Analogy is not apt. If other countries are trying to pry into our data and systems, then the right move for google or any other tech company is to advance our defenses and make cybersecurity stronger, more available, and easier for companies and people to use. If someone is trying to hack me, it's much smarter for me to defend myself rather than try to hack the other guy back.
At an average length of 3.7mm, that's around 46 billion miles of ants, if they march end to end. more than 10x the distance to Pluto for reference. Please check my math! (and if you want something crazy, do the same math for all of the bacteria on earth...)
Aren’t there some kinds of amoeba that can cross the BBB and take up residence in the brain? And fungal infections? (Or am I just thinking of horror movie plots?)
Three legs to the stool - the NN algorithms, the data, and the labels. I think the first two are obvious but think about how much human time and care went into labeling millions of images...
Did you not read that he just said he will use the military and government to jail his political opponents? Yesterday. So he may be different than Hitler in that he does not wear a moustach, but the promise to jail political rivals is a big problem. And no, there is not an equivalence to Trump’s current indictments - they are all based on his actual violation of actual laws - and they have yet to go to trial - verdicts have not been rendered, and he might be found not guilty. This is not the same as jailing or threatening to jail people who you simply suspect may not agree with you. Trump is a menace and if you think you will “get rich on crypto” if he does and or some other such fantasy, you might be in for disappointment- especially if he should randomly decide you are on his enemies list. Please don’t fall for this.
And the Trump-Hitler news is because a US Marine General, and Trump’s CoS and Director of Homeland Security went public with his fears based on the last time that Trump tried to deploy the Military against civilians and was met with pushback, after which he wondered why “His Generals” weren’t more like Hitler’s. There’s never been a less fit major political candidate in the US.
> There’s never been a less fit major political candidate in the US.
And the polls and prediction markets both suggest he has a better shot at winning than the boring business-as-usual candidate. Prepare for four more years of chaos, and another test of our democratic institutions' ability to protect the republic. Guaranteed to be a wild ride.
The poll based predictors are influenced by a flood of low-quality polls from right-biased sources, they are not resilient against that form of manipulation.
The GOP doesn't seem to trust predictors that they are going to win by people’s votes, otherwise they wouldn't be calling for skipping that altogether in determining the results in a swing state that polling averages have leaning in their favor.
Everyone will agree that Trump makes silly comments! He made the same comments in 2016 and never even attempted to lock up anyone for the whole four years.
The Democrats always say the right things, but proceeded to try to lock up Trump for the entire period of 2021-2024.
Barking dogs don't bite, it seems that "Silent dogs bite" is also true.
Jeff Sessions was actively encouraged to investigate Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump which, to his credit, he largely resisted as he had decided to refuse himself on all matters that might be related to the 2016 campaign (Sessions had been a member of the Trump campaign). It's overwhelmingly likely that the next AG will be far more compliant to Trump's demands
Trump was literally impeached for attempting to trade US weapons for dirt on his political opponents after which his personal lawyers and DOJ appointees spent years “investigating” his opponents. Then there was the IRS targeting he used to go after those who worked with Mueller.. people who deny this stuff happened are either super low info commenters or actively malicious so it’s probably not worth engaging but it’s gaslighting on an impressive scale at least.
Aside from all that, if the best defense of a Presidential candidate explicitly promising to use the military and DOJ to target the media, political rivals and anyone who opposes him is that he “says silly things”, that’s not actually reassuring at all. “You can’t trust his repeated promises” shouldn’t be a benign fact..
The best thing you can say about Donald Trump is that he has the attention span of a gnat and a sense of vanity so large that manipulating him is trivially easy. He had fewer accomplishments in his term than any president in memory. What he brings is chaos, not policy, and that is the only thing that gives me much hope at all should he win another term. We'd be much worse off if he had the skill to turn the rhetoric into action. Probably we will just get more useless wall.
I worked on a trading floor for several years - open floorpan is the right way for a trading operation to be set up because the whole nature of the job is to interrupt and be interrupted throughout the day. Not so for data science / AI / engineering work, unless it's a help desk, IMHO...
Great feature! Would love to see this in Outlook (only option at work), gmail and others. Is this proprietary or some kind of extension of the email spec? Cheers
> These startups break laws, pay the fines and end up just fine.
That thought process puts them in the same boat as: Theranos, FTX, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Countrywide Financial, Enron, Washington Mutual, Kidder Peabody, and many other companies which no longer exist.
So if (since?) they lack the ethical compass to not break the rules, perhaps a simple history of what happens to companies that do break the rules might be useful guidance...
A few things to exclude from training might include:
- articles with mistakes such as incorrect product names, facts, dates, references
- fraudulent and non-repeatable research findings - see John Ioannidis among others
- outdated and incorrect scientific concepts like phlogiston and LaMarckian evolution
- junk content such as 4-chan comments section content
- flat earther "science" and other such nonsense
- debatable stuff like: do we want material that attributes human behavior to astrological signs or not? And when should a response make reference to such?
- prank stuff like script kiddies prompting 2+2=5 until an AI system "remembers" this
- intentional poisoning of a training set with disinformation
- suicidal and homicidal suggestions and ideation
- etc.
Even if we go with the notion that AGI is coming, there is no reason its training should include the worst in us.
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