Interesting! Trying to find that particular code in the decompiled code is proving challenging. I wonder if they haven't yet discovered and documented that yet!
Screens got larger and higher resolution, and UX engineers decided we should fill the extra real estate with white space because...reasons? Because they're trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator that finds more than 3 elements on their screen confusing?
Bring back skeuomorphic design. Make buttons look like buttons again.
Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to imply they could only "factor". But the things they can do that they get the big advantage over classical computing I find underwhelming when considered against the entire scope of computing problems. Again, great for the people who have those problems, but I still am not sure that they are "worth" what are being poured into them in terms of any real economic impact they have. I do wonder if I could trace back all the money in the sector to their original source just how much of it would end up being the intelligence sector who wants their crackz, and how valuable it'll end up being to them in the end if they can't get a decent crack before we all go post-quantum encryption anyhow.
This. Very few people are doing this right now (probably because it sucks having 5 copies of your app running in parallel on your laptop), but in the past few months models have gotten really good at testing your running app live. If you have an environment where you can run your full app and models can get it at via playwright and chromium, they can click around, take actions, and actually verify that their code works.
With boxes.dev I've starting pushing agents harder to run the full app and test their work end to end, and send me screenshots as proof. This takes time, sometimes up to 30-40 minutes, but is much more likely to be bug free at the end of the day.
Another factor might just be that math pretty much is the extra depth behind a bunch of STEM fields, so people studying math specifically are more likely to be interested in that depth.
That said I generally think the take that it's somehow privileged to find school interesting to be sad. Over the last couple decades one could do pretty well with pretty much any STEM degree. Is the majority feeling among people studying engineering that they just have no interest in any facet of how the world around them works? They have no desire to understand how to create (and mold to their liking) the things they see? No interest in the fundamentals of how the universe works? How different materials come to act the way they do? How living objects work? Nothing?
You add 100x1day worth of battery capacity. Which is fairly economical even today (though not economical enough to actually shut down coal). Wouldn't work everywhere (winter in New England needs more than 1 day of backup) but works in some places.
I think what you've said here is unfair and overly cynical; nowhere have I read Chris or any of the Anthropic people make the claim that LLMs definitively are conscious. What they say is that there is increasing uncertainty, and evidence - for which they show receipts - backing up that uncertainty.
Personally, I have been unconvinced by any of these definitive yes or no answers to "are LLMs conscious?" - in both directions. The "they are not / can not be conscious" side relies too heavily on mechanistic reductionist arguments that can apply equally to neurochemical processes in the human brain - and yet, it seems that humans, with brains made of these neurochemical processes, are conscious. At the same time, the "they are definitely conscious" answers seem to generally rely too heavily on self-deception and lack of reality testing.
To be able to say something definitive here, one would need to say definitively what this experience is. I have not heard any of the loud voices in the arena - not Chiang, not Giulio Tonini, not Karl Friston, etc - do so. Therefore I find Anthropic's uncertainty, and careful, caring investigative process - well grounded given the evidence.
So you are defending the move? Why rip out basic science for no benefit other than to signal that you don't care for it if it goes against your narrative? Seems 100% stupid but I am open to your interpretation.
If your memes are too spicy you'll get HR try to turn a critique of something being bad or underfunded into a personal attack on people that put a lot of effort into something no matter how broken it is. They'll pull strings and you'll have to speak with your manager about it and even if they agree it wasn't a personal attack, they'll push you into not doing it again and just lay low under their radar.
Memegen is something that HR wants gone, but knows it cannot afford to take away as they already made Google a worse place to work at during the past 10 years. They already sort of hijacked it and took control of it.
How does this handle MCP credentials - both for stdio servers that read tokens from local config, and for HTTP ones where harness holds an OAuth token? Either way those secrets end up in your cloud? Curious what the security model is
May be of interest: A Critique of Modern SQL And A Proposal Towards A Simple and
Expressive Query Language.
It is a critique of modern SQL and a suggestion for "SaneQL":
"SaneQL features a straightforward and consistent syntax, which improves its learnability and ease of implementation. Additionally, it provides extensibility, with the added ability to define new operators that integrate
seamlessly with the existing built-in ones. Unlike most data frame
APIs and NoSQL query languages, SaneQL fully embraces the core
principles behind SQL, especially multiset semantics."
Another thing I'd point out is how often planes regularly fell out of the sky as recently as 40 years ago - my first flight 32 years ago or so, they still had kiosks in the airport to sell you life insurance.
Even with the MAX and the recent (last ~2 years) spate of incidents, flying is safer now than it ever has been, and certainly safer than it has been over its lifetime.
I'm not a TA nerd, but there is a very clear pattern that has been established. Crypto moves in cycles. You don't need to draw a ton of triangles and lines all over a chart to see the cycle this has gone through over and over.
What are “box-hours”? Regular hours just running in boxes? Do I get charged the same when 1)the agent is doing some external thing say web search that takes a while, and 2) when the agent isnt running(say waiting for my input)?
It is absolutely bonkers to think about using UV to disinfect human skin, let alone the inside of the human body.
Any UV radiation strong enough to destroy the cells of bacteria is strong enough to destroy human cells. We know that UV-radiaton that's not strong enough to kill bacteria is already harmful to human skin (we call the phenomenon sunburn).
I love this video because it's both the perfect TED video and the perfect parody of a TED video.