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It's 4 months that I'm in Boston instead of a little village in the middle of Italy and there are literally 0 stray cats here (opposed to home where there are many).

The app seems really cool btw, I will download it for sure when I go back home.

Even if Ilya didn't really create this list I have a very good opinion about every paper on this page that I've read (most of them) so I think it's a great resource. Lately during my off time I want to do something related to AI research (which I am already doing full time atm so I need something light) and I am for sure going to read through this.

it's a lot less about what models and techniques and such you use, but how good your training data is.

Ah, the good old bitter lesson strikes again

Maybe I downplayed it too much but I really think this is still "in distribution" (we always have to remember that we are tech savy people and we influence the people that surround us). I see the value, but in my opinion it's not a generational opportunity, but a great acceleration. We are treating it like generational opportunity. That's why I say "everyone know there will be a crash, but noone knows how big that will be". The AI industry is not (in my opinion obviously) worth $ 391B [1] of added value.

[1] https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/artifici...

While I agree on the smell I think that the situations are really different. I am not an economist but I think that other than the situation of the huge amount of money in play we are in a really different case. The general user (and I have noticed it especially with today's WWDC) basically doesn't get any benefit from AI (neither LLMs, image generation or photo editing). They were promised living like in Wall-e in 5 years and they are basically still living the same life. White collar jobs slightly benefited from the LLMs and same with programmers (while many say that they can get huge leverage the public results of what software companies produce didn't get the same benefit). Everyone knows the market will crash, nobody knows how much.

In Italy they are really frowned upon by developers. They add 0 value. And it's not like "Oh, VC firms add 0 value to companies they acquire", this is really messed up.

Maybe they don't have enough racks. The news indicate that China isn't in a really good situation with GPUs, so probably they want to keep most of them for other stuff. Also because since the price is so cheap they probably want to use the other GPUs for stuff that has higher margins.

can you elaborate?

I mean... I don't really expect anything since Gemma 4 was released recently

bro I read this, opened the keynote stream and the presenter said "Agents in Gemini" HAHAHAHA

which harness are you using? pi? opencode?

Yeah but as a European I think we took the wrong route. I am from Italy, and until 2001 we had 5 years undergraduate programs only. We then chose to do 3 + 2, but we should have gone with 4 + 1 years instead.

I have a BSc in Computer Engineering and I'm finishing a MSc in Computer Science. The MSc has been useless other than for being able to start doing research. I could have learned additional things in 1 more year, without repeating most of the knowledge in the other year, and then start the PhD directly. Instead I did a MSc where for 1 year I mostly repeated old topics before starting working on really new things.

I think Masters should be highly specialized for people that after a Bachelor start to work but want additional knowledge for their position.

TLDR: 4 years Bachelors -> 4 years PhD is the correct route in my opinion. We messed up in Europe

From what I understood they admitted fewer people. The professors are worried about not having funds so they aren't hiring as much

In the comments many people are complaining that it's macos only, but one of the hosts say that they didn't just use screenshots to use the UI, but accessibility settings to see things hidden from what is visible on screen. So here's the reason... seems like that Apple's focus on accessibility will pay off and not help just people with disabilities.

as @goldenarm said just below here, I can't use Gemini Flash for how much it hallucinates. Gemini pro is quite speedy so I am good with using that. On another note, I really like deepseekv4 flash

This administration is so hilarious. Every day looks like an episode from The Office

your local library rents Nintendo Switch games???

I would suggest experts in interpretability (but everyone really) to go directly to the transformer circuits blog, where they explain their approach more in detail. Here is the link for this post: https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/nla/index.html

Also, if you have never read it, I would suggest starting to read all the Transformer Circuits thread, by reading its "prologue" in distill pub

Well, for some of these images for the first time I can't tell that they are AI generated

Hard disagree on this, I was coming here to comment that this is the first time I really can't tell that some of the photos are AI generated.

For me this one is (was, apparently it's not working anymore) one of the best ones. Gaussian Splatting SLAM, the best apper of CVPR 2024 https://rmurai.co.uk/projects/GaussianSplattingSLAM/ Also this one is very cool imo (triangle splatting), even if it's not interactive https://trianglesplatting.github.io/

I would really like to work on splat rendering during the PhD i'm hoping to pursue

I never thought this could happen, especially after the "Ghibli scandal". OpenAI has pulled a majestic business move. They got to allow people to generate Disney characters without issue AND will give 1 billion dollars to OpenAI?

Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos, and since they don't have to pretend they didn't train on their intellectual property anymore I'm really curious to see where this will bring us.

We should rethink copyright btw.

We already did this for Object/Face recognition, it works but it's not the way to go. It's the way to go only if you don't have enough compute power (and data, I suspect) for a E2E network

And your suspicion is right. The sad reality is that it's just a stochastic parrot, that can produce really good answers in certain occasions.

In the past month i was also considering to buy a Wii to play some games with friends, but i waited to see if the switch 2 could be worth it. Now i'm seriously considering the Wii.

449 usd is pretty disappointing. A steam deck is pretty much the same price but is repairable and i don't have to pay for an online subscription. And even the steam deck doesn't appeal to me much since i like FPS games, which are better if played from a proper PC. At this point i'm sticking with my Nintendo 3DS for gaming away from home.

I tried carrying a camera around, but honestly I didn't even remember about it most of the time. Taking the photo with the phone was easier, and they already were synced with my digital photo library. I would really like to carry around a camera and switch to a flip phone... but it's not for me unfortunately.

less. you don't know how happy I was when I read about the new Siri was getting delayed.

didn't headphone jack removal come also because the DAC (Digital-Analog Converter) made interference with the Cellular Modem? Or is it just propaganda I read about online?

why are you considering the switch? just AI features or did Apple's monopoly break it for you?