modernpink

>If there was ever any doubt, this action makes clear that the Chinese government will use supply chains as a weapon to advance their interests over ours.

In particular this sentence demonstrates a näive credulousness.

Kissinger would be laughing.

The "North East" is the proper name of a NUTS 1 [0] region of the UK. It is distinguished from your interpretation of it as the "north east of the UK" by its use of capital letters, as is standard in English [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Territorial_Leve...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun#Modern_English_cap...

"RTFM"[0] as they say

[0]https://huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-book/contents/3.1.1-base...

Apparently, it was this Chinese method of repair that horrified the Japanese aesthetic sensibility [0] into creating kintsugi.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi#Origin

Taiwan can be economically squeezed by western derisking and moving sensitive tech out of Taiwan or it can continue to be militarily squeezed by China if it continues to be the single point of failure in the western technology chain. The former appears to be the better choice than the latter.

>enjoy a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian cultures

Apart from the food, what specifically about these cultures is enjoyable?

London's population is almost double all of Ireland. Dublin is not an alternative at all. The annual production of new STEM graduates in the UK is half the population of Dublin alone.

Everything is a status symbol.

Considering the advances in computational hardware over the past few decades plus the corresponding (and not unrelated) real increase in developer salaries, it is unreasonably cheap.

That sounds like efficient market allocation of resources. There is no inherent reason you deserve to live in luxury as most do in the West unless you've contributed to society.

Taken to its logical conclusion, companies offering WFH would then be morally justified in replacing US workers with cheaper third world options. UK salaries in tech for example are about 1/4-1/3 of US levels.

China is the greatest civilisational threat to the West we have seen since Persia or the Umayyad Caliphate. The fact that the West has allowed letting China grow as much as it has done will be seen as one of the most fatal mistakes in grand strategy in history. That strategy had a purpose for defeating the Soviet Union, but after it had collapsed China had served its purpose for us and should have been isolated by the international community again.

Exactly, the West can bring to bear its might on Vietnam if they step out of line, especially since they themselves are not much fans of the Chinese and will be more than happy to work with the West.

For Western consumers and companies we have learnt the lesson that if we want to keep the flow of cheap products, we need to diversify the pool of labour we draw upon and to keep them dependent instead of building them up to be competitors in the supply of products as well as competitors as consumers of those products.

The crucial moment in the China strategy was in 2008 when we should have started on/friend shoring rather than leaving it until now. Instead with the West facing economic calamity at the time, we wanted the economically easy solution of letting China continue its integration into the global supply chain.

All of modern science is possible without philosophy. In fact, it is when what was called natural philosophy broke off into the natural sciences that philosophy per se devolved into a series of language games on metaphysics that became of little relevance aside from those in the philosophy profession itself.

All our modern advances from hypersonic missiles, large language models, quantum physics and spaceflight and are in spite of what is called philosophy, not due to it.

They have even adopted some of the Apple nomenclature "Ultra", "Pro" and "Nano"

Workers aren't entitled to profit off other's risks indefinitely.

That's fine, but this post is for a course on developing generative AI applications.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority, Yukio Mishima. You reveal more here about your own psychology than those who have a mission that they believe in and are passionate about. It's always easy to criticise from the sidelines.

It's main purpose would be as an event venue where people would travel there deliberately rather than as a sightseeing item, and Stratford is a travel hub with connections to all other travel hubs in London and by extension the rest of the UK.

Surely the entire board would have to stand down

What does the name mean? Presumably it's Japanese but not seeing anyone Japanese in the company

Mr President, the second tower has been hit

Considering speech is becoming the primary interface for HCI via LLMs, that alone may reduce the need for UI design.

Similarly, I couldn't imagine not having your diagrams as code, enabling easier versioning, updating and collaboration over the UI created ones.

Has this text ever been placed under scientific/logical analysis? Just because it's from an ancient text does not mean it has relevance to life today.

For example, the following could be verified via some kind of socioeconomic data analysis:

>Do not glorify the achievers

>So the people will not squabble

It is somewhat tiring but Gergely Orosz continuously makes the naive mistake of citing the company values as a critique of their behaviour. Taking a lesson from the "realist" perspective in international relations, companies are acting rationally. They are protecting their own interests. Both in espousing values they may not actually hold, and in dispatching with unwanted workers swiftly. In a high interest rate regime and with downturn in the market it is entirely rational for tech companies to shed workers with this sort of clinical brutality. That's why we've seen so many do it. On the other side of the balance under low interest rates and a booming market, we also see tech workers playing off companies against each other to improve their compensation or even slacking off work. This is also rational.

This kind of moralizing has become the bread and butter of his Twitter brand and it really is tiresome.

In my experience it's not as good as even GPT-3.5 at following instructions (for example formatting a text blob into structured json) which leads it have too much variability in output to be useful.

“One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will happen after you click. So you can create biofeedback with a user's brain by monitoring their eye behavior, and redesigning the UI in real time to create more of this anticipatory pupil response. It’s a crude brain computer interface via the eyes, but very cool”

Well, humans switched from using using brains to store all their memories once they could dump data onto external media via writing. Much like how crypto switching to ASICs frees up GPU capacity for AGI, writing freed the brain to develop higher GI.

My favourite explanation comes from Hayek [1]. Profit is a signal for other economic actors to move into the market to provide more goods and services. If something is profitable it means people (society) sees value in it so it is right that we would want more of it to be produced. If we say no to profit, it means we extinguish a mechanism by which society can allocate resources.

On top of this, it's impossible for resource allocation for most goods and services to be organised top-down. Knowledge about wants, desires, propensity to manufacture and supply is dispersed and distributed among billions of people (and always in flux).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoTVSsxiwGc