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just a black screen for me with some labels floating in space

very nice!

edit: no love for the secret life of circuits under electronics, tho it is a fairly recent book

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720143

its not copying the content, its just a recommender system that links to the video stored on youtube.

Thanks Andrej, look forward to it.

would love to see a write up on this too. my own tech experience has been all back end stuff and doing everything myself, so tying into "the way things are done online" aint so easy. and my patience for reading 3-4 books on it is close to zero.

its hard to believe that this world even exists, that people out there run around thinking these sorts of things. but it does and they do.

US courts stated that humanism is a form of religion... i bet that gets overturned pretty fast if this takes off.

guardslop?

ps: if this technique gains traction and starts to hurt llm's, govt will just declare it illegal, as they always do in situations like this that hurt big$

or better yet, "illegal without a license" !!!

I dont know any worker that intentionally chooses a job they dislike unless they need a survival job, and people doing survival jobs generally put it low effort. Programming requires high levels of effort and concentration and it would'nt be my first choice of survival job. If ALL the interesting parts of a programmers job disappear, then I guess the job is over unless you like typing prompts all day.

can this be done manually by setting constants till the images look rectified? last time i played with opencv for this it didnt do a very good job at automatically calculating the k's. im hoping an algo comes out that lets me do disparity without calibration one day :)

if youre complaining then youre part of the problem buddy. get out of my way while i work on the future^TM /s

you may not be aware of it but society largely runs on the results of maths, clueless indeed. and regulated or not, if there are financial savings to be made anyone can be shoved under the bus.

I respect Grant for doing things his way and in this video making an earnest attempt to analyse the situation from many perspectives. Well done.

I always believed he paid them well because his factories were an offense to their skill-set and he had to compensate them for being so bored

at the beginning of the 20th C when ford implemented the moving factory line, experienced mechanics disliked the new way of doing things but did it because it payed well. they werent using a lot of their skill set and their job could be replaced relatively easily. many many industries in our current economic system will be facing this now. if you can tell me which ones are immune im all ears.

imagine your a post grad maths student looking for hard problems to solve, and theyre all solved..

So it seems mathematics is a perfect playground for LLM's to show off their abilities. Is this the end of mathematics done by humans? probably.. but that still wont stop some people from going into the field, just like whats happening to computer programming. I find it strange that the two fields LLM's are built on are the two its trying hardest to replace humans in. Why will we have to teach mathematics / computing to the majority of kids at school anymore if we don't need a workforce competent in those skills? Will we just teach kids how to type fast so they can get the prompt in asap?

edit: also ive noticed when i ask llms maths questions they tend to introduces overly complicated things that arent relevant or make the problem harder. so maybe we will teach kids the basics of maths and how to interpret results? i am unsure.

re-read this a day later and ofc it still makes sense to me but really most of it is barking up the wrong tree, focusing on solutions (which we already know) rather than outputs. if i could delete it i would but oh well.

when israel and america both went on their insane run through gaza, venezuela and iran, the second thing i thought after feeling sorry for those people, was feeling sorry for israelis and americans. its going to be a rough ride getting out of this for both nations' people.

edit: and indeed the west in general, that has largely said and done nothing while watching events unfold.

ive been thinking -- if i have a 3x3 matrix [1 0 q; 0 1 r; 0 0 1], when dotted with x, those rows are planes in 3d with normals n1=(1 0 q), n2=(0 1 r) and n3=(0 0 1). plane 3 is parallel to the x-y plane and 1 unit up. plane 1 is tilted by q and parallel to the y-axis, plane 2 is tilted by r and parallel to the x-axis. the intersection of those planes (i.e. the solution x) when calculating Ax=b gives an output vector b sitting in 3d space at b=(x+qz, y+rz, 1*z). since we always specify z=1 we have b=(x+q, y+r, 1). in 3d this is a linear shear because we are translating proportionally by z but because z always equals 1 in this case we effectively get a translation in 2d.

so as the other 2 helpful commenters also just said: 3d shears using linear algebra degenerate to 2d affine transformations when z=1 (or w in 4d)

nice intuition there, this comment prompted me to consider a simpler example, 2d embedded within 3d. does the 2d plane (embedded in 3d) go through the 3d origin (where 0 maps to 0) and is thus a linear transformation in 3d but a 2d affine transform in 2d? it feels like this is the case?

Nice hopeful commentary there, I do appreciate it but...

> You work less than your counterparts centuries ago...

do I?

I'm not against the tech, I love the tech, I'm just not buying the marketing this time around.

In the 50's there were predictions that in 10 years no-one will have to work again because of the advances made in automation, like the washing machine for example. Any predictions of less work this time around are a complete joke.

Yeah don't steal my stolen stuff.

Games I cant play on Linux are kernel level anti-cheat shooters. Anti cheat should be handled on the server anyway, no one should be installing that on their machines. Everything else works great!

Math is not dead, it (and i guess programming to a lesser degree?) is something people do to better themselves, akin to meditation. Just because AI can meditate (it cant) doesnt mean humans will stop meditating. We may become irrelevant in that AI can generate results and proofs that it doesnt need us for, but then AI will make itself irrelevant to us! The slippery slope slides both ways.

> The USA can use the money saved for its own citizens (possibly even lowering their taxes!)

I was feeling miserable reading this thread until I saw this, thanks for cheering me up.

Yes ofc its a world problem, and guess who the world is not going to be happy with?

Yet another good reason for me to steer clear of the language.

define livelihood, it involves a standard and cost of living that is different for different people