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As I recall, a few years ago (in the era of first generation LLMs), a professor in Texas used an anti-plagiarism tool that flagged more than one-third of the class using AI in an exam, and used that finding to give them a failing grade.

If memory serves, one student objected strenously and ran the professor's own work (published 10 years earlier) into the same tool and it flagged that work as AI-generated.

EDIT: HN item from June 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36215823

Take it for a spin.

"unbiased", in the world of realpolitik, means "biased in a manner to further my agenda and not yours".

A lot of discussion about A2A here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631381

In theory, the more people use the product, the more OpenAI knows what they are asking about and what they do after the first result, the better it can align its model to deliver better results.

A similar dynamic occurred in the early days of search engines.

Thanks for the ref. Not sure why that particular user got banned. A search just now on RedNote using the hashtag "gay" returns 8.7k posts. The results show plenty of men in skimpy clothing with uncovered nipples.

What is impressive to me as a software developer is that the RedNote engineering team added a Translate item to the system, at scale, within a matter of days. It works flawlessly.

I was on RedNote just now. I saw some gay content that had been there yesterday as well, and has not been removed.

BTW, the RedNote userbase in China is 70% female, similar to Pinterest in the US. That may be why there's an affinity with a portion of the Tiktok userbase. The RedNote users are not into politics (at least were not). They cats, cooking, fashion, interior decorating, travel, sports.

That would be nice, to gambol in a lush, sunny meadow, perusing a leather-bound volume that we read in the original Greek or Sanskrit.

Unfortunately, I fear we will instead end up sweaty and dirty and bloodied, grappling in the parched terrain, trying to bash members of a neighboring clan with rocks and wooden clubs, while a skyline of crumbling skyscrapers looms in the distance.

The wiki says Doomretro is 180,000 lines of code. That seems high to me, without ever having looked at the code.

I have worked on simple games in the past which are in the low tens of thousands LOC. I understand AAA games can be several millions of lines of code. Minecraft is reportedly 1.8M.

However, Chocolate Doom (the precursor for Doomretro) is around 50kloc, according to [1]. Wonder what changes were made to more than double the code size.

[1] https://medium.com/@atroche/a-quick-comparison-of-the-size-o...

The article mentions how global cities outside the US are building out urban rail systems.

Here's some more detail about China, which has the two largest transit systems in the world: Shanghai and Beijing.

In 1993, Shanghai had one line running 2.7 miles with 4 stations. Less than 30 years later, the system had 15 lines, 500 miles of track, and 500 stations. [1]

And in that same time frame, the Beijing subway system was expanded, from 2 lines in 2002 to 27 lines and 500 miles of track, with 13 million riders per day in 2022. [2]

Also in that time, 30 other cities in China got subway systems as well.[3]

In 1993, China's per-capita GDP was $537. By comparison, per-capita GDP in the US was 50 times larger (about $23k). Since then, the gap has narrowed. US per-capita GDP is now 5x of China (66k vs 12k).

China demonstrates that, even with small GDP, if you prioritize the needs of the people over entrenched commercial interests, it can be done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Shanghai_Metro [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Subway [3] https://qz.com/1010911/a-beautiful-data-animation-shows-the-...

By the way, that is a great movie. Or do I say "was"?

I have used Microsoft Office for 20 years and Google Docs/Workspace for 15 years. I much prefer the Google suite over the Microsoft one. I prioritize quality of user experience, ease of use, performance, platform portability, freedom from constant intrusive software updates, and not messing with the built-in Emacs key bindings built into every Mac (Various MS Office programs inconsistently disable those key bindings). YMMV, esp with UI and UX, but for me there's no contest.

Regarding support, that is not an issue I have never needed it for Google, but occasionally have needed for MS Office. So I can see why if you are using Office you would value that.

To be clear, this is just a rumor passed along by Bindu Reddy. who I consider pretty well informed. Anyone have more detailed sources?

Here's a compelling visualization of the functioning of an LLM when processing a simple request: https://bbycroft.net/llm

This complements the detailed description provided by 3blue1brown

Intriguing comment that I don't quite follow. Can you please elaborate?

Also I have seen some papers on Arxiv from FAANG companies that have a half-dozen or more co-authors, and almost all of those authors have Chinese names.

This is flimsy propaganda with a ham-handed political agenda. This video is not alone. Multiple "observers" have been predicting the imminent collapse of China, starting 25 years ago.

Here's a list of 25 such predictions in an almost yearly cadence: https://x.com/rippinkitten18/status/1701411830642741348?s=20

In the meantime, China has outpaced most Western countries with steady growth.

One notable "expert" is Paul Krugman, who predicted Chinese doom a couple of months ago. Turns out he made a similar prediction ten years ago: https://x.com/NuryVittachi/status/1701400962957746544?s=20

For an accurate street view about Beijing recorded over the past 2 weeks, here are two random videos that show a bustling and prosperous Beijing, taken by Western travelers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFPAdqLKVRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC2sGM7CqmM

Arxiv paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.06184.pdf

Google Bard also gave a clear answer: https://imgur.com/a/8HGivir

They also censored critics of Modhi's government in India.

On Twitter, I never use to get spam DMs but now it is a daily occurrence. I never blocked anyone over 10 years but now I am blocking multiple people per day. I used to never see anti-semitic content, but now I run across it regularly (even though I don't follow similar accounts). I still enjoy interesting discussions on crypto and genAI tech/trends but that is probably not a broad enough audience to be sustainable for Twitter/X.

I have several different specialists I've had to see and the minimum wait is 3 months, usually 4 to 6.

Yes when I first moved to the US, people would greet me with "How ya doing?" and I thought they really did want to know. It took a while to understand that it was just a way of saying hello.

I'm told that, in China, a way to greet someone is to say: "Have you eaten yet?" 你吃了吗

You are not supposed to provide a detailed answer such as: "Yes I ate a breakfast sandwich this morning at 8 am".

Instead you simply say "I ate" (吃了) or "Nope" (没呢)

I am still a regular user, but it has become more of a chore than a joy. The lively exchange of ideas without agendas (or with less of an agenda) is absent. Instead I do get some useful information about tech industry trends by some stalwart contributors. Also my spam-and-scam messages have gone up by 10x.

I suppose I could make more effort to mine other sources like Medium or decentralized Twitter clones, but haven't yet done so.

I'll put up with the dreariness and annoyances of X for now, but the instant I find a better alternative, I'm gone.

"Secretly dreaming" sounds like a thought-crime.

In terms of real-world actions, the US has more 750 military bases in 80 countries, including 300 in Asia.

China has 8 overseas bases: one in Djibouti and the rest in islands near China.

China is definitely trying to advance its economic interests throughout the world, by investing in infrastructure in Africa and Latin America.

That's what every country does or aspires to do. It's just business.

Better transparent soft power that delivers tangible results for the local populace rather than opaque coups, mercenary armies, and funding dictators and warlords.

Please do! Thanks

Economic dislocation will lead to rise of angry/insane populists/nationalists (like Trump 2.0) in multiple regions. Already a trend, will get worse. One unfortunate but plausible outcome is catastrophic global conflict.

To avoid this, countries need to plan for and mitigate the social effects of economic dislocation, such as UBI. Unfortunately that ain't gonna happen. Brace yourselves.

Yes, Google launching .ZIP and .MOV domains is yet another sign of the moral rot at a once ethical company.

Yes it is my experience in the US -- but not across the world.

Last year, I was in visiting in Korea and needed to see a doctor. I randomly picked a name out of the phone book and asked my Korean-speaking friend to call and make an appointment. They said no appointment needed, just walk in. So I did.

The doctor saw me within 5 minutes of arrival. He did a physical exam, listened to my lungs, did a simple blood test and gave me a prescription. He then asked if I had insurance, to which I said No.

So he said: "I'm sorry I wlll have to charge you." I went out to the front desk and got the bill. It was the equivalent of $12. In the US it would be $300 before insurance, and $50 after -- not counting the lab cost, which would be separately billed. And all this would take weeks or months to schedule.

I went to a Korean pharmacy with a prescription for 30 days supply of multiple medicines, which in the US costs me $200 with insurance. In Korea, the cost was $50 without any insurance. I had a similar experience in Portugal years back.

People in the US don't realize how screwed up the healthcare system is here. And seem powerless to change things.