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This proiect is not Al (vibe-)coded! And it is sad that I even have to say this.
Still, as a full disclosure, with this proiect I wanted to find out if and how LLMs can be used to learn a new programming language; rust in this case. Each line of code was written by myself; it contains all my beginner mistakes, warts and all. More on this at the bottom of the GitHub page.
NeoVim front end for electron
Get Your Robot
Jumpcat: Clipboard buffering for OSX.
What Hinton’s Google Move Says About the Future of Machine Learning
Not C++ or Python, but lua with lots of stuff: torch 7 [[http://www.torch.ch/]]
The greedy algorithm bears some resemblance to boosting in its repeated use of the same “weak” learner, but instead of reweighting each data vector to ensure that the next step learns something new, it re- represents it.
I guess that most people however would not think of this interpretation of greedily pretraining deep networks :). (I wonder if mbq had this in mind).
In the same article your point about good models of the input is mentioned, too (only copy&paste a small part of the paragraph):
Unsupervised methods, however, can use very large unlabeled data sets, and each case may be very high-dimensional, thus providing many bits of constraint on a generative model.
The 2006 paper is really an amazing read in my opinion.
As far as I understand most essays/reports from 'rather neutral' (yes, difficult to get an unbiased view) institutions here in Germany usually tell the story that nowadays a small minority lives on people's efforts, and this minority is well above welfare level.
Is there any 'proof' for your starting sentence? (countries don't last when ever more people rely on relative fewer producers). After all, automation levels increase ever more, and thus productivity, too. E.g. the number of people working in farming has shrunken dramatically (at least in first world countries), yet we have overall more than enough to eat ('overall'!). The fact that any country runs out of money is not an argument: Did Spain's productivity suddenly (or maybe also slowly) fell to zero? Did the people in Spain suddenly all lose their ability to work and think?
And then these workers will cease doing unpaid work (which e.g. encompasses stuff like running theater groups, looking after the elderlies, ...)? Of course they'll do, because now they have to work on underpaid jobs to 'prove their worth' to society and get enough food on the table for their families.
It is widespread thinking here in Germany that those on welfare are 'keeping the welfare coming in and acquiring luxuries; they don't seem particularly motivated to work'. It is 'supported' by numerous shows (for whom? for those on welfare?) on TV.
It is on the other hand clearly refuted by a huge range of studies from various disciplines (economics, social studies).
What it says is basically that for a BIG of 800 Euro (per month per person) in Germany there are only 20 billion Euro's missing (per year), that's nothing compared to e.g. what's currently spent for banks and other fancy things without blinking an eye (or in other words: our society is already working with such a high productivity that a BIG is already possible) The tax system (and social welfare system) needs to be changed completely, but the level of taxation will stay the same.
In Germany, according to the Federal Statistical Office (https://www.destatis.de), more hours are spent for unpaid work (100 billion hours) than for paid work (60 billion hours) (as of 2009). This gap seems to keep increasing.
Also in Germany, numerous (sorry, can't find a citation right now) polls showed that about 80% of the people still want (and will) work more or less fulltime with a BIG. Funny enough, also about 80% of the people think that with a BIG the _other_ people won't continue to do so and instead become (or are already) lazy.