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Was that Donald Glover in one of the scenes?

If he had fired there is a very real chance the police might have mistaken him for an active shooter. He was brave and/or foolish to tackle the terrorist but having disarmed him I think he did the right thing.

The demand for LLM inference will drop off when people finally realise it is not the road to AGI. However there is still plenty of things GPU compute can be applied to and maybe spot prices will come down again.

Thanks for that. I shall have to try out Reader.

I did watch the two LLM related talks and tried out editor-code-assistant as a result. It's really nice being able to play with the powerful agent based workflow directly in my favourite (only) editor.

Once we summit the peak of inflated expectations and the bubble bursts hopefully we'll get back to evaluating the technology on its merits.

LLM's definitely have some interesting properties but they are not universal problem solvers. They are great at parsing and summarizing language. There ability to vibe code is entirely based on how closely your needs match the (vast) training data. They can synthesise tutorials and stack overflow answers much faster than you can. But if you are writing something new or specialised the limits of their "reasoning" soon show up in dead ends and sycophantic "you are absolutely right, I missed that" responses.

More than the technology the social context is a challenge. We are already seeing humans form dangerous parasocial relationships with token predictors with some tragic results. If you abdicate your learning to an LLM you are not really learning and that could have profound impacts on the current cohort of learners who might be assuming they no longer need to learn as the computer can do it for them.

We are certainly experiencing a very fast technological disruption event and it's hard to predict where the next few years will take us.

The main thing I got from that is drug pricing is complicated. At least the extra expenditure comes from widening the pool of available drugs rather than just the prices of existing treatments being put up.

One of the things I like about Horizon Zero Dawn is they introduced cosmetics so you didn't have to compromise your visual style for the right set of numbers for your current opponents.

Well to start with you need to stop running a deficit. Once we are spending less than we raise in taxes we can pay down the debt and bring down those borrowing costs.

Alternatively you wait for inflation to overtake interest and eventually your debt pile and interest becomes a smaller and smaller part of the overall budget.

The term I've heard is the "right wing grift drift". Even the left leaning Russell Brand went through the drift when he got cancelled after SA accusations.

Modern machines have TPM so we can do attested boot and validate a system hasn't been tampered with. They don't need third party kernel modules to test that.

Well that looks fascinating. The first thing I thought was the Colin Mcray coders night have been ex-demo scene or at least aficionados of it.

Fundamentally the reason they want to use kernel modules is to observe the system for other executables interfering with the game. This is a hacky solution at best

The TPM hardware can support attested boot so you can verify with the hardware nothing but the verified kernel and userspace is running. That gives you the same guarantees but without letting third parties mess with your kernel.