Is the advisory group abelian? I'll see myself out...

Please. This is IAS -- the members can barely be bothered to commute.

At first I was mad you beat me to the punch but I guess order doesn't matter.

at least they are good at associative composition!

Maybe it’s just me but (and I ask this as something of an ML practitioner myself) can anyone at Anthropic or Open AI or any of the frontier labs work on summarizing content into a format where a human won’t immediately vomit?

There’s this sort of local optima all these models pick which is instantly recognizable and hardly digestible for human consumption. Perhaps too much internal RL against benchmarks during chain of thought? The older non reasoning models had they’re own problems but at this point I can’t get an LLM to summarize data for humans, which is troubling.

As much as I’d like to read this piece it follows suit and I don’t have the patience to try and extract anything valuable from it.

that is just fatigue. you’ve been vibed too hard.

One of NetBSD’s strengths and emphases is portability. They have a motto- “of course it runs NetBSD.” IIRC NetBSD was ported to Apple Silicon slightly before Asahi Linux succeeded.

Another cool corollary to this ethos is the portability of their portage, pkgsrc. I’ve personally used it as the basis of my user space packaging system on a Linux From Scratch distribution I made during the pandemic and the results were awesome. I could be wrong but it is the only package ecosystem I’m aware of that currently supports MacOS, Linux and the BSDS.

As far as the health of the ecosystem pkgsrc uses a rolling quarterly release process, has built in mechanisms for identifying vulnerable packages and a dedicated (volunteer?) security team and packages are about as up-to-date in many cases as, say, arch or gentoo.

Additionally pkgsrc can run rootless and my understanding is it finds itself used in a lot of high performance scientific computation settings as a result.

Ported to apple silicon before Asahi is definitely a stretch, single cpu core, storage "barely" working with several hacks, graphics simialrly. Iirc they still required the Asahi folk to do a lot of the heavy lifting for device tree bindings, meaningfully functional bootloading, etc.

Even now the situation there is still rather dire even by bsd standards.

I'm using pkgsrc on illumos (Tribblix). So, "of course it runs pkgsrc", also.

They for that reason also were very very early in the Xen game both host and guest. Back when it was essentially a research project, why before hardware virtualization was even on the roadmap for Intel.