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Just the other day they were full kum ba yah over a holiday-time-released feature that's likely going to greatly increase the likelihood of building race conditions and deadlocks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38721039

replicability is unenforceable

Skepticism of digital computing was a pretty open-air phenomena too.

Specialization and generalization of hardware is also cyclical same as centralized and decentralized services.

To that, what can these express, precisely, is an interesting question; so for transformer encoders:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10743

Another interesting research topic is the trusted generation of tasks for finetuning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08568

And I suppose too running these at the edge is terribly interesting too, if you can find analyses of "quantization" this is a highly active research are, and results are pretty incredible since it cuts resources by huge factors and no one quite knows why.

This is one that's easy to dive into with consumer hardware, but don't know any great papers myself

Run locally: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

Quantized models: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke

Explainability is under research, though I haven't seen any good solutions.

This nay arise from skeptics who are calling the things stochastic parrots, incapable of reason, without a world model, etc.

This place has quite a rap sheet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29411775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331512 https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/t7br4a/since_the_...

Q2 was priced for a fire sale until they hiked mid '22. Maybe Q2 has always been cheap, and product discovery is still a barrier.

This peripheral is obviously the future, and not apparently a CueCat situation.

It's gonna take doing to convince people it's not that TV screen they stick on your face at the dentist.

this is what a fully employed america looks like, huh

stepping away from something you think you're good at is the only way to break the cycle of any complacency you may have developed

I wonder how the ping-pong tables are there.

this leak reads like a half-baked canary trap

I've fooled with it, but didn't see any draw. I removed it from my initial bloatware purge of my Pixel, including Google's launcher.

At a glance,

Things that leave a bad taste in my mouth:

- Genres > Metal > "Numb" by Linkin Park

- New Releases isn't organized by genre, which means you breathe through a straw, and hope Google brings a release to your attention.

- The "feed" New Releases which is apparently robo-tailored includes a Slowdive album from 1996, and a bunch of corporate stuff I'll likely never be in the mood for.

- no acknowledgement of labels, collectives, or studios. all very real constructs in current music.

- presumably live music recs are out even though those were never accurate to begin with

- there wasn't any on boarding, i guess im just to assume google knows who i am. went through onboarding, it's just there to slurp up artist relations and obtain feedback on recent trends it's inefficient and irritating out of touch

I like epitaph.

Lots of things,

- playlist decayed and dropped songs, YouTube is even worse about this

- Play Music had a new releases browser highlighting new album releases by genre, you could "walk" into them in AA, then they bled that off

- as it stands "Play" doesnt have music anymore, and so the only discovery is YouTube's recommendations

- YouTube's recommendations are somehow difficult to control, overly gamed, repetitive, coarse, and generic -- some of which are contradictory. Google wasn't even able to protect Gboard from exploits like this with their unsated thirst for big data automation dominance

- they haven't begun to cooperate with other vendors to operate with assistant, instead picking winners, again

- for a span battery was concerning, it's not right now

- for a span Google's failed record of protecting user privacy, even now Google+ echo's when the Photos flow Share workflow walks me into privacy violating features

- i have qualms about providing an ad personalization business real-time granular data about my mood (though it's unlikely since my tastes are too obscure, anyway)

- i have qualms about subjecting myself to the opinions of a business with large enough reach to be an effective political entity and lever of corporate activism against my neighbors in society (particularly for an inferior product)

Hope this helps.

Edit: also the playback history was pretty bad IIRC, I assume it lumps audio playback with shorts, and shorts can't be organized into playlist despite their efforts. I need music to be a commodity, not a gift/promise.

I guess if I were a shareholder I'd be pleased since they seamlessly filled the gap left by GPMAA, spawned a lower maintenance subproduct in YTM, and cashed in on the collusion, but as someone screwed over by a product that Google "just gave up on" everything Google makes is like a hamburger full of sand, and I strive to avoid eating it, to this day.

From the official press release,

> ... developers with newly created personal Play Console accounts will soon be required to test their apps with at least 20 people for a minimum of two weeks before applying for access to production.

Does this mean that a developer has to recruit 20 users through a special workflow, or the users will simply see that they are 'testers' for a new app?

Probably excludes qualitative tasks like architecture and apportioning resources.

Previous major discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35815810 - "White House announces new actions to promote responsible AI innovation"

Here's, at least, some official words about how the current admin's advisors might be thinking about the considerations for adoption.

Another interesting bit aside from the administrative task of ensuring constructive adoption of AI would also be facilitating progression, defense, and contribution.

Some more perspective on what the federal government is going on:

- https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/STRv4_...

- https://github.com/Trusted-AI/adversarial-robustness-toolbox

- https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelli...

- https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2023/03/30/AI%20...

- https://atlas.mitre.org/

- https://www.nsf.gov/cise/ai.jsp

Remember when you were 18 and walked into college and your first thought was "I wonder what JDs mandate this degree"?

You better do your STIGs

https://stigviewer.com/stig/cisco_ios_xe_switch_l2s/2020-05-... https://stigviewer.com/stig/cisco_ios_xe_router_rtr/2020-09-...

Cef-tex demonstrates bringing a web-browser supporting spatial audio into an older version Godot engine.

https://github.com/meltyness/cef-tex

The build system is a VS file with god-knows-what hardcoded, doesn't properly reference CEF or Godot, and is therefore locked to Windows platform only (though Godot can theoretically run everywhere), and is probably full of a bunch of other footguns that I haven't even thought of. Got 5 stars on GitHub just from tag discovery, and the wishful thinking of some Godot-ers that I'll ever have time to un-suck it. It's also got R-rated comments, a video demonstration, and a short written log of the weird hurdles I had to surmount.

It's forward-looking! The 90% consumer will be able to afford the "Apple Vision Pro" by 2039 adjusted for inflation!

I suppose it's privilege escalation in some sense.

There's a chance the perpetrator has simply compromised a legitimate copyright authority's account.

It's definitely disturbing that "basically anyone" has the capability to participate in this sort of censorship though.

I don't know if there's any abstraction as wonderful as the disk->file abstraction that has enabled most modern computing.

Perhaps though the current frontier is the software->application abstraction that can be explored through public git repositories and Github "Topics".

Of course the application for this set would mirror the popular brain drains, short-form content production, video game mods/cheats/piracy, deep fakes and pranks, etc.

Just as the OS and operation of a few commercial packages you had access to in the 80s seemed limitless, so is the landscape of FOSS packages.

Here: https://github.com/topics/gtav

Ironically, I am unable to locate this media as a VR180.

Until some junior uses an instance store for customer data or creds.

Yeah, this reeks of mostly being wordy propaganda. Particularly equating Cisco with the entire US ICT industry, it's blatantly nuts.

I mean for sure I agree with their conclusion that Cisco has neglected innovation but they don't really expound on Cisco's real missteps clearly.

I guess I recall some supporting facts; closure of NH optics plant, Webex splintered to Zoom, but there's just a political undercurrent here to maintain there's some conspiracy and irrevocable bond between the US and Cisco as leading infrastructure hardware manufacturer, that seems to be the focus of the article. Hence, propaganda.

When are you going to rip out the Lazy Susan that manufacturers use to EoL equipment on an unbelievably aggressive timeline and force governments, agencies, and state universities to throw away perfectly good equipment that is no longer "supported"?

Is Nvidia or TSMC abusing it's market position?

Or, optimistically, this is really how they think about these things, and you should simply be happy they're not trying to obfuscate their findings.

Python got a reputation for being good for quick prototyping.

Python had an easy to use CLI and supportive docs that made it easy to throw things together.

Case-in-point, the language literally includes functions like:

  dir

That facilitate treating library objects as simple directories of functionality.

Default arithmetic library supports APA.

There's just a lot of stuff that's frictionless in Python, where Ruby has sprawling and unintuitive syntax, and mandatory programming constructs.

It's inherently collusion.