Psychedelics definitely aren’t causing your brain to malfunction. If anything, most of the research around neuroplasticity and using psychedelics for traumatic brain injuries and dementia and such show that they seemingly kick your brain into an overdrive mode where it is able to form connections at a much higher rate than normal.
Fair enough, I like the “operate way out of spec” language much more than “malfunction” but you obv have a point.
As someone who has met Vishnu more than a few times though I’ve very very rarely come back with a Lovecraftian dread (though the rest of the ant metaphor in OP not that bad at all)
At Open Source Summit Japan, Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds talked about Rust in Linux, Linux maintainer fatigue, and AI’s future role in Linux and open-source development.
I think that is overly simplistic. Embeddings used for LLMs do definitely include a concept of what things mean and the relationship of things to other things.
E.g., compare the embeddings of Paris, Athens, and London to other cities and they will have small cosine distance between them. Compare France, Greece, and England and same. Then very interestingly, look at Paris - France, Athens - Greece, London - England and you’ll find the resulting vectors all align (fundamentally the vector operation seems to account for the relationship “is the capital of”). Then go a step further, compare those vector to Paris - US, Athens - US, London - Canada. You’ll see the previous set are not aligned with these nearly as much but these are aligned with each other (relationship being something like “is a smaller city in this countrry, named after a famous city in some other country”)
The way attention works there is a whole bunch of semantic meaning baked into embeddings, and by comparing embeddings you can get to pragmatic meaning as well.
In the southeast at least best BBQ is always the dude cooking in a kettle drum thing in the Publix parking lot. I don’t eat meat anymore and have lived in California for a long time now (which has other great food but not really much of a BBQ culture) but I still think about those Florida parking lot meats from time to time.
the human race as a whole isn’t a distinct intelligence
I don’t know it’s quite that simple, (some) cognitive scientists and Marvin Minsky might disagree too. Pedantic asshattery aside, AGI might be an intelligence that’s so fundamentally different from our own ego/narrative/1-person perspective intelligence that we have trouble recognizing it as such.
It’s funny how people always cite Einstein on this letter but not Hannah Arendt. Given the subject matter I’d think of her as a way more relevant expert. Probably more about overall pop culture fame than sexism but interesting nonetheless.
Sorry missed these comments before but I’d HIGHLY recommend reading The Human Condition, great work that goes into the different types of human activity (labor, work, and action)
I’m betting you aren’t involved in hiring? The number of engineers I’ve interviewed with graduate degrees from top universities who are fundamentally unable to actually write production quality code is mind-boggling. I would NEVER hire somebody without doing some panel with coding, architecture/systems design, and behavioral/social interviews.
It varies on who does the interview but I push for much simpler than leetcode type stuff- e.g. not puzzle problems but more “design a program that can represent a parking structure and provide a function that could be used for the ticket printer to determine where a new car should park, as well as one that can run upon exit to determine payment”
Then if they are actually solid we can dive into complexity and optimization and if they can’t write a class or a function at all (and esp if they can’t model a problem in this way) it’s really obvious.
That scares me. I also have family members who got it decades back and for the most part they all still have to use glasses.
I have ridiculously bad vision (-9.5 contact prescription) and bad astigmatism already, thankfully every optometrist ever has told me I’m a horrible candidate for it so I’ve never even had the possibility in my mind.
Where is this? California has strict regulations about the actual beach access. So e.g. Pebble Beach is in one of the most beautiful locations in all of Northern California, ridiculously expensive and nearly impossible to play as a mortal, but you can still go drive around 17 mile drive through the course and walk along the coastal trails for free.
Very interesting article and background. My father’s side of the family is all from Mysuru but also long roots in Udupi and Manipal. I’ll ask if anybody are Tulu speakers, I don’t think so as I’ve never heard of it.
Lol this site is gold. Even for the good apples, the descriptions are wild.
Most would expect this clown-urine soaked frog testicle to taste like an unhealed surgical wound since each bite resembles a freshly picked scab. However, most (whoever they are) should prepare their expectations to be shattered.
And this is why I fear Cthulhu (startrek.website)
Linus Torvalds on the state of Linux today and how AI figures in its future (www.zdnet.com)
At Open Source Summit Japan, Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds talked about Rust in Linux, Linux maintainer fatigue, and AI’s future role in Linux and open-source development.
No one but society loses (startrek.website)
Don’t forget the exposed ceiling (reddthat.com)
Cave Bear (mander.xyz)
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What happened to The Militant?
I decided to check out The Militant, a socialist news site, and it looks to be supporting Israel. I could be wrong and I hope I am, but wtf?
What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?
what are some of the best purchases you've made ?
I bought cast iron pan which I think is the best ever purchase I made.
If zombies are supposed to go after brains, then why do they almost always end up tearing into the abdomen and other parts instead?
Seriously, are the zombies too stupid to find the brain? Are they too weak to crack open the skull?...
West Virginia cop gets six months for cruelty to his assigned police dog; dog's body never found (web.archive.org)
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/former-chapmanville-police-officer-sentenced-for-cruelty-obstruction-in-case-of-missing-k-9/article_e30cb5fe-7f4b-11ee-b0d8-3737cf4a8a05.html
Very few people realise how environmentally devastating this game is. (lemmy.world)
What a time to be alive (lemmy.sdf.org)
Do you have any "quirks" when you're drunk?
I’ll start. I have to be careful drinking around other people, because I can get intensely motivational....
Bro, come skiing (lemmy.ml)
You Don't Surf (i.redd.it)
Oldie but a goodie
Respect to anyone still managing a library of mp3s (lemmy.world)
Long Island's Sand Filled Condom (startrek.website)
Consistency (lemmy.world)
Yummy (lemmy.world)
Damn it Jim, I'm a Sexy Doctor, not a Sexy Scientist (i.imgur.com)
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