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You are making a wrong leap from non-deterministic process to uncontrollable result. Most of the parallel algorithms are non-deterministic. There might be no guarantee about the order of calculation or even sometimes the final absolute result. However, even when producing different final results, the algorithm can still guarantee characteristics about the result.

The hard problem then is not to eliminate non-deterministic behavior, but find a way to control it so that it produces what you want.

Well, sometimes Microsoft decides to change your settings back. This has happened to me very frequently after installing Windows updates. I remember finding myself turning the same settings off time and again.

There are two kinds of consultants: those who write code and those who only give advise. It seems to me that those who only advise lost their market to LLMs pretty completely.

> Iran banned WhatsApp and Google Play in 2022 during mass protests against the government

So more than fearing Israel, they actually fear the public that has an encrypted communication channel that can't be tapped by their police. Explains a lot.

I'm surprised reading that the Iranian's regime concerns are centered on WhatsApp sharing information with Israel. It is much more likely that WhatsApp have 0-day vulnerabilities used by the Mossad to gain the info than WhatsApp actively sharing it.

Security strength is not a binary measure, there are many levels of security between "no encryption at all" to "run your own server".

I am not involved in scraping, but to me this sounds like simply another tool in the arsenal. They say it's hard for the scraper to realize it has been caught this way because it's not being blocked. However, I don't see anything preventing scrapers from implementing heuristics to realize that.

This means the leading UI for LLMs - the chat - is the wrong UI, at least for some of the tasks. We should instead have a single query text field, like in search engines, that you continue to edit and refine, just like in complex search queries.

And yet, it's the best we currently have. I donate to them. We can come with demands of how it should be managed, but it should not prevent us from helping them.

exactly. I was not referring to ads, but to annoying suggestions in embedded videos (also when the video is paused!), and even to the long and mostly useless suggestions list on the right of the screen. I want to use YouTube as a useful tool, not to waste my time in endless loops of "oh, that looks interesting!"

I simply cannot give up the option of zapping distractions off of my screen. I really cannot understand how people can use Youtube or even a Youtube embedded video without zapping away the distractions. There is no way I'm coming back to Chrome if they don't support manifest V2. It's Firefox for me.

If there was a similar product that does not upload any of your extremely personal data, like whether you're now in your bed, to some server on the internet, would you prefer it?

Are there any consumer products offered that provide similar functions (heating, controlling with an app etc.), but which never try to connect to a remote server, other than looking for the control app in the local LAN?

I wonder what giant shadows this building casts, and how unfortunate it is for those live near it.

You really don't have to wait even a single second if you use an ad blocker. I can recommend uBlock Origin.

Maybe it is about time that we stop relying on closed gardens, censored and managed on a whim, and start reclaiming our internet and freedom back, publishing in open platforms?

This great video goes into a bit more detail about pixels. It also shows that there is an interesting difference with the color green not only in monitors, but also in camera sensors that detect the color:

https://youtu.be/PMIPC78Ybts?list=PLplnkTzzqsZTfYh4UbhLGpI5k...

I can recommend it, and all the other videos of Cem Yuksel. He is really great at presenting!

This is true. it also hurts the public, as the drivers are dependent on the number of deliveries the succeed making, thus hurrying up and constantly stressed. This hurts not only their health and quality of delivery, but also increases the risk for traffic accidents.

It is in the best of interest of everyone that these people would get a normal salary.

Can you describe the changes that we are anticipated to see as a result of the change in the administration?

A completely different approach that don't require heavy AI would be an app on the user phone that does this:

1. Measure the distance from the wall (standard image processing)

2. Use the rotations of the gyro sensors on the phone to conclude which car is being looked at

I wonder if this could be as accurate though

I really don't know if I could survive nowadays internet without uBlock. The picker functionality just changes the internet for me. I can make most of the noise disappear.

There are some indirect ways.

Suspecting users can try the software to see if it has the exact same functionality or bugs as the copied GPL library. This is of course not a definite proof, but some amount of rare enough coincidences can be considered as a very strong sign for copying. Legal measures can be taken on account of these evidences.

And of course there is always the option of a whistleblower.

When handling critical software and hardware, for example automated cars, it should be the case that it's never ever the sole responsibility of a single individual. People make mistakes, and will always do. There should be a lot of safety mechanisms existing to ensure nothing critically bad ever happens due to a bug. If this is not the case, then management is to blame, and even the state, for not ensuring high quality of critical equipment.

When something like that does happen, it is very hard to know the measure of responsibility every entity holds. This will most certainly be decided in court.

This looks very cool! The drawing examples on the page are amazing. I wish all kids could draw like that :D

I wonder what the AI understands when given a more sketchy drawing.

It's really amazing that we can even have these kinds of things these days. I wish you great success with the app!

While that is true, the paper shows more video and experiments that they did. they show that a single person finishes the puzzle way faster than a group of people. I agree it could be interesting to check how a group of people, sufficiently able to collaborate, would solve the puzzle. Would that be faster than a single person?

And here is the actual paper (linked from the article as well): https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2414274121

The website took some time to load. Here is a link to the video in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHpu7ngQxwE&t=39s

The conclusions - humans work best by themselves and the quality decreases as the number of people increases. For ants it's the opposite. Quite interesting!

I can second this. This problem happens on Firefox as well.

Hi aarya!

A really amazing project. I would really love using this tool, and other GenAI tools to generate art. There is one recurring problem that I don't know the answer to: how could I know that no one is going to sue me for using this kind of tool for copyright infringement? How can I know that the model I generate is not too similar or copying some artist's style somewhere?

Did the model search the internet?

The behavior you're describing sounds like an older model behavior. When I ask for links to references these days, it searches the internet the gives me links to real papers that are often actually relevant and helpful.