There is a field of hierarchical RL in which the optimisation occurs over a range of time scales/abstraction. But I'm not aware of much practical success for these approaches so far.
"Here's a list of things that have got some people in trouble, and therefore everything is illegal."
Where's your list of things that nobody got in trouble for? Presumably you didn't include that because a trillion things happen every day without anyone getting arrested for them. Amazing. It turns out that not everything is illegal.
Bhartrihari is a notoriously difficult philosopher, and scholars are still puzzling over what exactly his work means. But perhaps radically oversimplified, here are a few things he suggests. First: wholes are always more real than the parts that comprise them. The whole comes first, and parts exist always and only as conceptual divisions within a pre-existing, coherent whole. Second: these divisions are always linguistic. It is language that carves up experience. But importantly, when language carves up experience, it is not, as some Buddhists thought, simply the superimposition of an artificial, conceptual filter onto a non-conceptual reality. Instead, Bhartrihari tells us, ordinary language is a crystallization of something already implicit in reality. Reality itself is fundamentally linguistic, and what we think of as language—ordinary language, with its words and conceptual divisions—is just a devolution or fragmentation of this more primordial linguistic totality. This is precisely why, for Bhartrihari, the ultimate reality is shabdabrahman, a linguistic absolute. So this is a strong form of idealism: things in our experience, and all things in existence, are fundamentally linguistic. We have no access to anything outside of language and therefore no reason to assume that there is, or ever was, anything separate from it.
{ NOTE: Does the above help in understanding why many people perceive LLMs to be "conscious"? }
There are many tiers of far easier remote attacks far easier than exploiting an up-to-date iPhone through iMessage of WhatsApp. It doesn't mean that's what happened but it's often not something that's extremely difficult. Many people use phones with years of missing security patches. It's getting increasingly easy to exploit those in the age of LLMs.
Regardless, it sounds more like a social engineering attack tricking someone into installing an invasive app and granting invasive permissions to it.
> I doubt abusers routinely pull that out?!
They do regularly use social engineering to trick their partners into setting up stalkerware or permitting it to be installed. Getting a new phone and accounts is a very helpful for people who are victims of it. They've often given access to their accounts and devices without knowing how to fully get rid of it. Reclaiming the existing devices and accounts is far easier if they have a clean one to start from where they can get technical help. It doesn't specifically need to be a GrapheneOS device, but it's a good choice in general and doesn't require being technically savvy to use or even install it.
The ability may take time to develop. If you have a couple under-5 children handy, who'd love the ritual of having the same ultra-simplistic and repetitive books read to them every night, night after night after night, when your head is probably full of grownup stuff that you gotta get done...
lets expand on this idea.. augment reality overlay showing the resulting code in what you are looking at.. persistence is the ground.. model + business logic is the surroundings.. API is in the clouds..
The problem might be more complicated. In those times, they might not use a separate mic for every instrument (and the mics probably were not great), they might might not do the mastering properly, the amps could distort the sound, and instruments could overlap each other. And if you try to simply amplify lower frequencies, you might end up getting too much noise.
Yes Claude voice refuses to actually read the article and relies on snippets it finds in web searches and often pretends to have read the article, and when pushed admits it really didn’t. ChatGPT Voice used to have this issue as well, but the new Live mode (released just a few weeks ago) fixed all that, and it actually pauses and reads the article and does real web searches during the conversation.
I wrote C++ for most of my career. And as of late, I found myself avoiding more and more features from it. The STL is mostly trash, not worth the increase in compilation times. Templates are good for containers, but that’s about it. Inheritance and polymorphism are circumstantial enough that I’m not sure they’re worth adding to the language: in the rare cases I do need them, I can always write my v-table by hand.
The more I write C++, the more I find C is not that far from that "much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out". And I say that fully aware of the many egregious faults still present in C.
There are two features from C++ I would really miss in a big C project: generics (templates), and destructors. But then we can always write a lightweight pre-processor to add those generics and a `defer` statement. Even if it requires a full parser, C parsers are pretty easy to write.
I'm not pitching Apple as the best or only solution, I'm saying that selling local inference seems to fit with their current marketing goals.
Selling high end, high margin computers that have lots available GPU RAM with at least lip service to local inference for privacy fits with what they already do.
I don't see anything to stop say Framework making the same pitch but with Linux but since Framework don't design their own chips they don't have quite so many levers to pull as Apple do.
It was over $500k in the email I got. Not a fun experience. My hands were trembling.
Makes you wonder - what if there really would be an incident where some massive amount of traffic got routed to your infrastructure by some heavyweight player? Say Wikipedia accidentally switches their IP to your CloudFront? Would you really be on the hook for $500k?
I've worked on a few big EPC projects in a specialised industrial sector, including some in the UK. Three things drive the first digit of cost, assuming you've hired relatively competent engineers and constructors:
1. (Design) Building floorplate and architectural complexity (i.e., divergence from 'big box')
2. (Construction) Schedule adherence. Almost any one-off expense to stick to the schedule is worth it, but to your point, these are often challenged or delayed. Building and testing equipment on skids off-site is almost always worth it.
3. (Design/Commissioning) Schedule adherence. For commissioning this is typically driven by design choices (did you pick a high-TRL process, or if not, do all the work required to mature it in parallel to construction?) and by building the right commissioning team (knows their job, knows the plant).
If more expensive plant & equipment gets you ahead on any of these 3, 99% of the time that is an overall optimisation.
My issue is that I can't stop processing other speech streams. It seems other people can tune out conversations around them when talking to a person but I have to hear every word
Hey HN. I had a lot of fun building a small incremental game in the past few days.
You recruit units to fight an endless stream of data.
There are 19 recruits, 31 ennemies and 9 bosses to defeat.
