Measured rates are not as straightforward as they seem

It's always a mix of the "true rate" vs screening/detection rates vs "dying of other things before detection" rate

> all you need is physical access to the network

Yeah that's not so much "trivially easy"

Do you have a cell phone? Do you use Wifi? Do you use an ISP who, in the last few decades, has performed any form of interception or traffic-tampering?

I hazard that the answer to all three of those is "yes".

On the Tour de France I'm not interested as much in the bikes, rather than the pharmaceutical companies behind it

Well, again, how did people expect that to work

> - just track the metadata of the conversation

This is useless

I mean, it's not really, it's basically standard A/B testing right? If they roll out a new system prompt or temperature setting etc then you see how many people now downvote the replies.

Is it as good as capturing everything for them? No, of course not. But then don't frame the whole thing as "if you're on an enterprise plan we won't train on your data"

> it's basically standard A/B testing right?

Of course not. It might be if all you know is A/B testing, but no

If an LLM is giving a bad answer you need the question and the answer. Period

What's the status of 'Faster CPython'?

I wouldn't be surprised if they all went nodejs instead :/

While JIT is being dropped, the original proposer and leader of the initiative was hired by ARM and continues work on speeding up Python.

His current focus seems to be speeding up GC and free threading.

Microsoft is not financing it any more and laid off most of the team working on it.

Yeah

I'd prefer to think someday supercapacitors before the inverters can take that inertial need, but in the meanwhile the spinning heavy thing solution works

I wouldn't. Spinning things around is a really trivial thing to do and we've perfected it since the invention of the wheel. More relevant to this issue, synchronous machines also interface with three-phase (or any other AC) power systems really well. Supercapacitors may become dramatically more efficient in the future, but they inescapably require more semiconductor technology to get from DC to AC, which reintroduces the semiconductor peak load problem.

Well, yeah

If the power company is going to annoy me (too much) for that, then tough shyt when they need my battery to compensate for peak hours

>If the power company is going to annoy me (too much) for that, then tough shyt when they need my battery to compensate for peak hours

Ha! They won't even consult you.

What they'll do is they'll fund useful idiot do-gooder advocacy groups and academia and get them to produce a bunch of whining and papers about how the runoff from your panels is bad for some endangered slug or maybe it'll be some supply chain mumbo jumbo about not buying lithium from sources that might fund terrorists or something. In any case, they'll use that as plausible deniability to get some federal rules tweaked and of course your state (because it loves grant money) already has a law saying that municipalities must enforce whatever the fed recommendations are.....blah...blah...blah...several layers of regulatory cause and effect later you will be disallowed from putting up panels without permits which won't be issued unless you bend over and take a bunch of costs that make it a complete non starter.... or unless you connect to the grid.

But don't worry, maybe if your panels and battery are small and useless enough you'll qualify for some tiny homeowner exemption like how you don't need a building permit for a shed so long as it's too small to be useful. Gotta shield the useful idiots from the brunt of the regulatory capture lest they learn how they system works and cease to go to bat for it or starts demanding more than whatever scant shred of a benefit they get out of the whole rotten thing.

Sorry not sorry for being jaded. I work in the sausage factory so I know how it's made.

Very interesting and I think it makes sense to teach it, though I'd prefer something that works on MacOS

(what I don't get is why this page is breaking pgUp/pgDown)

Yes, the threshold of tolerating illegal immigration and of tolerating infinite handouts for retirees

Most of the "algorithmic transparency" people are activist members of big NGOs

The truth doesn't matter, what matters is getting more government money, and more regulation to get more financing, etc

NGOs are big business, and be assured, they don't care about fairness one bit more than Meta

One big company says things should be secret, another says that things should be transparent, and your conclusion is that both are equivalent and therefore any attempt for transparency is meaningless. I don't buy that logic. A party being biased doesn't mean that its stance on every issue is automatically wrong; at the very least, it's possible as an individual to have a mutual interest with a company.

"Algorithmic transparency" sounds good on paper but it is bound to be as disappointing as people were when shuffling songs was truly random

And you can always claim it's biased towards one side. So, which one is which then?

I don't think I have the same understanding of what the word "transparency" means. To me, transparency means "show me what you're doing", not "change what you're doing based on what I tell you". If Meta is truly not doing anything with their algorithm to intentionally favor one side, I don't understand why you're claiming that this would lead to them needing to change the bias.

I'm completely confused about your analogy to song shuffling. I disagree with your characterization that permuting a list randomly isn't "truly random" in the way that selecting an item from a list randomly is, but even ignoring that, I'm completely unable to figure out what you think the equivalent of that is for an LLM.

You phrase this as a "gotcha" but I don't think you understand that NGOs and nonprofits are the exact kind of entity that would naturally be involved here.

Algorithmic transparency is a deeply unprofitable and difficult task, with people from all sides screeching at you thinking you're biased against them. Governments obviously shouldn't be involved (unless you're a fan of state-controlled media), and so the only people that will take this on are people that care enough about the impact of social media on society to give up careers in the private sector.

If you care so much, you can always join one of these NGOs! You won't. I guarantee you they are not as biased as you think they are, and they certainly don't hold a "shadow ban this guy" hammer.