That is how meta trained llama

Recently happened that I was asked to fix a problem in a thing for some collaborators. It was quite some time I didn’t look at this thing, but I opened it and fixed it.

Apparently we had 3 of those things and I fixed the wrong one. Oh well, went on vacation the following day and eventually got to fixing it a couple weeks later.

Nobody died.

We are however using the same tools from the 90s.

Hey man, take this data, clean it up and load it in your Linux machine. Do some parameter optimisation and variable selection on a set of different models, among which also include a neural network. Then come back with a strategy to perform sensible model selection and comparison.

You can go back further if you remove the constraint on using Linux.

Tools were there, TBF I have seen MATLAB libraries from back then who were much better than your current scikits and the likes.

Quantum computing would be revolutionary in certain fields. It could completely change certain calculations we do. I do run stuff that takes weeks while using several GPUs, that could plausibly be done much much faster with quantum computers. Accurate and complete quantum algorithms for such calculations are not yet available, but I know there is people working on it and making progress.

What we’re missing is the computers. Kinda difficult to do all this quantum computing when you have no quantum computer. Or when your quantum computer has like 8 qbits and after 100 operations all you get is noise.

Regarding the latest article by that guy on this subject, it seems like this is the last article.

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982224000307

The ‘after you’ gesture in a bird

Wow, this guy loves tits!

Looking at the last author, this seems to be the last article on this subject. OpenAlex is a decent tool in my opinion to check this kind of things and it is freely accessible. Web of Science allows for more complex queries, but in most cases those are not really necessary.

https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10600/

Unsung Songbirds: Advances in the Study of Corvid Communication

He did not make clear he doesn’t want AI slop in the kernel, but he always made clear he’ll rather kill you rather than pull your slop into the kernel. I believe he said he doesn’t care too much whether programmers will use AI to contribute to the kernel because he assumes that will undoubtedly happen. Code shall be pulled into the kernel evaluating the quality of the code itself rather than the coding process.

I read it three times perfecting his voice, then I read your comment.

I travelled a lot and met people from a lot of countries. Plenty of them were stupid. The country from where I met most stupid people is the USA, both in quantity of people and in how stupid they can be. They win over any other country by a very large margin.

It’s not 2006 anymore

Not really, if disrupted it would just bring down SSL encryption, which wile important it is not critical for the services to work.

Besides, if the block perdured more than a few days, people would switch quickly, I guess within a week, to other services.

It is not something I’m too worried about.

I mean, it’s your house and not a product you’re selling. After a couple weeks you likely know which switch does what. Whenever a host comes you can show them the switches.

Seems very cool!

Now that I’ve seen this I’d really like something like this but to manage HPC queue managers like slurm and the such remotely.

Not Valve, they were busy working on HL3.

Ed is the standard editor

Sure, but that does not seem like a big problem to me. An SSL certificate provider is not something too complicated to setup, nor something that requires large infrastructure. I guess that if it has to be a public good that could be accomplished with some 200K €/year or something like that.

I’d be very nervous: Did I place enough try/catch blocks in my lol.py?

Are all the passwords correct before I run it on stage?

Is this endpoint to delete an email correctly spelled out?

Does the WiFi of the conference allow connecting to these domains?

So many things could go wrong.

Not where I live, no. And wouldn’t I rather take them to an actual restaurant? I mean, if we leave the house to go eat somewhere I’d rather take the family to a nice place and eat something good.

Dining in and cooking tends to take thirty min to an hour.

Don’t know how much faster the fast food is, when I’ve been to that burger king I tell you I have been fighting with that automatic ordering machine for 10 good minutes before I actually succeeded.

If I have to go to the shop, order, get the food and take it back home I’m better off cooking at home.

I never used them, but I guess at this point if you really don’t want to cook nor to go out you’re better off with those applications which allow you to order food at your place from any restaurant.

I can understand eating out when you have no time to get back home, but then I have much better options where to eat at the same price or even cheaper.

I use CC quite a lot. People in the CC are supposed to read the email because it is in their interest, even though they don’t need to reply.

E.g.

To: Graphic Designer Cc: Programmer, Middle Manager We considered the three options that you gave us. We decided to go with option 2 because option 1 was too technically complicated to implement and the big boss didn’t like the color of option 3. Please, send the assets to Programmer and forward your invoice to Middle Manager.