Oh man, I left Gmail 6-7 years ago for different reasons (a total overhaul & hardening of my personal privacy/ security posture), but kudos to you! Get away and don’t look back, you won’t regret it! I’d recommend de-googling your life of all their services, you really don’t need them. There are good, more privacy respecting options for just about everything except maps. Google Maps is the one service I still use constantly.
The author literally mentioned they are in the process of migrating to Fastmail, but it sounds like you’re bringing it up as a new recommendation? Then you restated the reason they are moving away (overbearing AI features in your face) as if it wasn’t the crux of their argument? Then you touted how good Fastmail migration features are after the author stated they actually like the fact they are starting with a clean slate, and are undecided if they even want to migrate? Something smells fishy here my friend
This shouldn’t be surprising. Let’s start off with the obvious. What does “real-world fact-check claims” mean? So we’re using the same list of “fact check claims” on each model. The problem is (unless I’m missing it) the authors aren’t exposing the list of 1K questions they used in the experiment. That’s a huge problem. Are the authors assuming the 1K claims they used are “provably true”? If so, that’s a huge bias, and opens up a philosophical debate about what it a fact? Or what’s makes something true/ false?
As Marc Andreessen puts it: a particular domain is either explicitly “provable” or not “provable”. Provable domains include math, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, even code. That not be the whole list, but everything else is essentially “unprovable”. At least as far as a language model is concerned. They are questions that require a human value judgement. Politics are an obvious example. So back to the “1K fact check claims“. How many of these are political, or current events questions? How many are STEM questions that can be laid out in a formal proof?
Models can be trained to answer either way on claims that require a value judgement, but that’s obviously not beneficial to anyone except who controls the model. If the expectation is that all these frontier models should answer the same way on value judgement questions, then that’s never going to happen. What the models ARE good at though is breaking down the nuances of a topic and arguing both sides. This is how these tools should be used, as a way to analyze the claim and let us humans in the end make our own value judgement. If you’re trusting the model to make the value judgement for you and just accept it as a fact, then you are entering a a very dangerous territory.
Seems cool, and the motion controls and surprisingly precise & difficulty honestly. You really need a steady hand. I personally don’t mind something with a steep learning curve, but maybe offering an “easy” mode where the controls are dialed down a little in intensity would make sense? I like the UI choice where the play field gets smaller as time elapses, giving a sense of urgency. I also like the “double hits” and “wall hits” concept. Some refinement in the scoring system to account for those would make sense. Meaning, right now it seems to be what “level” you achieved with the minor details underneath. Maybe work out a scoring system that accounts for highest level, double hits, wall hits, etc… and calculates and actual “high score” based off that?
I’ve been thinking about exactly this for a while. Non-technical people just don’t understand all the moving pieces, let alone what action they should take. I agree with you, we need more conversation and guidance detailing what easy steps people can take to harden their security posture, and why that matters.
#1 and #3 are big ones for sure and related. That has to do with most people aren’t developers & don’t code. I get that’s the biggest reason it’s not common. I’m just saying even among developers, I would think it would be a little more common. You can obviously do so much more with it than PDF, it opens a lot of interesting options. I don’t think #2 is a concern at all. The “universal” way to do it is double clicking the file :) every computer in the world will open an HTML document in the default browser (not the case on mobile though).
I’ve been a long time vim user, and I honestly never really bought into the efficiency claims. That gets repeated over and over, but If you’re a slow typer then no editor can really make much of a difference, and development in reality is a lot of reading code and thinking about code when it comes down to it.
I’ve never used it because I thought it would make me some lightning fast super developer. I’ve always used it because it’s simply fun. It’s makes editing into this interesting sort of game. You start out with a simple set of skills from vimtutor, and inevitably brute force your cursor around the screen for a while. Little by little your movements become more complex and efficient, and the journey to figuring that out is fun and interesting.
It makes you think about typing in a totally different way. It makes it into a some kind of interesting game where your goal is to accomplish a task in the fewest keystrokes possible. That problem solving aspect scratches an itch inside my brain that has always kept me coming back. It’s just fun, and I don’t think that gets talked about enough
This article is bringing up a point that I’ve thought about for a long time, even outside of the context of LLMs. It’s very surprising to me HTML never caught on more just as a common document for sharing information outside of a website/ web server. Just something to pass around like we do Word or Excel documents.
I’ve recently gotten obsessed with local first app architecture, so I’m really digging into CRDT and trying to get familiar with it. So this looks very interesting to me. Thanks for posting!
To be fair, the recent Axios supply chain attack was North Korea based, and probably cost them very little money. So it illustrates that you don’t have to “spend a lot of money” to get into our systems.
The thing getting overlooked is all of the recent moves by Trump all lead back to China. Venezuela, Cuba, now Iran. These are all tentacles of China. The aggression against these 3 countries is not a coincidence. It’s a concerted and indirect attack on China in an attempt to weaken their subsidiaries. In the eyes of this administration, this is unpleasant, but necessary housekeeping that should have been done decades ago but no one was willing to spend the political capital to do it.
In Iran, Trump was clearly hoping (and verbally requested) the same thing you say about Sadam. I think we actually do know how unpopular the regime is, the mass protests demonstrated that. But the religious hardliners are the ones with the guns. And they clearly aren’t afraid to use them. So while there was some momentum, after everyone got gunned down in the streets by the IRGC it quickly deflated. So asking unarmed protesters to step up again is kind of big ask, without any material support.
I’m sure I’m not the only one, but it seriously bothers me, the high ranking discussion and comments under this post about whether or not a model trained on data from this time period (or any other constrained period) could synthesize it and postulate “new” scientific ideas that we now accept as true in the future. The answer is a resounding “no”. Sorry for being so blunt, but that is the answer that is a consensus among experts, and you will come to the same answer after a relatively small mount of focus & critical thinking on the issue of how LLMs & other categories of “AI” work.
This article is getting a lot of pushback from the SPA champions, deservedly so, but it makes some good points to. I can’t be the only one, but I myself am getting very tired of the amount of websites where I have to sit and look at a skeleton loading for way too many seconds, then the data loads and it looks nothing like the skeleton. There is an over abundance of really crappy SPAs out there. Sorry not sorry
We were just there in October. There is a ticketing system now with timed entry, so get your tickets in advance. It’s reasonable. Like 10 Euro or something. We got there later in the day and it was sold out, but my fiancé was able negotiate her way in :) She loved it! The rest of the library looked really cool too.
I love nature documentaries so much! They are beautiful, entertaining, and informative. But this makes me wonder how many other ideas have they have mislead me on? Do we need to worry about nature documentaries being a type of propaganda?
Silly question from a web dev who has never written a line of Lua before (or delved into game development). What is it about the language that make it such a good fit for game development? Seems like every time I come across these engines, or read stuff about game development in general, Lua is always the language of choice. Can anyone explain it in a nutshell for me? Thanks
It says there is a bill in the works. Nothing definite yet. If it does pass, that seems very odd to me, especially coming from the US. I noticed the policy on €10K or more is already similar to what we have here for dollars. Anything $10K in cash or more gets flagged, and you have to fill out a form.
This is the way I look at it. The productivity claims are probably a bit overhyped. For me Vim is just simply fun! It makes me think of the best way to do something, and there is always something new to learn. It makes me happy as well :)
I’ve had a lot of experience with another similar library, Kivy (kivy.org). These types of libraries, can be quite effective for the right use case. I shipped a couple mobile apps on both Google and Apple, so there’s that. I would check this out, but I do remember having to work through a lot of issues to get the mobile build just right. I wonder if a less mature project like this would have similar struggles?
At a super low technical level, probably nothing. At a higher level, obviously way more people use Ethereum and the MetaMask extension, than use GPG. It’s better because it’s way more popular and easier to use.
I mean, to your point, why in the world would anyone use a ‘hot wallet’ or any wallet with anything valuable in it for this purpose. You wouldn’t. You would make a dedicated wallet for signing Wikipedia transactions.