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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think the alternative is just as chilling in some sense. You don't want to be stuck in a country that outlaws AI (especially from other countries) if that means you will be uncompetitive in the new emerging world. The future is going
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm not sure why people are so sure one way or the other. I mean, we're going to find out. Why pretend you have a crystal ball and can see the future? A lot of articles like this just want to believe something is true and so the
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But isn't it the case that the cash cow for Amazon is actually AWS? That is, without AWS would we consider Amazon to be the success we see it as today?
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It was in Canada although I don't imagine that has any bearing on the situation. It was also at a Catholic private school that shared the property with the church. I literally walked like 20 meters from the school building across the p
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I can't answer those questions, but I have some comments. My question, which you quoted, was intended to be rhetorical and perhaps your questions are as well. There is nothing exclusive about being atheist with regards to those questio
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I think it may be the case that your possession of a tidbit of trivia and your particular interpretation of changes/reforms that came after Vatican II is causing you to interpret my comment in a different light than it was meant. I was
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Totally tangential, but I was thinking this morning about my experience as a kid when my parents forced me to be an alter boy at our local church. There are these occasional observances where the church is obligated to put on a special serv
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I too read de Bono's Thinking Hats book and found it worth considering. It reminds me of Nietzsche's Perspectivism [1] I don't think having a fixed set of N perspectives is the correct approach. Rather, it is often a good ide
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm just an interloper and only going on the linked thread, but there are specific patches that missed merge windows due to Rust build breaks. The patches referenced are claimed to be exceptions but I can understand the fear. Linus is
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> Avoid using * or + in the right part, as it can cause infinite loops Why not just disallow this? I understand it would make the grammar more difficult to specify - but I don't see any good reason to keep it.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
The complexity of kernel isn't relevant, unless your point is that the kernel is already so complex that maintainers shouldn't advocate against new and significant complexity? As for less work, that is alternative two from my orig
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think you are using inflammatory language by calling the point nonsense. As an outside observer, literally no skin in this game, I can see his point. If his C code changes breaks other C code then he is at an advantage compared to if his
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I would argue the second. I think it is a human trait to like to win arguments. In some card games, there is a thing called a trump card [1]. The trump card has this special ability to beat all other cards. Rust has a kind of trump card: me
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm just parsing the thread but it seems that changes to the C api can break the Rust bindings. This leads to two situations: the C maintainer has to also update the Rust binding, or the patch has to wait for a Rust capable maintainer
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by zoogeny 2y ago
One thing I was considering in relation to this thought is that many people have written books using stenographers or secretaries. Many other books are edited compilations of lectures or speeches. That is the kind of thing I would normally
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Some of the scariest horror movies are the ones where the monster isn't shown. Often once the monster is shown, it is less terrifying. In a general sense, uncertainty causes anxiety. Once you know the properties of the monster you are
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I haven't read the original but I am familiar with the broad stroke view. There are similarities (perhaps vague) in the more recent work of someone like McGilchrist and his The Master and His Emissary (another book which I only have a
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I understand your confusion. PDF is terrible because it has grown over time from a format that was originally made for one purpose into a format that is used for too many purposes. That organic growth has caused PDFs to be very difficult to
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For the "looping" I'm talking about you don't need to update the weights. It is simply, old context in, new context out, new context in, new-new context out, etc. Of course, keeping that coherent over numerous loops isn&
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I think this is probably accurate and what remains to be seen is how "compressible" the larger models are. The fact that we can compress a GPT-3 sized model into an o1 competitor is only the beginning. Maybe there is even more jui
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I analogize this with sleep. Perhaps that is what is needed, 6 hours offline per day to LoRa the base model on some accumulated context from the day.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I can't believe this hasn't been done yet, perhaps it is a cost issue. My literal first thought about AI was wondering why we couldn't just put it in a loop. Heck, one update per day, or one update per hour would even be a st
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I'm not suggesting we re-invent RDF or any other kind of semantic web idea. And the fact that semantic data can be stored in a PDF isn't really the problem being solved by tools such as these. In many cases, PDF is used for things
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I've had an idea since I was a kid which I can share. I was contemplating AI and consciousness generally, probably around the time I read "The Minds I". I reflected on the pop-psychology idea of consciousness and subconscious
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This is something I have been suppressing since I don't want to become chicken little. Anyone who isn't terrified by the last 3 months probably doesn't really understand what is happening. I went from accepting I wouldn'
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Out of that list, The Science of Sleep stands out to me. It is a film by Michel Gondry who also directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It is kind of an indie pretentious movie, but if you are into that kind of thing it is a decent
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Orthogonal to this post, but this just highlights the need for a more machine readable PDF alternative. I get the inertia of the whole world being on PDF. And perhaps we can just eat the cost and let LLMs suffer the burden going forwards. B
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Me too, it is just a shame that the path from earning respect to eating bread isn't as straight forward in our current world as the path from earning money.
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I've recently been wondering if a video is even better than a blog. We're at the point now where I can reasonably keep large numbers of video/text recorded from OBS in S3, run my own speech-to-text, I can cram it all into a S
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It's a far cry from the days where employees were threatening to mass quit Google when it changed its policies to avoid bans in China. A lot of what is going on in the world right now makes me think we are in a war that hasn't yet

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