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In all the non-murder tasks you can perform, you've already been made econonically obsolete. Your economic residual is merely alignment arbitrage, eg solving CAPTCHAs, murder, etc.

Stringbot is coming for the last remaining jobs!

Thesaurus whack-a-mole, lol.

Who decides what "reality" is, and how big the gap is? Will Exxon permit you to decide reality on climate change? Will the Catholic Church let you decide reality about abortion?

Humanity can't even agree on the existence or non-existence of various Gods, so we're far from a universally agreed "objective reality" to compare with. Inevitably the most powerful forces will get their way (Exxon etc), regardless of any idealistic notions of truth-seeking.

This is what happens when we defund (and worse, devalue) soft sciences like Philosophy class: a bunch of people making the same 300 year old mistakes all over again! :-\

The other caveat is that it only works if you're embedded inside a solid object. ;)

If you're in free space, the surface can't shine its IR differently in different directions, so under FLIR it will just look like the average ambient temperature. This is no better than existing (cheap and light) space blanket camo systems.

Floyd-Steinberg dithering preserves 100% of the quantization error by shifting it onto neighboring pixels (unlike eg Atkinson dithering which only preserves 75%[0]), so the lack of drift I guess isn't too surprising really.

As for tracking error across multiple color axes, I would naively assume it's a 3-vector (maybe in a linearized perceptual color space, or maybe RGB) and the error term the encoder minimizes is just the vector magnitude?

Very cool. I think it's best understood as a coding exercise for the embedded CPU vs a 'real' video format, but no less impressive IMO

[0] https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html

Yes. Unfortunately many people are reading this thinking it's a FLIR invisibility cloak.

FYI Ukraine already has FLIR invisibility cloaks (fancy camo space blankets): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfdF3iIwoX4

This is thermal cloak, explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM2RJi4mRZ0&t=52s

Notably it only works after the heat flow settles back down to equilibrium. If you're moving, it doesn't work.

  >There's a model and corpus of data that converges to approximate reality better than any other model.

How you define "better" exactly is where you smuggle in your messy human value judgements.

I say "better" models are ones which more efficiently convert the entire world to my particular brand of evangelical Christianity. And who are you to say otherwise??? :-/

"No no, I mean accurate not better." Sure. And your model inaccurately denies the existence of Yahweh...

  >Besides, in weights there are no real incompatibility can happen, all is unified with same math chain through architecture. Different set of local minimums/maximums can have different strong/weak consequences but nothing incompatible.

How do you know you're not stuck in a local minimum, always re-generating the God (or worse, the Demon) configuration and thinking it's universal?

This argument that incompatibility is impossible has an easy counterexample by looking at loss of coherence between two networks. You can still mash the weights together (so they're not "incompatible" in the basic number crunching, sure), but the resulting neural net is meaningless.

By "incompatible" I meant not in a software sense, but like two logical axiom systems can be incompatible.

This quietly assumes that "representations" of reality only encode neutral objective facts (that can be objectively judged, good luck finding a judge everyone agrees on), and "representations" does not encode intentions and value judgements, ie internalized training logic.

But that leaks in, and of course it does! If training only rewards "objective truth" we might expect that sort of neat ontological cleanliness, but we all know real training goals are more complicated.

There doesn't appear to be a bright clear distinction between objective facts and subjective values/intentions in neural networks. The distinction is perhaps illusory, just another of our preconceived notion about the nature of thought...

Fascinating to contemplate, thanks

I almost wrote 59.999 seconds too, but I figured someone would nitpick that the timing often won't be that accurate or will get coalesced. ;)

I should have said, you almost always want to use the randomly staggered timers on initialization, not just when the exact timer interval matters! It's also important to test electricity or backend outages, which can unintentionally synchronize all the timers.

What if we ultimately find there are two different, internally consistent but mutually incompatible, representations?

What if one of them is a Republican and one is a Democrat? We already see this in some systems today.

More worrying, what if one is (for lack of a better word, what we might describe as) God and one is the Devil?

The corresponding concept in gears is to avoid meshing two gears unless the number of teeth are co-prime, because this will cause uneven wear patterns. If the tooth counts are coprime, then each tooth will contact every tooth on the other gear the same number of times, effectively "wear leveling" the teeth.

In this instance, one fix is to fire the timer every 59.XXX seconds, so it will naturally drift out of phase with the minute hand of the clock.

If work needs to be done exactly every 60 seconds, this is fixed by having a WAIT(RAND(60e6)) microseconds during the first timer initialization, so if 10,000 units start simultaneously they don't try all at once. This is good practice in most (all?) systems. Hint: test power and infra outage/reconnect, which can unintentionally sync timers.

This is why many software will do automated updates every 17 hours: 17 is coprime with 24.

Classic "thundering herd" mitigation tactics.

Edit: Tempting to blame IoT, but (since this is news) I don't think anyone knew there was something to fix here. We have the tools however.

Still seems wasteful to build everything like a brick shithouse.

  >THE WORLD’S RADIATION MAP, MEASURED BY ITS PEOPLE

I'm waiting for the one by others, but thanks.

The GRClok datasheet[0] gives its operating range as -10 to 55 °C (14-131 °F). Not sure environmental conditions for the integrated Calnex unit, of course.

Considering that the original fan has an airflow of 16.8 m^3/h[1] (vs 9.4 for Noctua), I'd say you're right about "plenty of headroom."

[0] https://safran-navigation-timing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023...

[1] https://www.delta-fan.com/Download/Spec/EFB0412HHD.pdf

From S06E11 "Tapestry": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypInFIUNYD0

Great breakdown of every Q episode, including this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTze8n62M3M

Godspeed mon capitaine

Landslide dams are closely related, and they can cause damage both upstream and downstream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Didr6W1zSSs

I've been trying to start The Starlost, and now I have the motivation to. Thanks

Oof, this one hurts.

Everyone knows him as Chekov, but I loved him as Agent Bester on Babylon 5, where he played a ruthless and complex villain character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72fJb7a-s8

RIP Walter

"There'd be fewer cases if you stopped testing..."

Now I'm imagining: "Lincoln was assassinated with a Beyblade, very sad. :("

Thanks for the laugh today

I know, carry around a keyboard-sized keyboard? How preposterous. :)

Everyone knows keyboards are carried in a hefty sack, like an old baron with their gold coins...

Don't worry, I was assured all the problems are because gambling is illegal, not gambling itself.

Extremely cool!

Another commenter mentioned[0] that often ergonomic keyboards aren't columnar, but staggered. What if for the pin layout, instead of this:

    1  1  0  0

It was this?

    1  0  1  0

Then the keys could connect with at least two wires in either columnar or 50% stagger, using the same pins. Each key has a maximum of six neighbors instead of four, but that shouldn't be too much trouble.

Naturally if you expand to 6 pins it could support 0/33/66% stagger positions.

More cool, I think, is that it doesn't have to be aligned? You could imagine shifting the pins and mechanism over from top to bottom, so it's a 20%/70% stagger. Maybe that would make it structurally stronger, like how bricks are overlapped?

Very inspiring project, thanks for sharing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240718

Another commenter mentioned[0] that often ergonomic keyboards aren't columnar, but staggered.

What if.. for the pin layout... instead of this:

    1  1  0  0

It was this:

    1  0  1  0

Then, the keys could have at least two wires connected in either columnar or 50% staggered layout, using the same number of pins. Each key has a maximum of six neighbors instead of four, but that shouldn't be too much trouble I think.

Too crazy?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240718

Brain rewards new thing over familiar stimulus. More at 11

Same reason it was popular, then overused, the first time. It'll happen to you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ

  >abliterated models where the superficial instructions like not describing Taiwan as independent are burned off

Does this help with issues like including security vulnerabilities when you say you're in Tibet? I understood that this was burned in at the training level, not just a layer of censorship added at the last minute.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-researche...

The person being quoted here, all they did was design new cosmetic plastic for the front-end of the existing Chevy Silverado (the GMC Sierra is a rebadge). That employee literally had zero say over how tall the vehicle is.

Who said all spelling reforms are the same? Nobody. My point is that saying English has had no spelling reforms is inaccurate.

You're loudly agreeing with me. ;)

If they had said English has had no centralized or universally accepted spelling reform, then I'd have to agree with that statement! But they said English has had no spelling reforms, and that's clearly untrue.

English never had a spelling reform? Noah Webster might beg to differ...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/about-us/spelling-reform

Maybe you meant a "complete" spelling reform, but hardly any reform is 'complete' if you look at it closely.