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That's literally how the real world works. State violence or super power violence is exactly this playing out.

When people from outside Europe started migrating to the USA? What a coincidence.

I don't understand this single dimensional view of the world where one country has to be the "winner" or "best". Historically that has almost never been the case except for military might, which wasn't necessarily correlated with technological advancement. Economic size does matter, but that's eventually going to track population size. Why can't we have a multi polar world where different countries are good at different things, and no one has to dominate?

Which are the indigenous ethnic groups experiencing dissolution?

Isn't that basically a recurrent neural network?

Such articles about Europe always seem to ignore skilled immigration and pretend it's not important. Europe sucks at attracting skilled immigrants compared to the US, or even Canada. And the contributions of immigrant founders is well documented.

I think attractiveness to skilled immigrants is also an indicator factor of social mobility and societal openness, which indirectly plays an important role for a successful entrepreneureal ecosystem. Europe is far behind in this regard.

What value does it provide over linking to the original source?

Any website that constantly asks me to login is spammy in by book. It's a for profit website that adds little value other than duplicating information from primary sources and occasionally mangling pdfs with redundant information to advertise themselves.

The original pre-print is available at: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3647379/v1

which is probably a less spammy source than the ResearchGate link.

Well, the brain is a physical neural network, and evolution seems to have figured out how to generate a (somewhat) copiable model. I bet we could learn a trick or two from biology here.

I'm not clear on what advantage this architecture has over mamba/Griffin. They also have the linear scaling, better sequence parallelism and are competitive in performance with transformers.

Yes

On a slightly related note, does anyone know of good articles written about the false dichotomy of "East" vs "West"?

It's a bit clickbaity and disingenuous to say "employees in Asia", when South Korea comes in at the bottom, and the difference between Singapore and France/UK and the rest is just a few percentage points on a small sample (What's the error on the sampling?)

The Stanford prison experiment was fraudulent: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...

Wow, the comments on Slashdot are such a train wreck. Didn't realise Slashdot had become so bad.

But it seems to miss the point that capitalism requires cheap resources and also markets, and the European countries got these resources at huge concessions from the colonies which also provided a market for them. For example the British used Indian tax to buy cotton with tax collected from India, send it to the industrialised production centres (while deliberately destroying the traditional ones in India), and then sell it back to the Indians.

An easier way to understand it is imagine if the US got a 5% discount on Chinese imports -- would that help the US economy? British got close to a 90% discount (by force) on imports from India.

No, I think the extraction of resources from the colonies created a lot of wealth in Europe. In fact, a very strong argument could be made that that's where our (euro-centric) belief in abundance comes from.

Why the colonies were so adversely affected is a bit more complicated, and I think is more related to destruction of existing societal institutions and the installation of deliberately extractive institutions.

Very interesting and insightful article. But I always find it odd when historical articles omit the role of massive resource extraction from the colonies that provided the driving force in European economies to be able to convert all the ideas into actual reality.

Why?

Having lived in both the US and a couple of countries in the EU, one thing that struck me about living in the EU is how inwards looking and past facing the society is. And the general sense of European exceptionalism meant there was much less interest in attracting talent from outside the EU. I personally believe the latter is one of the major reasons for their decline. In many industries and in academia, not only don't they attract outside talent, but also lose a lot of European talent to the US and UK.

Emad's response here for balance: https://emad.posthaven.com/on-setting-the-record-straight

Personally, most of the issues seem superficial compared to, for example, Elon's pathological lying.

it's a well studied problem with many standard algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect

Except that Vivaldi was started with that as the goal from the beginning (as a continuation of the old Opera browser). it already has a mail and rss client iirc.

One thing that people who haven't lived in India don't realise -- depending on where you live (much like in the US), you can have an extremely high quality of life, including access to world class education and healthcare. And it would be even higher for someone coming back from the US, since they would have friend and family networks in addition to everything else. The only thing that would be truly hard to get away from would be the pollution and traffic in the cities.

How's that even legal? Aren't there laws to prevent corporate anti-union bullying?

This. They want to create hype around large scale model so that they can ask for lots of money to fund this line of research.

Except that I don't think it's targeted at the general public. Rather it's targeted at grant agencies and University administration who are usually extremely myopic and conservative about funding projects that require a large upfront investment (unlike companies like openai).

In fact, I'm sure tons of people in academia are going to be pointing to this paper from now on when writing grants and asking for funding for large scale machine learning projects. Especially because of the credibility lent to it by Stanford and the people who put their names on the paper.

So it's more like a research manifesto for the field.

The old Reddit UI is still available under the old.reddit.com domain. I use browser extensions to automatically redirect to the old saner UI every time I visit Reddit.

Random acts of philanthropy like this are just that -- random and benefiting a very small number of random people. While there is no problem with that per se, people should have access to a decent life through fair, well defined systems rather than having to depend on some arbitrary system of lottery.

Unless I'm missing something, aluminum ear cups seems to be a bad idea for colder weather. I wouldn't want to put cold metal on my ear every time I want to hear music?

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