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> You’ll take these low wages and be happy about it or I’ll import a foreign worker who will be happy about it. And if they complain, I’ll have them deported.

I was digging into this recently with ChatGPT. I’ve loosely followed the progression of ML and NN over the past 20 years, but struggled to put it into context of where an LLM lives. The big inflection point was the 2017 Attention Is All You Need paper [1].

  Artificial Intelligence
  |
  +-- Symbolic / rule-based AI
  |   +-- expert systems
  |   +-- search / planning
  |   +-- logic / knowledge representation
  |
  +-- Machine Learning
      |
      +-- classical statistical ML
      |   +-- regression
      |   +-- decision trees
      |   +-- SVMs
      |   +-- Bayesian methods
      |
      +-- Neural Networks / Deep Learning
          |
          +-- computer vision
          +-- speech
          +-- Natural Language Processing
              |
              +-- Transformers
                  |
                  +-- Large Language Models
                      |
                      +-- chat systems
                      +-- multimodal models
                      +-- tool-using systems
                      +-- agents

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

Having recently read both of Annie Jacobsen’s books — _Nuclear War_ and _Biological War_ — I’m much more concerned about a bioweapon than a nuclear one.

Her conclusion to the latter book comes out and says it, paraphrasing here:

> Nuclear war is terrifying in its destruction, but the chain of command limits the risk of a rogue actor. Whereas bio weapons can be designed and manufactured in relatively low tech environments with equal or greater magnitudes of impact.

Apollo has native support for virtualized displays, which is handy for a headless server… I just switched this weekend from Sunshine so I didn’t have to go buy a $10 dummy hdmi dongle to fake a display

hardcover.app is a great alternative. I switched early last year and have been very happy with it

I love the idea of installing high resolution cameras in the fridge to monitor the ice maker to feed into a vision model that renders digital ice to the exact position of the real ice on the fridge’s giant screen

Why are you using Jira and not GitHub issues?

That was a persistent conversation with ISPs when I was building a white label WiFi product (competitor to Eero).

Some ISPs wanted us to pin to their servers in our app to have the best possible results (we refused) while others wanted us to use their servers because they offered 10G service and none of the other servers had that much throughout. So their true 10G line would be limited by the server, not the line.

Have you tried Actual budget + SimpleFIN as a bridge to get your transactions out of banks?

I use that to track credit card spending and my checking account.

Then you can connect an mcp to do analysis of the data from one place if that’s what you want