Theoretically, if we had a GPU so fast it could instantly calculate billions of digits of Pi, and a small hard drive, could this actually be made to work?
Cache all the last lookups but otherwise just store the index within pi? And for larger files - split them into chunks of whatever size could be handled?
(I mean, I realize this is a joke and can't make sense - but GPUs can be really really fast, and am willing to make a fool of myself by asking.)
And if we had a quantum computer that stores all of pi on one qubit, that could make things even faster ;/
It is very possible that Musk's predictions are entirely accurate but not in the time frame he promised. Which would actually be appropriate.
I made a bet with someone at the outbreak of Covid that within 10 years electric cars and self driving cars would be commonplace in New York, Brussles and Jerusalem.
I think I will win the electric car claim, and he will win the self driving. ;/
The AI would confidently give him the wrong answer, since it has no way to provide the correct answer, and doesn't know its own limitations. (Or however you wish to describe "hallucinations", which is about as accurate as my description ;))
And he would think he has the right answer, perhaps write up an essay about his findings, which later AI bots will read and learn from, propgating the mistake...
But I use Codex and Claude daily (work and hobby respectively). And there are days where one or the other just seems to have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. Or is just being lazy. Or is suddenly super-powered do everything including what i asked it not to. (To be fair, the same thing happens with myself. :/)
I am convinced that if I was bench-marking, I would be convinced these are different models on different days.
[This conviction may say more about me then about the model.]
Except that if you tried one-shotting your ticket twenty times at different hours of the day and different days of the week, you would have enough changes to make benchmarks even if you used the same model every time. Much moreso if you fiddled with the thinking or changed the prompt.
Because non-deterministic, because of constant updates and changes, and because the models are throttled according to number of users, releases, et al.
Let's face it - Grok is not nearly as popular among programmers as Claude or Codex, and that means that xAI is not able to vacuum all the data that his competitors have access to.
Cursor is installed on a LOT of computers.
Once Grok becomes the default engine, it will raise adoption.
More importantly, if you have Cursor installed all your data may be sent to their labs whether you use it or not (unfortunately - this is par for the course for all the LLMs, a la Microsoft).
That's worth a lot - especially considering that Cursor might also grow with the shift to more powerful local models and the fact that it has a respectable income stream.
I use the CLI often enough, but still most of my time is in a GUI. It just makes the diffs easier, the flow simpler, etc.
As such, I wanted to break into jj via the GUI, and only adopt the command line after I could visualize the concepts and differences in my head.
Alas, the GUI I tried - a VSCode plugin - did more to confuse me than to help, and it made it very easy to catastrophically rewrite the history by accident. I tried another UI and it kept failing and leaving me with cleanup work. I couldn't find a third UI that looked promising.
So, I gave up. One less jj user on the planet - no biggie. But I really wonder if it would be worth the effort for some of the jj pushers to try to get a proper UI in place - I bet I am not the only one that likes to learn visually.
Did the private equity buy the domain videojs.org (did it take control of the project and you somehow regained control after selling) or was this domain (and the project) always under your control?
TL;DR Modern gear is actually much better than what they wore a few generations ago. More flexible, waterproof, requiring less thought, better and overall lighter. Even with lots more effort and investment, there remains a significant difference between two brothers when one insists on wearing recreated ancient gear.
Well, whadaya know!
But I bet you didn't know that you can find modern pro hiking shoes that are even heavier than the old ones they recreated!
So, basically, a random site from their index of ~30,000 sites.
You can choose similar sites by index.
But what are the criterion to have your site listed here, or how it will prevent this from just becoming a massive gamified advertising index, or anything more about "why these?" is not obvious to me.
Can anyone explain what is special about these sites specifically, or where this project is going?
As someone who works extensively with youth, but is somewhat of a extrovert..
There are many reasons why people are introverts. Some of them are "broken" and could use a fix, some are healthy and should not be touched.
If the source is a lack of confidence, it should be dealt with. Sometimes the fix involves pushing oneself to talk beyond their comfort level, sometimes not.
If the source is a form of ASD or Autism spectrum, then it depends very much on what the "introvertness" is costing them. If the person is either suffering or is living out of touch with reality, that's broken. Sometimes talking is absolutely required to create a fix. (Over here, even more-so, getting guidance is a must. Which is a shame since the more a person on the spectrum needs guidance the less he is likely to accept it)
If the source is an understanding of one's relative position (eg. at a meeting of seniors) then that's fine, but too much of that can be unhealthy.
If it's from depression, than please don't introvert. Get professional help.
If you are so into your phone that you've forgotten the joy of interaction with humans, that's broken. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in this category, and social media and AI are making things worse. (Nothing new though - 30 years ago I helped a kid who was watching 18+ hours of video, on a CRT! He was mighty introverted, and wanted nothing to do with us humans for weeks after starting treatment.)
If you are just a confident guy/gal that just happens to enjoy your own space, than all the power to you! From what I have heard there are a LOT of people that fall into this category, and I have even meet two or three of you!
But let me stress, even if things are broken, the advice in this article can often make things worse. And if it's not a problem for you, enjoy!
That's a blunt way of saying it, but I agree with the sentiment.
Which is a shame, because this is a project that could have had potential, but a poor name goes a long way towards discouraging it being taken seriously.
I get it. This is a scam. The discussion is not about what you think it is. (EDIT: Or not, I don't care.)
BUT the fact that we are even arguing about whether or not we should be putting data centers into space is so incredibly absurd to someone who watched the Challenger explode and assumed that space wouldn't be ventured into again in my lifetime.
People don't realize how much the priors have changed. Take a minute to appreciate that. We are living in a world where people are debating if it makes sense to spend a bazillion dollars to put a hard disk into orbit.
I wonder if the Klingons are good at cyber warfare.
I have never driven a Tesla, so this is all anecdotal.
Some of my (extended) neighbors are members of a family that live near each other. One sister bought a Tesla. The brother who lived down the block laughed at her because politics. Despite that, within a year he had bought one as well. Their parents test drove it a few times and were critical about how it drove weird. But now, after about 9 months, their father mentioned in passing that he ordered one. Another brother mentioned that he would sell his Maxus for a Tesla if he could afford to.
Until recently, one had a Chevy, one a Hyundai, one a Maxus and one an ancient Subaru.
I have never seen such buy-in with any other brand, and that is despite the toxicity of the Tesla CEO. I wouldn't be so quick to write them off.
Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be.
Then you can have multiple Jules tests, depending on occasion!