They also have complete control of the towns they inhabit including the police and judiciary to shield them from state efforts to stop them
Wish that was us
Implement a system of eco-credits that accrue over time and allow people to buy luxury items when the credits fill up. Like okay, you waited X number of years, you can afford a small boat or whatever your hobby is.
Ban meat, except as byproducts from things like prairie restoration projects. Let people go nuts on that wild buffalo steak or whatever once a year on Christmas or something as a treat, if they want.
I've been expecting a lot more NATO fuckery in Belarus this whole conflict.
Yes, I agree with you (while simultaneously being really excited for the real advancements in this space).
While this is true, this sentiment is sort of overcorrecting in the opposite direction imo, since these quantum algorithms have the potential to be insanely useful. Think accurately simulating particle interactions and understanding the fabric of the universe level of useful.
I don't blame people for not seeing the potential of quantum computing... but it's absolutely not just a grift. Computing on the atomic level like this is potentially one of the greatest achievements humankind can achieve. There's a reason China alone has invested over $50B in this technology.
GOOD POST and sensical take that goes beyond the knee-jerk reactions.
These type of posts go over like a lead balloon here because people don't want to accept the material reality of what's happening with this tech, but it's undoubtedly a stroke of luck for all of us that ghoulish companies like openai don't have any special sauce here. Open source models have consistently been able to keep up or at least get really close to the frontier model performance from companies that spend billions only to see their efforts replicated by these abaolute Chads from China.
You'd better be glad I'm not a mod or I would ban everyone in this thread for crossing my arbitrary red line with this joke.
Not as spectacular as I would have thought, at least form these images. I would expect more of the directly hit buildings to not be standing. Still impressive, but they're gonna need to make a lot more of these...
Huh, you're right, that is less impressive than it looked originally. I saw that it could run llama 3.2, but I guess it would have to be quantized or a smaller variant.
NVIDIA's new computer looks legitimately very impressive and can run inference while only pulling a max of 25W. Hopefully hardware and software improvements continue to quickly make AI less power hungry.
edit: to make this post more worthy of the news cavern: This is a low power computer for $250 that is probably powerful enough to run a dog robot that hunts people (if you need a reason to care).
Big missed opportunity not to have a Muslim dance troop serve up a cheeky dance at the end to represent the "thousands" of celebrators Trump claims he saw in NJ.
Best of luck to you. I can tell you're destined to do great things.
Sounds like someone had a bad experience with an anarchist/post-left bookstore or coffee shop or punk venue run by 19 year olds.
Also, you're the one being sectarian now. WTF is this shit?
Your knee jerk reaction to what I'm saying strikes me as why the left in the west is an utter failure in every way. If you don't think small business owners have certain advantages in western society, then I don't know what to tell you. Hell, they don't even pay taxes half the time because the whole system was set up to benefit them.
If you know of a better way to legally move people out of harm's way, then let's hear it. Abusing immigration systems is a tactic the left is not going to be serious enough to utilize if we remain stuck in this "bedtimes are oppressive" mindset. My whole thing is not that I'm striving to be a capitalist, it's using the tools of the bourgeois state and bending them to our advantage.
I'm writing this for the benefit of someone else who might be reading it because this is clearly not going to be a productive discussion.
For one thing, imagine police responding to an incident at a known leftist coop vs just a regular old pillar of the community main street shop. How are they going to act? Or imagine how much more sway your voice has at city council meeting as a successful small business. Business owners are practically part of the capitalist priesthood, so you're negating one of the biggest advantages for not a lot of gain. There are lots of other reasons, for example I think a day will come when we can use legitimate looking businesses to help people immigrate to countries that are better suited to withstand climate change, ostensibly for the purposes of labour.
A big reason why they degrade and de-radicalize imo is that they're often started and operated by (trying not to be sectarian) consensus obsessed folks. While consensus is great, a more democratic centralist approach is probably best for the sake of efficiency. Basically coops are efficient because they're horizontally organized and don't need a heavy management layer, but then that's negated by having to hash out every single decision ad nauseam.
Huge gap for the left not to have an aspirational constitution drafted and floating around out there as a meme. We can't even say, "hey, look there's a better way! We took the best bits of all the constitutions in the world, and if we updated things, it could guarantee you x, y, and z."
No chance of it being enacted of course, but how can we say a better world is possible when we can't even come up with a rough draft of what it might look like?
> It feels like the US isn’t releasing what it has. I don’t think they’re behind, maybe just holding back?
> Test-time training (TTT) significantly enhances language models' abstract reasoning, improving accuracy up to 6x on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC). Key factors for successful TTT include initial fine-tuning, auxiliary tasks, and per-instance training. Applying TTT to an 8B-parameter model boosts accuracy to 53% on ARC's public validation set, nearly 25% better than previous public, neural approaches. Ensemble with recent program generation methods achieves 61.9% accuracy, matching average human scores. This suggests that, in addition to explicit symbolic search, test-time training on few-shot examples significantly improves abstract reasoning in neural language models.
A new AI model called ESM3 can generate functional proteins that would take hundreds of millions of years to evolve in nature by training on data generated by evolution.
> Unlike traditional language models that only learn from textual data, ESM3 learns from discrete tokens representing the sequence, three-dimensional structure, and biological function of proteins. The model views proteins as existing in an organized space where each protein is adjacent to every other protein that differs by a single mutation event.
They used it to "evolve" a novel protein that acts similarly to others found in nature, while being structurally unique.
Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to three academic papers and analysts.
They fine-tuned a Llama 13B LLM with military specific data, and claim it works as well as GPT-4 for those tasks.
Not sure why they wouldn't use a more capable model like 405B though.
Something about this smells to me. Maybe a way to stimulate defense spending around AI?
Demand for AI offerings from Alphabet's cloud business helped drive an impressive revenue and earnings beat.
Inspired by large language models, MIT researchers developed a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills.
>...versatile technique that combines a huge amount of heterogeneous data from many of sources into one system that can teach any robot a wide range of tasks
>This method could be faster and less expensive than traditional techniques because it requires far fewer task-specific data. In addition, it outperformed training from scratch by more than 20 percent in simulation and real-world experiments.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.20537
With the stated goal of "liberating people from repetitive labor and high-risk industries, and improving productivity levels and work efficiency"
Hopefully they can pull it off cheaply while Tesla's Optimus remains vaporware (or whatever the real world equivalent of vaporware is).