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DSingularity··on Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
It’s just an observation. It’s an abstraction in the classical computer science sense in that you stack some modules and the backprop is generated. It’s leaky in the sense that you cant fully abstract away the details because of the vanishing/exploding gradient issues you must be mindful of.

It is definitely a useful thing for people who are learning this topic to understand from day 1.

DSingularity··on Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia
You are missing his point.
DSingularity··on MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
Uh this is a superficial take. It almost certainly took more effort to hide the images from the public than to publish them.

The community that made them is being shit on.

DSingularity··on Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
Super useful for grounding which is often the only way to robustly protect against hallucinations.
DSingularity··on Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
I think he just means it should be assumed to be standard practice and considered baseline at this point.
DSingularity··on US falls out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 yrs
> still reach you

Yeah but the effort just went up 10x

Besides I don’t think they are moving to resist the fascism. It’s to seek an alternative and carry on living.

DSingularity··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
Why do you need forward secrecy?
DSingularity··on C++26: range support for std:optional
The for syntax over optional seems unnatural. I get that optional is like a list of 0 or 1 owns. Is there a fault in my reading that makes the syntax clunky?
DSingularity··on Apple M5 chip
Each challenging in their own ways. The real challenge is that we need codesign and that’s the tricky part.
DSingularity··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
I was being sarcastic but definitely happy to see the down votes.
DSingularity··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
Is that even a question!? Ben Gvir, Smotrich, or Mileikowsky.

For raising the bar so high.

DSingularity··on Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
How is it hyperbolic? Talk to foreigners. People are universally disgusted with the US and it is not all because we have an anti-immigration, nationalist administration. People are disgusted with the fact that the US wrecked Iraq, Libya, Syria, and bombed Gaza to smithereens before starving its people.
DSingularity··on Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording
If anybody even insinuates that Weiss or Ellison have dual loyalty because of this they will be accused of anti-semitism.

The hard truth is that weaponizing your money — earned largely from Americans — to aid a foreign country at the expense of America is about as un-American as it gets. Aside from the potentially valid argument that your voice shouldn’t be louder just because you are a billionaire — you are corrupting American foreign policy and American stature in the world to advance the agenda of Israel. That is a betrayal of America.

DSingularity··on China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers
I doubt that’s the problem. The public policy government is captured by corporations. The military policy arm of the government is manipulated by a myriad of interests operating indirectly from the shadows — ranging from foreign intelligence agencies (ie Israeli) to military/industrial companies.

Old so competent senators barely matter. It’s all about unelected corporate boards and secret groups within influential government agencies.

DSingularity··on iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark
Why is the pro scoring less?
DSingularity··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Maybe that applied then but does it apply now? Each of their soldiers wear cameras. They see it in hd anytime their soldiers shooting women, old men, children. I guess only their snipers are getting away with dropping civilians constantly (as many British and American doctors are testifying they saw in gazan hospitals). And on top of this their drones target with visual data. So they see that too.

I think in this war the IDF has a very very good idea of how many civilians they killed. At some point it indicates that they have set targets they are striving to meet before the world stops them.

DSingularity··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Over 60% of Israelis believe there is nobody innocent in Gaza. That’s like the core operating principle of the Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben Gvir government. The Israeli street is thoroughly behind the Genocide and the polling has been showing this for over a year.
DSingularity··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
No I haven’t and you raise a good point. I mean I don’t know what else to do. The alternatives are to build it and not think about anything beyond the tech itself or to not build it out of an abundance of caution.

And I’m not really as concerned about the super intelligence. I’m more concerned about the impact on our culture as humans.

DSingularity··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
I think it’s surprising because Israelis are very loud in their support for Netanyahu. Yeah, there are protests but it polling suggests that the overwhelming majority of Israelis support Netanyahu.
DSingularity··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Politics is weird. With the Biden administration there was lots of lip service given in opposition to the slaughter in Gaza while at the same time they were shipping unprecedented amounts of weapons to the IDF.

Now with Trump they state that they have max support for Israel while it seems like all of Europe is turning away from unconditional support for Israel and a massive change in the typical rhetoric around media in the US. That’s odd.

DSingularity··on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Israel claims that they “don’t want to kill civilians” but historically have not substantially changed course when the killings became grotesquely excessive. It’s also arguably true that they have never even sincerely investigated any issues.

Israel just gets more aggressive in the murder and bombing.

DSingularity··on South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
I think it’s quite obvious to everyone in the world that Zionists are the ones in a bubble. I would wish you luck, but how can anyone wish a genocide apologist luck?
DSingularity··on South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
What if someone said “because Ukrainians don’t hold genocidal Judaism views”?

You should seek therapy?

DSingularity··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
Exactly — hence the need to deliberately evolve it.
DSingularity··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
It’s naive either in the way you put it or at the very least in your eyes. There is a lot to be said about the narcissism of innovators radically rethinking anything and everything traditional just because we think we can do better by our current metrics.

If things continue to be advanced haphazardly just because these companies have budget capacity what’s to say that in a hundred years the bulk of humanity will have lost capacity for independent critical thought? Is that really the world you want to create?

It’s not just a “ChatGPT will replace you”. Our humanity is potentially at stake if we don’t deliberately evolve this tech.

DSingularity··on South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
Please wake up. When the dust settles and people start clearing all those buildings you destroyed you will see that 60,000 casualty number grow by multiples. How will you feel then about what Israel has done?
DSingularity··on South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis
Don’t forget: our insane support for genocide and an out-of-control genocidal regime that’s clearly trying to trigger WW3.
DSingularity··on The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge
Shows you how good they are at planning and decomposing features into well scoped hardware and software features which can ship earlier, provide some value, while enabling richer future features. You have to respect them for this because this is how they have always operated.
DSingularity··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
What hardware do you use ?
DSingularity··on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
That’s an investment that’s going to be a write off.
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