a separate means of propulsion to drive you in the primary direction and harness the magnus effect for thrust in a secondary direction, ie turn.

So then generating a term paper becomes a 2+ pass problem then. First have the model generate the outline, then have it generate each paragraph in the outline. Then have it offer suggestions and revisions when you put the whole thing together.

This is humorous, but also about on par for ads these days. This wasn’t possible a decade ago. I don’t doubt that some teams are going to get a lot smaller as this thing rolls forward.

Ha, maybe.

Or perhaps creation to the creator is like breathing to us. Do you remember how many breaths you took yesterday?

Or maybe there is no creator, only a self-creation.

Sure. You see them once in a blue moon and catch-up. Or you go back to ye ole grapevine, and ask the people you do want to talk to about the people they talk to that you don’t. Or you forget about them and life carries on.

Whoops. Of course I had to use c for every value so the magnitude exceeds c. FTL travel!

That might be true from my own frame of reference but not so to an observer, right? How can we say there are 3 spatial dimensions at all if what you say is true? What you’re describing suggests there are an infinite number of dimensions based on the different frame of reference for all observers. Why do we then believe there to be 3 dimensions? Is this just one of the cases where 3 dimensions is a useful model for calculation but not really true in reality?

Undoubtedly there must be something I’m missing here—I’ve taken physics courses but clearly I’m no expert. :)

Is this really true? I can imagine a vector, [1,1,1] in cartesian space. Scale that vector by c and you are now going light speed in all three spatial dimensions.

Decent article. Was going to post a comment about how terribly wrong it could go to have each team pick their own tech stack, force the client to download all of them, and run them in a shared environment. Makes me shudder thinking about it. But they call this out towards the end.

It’s a solution to an organizational problem, but to do it well it requires serious organization and disciple. If your organization lacks the strong engineering leadership and/or doesn’t prioritize client performance then micro frontends will just make things worse for your clients.

Because you need a number-go-up coin to allow for rampant speculation and to build hype. Then everyone that joins thinks they’re getting millions instead of nothing.

That’s arguable. Besides the fact that twitter was founded a year before the iphone was even announced, mobile, networked computers we can fit in our pockets drove the creation/adoption of all those things. The app store helped facilitate, sure. But can you really argue they would not have appeared without an app store? What if phones were more like desktops used to be where I can freely install whatever I want from wherever I want? It was that environment that spawned the host of chat apps that preceded twitter and the rest.

Why do you believe that to be true? If there are no physical ports then all data transfer and access must happen wirelessly which means there must be means to connect, and extract data wirelessly. Sure, maybe there’s a temporary reprieve until the same level of exfiltration can be done wirelessly, but it will happen. And in this future wireless-only world your data will be exfiltrated without you ever knowing about it.