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Hmm... The author starts with C.Munger's quote “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”, then proceeds to express dissatisfaction with the current outcome of academic research. Regrettably, the author never returns back with:

a) analysis of current incentives; and

b) proposal to change those for a better outcome;

??? http://www.thelastquestion.net/

From "Jokester" by Isaac Asimov 1956:

"Early in the history of Multivac, it had become apparent that there was one big bottleneck: the questioning procedure. Multivac could answer the problems of humanity, all the problems, if -- if it were asked meaningful questions. But as knowledge accumulated at an ever-faster rate, it became ever more difficult to locate those meaningful questions."

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150118004835/http://www.sffaud...

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Or, alternatively, they can now direct Hugging Face not to sue...

Why does not the article say anything on how KV-cache is handled with in-DRAM processing? Is this trivially obvious?

We can not attribute the moral image of the protagonist to Bieber himself. He is an artist, so he is describing an experience of life, perhaps stemming from the receiving end of a fake apology.

Otherwise, it is a very good and thought-provoking article.

Right, but I thought it matters only if you sell something globally. Linux is distributed for free, so the burden of patent compliance is on the user, isn't it?

Brazil? Why a Brazilian patent is of such a significant interest elsewhere?

Mostly as a subproblem solver for mixed-integer programs, due to ease of warm-start. MIP itself is NP (B&B), so NP*NP=NP

Thanks, very interesting. Basically the authors blast high-power (~92 dBA) ultrasound around 25kHz and hope that microphone non-linearities will overwhelm the audible signal.

This will sure make all the dogs in 20m radius mad. Hence the solution for the stealth recorder -- bring a dog, then complain about the ultrasound jammer (or at least to be aware of a jammer)

From the paper, it looks like the authors did not consider safety of animals, only human hearing safety.

So it not a falsifiable statement from the onset?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

Isaac Asimov's Nightfall [0], but on a longer cycle?

Jokes aside, what is the evidence, beyond "Ancient mystical texts"?

[0] http://www.myths.com/pub/fiction/science-fiction/Asimov/Nigh...

Are you suggesting that holding private credit assets is relatively risk free?

Equity is a risky asset, so equity being wiped out should not be a surprise to anyone, but life insurance and pension funds failures is indeed a public problem.

Typical total bond market fund like BND is ~70% in USG -- pretty solid:

https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...

You probably meant to say that practically, high leverage tends to leak into companies of public interest. For example, when high net worth individuals start trimming their private credit holdings, which eventually end up with insurers. That is why the regulators have to watch carefully that it does not happen.

For those who stick to a meaningful asset allocation (e.g. 60/40, 80/20, etc), this does not pose significant problem -- they would not be buying much stock in the last 3 years. Instead, they would be buying mostly fixed-income. Probably mostly in 401k/IRA accounts.

As long as this debt does not make it into life insurance and pension funds, we are fine. The trouble is that private credit is taking control of some life insurance companies and off-loads this debt to these. When these fail, it will become everyone's problem.

> Risks to financial stability may also stem from entities with particularly high exposure to private credit markets, such as insurers influenced by private equity firms and certain groups of pension funds. The assets of private‐equity‐controlled insurers have grown significantly in recent years, with these entities owning significantly more exposure to less‐liquid investments than other insurers

https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/gfsr/2024/apr...

https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/gfsr/2024/apr...

Interesting. Little brother brought a new version of malaria to try...

Right. If one lives in an area prone to malaria, has good immune system, will the body tend to carry the antibodies all the time?

No, do not stop the efforts! The story here tells us that risks of being poisoned (once the throne is obtained) are greatly exaggerated.

This could serve as a beacon for those who still care:

Richard Feynman: "I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something, how careful you have to be about checking the experiments, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo

KGB: entry -- ruble, exit -- two

> Is that an effective way to learn? No.

Sorry, but I must disagree. There is much more to learning process than just the material itself. We are social animals, so the emotional aspect matters to the majority of us. Highly technical fields are not an exception. The attitude of the lecturer and his reaction to the questions from the audience, sidetrack discussions -- it all counts. At least to me and the people I have known.

At the same time, lectures of those with no charisma is a real torture, no doubt about that.

On the flip side, the value of new, clever and repeatable experimental results goes up when compared to regurgitated publications.

> Lectures have been an incredibly ineffective way to learn forever.

Mainly due to shortage of very good lecturers, no? I can not see a better way to cultivate the professional pride than to attend lectures of truly remarkable professors. The style, the manner, the attitude go much beyond the dry proofs. I'm an applied math major.

Is there evidence that no one else would fund Anthropic, Solana, Robinhood and Cursor?

Interesting -- none of the major VMWare customers had a second/alternative vendor/product? I hope they learnt the lesson.

Please suggest better alternatives