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It does mean that this will have a drift problem if it's just trained on the idiosyncrasies of model fine tuning. That's fine! But it is something to be aware of.

I'm basically of the opinion that if agents can't write your programming language, that's a problem with your programming language.

I think there's a germ of a good idea here, but really this needs to be data that is presented in a way that encourages human thought and interpretation and not something claude predigests and interprets _for_ you. I found the whole tone as it's executed incredibly off-putting and cringe inducing.

The problem right now with something like this is you're trying to nail jello to a wall. People haven't figured out what an agent is yet, and trying to crystalize what people happen to be doing right now means in a few months, you're going to be obsolete.

There's so much wrong with this comment. First, middle class _by definition_ did not have large estates that earned incomes for them.

Second, it's weird to throw in an "unfortunately" after pointing out that the only thing that enabled this was exploitative labor practices (including slavery!)

Third, most homeowners do not actually start a business and use their property to earn money.

Fourth, the home doesn't have a negative value. It has a resale value often quite substantial, and you are living in it while you're paying all those maintainence costs.

People made fire for thousands of years before they understood what it was.

Almost every single statement in this sentence was wrong. It was founded as the Sacrum Imperium -- literally the Holy Empire. "Heiliges Römisches Reich" was a later German translation of the Latin term for it. Charlemagne explicitly had himself crowned as the emperor. It was never in any sense a republic and it never pretended to be.

The Roman empire was large and diffuse enough, and enough people had local power that it was becoming increasingly difficult for Romans to hold power by force alone. At some point, you need _just enough_ people who feel like they have a stake in "the system" that they participate in supporting it rather than tearing it down.

The Holy Roman Empire considered itself a successor to the Roman Empire, so in this case, it is an exact translation.

A _lot_ of greek literature survived via the Byzantine Empire and through Arabic translation, though.

There’s a big chance that excavation could find deeply heterodox stuff, I think.

Heterodoxy (or really, orthodoxy) wasn't really a thing in 79ad, and you're not likely to find much of it in the private library of a wealthy Roman's vacation home. The only forbidden work you're going to see from that era is stuff critical of the emperor.

I'm not sure what you expect to find that would completely transform our understanding of the time period. The most likely discoveries are going to be filling in details about things we already knew. This period of time was already pretty well documented. Even if we found something amazing like some of Aristotle's lost works, we basically already know what they were and (roughly) what was in them. Really the most interesting and useful finds would be more mundane things like household records, and personal diaries.

You don't need SOTA models for all tasks, and being able to do more routine tasks at something like 10% of the cost and 70x speed unlocks LLM use for things that are just unthinkable now (bulk classification tasks, real time speech interaction, etc)

Do you think Apple locks in _current_ prices?

Data centers do not trade on 100x earnings, and if you believe that they should, then there are plenty that don't have rocket ship and social media companies attached to them.

Hypochlolorous acid, otherwise known as "swimming pool water"

The articles have been unclear about this: Does this let attackers unlock a stolen iphone, for example, or is this just about jailbreaking a phone that you own and control.

This isn't AI...It's a behavior tree. Calling every decision-making system "AI" is like calling a flowchart a neural network. What you're describing is a behavior tree: predefined logic, predefined responses, no learning, no inference, no model.

This is literally AI. A behavior tree is AI, all of those things are AI. It's just symbolic rather than neural network based.

It's not "easier", it just forces a more guess-efficient strategy.

We had 3 kids, one with an epidural and induced labor and the other 2 were natural child birth, no medication at all, and my wife much preferred the natural child birth -- all of them at at a hospital "birthing center", with a five minute walk to an OR if needed. She was more present emotionally at birth, we were able to walk out of the hospital with our baby a few hours later. She was practically bedridden for a week after the induced labor with the epidural.

Obviously, I'm only a spectator, but the overall experience seemed way less traumatic and stressful for her with the natural child birth, working with midwives and nurses rather than doctors.

They were originally sold at a loss, then became per-unit profitable at some point, and now they might be eating a loss on them again. But they lock in hardware prices years in advance.

This is why Apple locks in supplier prices years in advance.

The IPO price for SpaceX was _delusional_. The price now is delusional. Especially since it's so dependent on the US government for revenue and he's done everything possible to irritate the party that's about to take over the federal budget.

Statements like this are just totally detached from reality. AI products are incredibly popular, even amongst people who say they dislike “AI”.

Maybe that acronym is tainted, but the technology isn’t going anywhere.

Yeah, but there aren't ones that will give you the _entire stack_ in less than a second from a glance at the side of the deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer among many others.

We've forgotten how to build pyramids.

Luxor in Vegas is way more complicated than the egyptian pyramids were.

the wild thing about this is that _we have contemporaneous records of how they were built_. They know the names of architects and managers. There's no mystery to it at all.

There are actually "marked" decks you can buy that come with an iphone app that tell you exactly where every card on the deck is by looking at the side.

Yeah, a "perfect" shuffle is known as a faro shuffle and it's the basis of a lot of magic tricks, but it's a weird looking shuffle and it sort of ruins the tricks once you can recognize it.