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Comment Re:Or, counterpoint, it stole somebody else's work (Score 1) 53

It is in that context that I said “it would be simpler if Levent was not an Anthropic employee” because I felt it would be inappropriate for an Anthropic employee to author OpenAI’s work. Importantly it was admitted that internal Anthropic models had been used in their proof of Euler blowup; I therefore felt I could not consider Levent to be an independent academic.

ROTFL this shows he's definitely thinking of protecting the company, not thinking about pure academic work.

Comment Re: The statement from the researcher to cries fou (Score 1) 53

I like this part:

I would like to be clear about what I am not claiming. I have not seen OpenAI’s proof. I do not know what their model did, or how. I do not know whether our data was used. I am not accusing anyone of anything. I am stating what I was told, when, and what was proposed to me.

Solid mathematician with solid logic. He only presents the facts, nothing more, nothing less.

Comment Re:The latest New Shiny Bandwagon ... (Score 2) 59

Reminds me of when every webdev was extolling the virtues of Ruby to whoever would listen.

Ruby on Rails is the best dynamically typed language available for Webdev. Python has more developers, so if you build on RoR, you might need to train some people. If you want a statically typed language for webdev (usually better on very large projects), C# as a language is great, but the ecosystem around Java is better.

Wtf is the point of Rust at the to-the-metal level when by definition most of what you do will be unsafe memory wise?

Rust is useful when you have to work with incompetent programmers, which is most of them these days, especially those who write kernel drivers. If you encapsulate the driver accesses in functions or classes, then it's not that big of a deal. Encapsulation of some type is important though, you don't want to spread GPIO accesses throughout your code, that's sloppy redundant and repetitive.

Comment Re:Now I want to go (Score 5, Insightful) 38

It means the LA critic establishment hates the museum, that's why they write like that. Critics in LA form a weird kind of hierarchical establishment, and they have some power because they can get quoted in news articles.

"Good at getting quoted" is an orthogonal skill to "being a good judge of art," and it's apparent that Lucas did not appropriately kowtow to the establishment in the way necessary to get promoted. The critics can't outright say it's bad, because if it's popular, then people won't trust them.

Comment Why (Score 5, Insightful) 38

All the works on display were chosen for their ability to tell a story, frequently in a single frame, Hobson told members of the press on September 2...

and

I left the Lucas without a clear sense of how the museum is positioning itself or, frankly, without learning much about anything beyond what I already knew...." wrote Maximiliano Durón

It's positioning itself as a display of art that tells a story, frequently in a single frame. I would give Maximilliano a break if he'd written his article on September 1, but he wrote it on September 3. That's on him.

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 115

China was communism, was a dictatorship, but is no longer since roughly 1990.

China was never communism (it was socialist, moving towards communism but fully aware they hadn't arrived yet, just like Russia).

China does have a dictator. He's been killing his rivals.

In China, anyone can consult with a modern barefoot doctor if they need to, but they can't get more than basic healthcare without money, including money to bribe the hospital for an appointment. There is constantly crowdfunding to help people see a doctor.

Comment Re: Projection? (Score 1) 269

It is not the fault of the entire world that the US of Awesomeness does not teach Geography in school. I was not even 10 when I learned all the map projections

American schools also teach map projections before age 10 (at least, they used to). I'm not sure where the uproar is coming from.

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