The entire premise of this article is wrong and derived from a misquote. Kristian Høgsberg, in Wayland stated his goal was a system in which "every frame is perfect, by which I mean that applications will be able to control the rendering enough that we'll never see tearing, lag, redrawing or flicker."
It had nothing to do with "if I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense." As others here have pointed out - this entire article is very poorly conceived.
FYI: This world happiness report is entirely based on asking just one obtuse question, which does not even have the word happiness in the actual question:
Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?
Great to see you're in Sydney Brendan, and let the haters hate.
You have done a brilliant job elevating your chosen specialty to the world, and encouraging and inspiring others in the industry for a long time - so you should be fairly compensated for that lofty position. I don't envy the late nights or very early mornings you have ahead of you on conference calls with SF, but good luck at OpenAI mate !
Dr Jeyanthi Kunadhasan is an Australian Anaesthetist that has been on this COVID mRNA vaccine is bad rant for a long time, and has been widely discredited in Australia. She is misinterpreting the deaths data in the trial, which unfortunately is a widespread naive error.
1. In the part of the trial in which you can actually compare raw death counts because of the randomization, the deaths were 15-14, with confidence intervals nearly completely overlapping, and so there was no evidence vaccine arm death rates were significantly higher than placebo arm.
2. After the subjects were unblinded, the placebo subjects were allowed to crossover to the vaccine arm, and the vast majority did, with >>90% of the subjects vaccinated in the end and <<10% remaining vaccinated. After crossover, there were 9 additional deaths, 6 of who had been vaccinated and 3 of which had not yet been vaccinated.
3. But one cannot simply add the 6 to the 15 and 3 to the 14 and compare 21 vs. 17 to compare death rate of vaccinated to unvaccinated, since after the crossover, the vast majority were vaccinated and very few remained unvaccinated.
4. If one wants to assess the death rate after vaccination during the post-crossover period, they must treat it as an observational cohort study with time-varying vaccination status, adjusting for the wildly different group sizes and the fact that there were far more person-years of potential risk of death (i.e. denomiantors for death rates) after vaccination than in the pre-vaccination group. If such an analysis is done, there is also no evidence that death rate after vaccination is greater than before vaccination.
So, in the end, there is no evidence that the death rate in the vaccinated group is greater than the placebo/unvaccinated group.
Then her second big error is presuming, without any evidence whatsoever, that the excess deaths in Australia are predominately caused by the vaccine.
Googles weather prediction engine is already very good, and the new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season when tested against actual hurricane paths. Meanwhile, the US Government Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.
Fi Fi Lee also recently founded a new AI startup called World Labs, which focus on creating AI world models with spatial intelligence to understand and interact with the 3D world, unlike current LLM AI that primarily processes 2D images and text. Almost exactly the same focus as Yann LeCun's new venture stated in the parent article.
Americans are very weird when it comes to metric. They often quote mobile phones as having something like "a six inch screen size but now only 12mm thick" - pick a measurement system people !
Andrej Karpathy seems to me like a national (world) treasure.
He has the ability to explain concepts and thoughts with analogies and generalizations and interesting sayings that allow you to keep interest in what he is talking about for literally hours - in a subject that I don't know that much about. Clearly he is very smart, as is the interviewer, but he is also a fantastic communicator and does not come across as arrogant or pretentious, but really just helpful and friendly. Its quite a remarkable and amazing skillset. I'm in awe.
Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year.
Notion seems have a lot of hype lately, and Microsoft tries to be king of the hill when it comes to productivity apps, buying tools encroaching upon their turf of Outlook and Excel (6 Wunderkinder, Yammer, Ally.io) or competing vigorously if they cant buy them (Teams). Seems like this Notion v3 could tip it over the edge into full blown productivity powerhouse.
It had nothing to do with "if I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense." As others here have pointed out - this entire article is very poorly conceived.