I have an ESP32 here, it can do wifi, but only like 2 requests per second or so, with 50kB of data (I didn't measure it, but that's approximately what it can do).
The first thing Linux needs to work on is its permissions system. Traditionally, in Unix, the user is not trusted but the applications are trusted. Nowadays, that's not true anymore. Our smartphones have better permissions systems than our PCs.
Why ask this when we know that LLMs are not good at the character level. They run on tokens, not characters. In fact, they don't even see the characters, unless you do special tricks.
I asked it to translate your sentence to English and it did fine. In less than a fraction of a second.
Those younger generation are in a really dark place right now. In many cities they will never be able to afford a house; and on top of that AI labs are now saying they will never have a job.
One of main reason i postpone having kid. I definitely don't want to bring my child to this current world. Unless i see some better future, i don't think i will change my plan anytime soon.
Given a choice, a vast majority of children (and people in general) would choose to have a life, even with arguably uncertain future prospects, over not getting to live at all.
The real reason you're postponing parenthood is probably that you choose to prioritize your comfort and financial independence at this moment. And there is nothing wrong with it, but I do miss honesty.
And on top of that they'll have to deal with crumbling infrastructure, aging population and global warming. They've already had COVID. I hope they don't have a catastrophic AI bubble pop.
Effectively, they will never have a true life. They will just meander around here and there, making money whatever ways they can, surviving, and ultimately pass away from something they can’t afford to fix.
That, or become violent. I'm not saying that in a supportive way, moreso thinking of uprisings historically arising from people with no other option. Although, that was before facial recognition technology...
They didn't need facial recognition technology because they were physically in one place and the cops could just arrest everyone in that place - if there were enough cops which there never were.
In like five cities in the USA. I live in a top 10 city by population in the USA (so it's not "flyover"), and the median home price is 288–319, while median HHI is 89. That's easily in the recommended home loan range of 3*HHI.
Look, I'm sorry you can only be happy living in SV, but there's plenty of jobs in the boring parts of America, and the homes are affordable.
All that being said, homeownership is largely a scam, financially. Use your downpayment as a market investment and rent. You'll end up with more money when you retire, and as a bonus, you aren't tied to one geographic location if you lose your job.
The only reason apartments can even exist is because of economies of scale. If you have one rental property, it's virtually impossible to make money (certainly not in a way that outpaces index funds) because you don't have the economies of scale at your disposal.
Your entire premise is one that's missing important context. Based on the numbers you provide, you're probably in Chicago or Dallas, maybe Austin, but that's pushing more like 400K.
Homes in the median are generally not viable unless you don't have a family or don't care about quality schools. In my city (90K), two houses that are identical but divided by the school district boundary between rank #1 and rank #265 out of 359 is a difference of $300K. One would be within the median and the other well above.
And let me be clear: ALL HOUSING IS A SCAM FINANCIALLY. Rent screws you one way and housing screws you another.
Right, but the opportunity cost of the down payment is what gets you. You're forgetting that if you rent, you have a large chunk of cash that you could invest in higher yielding assets.
This isn't controversial. This is what anyone with finance expertise will tell you.
I hired a few contractors out of the bay area to another state where their salary was 1/3 a nice permanent home and they ended up scattering to other parts of the country. One even went back to the Bay Area. Yes there are nice places to live besides the bay area.
Do we really want people to have no association with their city, and encourage them to be interchangeable cogs for whatever business deigns them worthy of a job in some remote part of America, so they can be ready to take whatever’s offered like that’s a good thing?
Most people like putting down roots, knowing the town and people, having a local community, would like to have family and friends nearby.
Nobody knows how it works, really. It just turned out that if you try to predict the next word then you get intelligent behavior, depending on amount of training data, and the size and topology of the network. But again, nobody knows why, and what the limits are.
I heard someone who studies this sort of thing say basically what biological neurons are trying to do is predict as well. Predicting what exactly? I’m not sure. The next time they should fire or something. I can’t find the YouTube video now.
In the last few decades, there has been an increased interest in the role of prediction in language comprehension. The idea that people predict (i.e., context-based pre-activation of upcoming linguistic input) was deemed controversial at first. However, present-day theories of language comprehension have embraced linguistic prediction as the main reason why language processing tends to be so effortless, accurate, and efficient.
Predicting reality, under the "controlled hallucination" framing, corrected by sensory error signals. The brain has no access to ground truth, only input data that helps correct the hallucination.
Based on lots of human interactions, I think there are a lot of human beings out there who mentally aren’t much more than “next word predictors” who happen to be made of meat+neurons instead of silicon+code.
Agreed. We went this direction for our golems, djinns, and other mechanistic minds because we believe it sort of reflects the primitives of our own neurons (which we also don't fully grok).
Our brain decides every moment what action to take next, that best fits with what we did and felt so far. Language is kind hard to see because it's virtual, but imagine all other things you do. And then language works the same as everything else, same circuits, just no direct connection to muscles.
It's more accurate to say we grew them. That is the breakthrough of Deep Learning. We left the hard part to the machine (learning how to do what you want it to do) to figure out during training.
And that means we are not privy to whatever things it has learnt in its trillions of weights.
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