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a modest ~200-300x speedup with compatibility mode

marcelroed is modest, this speedup is not. Good work.

entry-level 17e starting at 700 Euro

Which is 30% less than the original iPhone accounting for inflation.

iPhone 1 launched at 649 Euros in France in 2007 money, or about 980 Euros today.

Given inflation and the increased utility of the smartphone, we're almost certainly at the lowest cost per hour of use ever for most people.

What does 'organizing information' exclude?

The disagreement here seems to be a confusion between the pure model behavior and the behavior that users experience, which is the model wrapped in a harness. It’s normal and natural now to refer to the whole system as ‘the model’ informally, even though that is technically not accurate. That ship sailed a while ago.

Since the LLM is now designed to run in a harness, it’s really not even wrong any more.

Apart from the ports, that’s roughly the AppleTV hardware. A macOS or Linux port to that would be a cute thin client. Not gonna happen, but cute.

Some Americans say ‘a quarter of X’ and even after 30 years I can’t remember if that’s before or after hour X.

There's an up-market brand for everything:

https://www.reef.com/collections/mens-best-selling-footwear#...

In the context of weight lifting, or neuromuscular demand, a one rep max is very high intensity exercise. In the context of metabolic demand, it is not.

Your tone is very aggressive. Not necessary.

Going for one rep max is intense. If it weren't, you could get a better max.

Now cryptography is used by governments and corporations to protect themselves from us.

Just in case you're not kidding, I'll remind you it was always thus. The Nazi Enigma machines were not created by libertarian anarcho-punks to distribute The Whole Earth Catalog.

Correct. Hence "the price is zero".

Author still normally transfers copyright to the publisher. That's what gives the publisher the right to distribute copies and charge for them. By default they do not.

If I sell a novel to Simon & Shuster, and assign the copyright to them as part of the deal, I can't sell the same novel to HarperCollins under the same terms. I can't sell my movie to Disney AND Sony.

This is the same, but the price is zero. You can take or leave the deal at that price, and you'll probably take it for sufficient academic prestige points ('impact factor', visibility, etc).

By the way, some publishers such as IEEE explicitly allow you to post preprints for free download, eg. at arXiv and on your own web site.

paying out reviewers

Reviewers are not usually paid.

Y’all aren’t running your agents as root?

We already had YOLO9000.

Postgres etc are more complex than Redis, are they not?

Does your argument assume you already have a database, so you might as well use it for your cache mechanism?

Your Paper C does not need to cite Paper A unless you are discussing some aspect of it that Paper B is not. Otherwise you inherit the A citation via B.

Spamming citations is unnecessary.

I suspect that you’re both right in the sense that ‘aligned’ is an important component of ‘superior’ from the vendors’ viewpoint.

Amen! The existence of 'helpers.js', 'utils.cc', makes me twitch.

Would you like me to outline some concrete steps for dealing with the struggle?

In the early 2000s I often saw juniors and students make staggeringly deep class hierarchies. The equivalent of:

Shape::Polygon::ConvexPolygon::FourSidedConvexPolygon::Square::BlueSquare...

"Intro to OOP" lectures/articles made a deep impression on some people in not quite the right way :)

Yep, I used an example where the provenance value was obviously large to make it very clear.

Both timestamps are useful in different ways. The early-as-possible hardware stamp is best for reasoning about causality, while the later-and-full-o-jitter middleware stamps are good for compensating for that inevitable jitter.

Time is one of the hard problems in robots, because they are inevitably but non-obviously distributed systems.

Robots are annoyingly, wonderfully difficult.

No, it’s not the only important thing. The complaints about it should tell you that.

People care about provenance a lot.

Whether it’s a drawing my daughter did of her mother, a Picasso napkin sketch, a worn 1960s Stratocaster, or an blog essay, the provenance is value on top of the correctness of the item.

“… the kind of thing AI can’t produce”.

Many similar claims have not aged well.

We’re deep into ‘no true Scotsman’ territory.

Ironically, the way to change this is by voting. One election at a time, we can trend towards the better or worse.

Same can be achieved with a tiger.

I was using Linux for work while Linus was still in Europe.

All the large US tech companies are also global. Cuts both ways.

With exceptions. Linux being the most obvious example.