Pharmaceutical research (i.e., the search for new medications) is also (and has been for decades) disproportionately funded by America. Europe and a few other countries (e.g., Japna, South Korea) do also contribute, but their contributions are consistently a much, much smaller portion of their GDP.

They already have that. The Youth Unemployment Rate is so high they've stopped even publishing fake numbers, because any number low enough to publish, would not be believable.

Yeah. The Chinese economy is facing some "challenges" at the moment.

I don't know if that's going to work, given that the youth unemployment rate has gotten so high they've stopped publishing numbers for it, because either they'd be too high to publish under Chinese law, or else no one would believe them. Granted, that's not tech-sector-specific, but a *lot* of those unemployed young people are college educated, and STEM fields are quite popular over there. Employers may in fact be in a stronger negotiating position than the prospective employees.

It's amazing these things memorize some text and some image motifs and can read English with semantic prediction, obey even structures for executable code creation, and emit coherent English in topic with so few parameters.
You could not code most of those and even apply the most advanced compression and have the result fit in a dvd. And yet there you are managing it.
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This is very hard to explain or imagine. What am I missing???

Great writeup!

And don't worry, they probably used vi, it's optimized for low baud rates...

Flash would have to be DC powered.

In which case you get presented with a form in which to enter your payment credentials.

It's not okay for Facebook to rely exclusively on ads that are behaviorally targeted. Facebook must offer a choice between ads that are behaviorally targeted and ads that are not behaviorally targeted.

It's not okay for Facebook to rely on the Morton's fork of either payment or ads that are behaviorally targeted. Facebook must either offer a choice between ads that are behaviorally targeted and ads that are not behaviorally targeted at the same price or not offer a free service at all.

In case others are interested in looking it up: In the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), paying changes it from "consent" basis to "contract" basis.

Broadcast television has 3-minute ad breaks. Attempting to apply the concept of a 3-minute interstitial (or "ads with countdown") to the web environment would violate the Better Ads Standards published by the Coalition for Better Ads. Meta Platforms is a member of the Coalition's board.

Even if iTunes runs fine stand-alone, I haven't seen evidence that connecting a device (iPhone or iPad) also runs fine. Wine emulates user space; it does not emulate drivers. Granted, last I checked was a few years ago. When did this start working?

Your examples are not convincing.

You talk about summaries, but you don't define what a summary *is*, and you have no way to measure how well a purported summary is produced by an LLM, relative to some standard. You're just wishful thinking about the usefulness at this point in time.

In actual fact, a summary, however reasonably defined, has certain properties such as describing the content of some text in fewer words than the original. That makes it a kind of lossy compression algorithm. The problem is what the algorithm chooses to not say when it produces a summary. Since it doesn't say it, you the reader don't know that it exists, and you don't know to ask for more details about it. So the summary is actually worthless, but it is worthless in such a way to hide its own worthlessness from you.

Example: 1) A unicorn walks with red riding hood in the forest. A blue gummi-bear wolf hybrid appears and talks to her.

2) One sentence summary: It's the red riding hood story.

3) You read the summary and move on, but never ask about the unicorn.

There's a world of difference between a reference design and an actual finished hardware product manufactured at scale. I'm not up to date on factory pricing but I expect that reserving a production slot at some factory like foxconn would cost on the order of a million, so their funding so far is off by a factor of at least 10, since they also have to pay their employees for at least a year etc.

Kickstarter is full of startups that don't understand hardware manufacturing.

Can you explain why determinism is crucial? Not all systems are the same, nor should they be. I can see an argument that timestamps and source paths should remain embedded. From a security point of view, you won't be able to simply hash the binary file directly, you'll have to know what the file format is so that you can mask out the bits. But so what? Security practices should adapt to the developer needs, not the other way around

That is not the mainstream belief in the industry. Read Sutton's bitter lesson, and realize that Peter Norvig convinced everyone at Google that simple models and a lot of data always trump more elaborate models.

The trend is not for mixtures of experts, which people liked in the 1990s. The trend is to let the data magically solve the applied math modelling problem, There will be a reckoning, but it likely won't be in your or my lifetime.