Readit Newstehf0x commented on Linux from Scratch linuxfromscratch.org/inde... · Posted by u/udev4096
Between LFS and Stage 1 and 2 Gentoo installs back in the early 2000s during High School, this gave me a big leg up in my journey of learning about computers and Linux. I can't thank those project maintainers enough for helping me get my footing at such a young age and peaking my interest in computing. I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers in High School and brought it home in pieces to use on the home computer.
Amen to that! 20 years later this was my gateway drug into being addicted to computers and gave me my full stack understanding I still use every day at work. <3 Gentoo and the friendly geek at the coffee place I worked at when I was 14 who gave me my first hit and held my hand through what is effectively mental torture for most people
tehf0x commented on Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military wired.com/story/amazon-go... · Posted by u/tehf0x
Employees, investors and customers who don't want to falicitate the horrors going on in Gaza I would guess.
tehf0x commented on F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected thedrive.com/the-war-zone... · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
So a similar thing happened near some friends' in France. A military jet crashed into the forest near their house, but the air force couldn't figure out where it had gone. Eventually a farmer noticed that a new pond had appeared on his land. The jet made enough of a crater when crashing that drained the nearby swamp and created a new pond deep enough to conceal the full fuselage, thus completely hiding the airplane. Once the farmer alerted the air force, they were able to crane the remains out of the newly formed pond and recover the key parts of hardware onboard. Had the farmer not noticed the change in landscape they might have never found it. https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/03/02/97001-20110302...
A modern day Typhoid Mary! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
tehf0x commented on GPT-4 Takes a New Midterm and Gets an A betonit.substack.com/p/gp... · Posted by u/bumbledraven
Just because it's newly created doesn't mean that the structure of the language and the concepts it represents are actually new.
It's clear that whatever tests he writes cover well established and understood concepts.
This is where I believe people are missing the point. GPT4 is not a general intelligence. It is a highly overfit model, but it's overfit to literally every piece of human knowledge.
Language is humanities way of modelling real world concepts. So GPT is able to leverage the relationships we create through our language to real world concepts. It's just learned all language up until today.
It's an incredible knowledge retrieval machine. It can even mimick how our language is used to conduct reasoning very well.
It can't do this efficiently, nor can it actually stumble upon a new insight because it's not being exposed in real time to the real world.
So, this professors 'new' test is not really new. It's just a test that fundamentally has already been modelled.
Ah the good old "it's not me it's the test" argument. These systems are not just next token predictors, they learn complex algorithms and can perform general computation, its just so happens that by asking them to next-token predict the internet they learn a bunch of smart ways to compress everything, potentially in a way similar to how we might use a general concept to avoid memorizing a lookup table. Please have a look at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.15661 and https://mobile.twitter.com/DimitrisPapail/status/16208344092.... We don't understand everything that's going on yet but it would be foolish to discount anything at this stage, or to state much of anything with any degree of confidence (and that stands for both sides of the opinion spectrum). Also these systems aren't exposed to the real world today, but this will be untrue very soon https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/03/palm-e-embodied-multimodal...
(Taken from an old comment of mine)
If you were to say “pandas in long format only” then yes that would be correct, but the power of pandas comes in its ability to work in a long relational or wide ndarray style. Pandas was originally written to replace excel in financial/econometric modeling, not as a replacement for sql. Models written solely in the long relational style are near unmaintainable for constantly evolving models with hundreds of data sources and thousands of interactions being developed and tuned by teams of analysts and engineers. For example, this is how some basic operations would look.
Bump prices in March 2023 up 10%:
# pandas
prices_df.loc['2023-03'] *= 1.1
# polars
polars_df.with_column(
pl.when(pl.col('timestamp').is_between(
datetime('2023-03-01'),
datetime('2023-03-31'),
include_bounds=True
)).then(pl.col('val') * 1.1)
.otherwise(pl.col('val'))
.alias('val')
)
# pandas
temp_df + offset_df
# polars
(
temp_df
.join(offset_df, on=['state', 'county', 'timestamp'], suffix='_r')
.with_column(
( pl.col('val') + pl.col('val_r')).alias('val')
)
.select(['state', 'county', 'timestamp', 'val'])
)
Now imagine the other side of this equation, where pandas seems too clunky, behold YOLOPandas https://pypi.org/project/yolopandas/ i.e. `df.llm.query("What item is the least expensive?")`
As an affluent tech industry Australian living in the US (Bay Area) I’d say there’s very little practical difference in my standard of living here compared to back home. It’s more the poorer parts of society here where the figures quoted in the article apply and that feels just as removed from my life here as it does to you sitting in Australia. The US is a big place.
This is what pains me the most about the US. Out of sight and out of mind but these poorer parts of society represent xx millions of fellow humans. If you could have similar standard of living in Australia where the poorer parts of society perhaps have more accessible healthcare and better social safety nets, then why the hell can't we do that in the US!? (I know the answers to that question, but it just makes me sad and angry).
Source? My anecdotal experience is that in the US people without much income will simply avoid seeing a doctor until things get Serious because of cost, which makes the quality of care somewhat irrelevant (and my other anecdotal experience was that Uk hospital quality was quite good, and as you mentioned, free).