I have the outline of a write-up about about category errors and measuring proxies (e.g. reported sexual orientation). I think I am a poor writer but the only critique I've ever gotten was from a "colleague" who writes like he gets paid by the word^1^. I will consider sharing the post once it is finished. ❤
1: one rejection on a collaboration with this guy was essentially "have you nerds heard of 'brevity' or 'wit'?"
from computer scientists 😭
Well, this Andy dipshit gave an absolute dogshit apology on reddit.
Snippets below:
sophistry and bullshitting
First, while the X post was not intended to be a political statement, I can understand how it can be interpreted as such, and it therefore should not have been made. While we will not prohibit all employees from expressing personal political opinions publicly, it is something I will personally avoid in the future. I lean left on some issues, and right on other issues, but it doesn't serve our mission to publicly debate this. It should be obvious, but I will say that it is a false equivalence to say that agreeing with Republicans on one specific issue (antitrust enforcement to protect small companies) is equal to endorsing the entire Republican party platform.
andy doesn't know his head from the DNC mascot
Second, officially Proton must always be politically neutral, and while we may share facts and analysis, our policy going forward will be to share no opinions of a political nature. The line between facts, analysis, and opinions can be blurry at times, but we will seek to better clarify this over time through your feedback and input.
The exception to these rules is on the topics of privacy, security, and freedom. These are necessarily political topics, where influencing public policy to defend these values, often requires engaging politically.
The operations of Proton have always reflected our neutrality. For example, recently we refused pressure to deplatform both Palestinian student groups and Zionist student groups, not because we necessarily agreed with their views, but because we believe more strongly in their right to have their own views.
deleted this because i realized i can't even explain how email works, why am i proposing anything
I've tried screaming "stop overfilling my hboxes" when compiling my TeX document, but it isn't working! Am I prompting it wrong?
Dan asked me “what’s the fastest Big O notation?” and hey, to my credit despite not having a college degree, I knew the answer from self studying! “Oh, I know this. O(1) Constant time”, I said over the phone. “No, see it’s O(0). The fastest program is the one that never runs. It’s clear you don’t have enough experience for this role. So let’s test you on your sysadmin capabilities. Maybe you can redeem yourself there”.
There is something about the simultaneous pedantry and total ignorance in this that is enraging. Everything is O(1) space because there are 10^81^ atoms in the universe, and everything is O(1) time because of the heat death of the universe, don'tcha know. Also did I just solve the halting problem?
Well, two responses I have seen to the claim that LLMs are not reasoning are:
So I think this research is useful as a response to these, although I think "fuck off, promptfondler" is pretty good too.
Everybody knows that all languages derive from ULTRAFRENCH.
So Geoffrey Hinton is a total dork.
Hopefully, [this Nobel Prize] will make me more credible when I say these things really do understand what they're saying. [There] is a whole school of linguistics that comes from Chomsky that thinks it's nonsense to say these things understand language. That school is wrong. Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.
Every few years there is some new CS fad that people try to trick me into doing research in
"algorithms" (my actual area), then quantum, then blockchain, then AI.
Wish this bubble would just fucking pop already.
You're absolutely right, unless you actually read it.
The DOJ suspects Nvidia has been:
- Pressuring customers to buy only Nvidia chips if they want continued supply;
- Buying up competitors, such as Israeli startup Run:ai, to suppress their technologies;
- Locking customers in with its software, such as the CUDA libraries.
https://www.404media.co/this-is-doom-running-on-a-diffusion-model/
We can boil the oceans to run a worse version of a game that can run at 60fps on a potato, but the really cool part is that we need the better version of the game to exist in the first place and also the new version only runs at 20fps.
I know this one!