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globalnode··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
US courts stated that humanism is a form of religion... i bet that gets overturned pretty fast if this takes off.
globalnode··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
guardslop?

ps: if this technique gains traction and starts to hurt llm's, govt will just declare it illegal, as they always do in situations like this that hurt big$

or better yet, "illegal without a license" !!!

globalnode··on The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
I dont know any worker that intentionally chooses a job they dislike unless they need a survival job, and people doing survival jobs generally put it low effort. Programming requires high levels of effort and concentration and it would'nt be my first choice of survival job. If ALL the interesting parts of a programmers job disappear, then I guess the job is over unless you like typing prompts all day.
globalnode··on I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers
can this be done manually by setting constants till the images look rectified? last time i played with opencv for this it didnt do a very good job at automatically calculating the k's. im hoping an algo comes out that lets me do disparity without calibration one day :)
globalnode··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
if youre complaining then youre part of the problem buddy. get out of my way while i work on the future^TM /s
globalnode··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
you may not be aware of it but society largely runs on the results of maths, clueless indeed. and regulated or not, if there are financial savings to be made anyone can be shoved under the bus.
globalnode··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
I respect Grant for doing things his way and in this video making an earnest attempt to analyse the situation from many perspectives. Well done.
globalnode··on Thinking will become a hobby
I always believed he paid them well because his factories were an offense to their skill-set and he had to compensate them for being so bored
globalnode··on Grieving the loss of details
at the beginning of the 20th C when ford implemented the moving factory line, experienced mechanics disliked the new way of doing things but did it because it payed well. they werent using a lot of their skill set and their job could be replaced relatively easily. many many industries in our current economic system will be facing this now. if you can tell me which ones are immune im all ears.
globalnode··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
imagine your a post grad maths student looking for hard problems to solve, and theyre all solved..
globalnode··on Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
So it seems mathematics is a perfect playground for LLM's to show off their abilities. Is this the end of mathematics done by humans? probably.. but that still wont stop some people from going into the field, just like whats happening to computer programming. I find it strange that the two fields LLM's are built on are the two its trying hardest to replace humans in. Why will we have to teach mathematics / computing to the majority of kids at school anymore if we don't need a workforce competent in those skills? Will we just teach kids how to type fast so they can get the prompt in asap?

edit: also ive noticed when i ask llms maths questions they tend to introduces overly complicated things that arent relevant or make the problem harder. so maybe we will teach kids the basics of maths and how to interpret results? i am unsure.

globalnode··on Divide by depth for instant 3D
re-read this a day later and ofc it still makes sense to me but really most of it is barking up the wrong tree, focusing on solutions (which we already know) rather than outputs. if i could delete it i would but oh well.
globalnode··on Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC
when israel and america both went on their insane run through gaza, venezuela and iran, the second thing i thought after feeling sorry for those people, was feeling sorry for israelis and americans. its going to be a rough ride getting out of this for both nations' people.

edit: and indeed the west in general, that has largely said and done nothing while watching events unfold.

globalnode··on Divide by depth for instant 3D
ive been thinking -- if i have a 3x3 matrix [1 0 q; 0 1 r; 0 0 1], when dotted with x, those rows are planes in 3d with normals n1=(1 0 q), n2=(0 1 r) and n3=(0 0 1). plane 3 is parallel to the x-y plane and 1 unit up. plane 1 is tilted by q and parallel to the y-axis, plane 2 is tilted by r and parallel to the x-axis. the intersection of those planes (i.e. the solution x) when calculating Ax=b gives an output vector b sitting in 3d space at b=(x+qz, y+rz, 1*z). since we always specify z=1 we have b=(x+q, y+r, 1). in 3d this is a linear shear because we are translating proportionally by z but because z always equals 1 in this case we effectively get a translation in 2d.

so as the other 2 helpful commenters also just said: 3d shears using linear algebra degenerate to 2d affine transformations when z=1 (or w in 4d)

globalnode··on Divide by depth for instant 3D
nice intuition there, this comment prompted me to consider a simpler example, 2d embedded within 3d. does the 2d plane (embedded in 3d) go through the 3d origin (where 0 maps to 0) and is thus a linear transformation in 3d but a 2d affine transform in 2d? it feels like this is the case?
globalnode··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Nice hopeful commentary there, I do appreciate it but...

> You work less than your counterparts centuries ago...

do I?

I'm not against the tech, I love the tech, I'm just not buying the marketing this time around.

globalnode··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
In the 50's there were predictions that in 10 years no-one will have to work again because of the advances made in automation, like the washing machine for example. Any predictions of less work this time around are a complete joke.
globalnode··on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Yeah don't steal my stolen stuff.
globalnode··on Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
Games I cant play on Linux are kernel level anti-cheat shooters. Anti cheat should be handled on the server anyway, no one should be installing that on their machines. Everything else works great!
globalnode··on After Math
Math is not dead, it (and i guess programming to a lesser degree?) is something people do to better themselves, akin to meditation. Just because AI can meditate (it cant) doesnt mean humans will stop meditating. We may become irrelevant in that AI can generate results and proofs that it doesnt need us for, but then AI will make itself irrelevant to us! The slippery slope slides both ways.
globalnode··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
> The USA can use the money saved for its own citizens (possibly even lowering their taxes!)

I was feeling miserable reading this thread until I saw this, thanks for cheering me up.

globalnode··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
Yes ofc its a world problem, and guess who the world is not going to be happy with?
globalnode··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
Yet another good reason for me to steer clear of the language.
globalnode··on Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
define livelihood, it involves a standard and cost of living that is different for different people
globalnode··on Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
in australia workers seem to have more rights. they have industry awards that specify minimum wage and safety conditions etc, they have the legal right to strike and the legal right for union/collective bargaining if they choose it, aka freedom of association. when i look at employment conditions in the US, it boggles my mind how workers there basically have zero safety net. its an extreme example of giving all the power to the employer.
globalnode··on I resigned from Anthropic today
im pretty impressed with the reasoning abilities of even the cheapest free models so im inclined to believe in 10 years we're going to have something pretty phenomenal BUT it wont be AGI in the sense that it has a personality and thoughts like a human. It just wont be. Its always going to be contrived and fitted by humans to perform a set of tasks. Maybe when physics and computing can create a complex enough environment we might stand a chance of having something whose sum is somehow greater than its parts but i dont see it yet. Our ideas are ahead of our technology, like its always been throughout history.
globalnode··on Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]
lets call it A, then in 5 years A++
globalnode··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
hehe, yes but if it wasnt for german rocket scientists the americans and russians would not have had space agencies (at least not that early)
globalnode··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
its like a retail store where they force you to walk through the chips and chocolates to get to the fruit and veg... just in case you didnt know how yummy chips and chocolates are...
globalnode··on Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
The cynic in me wants to agree with this but im not so sure, ive seen all sorts of behaviour from all sorts of people.
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