I hope Retatrutide pans out but encouraging people to hop on research chemicals when we already have drugs that can get lots of T2D people into remission is a stretch too far. Let's wait for the actual trials to be published and get as many people onto Mounjaro instead of grey market peptides in the meantime.

Also, if you want to use winforms for your painting app, you can have a look at the image editor of the IDE - https://github.com/ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker/blob/maste... It only has a few tools now, but i think it's a great base to start

This narrative is dangerous. If everyone points to their own limited influence and points fingers at the rest of the world, no one is going to act.

It's my primary browser since a few years. If you are talking about sponsored backgrounds, good luck finding any "major" browser that doesn't have something sponsored on it (opt-out).

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At least 10 to 15-ish years ago, I would actually be closer to agreeing;

You could get Cube or Chuck steak for 3-5$ a pound and potatoes were cheap as hell too. Toss some diced onion in and You'll have a good dinner.

How do I know? Well I grew up in a family where for... reasons[0] we were not that well off for quite a while.

Cube Steak was one of the big things we did for a family meal that Dad cooked. (Chili was his other favorite to make, which was also cheap to do for how much food came out of it...)

However the current prices of beef, I feel like you'd need to have a long standing personal relationship with a local butcher or rancher to make this true.

[0] - My mother's over-propensity for being truly Christ-like in her charity to family and others, also sending myself and my three siblings to Catholic school to avoid the then-absolutely-failed Detroit Public school system were major factors.

> Array accesses take an extra instruction? Either you're in a tight loop walking a tiny array and you don't do the full offset calculation per step, or you're walking over an array in RAM and you're bottlenecked by the memory bus.

I'm not a hardware person, but whenever I look at compiler output I find computed index accesses all over the place in the assembly. This would suggest to me that at least compiler developers believe these addressing modes to be important.

> Yes, that is totally fine. Either you know your target CPU, or you don't - and then you ask your OS for details.

So then my code has to choose between being hardware-dependent or OS-dependent? That doesn't seem ideal.

> "For example, if you are writing a kernel and want it to support all RISC-V cores" - NOBODY IS DOING THAT.

I'd hate to live in a future where linux distros need to ship a separate kernel binary for every random combination of RISC-V features. That said maybe the run-time feature-detection extension will be so widely supported in practice that this wouldn't come up?

AFAIK the only well-known LLM with no "conventional" multimodal encoders required for audio and images is Gemma 4 12B.

Also out-speeding them, and that was before high speed inference.

yeah but LLMs might be even cheaper than grad students

Dint think of it like that... That's scarry. I will check what you've built.

Han-unification was the result of Asian scholars, in particular the Ideaographic Research Group [1]

I have no idea what "Aristotelian essentialism" is supposed to mean, or if you are saying that the unification was that.

> And apparently the Japanese complained bitterly over the ones that were merged.

and

> but I was told that the Unified CJK thing adopted a different "philosophy" from the rest of Unicode [...] mostly due to vocal objections from the Japanese.

Seems to contradict each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Research_Group

bro the president suggested we nuke a hurricane and raped someone and is dismantling our natural resources, the bar is substantially worse than a couple months technical debt.

Your brain is not just a stochastic generator.

For greenfield projects LLMs don't need abstractions, but as the project gets more complex, the right abstractions save a pot on input tokens (less code to read) and reasoning tokens (less work to do to figure out the code), so they free the context window for higher purposes

Also I suspect that, apart from that, the results on smaller, cleaner codebases are better. LLMs degrade when following more than N instructions (where N depends on the model) even if the context window is not full yet; I suspect they also degrade when code has too many unnecessary concepts and details

Can you mimic intelligence?

If you add enough heat, pressure and (geological) time it becomes coal!

That maybe true at some point, but i don't think we are there yet.

I'm on tirzepatide, a competitive athlete, and have no idea what GP is talking about.

I assure you there are several Sean Byrnes in Sligo, and at least one in Drumcliff

As i said, most of the devs never enjoyed coding. But even on their place I wouldn't be happy. Now way less qualified people can do their work.

I tell anyone I meet to seriously consider what immigration will be like when anthropogenic global warming will get stronger. I'm neither pro/against immigration but I know many people are scared by immigration (as is demonstrated in many EC countries by the progression of far right parties).

I also tell them to remember that food prices and insurances prices will inevitably go up.

And I won't much more that that because everything else fails (even the death of 1000 persons in my country during this years heat waves just make people say "bah, that's life")

So in Western Europe we're fucked by first having heatwaves (and fires everywhere) and, indeed, every field around me is yellow instead of green...

And then, when the AMOC shall start running amok, we'll be forever in extreme cold.

Where should I flee?

Past performance does not guarantee future returns.

We don't need AI to figure it out. It's been researched to death already. Go vegetarian, abolish fossil fuels, buy less.

The problem is that way too few are willing to change their habits, and legislators have near-zero incentive to enact unpopular rules to help mitigate the problems. AI isn't going to change any of that.

But the difference really does matter and is not just a case of "whittling down" what intelligence really is.

We have known for a very long time that computers and machines are much faster than humans, more accurate, are scalable in certain ways that humans aren't, and they don't tire. I think most people who are not in the "AI cult" would agree that LLMs and modern generative AI are really just an extension of those faster/more accurate/more scalable and never tiring traits. But there does seem to be (and I'm sure folks much smarter than I have quantified this or described it better than I can) a fundamental difference in how humans think, especially as it applies to what true "understanding" really entails, and for the ability to think up truly novel and unique things that are not just a rejiggering/recombination of training data. I believe those skills really are at the heart of human cognition, and as impressive as LLMs are in replicating what this looks like, there are plenty of "LLM failure modes" where it's clear that LLMs lack a true understanding of concepts or the ability to generate useful, completely novel ideas.

Isn't generalization of solutions what JEPA is trying to solve?

statistics doesn't matter to the green mob. They're brainwashed to believe it's the doomsday

You asked for examples, for a technology that we're still building. Maybe you can see the issue with that?

Anyways, people benefitted greatly from Newton's laws of gravity, even though we still don't have a quantum-compatible set of laws for it. The laws of gravity are still incomprehensible for people, but the approximation that we've observed is still immensely valuable.

loaned from German, where it's originally a way to say buttocks, literally "sitting flesh". If you have more Sitzfleisch you can sit for longer. Both in the literal sense (a bigger butt makes sitting more comfortable) and in the figurative sense (having the mental ability to sit for longer, get more desk work done)

In my part of the midwest scortched is correct. People say their lawn is scorched by the sun during droughts.