Yeah, banning it is wild. I could understand setting it to opt-in, like a lot of websites do for adult content, but removing it entirely is just backwards and hateful.
Also it's not a way of life that scales well to 8 billion people. Wood fires produce way more exhaust at the cost of many trees, while electric heat can be powered by the sun or a flowing river.
Livestock produce tons of CO2, and farming takes a lot of land. We can't all be Amish, and it certainly wouldn't solve climate change.
Mixture of experts has been in use since 1991, and it's essentially just a way to split up the same process as a dense model.
Tanks are an odd comparison, because not only have they changed radically since WW2, to the point that many crew positions have been entirely automated, but also because the role of tanks in modern combat has been radically altered since then (e.g. by the proliferation of drone warfare). They just look sort of similar because of basic geometry.
Consider the current crop of LLMs as the armor that was deployed in WW1, we can see the promise and potential, but it has not yet been fully realized. If you tried to match a WW1 tank against a WW2 tank it would be no contest, and modern armor could destroy both of them with pinpoint accuracy while moving full speed over rough terrain outside of radar range (e.g. what happened in the invasion of Iraq).
It will take many generational leaps across many diverse technologies to get from where we are now to realizing the full potential of large language models, and we can't get there through simple linear progression any more than tanks could just keep adding thicker armor and bigger guns, it requires new technologies.
The gains in AI have been almost entirely in compute power and training, and those gains have run into powerful diminishing returns. At the core it's all still running the same Markov chains as the machine learning experiments from the dawn of computing; the math is over a hundred years old and basically unchanged.
For us to see another leap in progress we'll need to pioneer new calculations and formulate different types of thought, then find a way to integrate that with large transformer networks.
I have had the most issues with Nvidia gpus. Have you double checked it didn't go back to the open source drivers after an update? Sometimes you need to download the proprietary drivers from Nvidia's website after every kernel update.
I'm not sure you can measure the prosperity of a society by their number of sex workers.
The papal states sponsored art from classical artists, but they also censored the artists and disfigured their statues. If the state had invested in the arts secularly I believe it would only have improved outcomes.
Reem Riyashi was indeed literate, though there are also Islamic states that suppress female literacy; when the church is the state everything gets worse.
Windows in particular I think gets overlooked as 'good enough', it's only when you get into Linux that you really understand how far it has strayed from the light.
You don't need to spend hours and hours to start, you can dip your toes in with WSL, maybe use a Linux VM for a few tasks that make your life easier at work. It's not an all-or-nothing affair, but having proficiency in more than one operating system is great professional development regardless of your personal computing preferences.
I've found that many people will go to great lengths to avoid learning anything new.
They want to be able to ignore their computers as much as possible, even considering the prospect of alternative software is taxing and upsetting for them.
I think that's basically how Microsoft and Adobe are so successful, they bought and cheated their way into the default position, and now they can do whatever they want with no real repercussions.
The user wants to click on the same icons with the same names as before, sometimes it's as simple as wanting the same name; if it's not called 'outlook' they don't want it, doesn't matter how well it works.
Don't pretend like Mearsheimer is some sort of objective observer, he's a fountain of wacky convictions. It's also wild to use 'get mad' as a euphemism for military conquest and genocide.
Can we at least agree to call a spade a spade? Russia annexing Ukraine by force is military expansion. If we can put that to bed then the only issue in contention is determining if it was unprovoked or not. If we can't agree on such a plainly obvious fact then I have misgivings we can come to an understanding at all.
You're making excuses for a genocide, do you really not understand why that could make people upset?
Hopefully your powers of comprehension are more suited to discussions of history, let's get into it:
Ukraine split from Russia in the 90s with a referendum, over 90% voted for independence. Russia has wanted to regain control over Ukraine ever since. In 2014 Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine's sovereign territory. In 2022 it escalated into full scale war, with Russia attempting to take the entire country.
Ukraine is a distinct nation with its own language and culture. The people have the right to self determination, they are a sovereign nation. Fostering closer ties to the EU is their perogative as a free people, to call it provocation is to deny their essential freedom. Expanding borders through conquest is military expansion, plain and simple.
Oh shut up. I don't hate AI, my recent comments show that. I just think it's interesting how you can get a sense for AI art even without spotting obvious tells like extra fingers.