Good idea 20 years ago. Announcing a program that'll solve the problem in 20 years won't solve today's problems.
At least in France we’ve been saying that for 8 years.
The second best time to plant a tree is now.
Readit Newsvianneychevalie commented on Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/thm
I disagree. There is a spectrum and some people are much more evil (in the sense; more harmful to society) than others and the concentration of evil is higher near the centers of power.
I suspect that many of the attempts at social cleansing are natural (though not necessarily just) reactions to other less visible evils carried out over longer periods of time by those in power. Clearly the Bolsheviks in Russia were not happy people... There was a process that had been occurring for centuries prior which made them unhappy enough to carry out a revolution. It is known that Russia's feudal system had been particularly harsh on peasants for centuries.
The French royals were so detached from the misery which they caused that it seems somewhat unsurprising that they couldn't even keep their heads physically attached to their bodies in the end. Their metaphorical heads were already quite detached from reality before the guillotine made the separation literal.
I think you’re mistaken, at least about the French revolution. It was carried out by rich people, looking for more power, making use of a common and regular occurence of popular uprising (Jacqueries, in political science, is the name of those quite common « revolutions »).
Royalty does not necessarily cause misery, Sweden, Spain, the UK are all monarchies. Colbert and Louis XIV built a lot of foundations that you know France for today; even later non-democratic regimes such as the Second Empire (Napoleon III and Haussman) structured the Paris that brings tourists the world over…
The French revolution - that I know of - led to the invention of restaurants because rich people from remote cities came to Paris and wanted to live the fastuous life they envied from nobles. Social cleansing? Nothing of the sort, social exploitation as always, from where money and power came as always.
I've heard there's only ever 1 Mickey in a park at a given time, but I don't think it's true for other characters.
Can confirm, there’s only one Mickey, they time their exits and entrances and have a park coordinator (mostly women under the Mickey costume, by the way, because of costume size categories).
Perhaps part of a product, each supplier, and each changed spec should contribute to a unique fingeprint.
If you have a product which you keep calling FOO but has changed some spec in the new version (without hw change, perhaps you enabled some firmware option and now it can record 25 minutes instead of 20), it should get a new fingerprint. If it has changed a supplier for a chip, new fingerprint. And so on.
And aside from the fingerprint, you should also give all the entries that contributed to it (which when hashed in a structured function should give the same fingerprint), plus things like its production date.
Name="FOO", cpu.model="x-dragon-v5", cpu.supplier="Fukimata Japan", ..., fan.supplier="Fans-R-Us",...
Reviews then are tied to the product+fingerprint instead of just the product.
I work in data management for large companies and I can promise you the problem is not a technical one. Which organization has the maturity to actually follow-through with quality data for such systems? Which legislators have the power to enforce such an approach?
vianneychevalie commented on LLM Powered Autonomous Agents lilianweng.github.io/post... · Posted by u/DanielKehoe
I think that in the end predicting words is non optimal , most things we want to do are things that are related to the internal representation of concepts that exist deeper in the layers.
I at least do not want to predict the next token, I want to predict the next concept in a chain of reasoning, but it seems that currently we are stuck at using the same representation for autoregression we use for training.
Maybe we can come up with a better way to construct these chains once we understand the models better.
Edit: Typo
A chain of LLMs can work in that regard, using intermediary prompts that feed answers to the next prompt. Make the LLM build a list of sections, then make it fill them with examples, then make it enrich the text. Maybe a last layer for error correction, clarity, removing mentions of "as an AI model", etc.
> Healthcare costs in the US are absurdly high both on relative terms (things are way more expensive) and on absolute terms (more of the same things is needed because the American population is relatively too unhealthy for what you'd expect in a developed country with similar demographics). You need to ask why relatively inexpensive stuff like insulin is so much expensive in America than say, Germany or the UK.
Must be that law of economics that says the more you make of something the more expensive it gets.
I know you're joking here, however, increasing marginal costs products are well-know and studied in microeconomics.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingmargina...
vianneychevalie commented on Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus rachelbythebay.com/w/2023... · Posted by u/picture
> Then I got lucky and intercepted a few of the zanier ideas while he was still under the stupid-high load, and we got some other people to step up and start spreading the load around.
it’s also up to that IC to recognize they are being overworked, and spread that load themselves. And if they’re having trouble doing so, surface that to the manager and get help.
That’s the core of the issue: when you’re so overworked that you (a) don’t have the time to reflect upon it and thus (b) don’t realize that the situation is terrible.
It’s a not a new trope, Jack London’s Martin Eden addresses the inability of physical workers to gain culture and reflect on their situation simply through the exhaustion they’re subject to.
vianneychevalie commented on Banning words won’t make the world more just theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/furrowedbrow
We call them a chimera?
vianneychevalie commented on Where has all the Chartreuse gone? everydaydrinking.com/p/wh... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
Artificially limiting production on a secret recipe liqueur is a great tactic for turning what could be a commodity into more like a Veblen good. The opposite has happened to Campari, where you can now buy a ton of different red-hued craft aperitivo with similar flavor profiles.
The article missed out on mentioning the best Chartreuse-based cocktail though: The Last Word. It’s absolutely sublime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_word_(cocktail)
A friend working at Campari told me their strategy is to cut off supermarkets for a couple of years to focus on bar and restaurants, before an increase in pricing and a comeback in a couple of years.
For tab containers, maybe there's a "good reason" that no other browser has that feature, cause it is confusing both as a concept and in use, and doesn't separate the rest of the stuff (or even the stuff in intends to separate when it's cumbersome and peculiar to use). Like, shared history, or inability to have separate extensions, defeats many of the purposes people use profiles for - which is an actual complete separation of things.
I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this daily use-case for me.
It's an easier account management tool.