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Part of the goal there is not only "relatability" (demonstrating how this could be useful in reality) but "applicability" (demonstrating HOW to distill a math problem out of some potentially messy real world anecdote).

I have legit seen real world adults do things like say "Well, I got ten widgets because I know that's enough for two people. But there's gonna be four coming so.. uh.. 10+2=12, I'll bring 12 widgets"

To me that all sounds lovely and evocative, hmm. Maybe an inspiration for some of the vibe in the game Little Inferno?

This makes me think that "accent/dialect reviewer" sounds like a rich option for something to train neural networks to do. :)

I can recall that one motivation that helped to drive me when I was very young (K-2 at least) was a sense that "more advanced" meant that it's what the older kids could do. Like there was this ladder I could climb to in a sense help to advance to a more sophisticated peer group; even in relation to academic concerns like reading and math.

So for at least some students, there might be some potential in convincing them that "it's what the big kids / cool kids / etc can do" might help motivate them. :)

Why, what did Dijkstra have to say about biology vs computer systems?

I didn't see him mentioned in the article and I can't recall what he ever said about biology before..

I would categorize this in the "expertise that people internalize but never figure out how to verbalize" department, and that is a department we have no way to teach an LLM because if nobody is writing out those unspoken, subconscious rules then the LLM has nothing to read about them in its training data.

Every time I hear "even then" about a large language model I swear I can hear a fidget spinner fossilizing in the distance

Feel free to work out a frictionless micropayment method though.

I just wish that DDoS wasn't such a huge racketeering game.

Who profits the most from it?

The services charging you to defend against it, that's who.

One thing I want to know is how porn spam (that is, spam containing pornographic image attachments) vanished so suddenly in the early 2000s. It used to be a huge segment of spam, and then one day it all just vanished.

So.. what made it go away, and how could learning about that help us make all the rest of it go away too?

Neither of the VL models work for me in playground though, they just error out

Well presumably it's simply better for the environment and for your own health to just carry the car with you

> We are very close to the point where if Claude and ChatGPT APIs are down, companies cannot function.

Contrast with Gmail/Gsuite/Outlook365/QuickbooksOnline/etc are down, though.

What you cite here isn't a direct attack on AI but on centralized service provision in general. Unfortunately that battle has been lost for decades, now.

It died before AI came around and today's coding agents are somewhere upwards of twice as competent as whatever the state of the art of automatic coding was in 2020. 8I

Well, prisoner's dilemma defectors demanding that everyone else cooperate, obviously.

They could still form trade organizations to invent ground rules that members of the organization agree to follow, and then lobby for government to formalize those policies into broader laws that others also have to follow.

This strategy would also have the advantage that experts with skin in the game of their field and cutting edge experience get to choose, hone, and debate the policies before testing them so that out-of-touch elected officials don't have to do that step which would be parsecs out of their competence.

Unfortunately that would be a strategy that a real member of the real world might come up with to improve their product, their industry, their ability to create, and their relationship with the consumer. Instead we have nothing but parasites optimizing for gaming the quarterly numbers to pump and dump national institutions and building blackmail profiles against other powerful players to out-extort them while everyone involved tries to maximize how much blood they can suck.

I would not. Especially not in the current climate when virtually every company is dropping all pretense of development and innovation (or creation of any kind) in favor of value extraction and rent-seeking.

We are in this constant cycle of bubbles — the last ones I can recall bursting in 2000 and 2008 — where someone invents some new financial shell game that allows them to trade on some form of non-existent capital and then half the stock market follows along like rats after the piper until it all collapses as soon as enough people realize that everyone else also realizes the Emperor is wearing no clothes. And incidentally no, I have no idea how this particular trainwreck of fairy tail lessons all became pertinent simultaneously, but here we are.

Control over things makes a lousy incentive anyway, since having said control always better empowers the appointed to just cheat the incentive instead.

If the big bad wolf is at your door, "letting him in" isn't a bargaining chip you can trust to incentivize any sort of behavior other than "eating you".

It's an old English word (predating the sexual connotation):

cum - Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.

Basically nobody uses that language construct anymore until you run headlong into it in a Hackernews comment or something

Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down

Drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground

Bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine

I don't even think Karen got involved, it was just the Bush administration seizing the opportunity for more corruption, pork barrels, surveillance and harassment of the population at large full stop.

You.. but you put a ladder on the side. Rat's nest goes in the ladder, cover goes on top of the ladder. That way cables aren't blocking access to add/remove any U's.

You make sure all of the cabling has ends that can be pulled safely through the rat nests in the ladders (EG especially RJ45 cabling needs competent clip guards) and Bob's your uncle

I think DAC has to win out on price not because of the price of the fiber patch but those optical modules can cost some money.

I'm getting a really bad taste in my mouth for 10GBASE-T RJ45 SFP+ modules mostly due to the god awful heat they pump out (which scales linearly with power draw): So when we are forced to use them (for example to connect to a far end that only accepts 10GBASE-T) we often cannot use any SFP cage directly adjacent.

I had the Twisted Pair/DAC/Fiber discussion with one of my an engineer that we peer with recently and they made the pitch for Fiber that "being able to see the light levels takes a lot of the guesswork out of their troubleshooting". So I do have to admit that that is one utility lost when choosing a DAC over Fiber even in a rack, but my counter is that DAC has fewer moving parts and thus a lower surface area for failure in the first place.

We have had some gear refuse to work with some DACs (just as some gear refuses to work with some SFP+ modules of various stripes) but aside from that I have yet to see a DAC that starts working stop working, while I get that with fiber runs (though usually the longer ones running outdoors) quite frequently.

To me it sounds like a fancier RRD (as produced and manipulated by RRDtool)

(as an outsider) what this sounds a lot like to me is trying to manage a very large team of human personnel that have a high turnover rate which is not directly in your control.

Some of them will make mistakes, some of them will cheat, some of them will do things you don't like, and "punishing" them will be less helpful to you due to the high turnover than building a system which instead disincentivizes things from a high level. Which catches bad actions and starts them over.

Classically I think we are more accustomed to "building a team of humans, and being able to chastize or fire a bad employee helps the team grow more cohesive and build accountability".

But it is possible to get the same (less than ideal) situation with teams of humans where accountability cannot be easily instilled into the team as we have with teams of agents.

And then obviously the reason one might consider using such an unusual and difficult to manage team as a tool is when the cost is low and the supply is high, which is purportedly the case with AI at least for the moment.

So the Nintendo Switch model of PCs. I dig it, I dig it

i+7up

I'm going to point this out as the hidden gem of the thread. I just gave etools.ch a test by feeding it a query I had repeated and refined on every other search engine many times over the past 20 years and never made headway, and it found it immediately.

So, now I have a nice video clip of "The Ballad of the S.S. Forgetful", which it turns out aired near the end of Sesame Street Episode 2130. :)

Don't create the Torment Nexus

Your thoughts on "Cracklin' oat bran"?

My thoughts are that it's too sweet, though I don't know what quality its fiber has: like is it decent dietary fiber or a nutrition label dodge of some sort.

I'm curious how easy it would be to run this on a Win10 or Win11 64bit PC. Like, would it need dosbox? Virtualbox running a DOS VM?

When I try it in Dosbox I do get a very vague impression of matrix rain but no sound. The characters in the matrix rain are all uppercase and lowercase M's and U's though and they do not seem to cycle through many states at all (just partly on screen and nothing).