I might be biased, because I moved back to Europe after 15 years in US with particular goal of having my kids being educated in their first language (and because I loved going to school so much), but I think homecshooling is insane. Schools are about education, but they are mostly abot developing a sence of civic engagement, social skills, new friendships, independence, meeting peopel from all social strata. Polarization in the US is because most peopel live in their own social echo chambers -- when little democrats and little republicans spend time in calssroom together, maybe it helps a little in understnading other people's point of view.

The way this guy is hammering the same point again and again kinda smacks of desperation. Yes, I've seen amazing coders with no degrees, but i have yet to see anyone without a degree knowing quantum field theory. And yes, quantum field theory has very limited uses and also yes, over 50% of people with degrees could do their jobs without a degree, but I wouldn't want a medical doctor that learned their trade on the job. Why does this guy needs to show his disdain towards people with degrees I don't know, but he seems to have a problem with that.

is to wipe my arse and wash me when I'm too old to do so myself. Because this is what is the really udignified part of being old and I would hate to impose on humans to do so... And sounds easier and less likely to go wrong than operations....

In addition about how technically unfeasible this is for various reasons mentioned above: by now we have learned how evolution works. They limited advanced chips and DeepSeek come with advanced methods. They tried to limit Huawei and it is stronger than even. You limit the chips and Chinese will learn how to make good enough replacements. And in 10 years their replacements will be competitive, while if you just let them buy the chips they would remain dependent on your tech.

You can go to "Customize GPT" and explain under traits and it should be polite and patient, but not sycopanthic, to never congratulate me on my question and to not ask follow-up questions. Then it becomes saner.

This could genuinely be useful. I often find myself paying $5 more for the same product on amazon vs retyping my address and CC number of umpteenth time. If an AI agent could do it for me, I would pick the cheaper option. (only as long as MC is willing to pick up the tab, when AI screws up)

If would be very cunning for EU to offer to host it for N years, fully fund its base operations and *shield it from any political interference*, i.e. own it but give it absolute and unrevokable editoral freedom.

I have never ever seen anybody exiting Performance Improvement Plan (and I have seen a few) and survive with a job. The sole purpose of PIP is to shield the company / institution from being sued for wrongful dismissal.
The moment you are on PIP you should be looking for a new job. No point even in trying, just cash in the last few salaries.

I work for a big national lab and I can make a few observations:

a) Postdocs that have already accepted a job are having second thoughts. Statistically speaking, the likelihood of being detained by the ICE with a valid visa is probably about the same as the airplane suffering a catastrophic issue, but for human perception this does not matter. US is just not attractive any more. Nobody wants to enter a country where you are looked up with suspicion. The fact that the salary just dropped 10% in EUR is also not promising.

b) You would be shocked just how much US research institutions rely on foreigners. It seems immigrants support both ends of the economic chain: slaughterhouses and agri jobs on one end and high tech jobs at the other with natives filling in the middle. There are grants for which you need to be a citizen and they are so much easier to get simply because there are so few of them.

c) The mood is totally depressed. We had cuts this year despite CR with draconiam further cuts next year. And I'm talking about physics, not sociology of woke people. Everybody is sniffing for an exit.

It is not more accurate than GPS. It is more accurate than " traditional GPS backup systems (like Inertial Navigation Systems or INS)" as per f'in summary on slashdot. INS basically means take accelerometers and integrate in time twice.
So, no, I'm not going out of bed for this.

I was decent coder before entering university. And I could probably pick up some skills and some maths along the way while doing stuff.

But to really understand how Fourier transforms work you need to go to college. And spend real time thinking about it vs picking something as you go along.

So, no, I would not recommend this to anyone who wants to be something more than a coding monkey.

At 20 tokes / second, you do 630M tokens / year, which at 630*15 has the value of $9450 which just about the value of the desktop computer you need to run this.

And while it is true that o1 is better than deepseek, it is also true that $15 is a heavily subsidised price. I'm sure it costs OpenAI more than $10k to run o1 for a full year, not to mention electricity cost.
The point being that AI can be commodified in the sense of enabling small outfits buying a bunch of servers and starting to compete with big guys by selling those access to those free models.

So, I think you're right that as a person, you are better off using o1 at $15 per 1M tokens. But if you happen to be the OpenAI CEO you should be worried about your business model.

I thought the same, but I think it is a bit more complicated than this. If every parking spot would have a charger attached to it (which will undoubtedly happen in 40 years, but not there yes), then your argument hold and even better, overnight charging is fast enough. But if I go on a vacation and the closest charger is in some random mall that has nothing of interest to (something that has recently happened to me), then fast charging is indeed a very useful feature.

I work as a Physicist in a National Lab and we were recently given fedramp compliant access to chatgpt including the thinking o1 model and I've been trying to use it. And, it is indeed getting useful.

First I gave it the full problem and it wasn't able to get very far, although it got the basic intuition about the problem right. But then I chopped the problem into small pieces -- I had a vague idea on how to do the calculation and was stuck at the first step. Admittedly, I wasn't really working very hard, but my PhD student spent one month looking at it and got sidetracked many times. O1 did manage to get a crucial insight. Surely, it is a standard math technique that I've seen applied to in many contexts and chatgpt must have seen it in its trainings but the fact is that it got me on the right track in 5 mins. I could probably find it in the right text book or eventually work it out myself, but it would definitely take me much longer. So the next step is to lead it through the rest of the problem step by step. Will see how it goes, but whoever claims these things are not intelligent in at least some sense of the word is a moron.

You can be sure that people working on CLPS and SpaceX will be spared and those departments increased. Total putinization of USA.