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It seems more reasonable to assume that Astra (among others) was deliberately trained to do that - over LLMs in general having an emergent capability to interpret sets of weights in a neural network.
Pronouncing never heard before words is practically impossible today. Sure it's irrelevant for native speakers, but it's excluding non native speakers the same way kanjis are excluding non native readers who didn't spent decades of their youth learning Japanese.
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That being said, I wholeheartedly agree on your points regarding Japan not being a multi-cultural country. And this, indeed, is rarely (if ever) mentioned in articles such as the one posted here.
Japan is an island. It has always been and not just from a geographical perspective. Its very culture and history are ones of isolation. The restrictions are not new, the perspective "Japan first" is not new - these have always been there, they are at the very core of the nation.
To the author: thank you, you made my day. It had been a very, very long time since I last read an article on the Internet that felt written by a human being - with humor, some poetry, and science.
We won't own games anymore, we won't be able to sell/acquire used games, we won't be able to play disconnected.
I'm curious whether Nintendo will be following the same path.
I guess we can now call you Mario 'Kart' Idraulico.
Oh wait.
Thank you CERN, that was a smart one.
Or, she stumbled upon some article or the very Wikipedia page about it:
That's something that you learn to do when you have a kid: suddenly, your periods of 4 hours of focus free time (for coding, exploring tech, whatever) during the weekend just _disappear_. You only get max 30 minutes of free time in a day; this is extremely frustrating initially; there is no boss to complain to, no meetings to blame, no solution but to deal with it. Progressively, you learn to switch tasks much more efficiently, by making regular check points, so that you can get interrupted any time and get back to deep work _quickly_.
Ibuprofen is forbidden for pregnant women in the last 4 months in France at least - and by "forbidden", I mean "strongly advised against in a case of self medication".
"The era of 1-bit LLMs"
Representing { -1, 0, 1 } can't be done with 1-bit, I'm sorry -- and sad, please let's all get back to something vaguely sound and rigorous.
Package management, package definition, interface definition, exporting, protecting or hiding components, feel like they were an afterthought, and as if specified by people who had absolutely no prior experience in other languages or actively ignored it.
There is no nesting of packages in Go. There is no selective visibility protection among packages except on the very first level. Exporting is such an afterthought that it is declared by the change of the first letter to uppercase. Local development of cross-modules was only introduced recently (workspaces) and is extremely primitive (no transitive replacement -- so workspaces depending upon other workspaces is not a thing, workspace-vendoring in the next release but will essentially conflict with mod-vendoring). This probably works with skilled and disciplined teams with strict linters and other tooling, and operating in a large mono-repository or on ultra small codebase. For others, it ends up in a large plate of spaghetti code with no help to untangle, and every single newcomer shedding blood, sweat and tears to wrap their head around a codebase which inexorably became monolithic by the invitation of the very language.
All learnings obtained from decades of building very large-scale applications in C++, of managing and publishing packages in Java or C#, was essentially put aside and ignored.
The sad but good news is that it's all being progressively rediscovered, but relearning from decades of nuget and maven for example, will take time, effort, exemplary humility and open mindedness.
As in the 90's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
A loop is a label+goto in disguise. You have to look at what's inside to understand what the loop is doing; you can't get a global sense of how it is impacting data without looking at what it actually does.
In functional programming, loops are replaced by constructs such as foreach, reduce, map or filter, to indicate right away how the body of the loop operate on the data it is scanning. It enables a functional approach to looping, where one first thinks about how data are transformed -- about the functions to apply on items and what is the overall output of the loop.
The perspective of spending 1 or 2 hours playing videogames or watching entertainment (movies, series) became terribly boring to me. I can only think of that as a loss of time: I wouldn't be a better person at the end of it.
Being able to better smash buttons, faster, at the right timing -- watching a story unfold on screen -- these used to be a great source of joy "before". But today, it seems all so dull; my intellect or my body doesn't get any better by doing that. Instead, reading whatever book on ML or even on an obscure programming language or technique, or spending time at the gym, or listening to a lecture on math or physics, sound so much more appealing to me.
I cannot spend time anymore just sitting, it literally upsets me. Anybody feeling the same?