Google had less incentive. Their incentive was to keep API bottled up and in brewing as long as possible so their existing moats in search, YouTube can extend in other areas. With openai they are forced to compete or perish.
Even with gemini in lead, its only till they extinguish or make chatgpt unviable for openai as business. OpenAI may loose the talent war and cease to be leader in this domain against google (or Facebook) , but in longer term their incentive to break fresh aligns with average user requirements . With Chinese AI just behind, may be google/microsoft have no choice either
Have used pi hole for over 5 years and very happy with it. Most times I use it via phone to manage kids devices to block/unblock access etc and this also works quite well . Thank you very much
This is the answer I get : Yes, Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote a fourth novel in his Dark Border series titled Ingulf the Mad, published in 1989. This book focuses on the character Ingulf Mac Fingold, detailing his adventures and the origins of his mystical sword
When docs are prescribing to patients, they are mentally traversing through a decision tree to prescribe the best that fits the conditions. If the problem still persists, they may ask_questions/test more to find more branches to traverse.
For individuals, it's like being a node, where you cannot see anything above. It feels that what works for you, should work for all.
Will read through this. But have a quick question: Would it not be reasonable to guess that people having mental issues will have metabolic issues developed as later side effects. The reason is that mental issues puts a person in confused/lost state along with all the anxiety/feelings that it induces. This will causes them to neglect taking care of their body needs. Then that should trigger metabolic changes.
The economic/social situation of people force them into these jobs. Just ignoring this and accepting it as reality is ridiculous. This can be said of any of such social behaviours. In some cultures, the violence on women is countered by the logic that they were wearing certain kind of dress and nobody is forcing them to do this etc ..
There are certain values in society that we should try to fight for. They may seem idealistic in current perspective, but nevertheless we should strive for them to make progress inch by inch. Brushing them off under the pretext of "nobody forced them" is not right.
It max 5 years or even less, if the problem is in engineering the solution. But if the problem is in underlying maths in building Level 5, then surely its decades
Thanks. Yes, that's the link. Joe is one of those teachers, who try to simplify the concepts while preserving the elegance of what is described. Kind of like minimalistic simplicity in teaching. While teaching, every time he would emphasise the intuition behind them. He avoids the complex formula's/algebra, calling them ugly ... and often presents one line proofs to them !!. After getting through the first few of lectures, you seem to get the underlying trend in his approach. That all the complexity is just hand waving over the the simplicity of underlying concepts. (Sometimes i think if the maths is complex to explain a phenomenon then we are not using the correct theory to explain it. But i am not a mathematician .... )
Last year, i saw the videos by 3Blue1Brown and inspired by it went on to read some of the standard text books like linear algebra application by Strang. I had seen the Strang videos earlier but somehow did not follow it through. This time however my perspective was changed. I was approaching the subject through the lens of intuition and simplicity. Wherever i found something challenging, i waited for the next day to again re-do it (because i know that this should not be that complex to understand or the understanding is wrong). And to my surprise, again and again, the difficulty was in my rigidness in understanding. The next day , or even later during the day, when my mind was fresh again, i can reason through the concept and get the intuition behind it.
Since then i have seen the Strang videos again and again. Beginning to end. Read the book chapter by chapter and exercises by exercise. And what a delight it had been. And then i jumped upon Joe Blitzstein's probability lectures. What a blast ! Is there a list of teachers like these there, who in the pretext of teaching algebra/probability etc are in reality wiring up our thinking process in ways immaterial to subject they are teaching. Many of us don't want the material to be too casual/layman terms (which hampers self understanding as its no challenging anything within us) and not too rigid (where we cannot break through the challenge).
> I think I did some of my best work when assigned a desk essentially in a corridor ...
> .. but the worst of all for me is emotional noise e.g. people bickering. Trapped in a small office with unpleasant people ..
There lies the problem. If its some unrelated people discussing stuff that doesn't interest us then its just background noise and get filtered out. But in office space it is exactly the opposite. You sit around with people who are doing similar work and most often what they discuss is directly or indirectly related to you/your-work. This is a problem.
Another thing i notice is that concentration is multi stage process. Sometimes when you are between something then its easy to get into the zone. But at times when doing some meta thinking, analysing where your thought process is correct or when trying to get grasp over a difficult problem, where again you have do analyse your thinking, it requires conscious effort to stay focused. If the environment is conducive then it becomes that much easier.
> Patients shall not vote for hospital's rules and medical procedures or staff election. Qualified well-educated doctors should.
Bad analogy. The goal of democracy is not to generate the best possible results for the country. If that happens then its the side effect. Democracy stands on the principle of "all citizens have equal rights".
> Your senses are staggeringly limited ... when it comes to determining what is "real" or not.We use technology to fill the gaps. That's what technology is for - to allow us "see", interact with and influence the world through discrete and explicit measurement in ways our biological systems can't.
Sense perception to understand reality or to seek pleasure ? When we pick the phone to play a game, is that interacting with reality or with pure imagination. Same with the round about action of liking each others or seeing what new experience you posted etc.
Sense perception can be used for survival and pleasure. In the game of evolution the latter will get phase out and former will evolve. However in short term, where there is a great economic incentive to game the "pleasure seeking senses" for creating wants and consumption, there would be short term pain and confusion in masses. The question to ask ourself is that whether i succumb to this enticement or just move and let it meet its eventual end.
Country, companies are higher order concepts that lasts over generation. This lets them experiment over many people life and adjust accordingly. But we as an individual we have limited time and space constraint. Its only our mind that can help distinguish the chaff from grain and live a meaningful life.
> Augmenting and eventually replacing our biological capabilities with robust, high precision systems is the ultimate goal.
This was also true when wheel was invented. The purpose of technology is to help in getting things done. The pleasure seeking, sensory perception is just a distraction. And for many of us, the ultimate goal is to live a better life by reducing these distractions.
VP may be replaced by a VP role that requires him to convert the random requirements to specifics or guide the AI on UI design etc. Instead of a VP and team of developers there would be devVp would could bridge this gap. And then in still further future, this friction could even be removed ...
> Right now development costs per head are sky high. If there's any way to cut that spend, you better believe executives will be all over it.
There is already a big trend of automation albeit on the IT side and not on development. Where it used to take a separate IT team and developers and DB admins etc there is growing field of devOps with automation. Companies, especially startups are biting into this trend and vendors, especially Cloud vendors are spearheading this movement.
If there is glare of possibility of automating the development, these vendors and companies would have been all over it. This behaviour is not seen, means that this a possibility that exists in distant future.
> I don't think I can rent a house in York for a year for that kind of money.
> God I despise this world so much.
The opportunity/better-living delta between big cities and other smaller ones have risen a lot over decades and centuries. There is much greater affordability of food, healthcare, basic education and better employment. But with the rise in population there limits on housing. Everyone wants a piece of same pie and there are economic consequences of that.
The next big disruption would be to break this trend. Use technology with a social/political movement to get the benefit of affordable food, healthcare, education and employment while living in non urban areas.
Its childish to compare rich and successful people like that. There had been and will be in future more rich and successful people measured by revenue, profit, employees, product reach etc.
This sort of comparison is a silly thing, a hero worship kind of behaviour un-characteristic of HN.
However people still want something to compare. How about instead of just being capital etc add some other measures like business risk, turning around from absolute failure, fighting david and goliath in same industry, building something that was just given up by all etc . Again these measures are subjective and there could be somebody else who may like building a steady growth or being more charitable and equitable etc.
We like to see the world and measure it up in the way its important to us. When somebody says X is the greatest person, then realise that he is measuring with the qualities he finds important.
How about gov do quantitative easing for these student loans. Basically provide contracts and various incentives for companies that are employing these students who have loans. Also to various vendors like house owners etc who provide service to these students. This would create a negative impact on students who did not took loans or got good jobs and paid up in time etc. But that's how largely it was done for QE also.
Even with gemini in lead, its only till they extinguish or make chatgpt unviable for openai as business. OpenAI may loose the talent war and cease to be leader in this domain against google (or Facebook) , but in longer term their incentive to break fresh aligns with average user requirements . With Chinese AI just behind, may be google/microsoft have no choice either