Micoloth

I found this comment very insightful - and it's interesting to see that it is downvoted even if there are zero replies trying to make some counter arguments..

It’s a great question. As soneone who has been fascinated by Wolfram Aplha for a loong time (and might or might not have thought about cloning it), i think that growing up i ended up realizing that Mathematica in the real world just doesn’t… Do much?

Maybe i’m just missing something. But it looks like nobody is really using it except for some very specific math research which has grown from within that ecosystem from the beginning.

I think one of the basic problems is that the core language is just not very performant on modern cpus, so not the best tool for real-world applications.

Again- maybe i’m missing something?

Suuper cool! I agree with the other commenter that having more scientific fields would be very interesting as well. Maybe you could filter them by topic

I mean.. Does window have it now?

Debatable at best..

That’s what i though as well

Why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why we aren’t all quietly drifting into space every time we sneeze.

Newton didnt really explain the why.. Einstein added something much later, but it might be that really we still don’t have a clue.

All we can do is measure how fast it happens, very precisely

Interesting!

How would you say your project compares to Arroyo?

What do you think of the Burn framework? (Honest question, I have no clue what I’m talking about)

To be fair-

I was agreeing very much with both parent comment and yours, until your edit.

I loved Euphoria.

graphicness - Was it graphic at all? how big everybody's feelings are - Were their feeling that big? It seemed so obviously.. - Maybe obvious to you? This might say more about you..

I found it brilliant and at times ironic and self aware and very explicit about what its target is (I think it's very much for teenagers)

So i don't know if it is a good example of this trend at all.

Just to say how nuanced these things can be, i guess...

Ha. What an amazing collection!

It hits so many right sposts. Thanks for sharing it

A difficult quest indeed, but not impossible. Sometimes teams like this do exist.

You know the ones. They founded the trillion-dollar companies you hear about and became billionaires themselves

I have a few questions - Is this inspired/based on the Blender node editor package?

Some stylistic choices look very much taken from there, even if some other details (eg font) look much more primitive

- If it’s not based on that, why?

Blander has an Excellent Python-based cross-platform ui which is completely open source. I’ve always thought it’s a crying shame that’s not available as a package to build desktop apps. And I think it would be very good to take things from there, like their very mature graph editor

I think what you are referring to is the concept of “finetuning”. You use a pretrained network and add a (relatively) small set of new input-output pairs to steer it in a new direction.

It's widely used, you can look it up.

A more challenging idea is whether it is possible to reuse the pretrained weights when training a network with a different architecture (maybe a bigger transformer with more heads, or something).

AFAIK this is not common practice, if you change the architecture you have to retrain from scratch. But given the cost of these trainings, I wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI&co had developed some technique to do this, eg across GPT versions..

Right? I don’t know about this post (and comments) discussing this quote from the western point of view only, ignoring the fact that this is the whole basis of- and arguably explored much richly in- the entire western philosophy

Every time I read takes like this I think people forget why big brands exist?

Small business (or “lifestyle business”) vs big brand is often framed about being high quality vs cheap price, because in practice it often is. But in theory the two things are completely unrelated.

Yes fixing stuff is good for the planet. But big brands could offer customer service just fine if people wanted it.

Small business vs big brand is a problem of predictability. If you have many independent small businesses, NOT all of them will be good. It will be a mixed bag what you get in your area. OP has felt so fortunate with his local highly-skilled asian-owned small business that he felt compelled to write about it on the internet. Not everyone will be this lucky.

And in a world where information travels very fast (this is really the key point) this system is unsustainable, as there are really only 2 options: either people accept the fact that some neighbourhoods are served worse than others, or the take the car and make the travel up to the nice asian shop they read about on the internet, because that’s apparently worth it.

But, surprise, this second option doesn't scale. Because as soon as the nice asian shop goes viral, they realise they can’t keep up with the demand at all. And so they will probably refuse lots of customers. (Note, I’m not even considering the option they might increase prices)

In this sense, the derogatory “lifestyle business” comment makes sense, since I think it’s meant to highlight how elitist it is. It doesn't scale in the sense that it creates a race for who is able to cop the best option. When I need a sofa, I want to be able to “just” get a sofa. Simple and predictable. If the sofa is good quality, even better.

I think exactly the same.

This is what sounds most reasonable.

I wonder if we are (again) just carrying over some preconceptions about how humans do things, and instead Agi will come from a completely different direction..

Wow.. Really great work, finally someone is doing it!

Since I've thought about this for a long time (I've actually even made a very simplified version last year [1]), I want to contribute a few thoughts:

- cool that you have a Vscode extension, but I was a little disappointed that it opens a full browser view instead of using the existing, good Notebook interface of Vscode. (I get you want to show the whole Frontend- But I'd love to be able to run the Reactive Kernel within the full Vscode ecosystem.. Included Github Copilot is cool, but that's not all)

- As other comments said, if you want to go for reproducibility, the part about Package Management is very important. And it's also mostly solved, with Poetry etc...

- If you want to go for easy deployment of the NB code to Production, another very cool feature would be to extract (as a script) all the code needed to produce a given cell of output! This should be very easy since you already have the DAG.. It actually even existed at some point in VSCode Python extension, then they removed it

Again, great job

[1] https://github.com/micoloth/vscode-reactive-jupyter

And yet..

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment.

Unfortunately, the obvious economic incentive to effectively paywalling code through the Internet, is so strong that on this very website (that was supposed to have hacker mentality) most of the comments are in favour of it, because “you have to make a living”…

Yes, I think we are lost.

They sure as hell have no incentives to make Neural Network faster and more accessible, for starters..

(Considering they right now make more money and have more control, the less accessible and the more computation-hungry AI models are)

To be fair, this approach (claims to) only speed up inference, not training, so all the GPUs are needed anyway.

Genuine question (I'm not American): How much do you think this was intended?

On one hand, I really don't want this to sound like a conspiracy theory.

On the other hand, it is well know that in the Us, the Media is tightly controlled by private interests, with a clear agenda, on both sides. Nothing controversial about this. So I don't think many wide trends like this just "happen" without the people at the top noticing...

Furthermore, there are obvious, very strong incentives for the people with power to tighten the control of the population as much as they can, for all sorts of vested interests as well as because that's literally what it means to "govern".

This has been true as long as mass media as existed, and way before that throughout history.

So my honest question is. How likely is it that the distortion about "kidnap and murder of children" danger (which for an outsider, is an objective absurdity), was a planned and deliberate campaign?

Human systems invariably seem to become oligarchies

That's what I'm saying.. We seem to agree here :)

Only via regulatory barriers (..) can a monopoly be built.

This is, to me, an absurd idea. There are a lot of other very common, real-world barriers that exist...

I don't know what you mean by corporate welfare exactly, but yes, large established capitals are a barrier.

Physical assets are a barrier. Think factories, etc. A new entry cannot just "acquire" a production plant or a datacenter or an oil pipeline. Hence having worse economies of scale, etc.

Network effects are a barrier, especially in tech. Think social networks, etc.

Control over Media channels is a barrier that huge corporations in various sectors employ very effectively.

Established guilds and cartels are a barrier. Nothing socialist about those.

Knowledge itself is a barrier, and in my opinion an underestimated one. If a firm recruits lots of very technical, hard to find knowledge on how to do a process, they'll become the best at it. Well, nothing wrong with that if they are useful. But if they congregate too much knowledge in disparate domains, without sharing it, and have the capital to defend it, they become basically unbeatable. This brings more capital, and that is how a monopoly is formed.

If anything, you should regulate that knowledge should be shared. Because that's definitely not what happens with the knowledge that actually matters.

Only via regulatory barriers (..) can a monopoly be built.

Honestly, this is such a weird option to me, that I wonder if there are people out there who gain from intentionally pushing this propaganda.. (probably yes)

I have a counter argument:

Monopolies drive the cost of items and services up. (besides having all the other negative effects that are always caused by a huge concentration of power in the hands a non-democratic institution).

And as we see and know very well, e.g. by looking around us, monopolies or (at best) duopolies are always the outcome of unregulated markets.

More or less in all sectors, and especially in this very globalised world, where economies of scale drive profits up for those who put them to effect. This of course includes the Financial sector.

So, I'd say the exact opposite of you statement is true.

I'm replying to your comment because you statement is kind of the prototypical statement of free-market champions. I'm sure this conversation has already happened tens of thousands of times.

Still, do you think you can share any more insights about how can you possibly think regulations are the reason of a higher cost of living?

OH boy does this arricle resonate with me!

I didn’t grow up in a religious environement, but both the mindset you grew up in, and your personality, could very well be me.

I’m stll very much struggling with this, btw.. I *KNOW* paying for software is good because time is more important than money, but I still don’t know where to draw the line..

Should I pay 30€ for ChatGpt? And Photoshop? And Netflix? And then what? The stuff adds up…

For what it's worth, here's my worry about this:

- Micro-fees for the web are a good idea. Because "If you don't pay you are the product", etc.

- BUT, they HAVE to be micro-fees. Because of the fact that, EVERYONE uses the internet now. Literally almost all of humanity. To charge 30$ per Month (like ChatGPT does) for such a basic service, would bring an Incomprehensible amount of money in the hands of a few providers, which would make them even more dominant than they already are, I'm afraid. Technologically, we have now 0 problems to implement a solid micro-fee system.

- "But"- you say- "The point of making people pay is to bring back competition, right? If a lot of people pay, more companies will compete to offer the same services and prices will go down". Well, I don't know about this. To me, it seems like the Internet is Intrinsically a monopolistic affair... VEry few companies have the know-how and resources to operate at Google Scale. Networks effects are a thing too (think reviews on Google Maps, etc), and so on...

So I think, in the end, like many of the other basic utilities, prices will have to be controlled by regulation...

3d touch is NOT simply "faster to respond".

The whole point is that, it enables a whole new type of interaction, that is: press to get into cursor mode -> hover over a word -> press again to select it. This is simply impossible without 3d Touch.

The fact that I've see this exchange many times ("But cant you long press to get a cursor?" / "Yes but 3d touch is faster"), even from people defending it, is so fun to me because it means the technology really was misunderstood, and explains a lot about why Apple killed it...

Idk if you can tell, I'm a fan of 3dTouch.

Honest question.. Why?

I’m always thinking that a db that can also run business logic would be the ultimate backend solution for crud apps.

I know there are several options to do it, but I always assumed Postgres did not support it.

What do people have against it?

I agree with the Functional style part, but hardly disagree with your second point.

Because of the fact that, keeping comments over blocks of code in sync with the code below requires the same exact amount of effort (arguably less) as keeping function names (and ideally, documentation) in sync with the code inside..

Except that, if the second one is not done, that is a lot more dangerous than the first- exactly because, every time you define a function, you are declaring an abstraction, and if the abstraction changes silently, that's where the real mess begins.

That's what ends up happening in my experience. (See also sibling other comments about the proliferation of flags in a function signature)

(Needless to say, I strongly resonated with the OP as I also love linear code with comments, but in the end it's also a matter of taste..)

The other comments are right in saying mobile gaming is huge.

But, if you are referring specifically to the new GPU with accelerated raytracing, I want to add something more.. Remember that for many years now, every innovation that Apple has produced has been secretly developing towards AR!

For this reason it makes perfect sense.. Raytracing is SUPER important for the kind of rendering needed to make AR/VR look realistic

This sounds great and exciting!

Since it was explicitly developed as a pgvector replacement, i feel it would have been useful to have a more in deph comparison though..

- what does it do specifically to achieve the speedup, other than rust? Does it use a better similarity search?

- what are potential drawbacks, other that it’s still in development? Missing features? Things that it does differently?

Nice!

Last year, i did a very similar thing..

Recently, I found this [1] library by Tiangolo (the same guy who developed Fastapi) which addresses exactly the biggest problem i had w that setup.. That is, the code duplication between the Pydantic and Sqlalchemy schemas

Just FYI!

[1] https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/

Crazy seeing this here!

I searched for this last week, as I'm playing with building the same thing but as a VSCode extension.. See here [1]

I found another similar project on Github, but it was from many years ago. Yours did not turn up..

Very interested in finding out how you implemented it

[1] https://github.com/micoloth/vscode-reactive-jupyter#readme