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The 4 emdashes are in the headline, the introtext below the headline, in the author bio, and the site 's footer — all of them might have been inserted by the website editor, not the original author.
Same here.
Z.ai seem to promote 4.7 for smaller tasks, 5.1 for larger tasks (similar to Anthropic's recommendation for usage of Haiku and Sonnet/Opus models).
5.1 works for me already in the most economical basic paid tier ("lite coding plan"), unlike first release of v5 (5.0 ?)
Does "major number release" mean that it is actually an order of magnitude more compute effort that went into creating this model?
Or is this fundamentally a different model architecture, or a completely new tech stack on top of which this model was created (and the computing effort was actually less than before, in the v3 major relase?
That's what had to happen.
To bid for lucrative defense contracts (and who knows what else from which organizations and governments).
Also, competitors are much less constrained by safety constraints, and slowly grabbing market share from them.
As mentioned by others: Enormous amounts of investor money at stake, pressure to generate revenue.
Next up: they will replace "safe" with "lethal" or "lethality" to be in sync with the current US administration.
Seems that I cannot use GLM-5 via the API yet, because I am on the Coding-Lite Plan, the most basic paid tier.
I have also realized that I get faster and correct answer to the ascii_downcase question (even from GLM-4.7) when I submit to open.bigmodel.cn endpoint rather than the z.ai API endpoints (using the same API key). I get a mix of Chinese and Western characters in error responses from open.bigmodel.cn though, while the z.ai endpoint does only contain Western Characters.
(Just assuming that both websites are operated by the same company).
There is a well-known CLI tool for JSON processing called jq. I have just asked GLM-4.7 for the name of jq's built function to convert a string to lowercase. It is called ascii_downcase() according to the manual:
https://jqlang.org/manual/#ascii_downcase-ascii_upcase
However GLM-4.7 insists that is called ascii_down().
I tried to correct it and gave the exact version number, but still, after a long internal monologue, This is its final world:
"In standard jq version 1.7, the function is named ascii_down, not ascii_downcase.
If you are receiving an error that ascii_down is not defined, please verify your version with jq --version. It is possible you are using a different binary (like gojq) or a version older than 1."
GLM-5 gives me the correct answer, ascii_downcase, but I can get this in the Chat Window. Via the API I get HTTP Status 429 - too many requests.
How many Microsoft employees are working on Azure Linux in 2026 (full-time equivalents)? Github Project Page lists ~ 195 contributors today.
Is Azure Linux relying on community contributions, and MS employees do not write code, justt review, plan, coordinate? Or is it the other way around, Microsoft developers do most of the work, and occasionally accept a small PR and interesting feature requests from the community, here and there?
Q: There is not a single occurrence of the word "infer" (and related terms such as "inference") in the whole paper. Did you carefully try to avoid it or did this happen accidentally? Or is it the point of your paper?
(I encounter Type Checking only in my IDE when red squiggly lines appear under syntax errors etc. So consider this a layman Q)
4.7% of population, as the says so in summary of the study[1] , 3rd sentence. (1st sentence of second paragraph)
[1] https://www.drugtopics.com/view/pharmacy-deserts-prominent-i...
Long-term memory (LTM) consolidation is thought to require the prior establishment of short-term memory (STM). -- Authors show that it does not have to be this way.
I think, in Germany, only small companies (sole proprietorship businesses) will see your diverse skillset as an advantage.
Or one of those companies who are really desperate to hire someone for whatever reason. Perhaps you can _take over_ such a business (search for "Nachfolger gesucht unternehmen")
It is not clear what your problem is. Has the freelancing side-business dried up, or is the "main day job" gone, or both?
It is also not clear what you are looking for.
In of their release videos for the o1 -preview model they _admitted_ that it's hardcoded in.
Can Typst only produce PDFs? Are other output formats on the development roadmap?
(I know that pandoc is incredibly flexible.)
Read the article - This is not the EU commission or some bigwig requesting a hearing or an investigation.
Rather there was one delegate from one of the many political groups in the EU Parliament (which has very little authority and power) who made a statement .
In analogy to the US political system: This is not Mark Zuckerberg summoned to a Senate hearing. Rather this is someone of the House of Representatives making some weird proposal or claim.
Maybe I am oversimplifying here, but you get the idea.
Do you plan to write more "fundamental" AI papers such as "On the measure of intelligence", do you plan to refine your ARC-AGI benchmark again?
Some computer science departments (and their MOOCs) use Lisp Dialects "Racket" and "Scheme" as a Teaching Language . For example, IDE DrRacket has an innovative language preselection feature that allows students to start out with a "Beginning Student Language".
Roman Emperor Nero introduced these in the year 67 AD during the 211th Olympiad:
- Heraldry - Lyre playing - Chariot race with foals - Chariot race with ten horses - Tragedy writing
(He won all of these competitions, of course, despite having crashed during chariot racing.)
Maybe this was a review talk, designed for an audience of undergraduate students from various majors.
Google HTML/CSS Style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html
Who decides or sets the difficulty level of "reading ease" (which is a sortable metadata attribute on the search page) ?
Some classiications seem a bit ...nonintuitive. For example, the Autobiography of John Stuart Mill is classified as "very diffcult" whereas "The Tempest" by Shakespeare is classified as "fairly easy".
I would classify it the other way around, but what do I know, I'm a nonnative speaker anyway.
Once a week (at least!) some research group publishes another review paper to the cs.AI section on ArXiv. Look for new [papers with "survey" in the title](https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/?q=survey&rank=time&tags=cs.AI...). You'll get surveys on every conceivable subtopic of ML/AI.
There is a section "The Future" which talks about Artificial Intelligence (AI):
The author postulates that if computer scientists develop intelligent machines that can do all things better than humans, all work will be done by machines and no human effort will be necessary.
There are two possibilities: either the machines make all their own decisions without human oversight or human control over the machines is retained.
173. If machines _are_ allowed to make all their own decisions, it is impossible to predict the outcome and the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. The author suggests that society may become so dependent on machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of their decisions, eventually leading to a stage where machines are in effective control and turning them off would amount to suicide.
174. If human control over machines is _retained_, the average person may have control over certain private machines, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite. The elite will have greater control over the masses and because human work will no longer be necessary, the masses will be superfluous.
If computer scientists do not succeed in developing artificial intelligence and human work remains necessary, machines will still take care of simpler tasks resulting in an increasing surplus of human workers at lower levels of ability. Employed workers will face ever-increasing demands and will need more training, ability and conformity. Their tasks will be increasingly specialized and out of touch with the real world.
The author envisions scenarios where machines take over most important work while humans are kept busy with relatively unimportant work in the service industries, which the author finds contemptible.
The author acknowledges that the outlined scenarios do not exhaust all possibilities but indicates that if the industrial-technological system survives the next 40 to 100 years, individuals will be more dependent on large organizations and their physical and mental qualities will be engineered into them.
Technology is creating a new physical and social environment for humans that is radically different from the environments to which natural selection has adapted the human race and humans will either be adjusted to this new environment by being artificially re-engineered or through natural selection.
179. The author concludes that it would be better to dump the whole system and take the consequences.
(That was all summarized by ChatGPT. I have removed concluding sentences from some paragraphs containing deeply pessimistic motives of insubordination, enslavement, and extermination)
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A firehose of inspiration, and lots of directly useable tips and tricks. I was notetaking to the video, but stopped after 20 minutes (of 60) because I couldn’t keep up with the pace.
Many issues were explicitly excluded from in-depth discussion (e.g., when to switch to the Scientific Method in the design process; or diagramming), because these issues were out of scope or the talk.
Rich Hickey should write a book about all of these things.
interesting AI service . I had three free questions then it responded:
"Because we're committed to providing you with high-quality chat responses, which are computationally expensive, we require users to sign in or create a free account to continue chatting with Docalysis. Thank you for understanding!"
Colossal (2016) is a fun, underrated sci-fi movie featuring an alcoholic young woman impersonating a city-destroying fighter robot.
"> I find myself imaging what it would be like if my husband and I retire to Germany."
I think in case she has dual citizenship, she still has to pay into German social security. These payments are mandatory and contributions are accrued over a lifetime.
I think The minimum fee is about 150 Euros per month and family (even as an "inactive" citizen).
Maybe she can refuse to pay ("Hey, I've moved back to the UK / never moved to Germany"), but this also means almost? no pension payments later, and she can expect trouble when paying invoices for any German doctor or hospital.
Of course she can live off her wealth (gained in the UK) as a Pensioner in Germany but I think when she never contributed to German Social Security she cannot expect much. In this respect, Bookkeeping by German authorities is very accurate, over decades, to the penny.
I am German. Indeed the German population is quite old, and employers prefer young workers. I think other factors (or overlooked groups) to be considered are:
Many family men and women in prime working age are not willing to move. The housing market is stressed (rents are exploding everywhere). Often Middle-Aged Germans must do caretaking work for old parents, and cannot move for this reason.
Many non-family-starting Germans (from all age groups) are living in single-person households. Although if they are unemployed and able to move where the work is, many don't. Because of these people are prosperous, or are prosperous enough for a while. And they often have skills from previous careers. They just not need to take any unrelated job. So they can afford to wait and choose.
These highly skilled people in demand have enough wealth (savings and inherited wealth) and even enough income to get along, even though they _could_ make more money elsewhere. So they are also not on the job market.
Even if they did a retraining and pivoting, then many employers do not want to hire them permanently or not at all. Temporary or precarious jobs are the increasingly common here, no end in sight.
Maybe he _re-reads_ a lot of these classic books. Then he can go through them faster.
I speculate that he had read Brothers Karamazov in Russian (his mother tongue) before).
Your book is great. THanks for working on it for so many years (even bringing it to a second edition).