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ndru

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  • Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options

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  • But it didn’t though. Old apps work just fine. There are plenty of reasons to complain about Apple - but the way they changed architecture twice and did so with impressive backwards compatibility both times is not one of them.

  • Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios?

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  • I’ve previously argued that current gen “AI” built on transformers are just fancy predictive type, but as I’ve watched the models continue to grow in complexity it does seem like something emergent that could be described as a type of intelligence is happening.

    These current transformer models don’t possess any concept of truth and, as far as I understand it, that is fundamental to their nature. That makes their application severely more limited than the hype train suggests, but that shouldn’t undermine quite how incredible they are at what they can do. A big enough statistical graph holds an unimaginably complex conceptual space.

    They feel like a dream state intelligence - a freewheeling conceptual synthesis, where locally the concepts are consistent, while globally rules and logic are as flexible as they need to be to make everything make sense.

    Some of the latest image and video transformers, in particular, are just mind blowing in a way that I think either deserves to be credited with a level of intelligence, or should make us question more deeply what we means by intelligence.

    I find dreams to be a fascinating place. It often excites people to thing that animals also dream, and I find it as exciting that code running on silicon might be starting to share some of that nature of free association conceptual generation.

    Are we near AGI? Maybe. I don’t think that a transformer model is about to spring into awareness, but maybe we’re only a few breakthroughs away from a technology which will pull all these pieces off specific domain AI together into a working general intelligence.

  • If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?

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  • Squeezing a metal cylinder out my chute sounds a lot less pleasant than just pooping poop.

  • What ongoing projects are you working on?

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  • A long list of refurb and land work, but my main focus the past couple weeks has been getting a kitchen garden growing in my new place. It’s been a few years since I’ve had my hands in the soil and it feels great to be growing again. Just a few beds for salad and greens right now, with a few new fruit trees, canes and bushes. I’d love to get my hands on a rotovator/cultivator to get some bigger bits of land in cultivation, but there’s limited cash and a long list of expenses.

  • Ireland issues travel warning for US

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  • The warning is specifically for trans folk.

    The government's website issued guidance for transgender travelers, saying that U.S. ESTA and visa application forms require travelers to declare their sex, which should reflect their biological sex at birth. Travelers with an "X" marker on their passport or whose gender differs from the one assigned at birth are advised to contact the U.S. Embassy in Dublin for further information on specific entry requirements.

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    How to Stay Motivated During Difficult Times

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  • Ah yes, one of my favourite quotes by Orreleeise: “Overcomine challenges and oeeence ine teisge and rivively renence verover re rescience”

  • Kevin Hart [beetlemoses]

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  • So unrealistic

  • How close are we to "manually tuning" LLMs?

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  • I read a series of super interesting posts a few months back where someone was exploring the dimensional concept space in LLMs. The jump off point was the discovery of weird glitch tokens which would break GPTs, making them enter a tailspin of nonsense, but the author presented a really interesting deep dive into how concepts are clustered dimensionally, presenting some fascinating examples and, for me at least, explained in a very accessible manner. I don’t know if being able to identify those conceptual clusters of weights means we’re anywhere close to being able to manually tune them, but the series is well worth a read for the curious. There’s also a YouTube series which really dives into the nitty gritty of LLMs, much of which goes over my head, but helped me understand at least the outlines of how the magic happens.

    (Excuse any confused terminology here, my knowledge level is interested amateur!)

    Posts on glitch tokens and exploring how an LLM encodes concepts in multidimensional space. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8viQEp8KBg2QSW4Yc/solidgoldmagikarp-iii-glitch-token-archaeology

    YouTube series is by 3Blue1Brown - https://m.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

    This one is particularly relevant - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Jl0dxWQs8

  • Rule

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  • I’ve just now realised that Jordan Peterson and RFK Jr are not the same person.

  • Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world

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  • I’ve never heard of Macs running embedded systems - I think that would be a pretty crazy waste of money - but Mac OS Server was a thing for years. My college campus was all Mac in the G4 iMac days, running MacOS Server to administer the network. As far as I understand it was really solid and capable, but I guess it didn’t really fit Apples focus as their market moved from industry professionals to consumers, and they killed it.

  • Serverless and homeless

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  • Explanation: “serverless” hosting platforms like Vercel and Netlify offer generous free tiers, with extremely expensive overage charges for bandwidth and processor time. When a small project suddenly goes viral, bills of tens of thousands dollars per day rack up.

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  • I’ve never not haven't neither

  • TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.

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  • Oh noooo, the coal existing because of evolutionary lag theory is one of my favourites. Continents colliding and creating wet topical basins is cool too, but it’s not such a good story to tell.

  • Mother Gaia and Humans

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  • Well, not until you brought it up.

  • Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?

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  • The meat industry is a huge driver of climate change. If you don’t want to stop eating meat, you can also choose to eat meat from local farmers. It will probably mean eating less of it, because sustainably farmed meat is necessarily expensive.

  • Qualcomm's Powerful PC Chip Is Worse for AMD Than for Intel

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  • 🛼 Yeah, RISC is good ⚗️🔥

  • USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update

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  • Oh ouch. Haven’t experienced that.

  • USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update

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  • This used to happen to me regularly with a Dell panel. It would turn anything white pink. I found creating a custom colour profile and playing around with it until the whites were white again solved it. Then occasionally it would decide to revert to the default colour profile for no reason.

    Stupidly frustrating but I’m passing on the tip incase it helps.

  • Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models

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  • If it’s trained on the average Reddit reply: $420.69, nice.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    The color blurple