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Nesco··on Eric Schmidt's AI prophecy: The next two years will shock you
It feels more like a ad for getting people to invest in AI that anything else. Plus Eric Schmidt hasn’t got a lot right lately in my opinion
Nesco··on From Sets to Categories (2023)
> “There real use-cases”

> Proceed to link to a non-constructive proof

Why are mathematicians like this?

Nesco··on SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
LLMs are trained on the entire internet so loads of copyrighted data, which Meta can’t distribute, and is afraid to even reference
Nesco··on Open source AI is the path forward
Especially because genAI is a copyright laundering system. You can train it on copyrighted material and none of the content generated with it are copyright-able, which is perfect for social apps
Nesco··on Open source AI is the path forward
The training data contains most likely insane amounts of copyrighted material. That’s why virtually none of the “open models” come with their training data
Nesco··on London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail
Those lines generate insane losses just to operate and maintain them
Nesco··on London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail
America is way less dense than France and Europe at large. Only in BoWash such an high density network would make sense
Nesco··on Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
Could you provide some resources/links please?
Nesco··on Ask HN: So.. what's next after LLMs?
Nobody can predict the future, but what is currently researched: - coupling deep learning with some kind of memory

- non generative hierarchical architecture (see LeCun JEPA)

- mixing deep learning with symbolic methods (usually search over token or latent space, it can also be a coupling with symbolic engines. Coupling LLMs with wolfram was a very early example)

- ability to perform unbounded computation per token inside a deep network. Something like Universal Transformers

Nesco··on Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans
Thanks!
Nesco··on Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans
Hey, I would be interested in doing the same. How hard is it?
Nesco··on Amazon grows to over 750k robots, replacing 100k humans
If it comes through rna/dna editing it will be a good evolution
Nesco··on Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
I have been thinking about this topic for some time. It might be done using the energy of the token. If it's still higher than an energy limit, then process it again, and increase the energy limit. The energy could be computed using log-sum-exp: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Hkxzx0NtDB
Nesco··on For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
Could be very large, even close to 1, depending on how you react to it
Nesco··on For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
I cannot upvote this enough. Having a bad trip is plainly one of the most horrible experiences of my life
Nesco··on How to Escape from the Iron Age?
I find it a huge red flag that the article tries to combine together several “woke” talking points. It often indicates that each points is a product of ideology more than anything else: - the strange, I am quite sure straight up false, self-referring point about African and Asian metallurgists of the past, which basically add nothing to the core message

- A strong “degrowth” orientation based on a reduction of the demand, because steel production emits CO2. It seems to be the core message. It doesn’t address the issue the author himself raise that most steel is used for machinery or buildings

- A digression which tries to find an additional reason to reduce steel production: reducing potential war output. If someone needs two reasons for something it usually smells fishy, plus I would love to hear what the Ukrainians and NATO members have to say about reducing the already failing western arm production.

Nesco··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
Why shouldn’t Europeans do the same with US social networks then?
Nesco··on Evo: DNA foundation modeling from molecular to genome scale
Here is a colab notebook that replicates some of their examples without needing a togetherAI API: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1pzz1KHQjylrpfZt2xS7...

Choosing the A100 environment is required though

Nesco··on A new phase of matter: Physicists show non-Abelian anyons in quantum processor
Isn’t it similar to the majorana anyons Microsoft hopes to use to build a topological quantum computer?
Nesco··on An AI that learns about chemical reactions and designs a procedure to make them
I should have meant, have you already found customers? I am also working on a project on genomics, which is very orthogonal to yours, and finding customers in this field the difficult part
Nesco··on An AI that learns about chemical reactions and designs a procedure to make them
Really interesting, what would be your real-world use cases?
Nesco··on Conversational AI is a great tool for education
I disagree here : there is a noticeable marginal cost to having additional human tutors. It’s quite different with chatbots.

Also I personally think you are under a misconception. Commoditised high quality AI tutors would increase variance/inequality of outcomes, not decrease it. As it would increase the learning rate of gifted individuals even more drastically than the one of the general population.

The more edtech improves and becomes cheaper, the more the limits of individuals will be set by their biological constraints. Which are mostly genetics

Nesco··on Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
Title doesn’t reflect it’s the result of a newly hypothesised model
Nesco··on Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI
Strange, I am reading everywhere that India is developing rapidly and will become soon a major economy
Nesco··on Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?
Not an issue per se. It shows the limit of the analogy used by defrost to justify such a world would be as functional as 1975’s was.

The basic assumption that the two situations are similar is just… false

Nesco··on Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?
Your reasoning is very flawed for a single reason. If by let’s say 2075 the population was reduced to 1975 levels, the demographics would still differ widely.

1. Age distribution would look like an inverted pyramid instead of a pyramid

2. The geographical, racial/ethnical and cultural demographics would also look like the totally different. The share of global population of the global south, which is currently highly dysfunctional, would be drastically more important, especially in the younger age groups.

Note that the increase of wealth of the “third world” is mainly due to China / India, followed a bit by Indonesia / Bangladesh / Vietnam. Nearly all of them have already a TFR < 2.1

Other countries’ economies even lost complexity and the share of their economies that are basically commodity exports increased

Nesco··on Industrial Civilization Needs a Biological Future
The article offers no solution to developed nations demographic collapse other than ideological brainwashing.
Nesco··on AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club
Could you please detail why do you think Machine Learning will obviate jobs that are already useless?
Nesco··on From molecules to the whole brain, study reveals the role of serotonin
Misleading title: the study doesn’t concern the « human brain » but the neural system of a worm
Nesco··on BOE Chief Economist Says Britons ‘Need to Accept’ They’re Worse Off
That’s assuming there are no externalities whatsoever to immigration and that the immigrants will be able to satisfy the demand in labor and in entrepreneurs as well as the natives.

From my own experience, in France, both of those assumptions are heavily violated. It can vary depending of the type of immigration though, I bet the story is different for California

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