Merging tech and politics like this is insufferable, and most of us are tired of it.
Omacom foundation is funding good open source dev work. I see nothing wrong with that, and their response was perfectly reasonable.
If you think you can do better, start a competing foundation. Whinging about it just makes you lose all objectivity; now your opinions on actual technology are less relevant as your personal bias is on full display.
Just wanted to share, I had a SaaS AI drop me a script to bench ninfer against llama-cpp and it is impressive. The place that it's doing better at than llama-cpp seems to really be late in the context window.
It seems insane because it seems like a big point was to have a permanent site for your name. This just devalues all domain names, showing that they can do a rug-pull at any time because they don't want to manage it (how about turn it over to a private company that can adjust costs so they can make a profit and keep it running?).
In general the advantage of MCP would be the possibility for a fine grained control over the tools the agent is allowed to use. But unfortunately there is a myriad of nightmarish awful mcp servers around which are worse than direct API access or even a cli integration.
I wont advertise any commercial mcp I use but to give an example for a well designed and useful mcp server I could name the nixos mcp. Its useful because it bundles all the nix resources to one endpoint which is more efficient than web search and gives you better control over the sources.
Another one would be this filesystem mcp which is in my opinion to prefer over direct cli access. Of course this depends also on your general sandbox strategy but if you just use a generic docker image there are still many potentially dangerous binaries available and such an mcp can restrict the models capabilities.
And of course there are many service provider offering their mcp with its own llm / agent behind e.g. most web search provider. In this case you most likely already use an mcp without noticing it.
Almost 10 years, split between apprentice, journeyman, supervisor, project manager.
It’s an amazing job when young and you can see lots of remote beautiful locations. Very high divorce rate…
Moved to Nuclear which is similar in that small mistakes can have catastrophic consequences. Nuclear has more layers of redundancy (technical and administrative). Railway has half the people doing 1.5 times the work as it did 30 years ago - nice profits though, Things changed when Hunter Harrison gutted/streamlined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Hunter_Harrison
I did this as well. I found that it was really inefficient because if I was doing anything with a significant amount of text, it has to shuttle all of that through the model to the MCP invocation. It was way better to work with temporary files and pipe them around CLI tools once you’re happy with the contents. E.g. developing a user story and creating the Jira issue.
If you consider the data on which an LLM was trained on to be points on a very highly multidimensional object, the claim is that the LLM can interpolate a convex hull spanned by those points, therefore recovering a subset of consequences attainable from those points. Obviously this hull includes completely novel points that were not present in the initial data set, so the output of the LLM goes beyond its initial training. And yet, there are clearly points outside a convex hull spanned by any finite number of points, such that we can imagine not all possible outputs are attainable using this method.
The claim is furthermore that truly original thinking, the infamous leaps in understanding and creativity, happen by attaining points outside such a convex hull.
It's hard to rigorously verify or disprove this claim. Hopefully this helps build an intuition of why the claim is not as shallow and obviously wrong as it may seem initially.
Why does that default to dismissive for you? It absolutely did not come off that way for me and I’m wondering if it’s because of experience or culture or something else.
Get me onto the network that's on the WAN interface of your router, disable the firewall on it, and I will.
How do you want to go about doing this? Although, 100% of the time people have asked me to do this they chicken out at actually doing it, so I suppose you will too. You might prefer to test with some network namespaces instead.
IMO there has been a regime shift to building things for yourself and what is cool is the output of the tools you make.
I have started building my own Digital Audio Workstation. The point is not to build something to compete with Ableton. The point is to build something and make music with it. If it is a good tool then I should be able to make good music with it and release the music. Actually, the DAW should be the secret sauce of the music and something I wouldn't want to give away.
This feels a lot more like computing in the 90s after taking an odd 25 year detour of an obsession with the tools themselves instead of what the tools can actually do.
Urban environments have larger buffer areas due to multipath interference.
The story you linked has examples about false alerts triggering in a different state.
Do you have any actual examples of 33 feet getting someone arrested? I’ve worked enough with GPS that I could tell you that any system with thresholds that low would result in everyone getting false triggers
Yes. In my "other life" I work in fire and EMS, and in uniform regularly have parents stop us and point us out to their kids - "If you're ever hurt or in trouble, you can ALWAYS go to these people, they're safe.", or the look of absolute trust when someone thrusts their sick child at you, hoping for you to make it better. And that, somewhat unsurprisingly, sometimes include seeing that child in undress.
Take off my uniform.
My partner spent several years in childcare, both at centers and as a nanny. We're out in public and she sees a crying child? She goes to it, talks to it, hugs it perhaps, reassures.
Me? Not a chance. For better or worse, societal conditioning is that that is something I as a male /do/ /not/ /do/. Because it's nefarious that I'd even want to.
I was curious about this claim
"... that any coverage of a woman’s appearance, even flattering coverage, diminishes voter perception of her competence. "
So I skimmed the linked oxford academy article. I can't see where it supports this exactly l,
although it does match my intuition...
Did they also compare perceived competency of men that receive relatively more commentary on their appearance?
It also occurs to me that one reason a person, regardless of gender, may have a higher ratio of commentary on their appearance rather than policy, is because they are in fact less competent, giving the media less meaningful content to discuss.
Just to be clear, I'm not dismissing the discrimination women face daily or stating a conclusion, I just didn't see where it was proven here.
Batteries are rapidly improving (on many metrics, but the relevant one here is increasing in energy density).
The range is apparently 125 miles electric, and 500 miles as a hybrid. That's not enough for Melbourne Sydney. Give it a couple doubling-times though (5 years total?) and it will be.
Meanwhile aircraft take forever to develop and there should be enough of a market in shorter hall flights to occupy a scaling company in the meantime anyways.
I really enjoy checking out journalism awards. It's often a great way to both find new sites/orgs etc and also maybe run into some intriguing or deeper written stuff you may have overlooked. Checking for journalism awards for your region can really add to that appeal especially if you are outside the US and you feel a little drowned out by their news.
You can find the event video here:
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2095687786309341612
They've also opened up for this interested to buying and managing a privately owned fleet:
https://www.tesla.com/robotaxi/interest