Rulings are a type of law, as in the general term of something written down and set together (literally, leges) that binds one of the populace with their society. As I said, until they are modified by the legislature or struck down by another court, they are the law of the land.
"The team's next step is to move from the current laboratory-connected platform toward a fully integrated wearable system. The team plans to integrate wireless components so a future version of the lens can acquire and transmit readings in real time while being worn, rather than requiring tear samples to be collected and analyzed afterward.
Larger and more diverse human studies will be needed to determine how tear serotonin relates to stress and mental health across different populations. Long-term sensor stability, calibration in the dynamic tear environment, comfort, manufacturing reproducibility and extended on-eye safety will also need to be established before the technology can move toward clinical use."
And then you fail them. I suspect an institute genuinely empowered to do so, where the expectations were declared up front and followed through on consistently, would fare well, after the dust settled.
Spot on, that's the big flaw in liberalism. It's never an issue with the system, only communists reason in systems. No, it's just that the guy in charge is bad, and if we could get someone better there, everything would turn out fine.
Let's disregard that ever since Reagan, no president was ever able to slow the runaway financialisation of capitalism, or the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Capital has known no major blowbacks in many decades, and it's never been so powerful before.
Probably to similar purposes as the 2024 opioid settlement: housing assistance, schools, subsidized child care. Legislators will probably try to align it with goals that seem like they would counter the stuff Meta's doing. Smaller communities will probably fail to allocate it promptly.
The article lists climate change as the cause of the rise in rat populations in major cities but wouldn't cat neutering and spaying campaigns have a more direct impact? The huge reduction in feral cats over the last few decades seems a more likely direct cause, not just in how big the rat population is but also in the visibility of the rats in major cities. Rats don't have to hide as much if there are fewer cats around.
Alberta is rat-free because its government has maintained an eradication program for three quarters of a century. That doesn't mean there are never rats in Alberta. It means that, when some show up, they're reported and destroyed. To date, the costs of maintaining the program have been smaller than the economic damage rats would otherwise inflict, so it has continued.
Bowden is nowhere near the border, so this is a little concerning. Hopefully it was just an isolated individual that made it in through a shipment.
On the night when the first large batch of "domestic terrorists", selected by some fucking LLM filtering of mass surveillance data that should never have been allowed to be collected by NSA in the first place, are rounded up by ICE and taken to the camps, I just know that there will be some jackwagon making some completely irrelevant point about the separation of foreign vs. domestic surveillance, as if this matters in practice to an increasingly desperate fascist regime.
If you consider a full fledged insurgency in a civil war setting, you're very far from “one angry dude throwing a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's DC” that was the original point.
I don't think the US have the social fabric needed for an insurgency to develop on though.
Seems the core problem is that many/most students aren't there to learn the material, just to get grades. The class is a complex mechanism to force them to learn material against their will in a validation arms race. The teacher's job becomes something like a military commander. Seems depressing.
Now this is how[0] we get some of the most magical Star Trek technology that eludes us to this day, such as automatic doors. Because if you notice, they work much, much better than real-life ones, because they seem to be doing something like this:
if(within 10 meters of door then) {
if(Jev(
[A] Intends to go through, expects doors to open
[B] Approaches with no intent to pass
[C] Passing by, loiters, or otherwise
[D] Other
) == most definitely A) {
// open doors, +/- identity/security/interlocks check
} else {
// ignore
}
}
Keywords: ambient awareness, understanding of intent.
Most interactive tech on Star Trek is like this - from phasers to consoles to communicators to voice interactions with the ship's computer. The computer seems to be aware of the user and surrounding, and actively infers intent from context, to DWIM ("do what I mean") and when they mean it, instead of doing dumb things[1] on simple triggers.
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[0] - The direction, not final implementation - surely we can work out how to do it more efficiently than wrapping around final stage of LLM. But the point is, multimodal.
[1] - Obviously it's a fictional show, but in this, both Watsonian and Doylist explanations align near-perfectly: this is/portrays advanced technology, that Just Works and doesn't do stupid shit. Same intent recognition algorithm is there - fictionally in the computer, in reality in the minds of on-set technicians.
There is definitely more to the story. There is a huge financial interest for each side to discredit the other. Fact of the matter is, we still don't know who will prevail. These are cutting edge tech stacks and they were just released.
I think it is like saying what is the point of playing chess when you can never beat stockfish?
What is Magnus Carlsen going to do when he can't beat the computer?
It seems like a category error between humans using tools and humans building tools.
There is not much point in trying to figure out a better chess engine. There has never been a better time though to want to learn chess.
I find the idea that the computer will discover mathematics and humans call it a day rather ridiculous. As if humans will not then spend their time understanding and incorporating the ideas from the computer.
Alphafold is a better example. Alphafold is only bad if you spent your life trying to solve protein folding. But even if you did, that is the same person who is the most setup to reap the benefits of the unlock in the pragmatic application of protein folding.
We don't figure out how to get machines to harvest corn and then spend all day sitting around eating corn in between naps.
Ox bile supplementation was my biggest quality of life change after having my gall bladder removed. I unfortunately waited over a miserable decade before discovering it. I strongly encourage anyone who has had their gall bladder removed to look into this.
Australia’s Lord Howe Island has officially been the world’s largest inhabited island to eradicate feral rodents since July 2023:
Two years should elapse before an island can declare itself ‘rodent free’, allowing for any survivors to breed up to a detectable level.
So, in July 2023, the LHIB ‘Checkpoint’ program began its search for rodents.
Over a two-week period, teams systematically surveyed the island’s Permanent Park Preserve and the settlement area. More than 950 detection device checks were undertaken including 140 tracking tunnels, 32 trail cameras, and 300 wax tags and chew cards, along with sweeps by detection dogs. The collected evidence, analysed by the Island Eradication Advisory Group from the New Zealand Department of Conservation, found no signs of rats or mice on the island.
The island’s rodent population had – officially – been eradicated.
> Isn't this how radar works, or feeling your way around a pitch-dark room using only the 2-dimensional surface of your hands (or shins)?
> One might as well ask how it's possible that our complex 3 dimensional world can be contained in the flat surface of a mirror, film strip, or camera sensor.
No this is obviously completely different. You can't classically encode an arbitrary 3D world on a camera sensor without losing information. Because the camera sensor can't look inside things. It can only create a 2D projection of surfaces. It can't look inside opaque objects. Countless distinct 3D objects could correspond to one an the same 2D projection.
Same thoughts here. The comments in here make it sounds like a good idea. But isn't the whole idea behind excel (and any spreadsheet really) to have all data flat into sheets. For me the idea alone seems to break the whole concept
Adam Smith never believed in an "invisible hand". He uses the concept to disparage the fantasy of "self-regulating" free markets. Even before capitalism did we understand that markets needed rules and regulations, it took centuries of propaganda and of demonizing the opposition as "luddites", then "communists" to convince the majority that we needed to abolish all rules for the economy to flourish.
A deregulated market is terrible for the environment, the economy and pretty much everyone and everything. It only gives more relative wealth (and power) to the oligarchs, who then lord over us unopposed.
Why would he have a field day with it? It seems he oscillates between finding models the greatest thing there is to being absolutely stupid so not sure in which direction you're implying he'd have a field day.
Cool concept, and kind of fun. I think it gets a lot better once you pair it with AR glasses. If you could see the IDE in the glasses, you wouldn't be stuck in front of a computer.
What I do nowadays, for large changes, is have Fable create a HTML explainer for what we're gonna do with code snippets, which is not that fat from plan mode only much more convenient for me and modern models have no issue using that HTML artifact as the source of truth, and then before I get into execution - I interactively build an end to end test that also includes pieces of the plan.
When a test case fails, the relevant part of the plan is surfaced in the error. I find this helps Claude stay on track for longer - I've been able to do 12h most times and even up to 48h unattended (11h of API time) with good results.
Then whenever I do check in, I ask it to update the HTML with current state in an append only fashion (sort of like it's writing a blog), and then based on that, we iterate on the end to end test (I think of it as a "test harness") - update the test cases and error messages.
I've been able to build some truly large projects this way, both greenfield and up to spec (for example, a video game I've always wanted to play), and brownfield while staying within the conventions and design of the codebase, and with very little attention required on my part.
But suppose some future holy grail AI can do much more than that.
Suppose it could find a cure for cancer, fix the climate, build fusion plants, Dyson spheres and so on.
But nobody can understand anymore how any of it works. We just ask and then trust the AI to deliver (as it always has).
Isn't it fun to imagine how life would look like in that scenario?
We would probably no longer care about code, engineering or even physics and mathematics among other things. We would probably mainly care about