Actually think this one-language-focus is the way forward, instead of training AIs for all languages under the sun it would be incredible to have models solving all issues via one very well understood/and-tooled-for language. I'm aware that the model training cross-benefits from different languages so obviously provisions would have to be made for the benefit of this to show.
Thanks! The big difference is that Pikchr uses "turtle" graphics (where a cursor walks along and draws shapes). Reladraw lets you state relationships and relative positions.
So, if you have a container with children, or multiple nodes off to the right of another, with links between them, adding or resizing one adjusts the rest, without re-specifying positions the way turtle graphics would require.
I've been playing with pikchr quite a bit and it has containers and you can specify links relative to the container. I can picture (pun not intended) your counter-example
Great question, I had to noodle that one over a bit, but I think it helped me clarify that difference between pikchr and reladraw. My container example was a poor one, and you are right that pikchr can handle adding elements to a container without fiddling.
My main objection to pikchr is that it is turtle graphics plus coordinate offsets, which to me feels like the wrong tool when I want to say "I have A to the left, and B, C, and D all right of A". I don't want to have to translate that to turtle graphic movements like saying "there's a group, draw B, move down some amount, place C, move down again, place D".
Similarly, if I'm thinking at the level of abstraction of nodes and edges and relative positions, it feels awkward to say something like this in pikchr (where the 0.2 is a guess to fiddle with):
arrow from Web.s down 0.2 then right until even with DB.s then to DB.s
Rather than saying in reladraw:
edge web -> db from: bottom to: bottom
I think it's less a matter of "reladraw can do it, but pikchr cannot". It's more like, "both can get to the same destination, but how you get there is a matter of taste and how you express your intent".
For example in pikchr:
A: box "A" fit
G: [
down
B: box "B" fit
move 0.1
C: box "C" fit
move 0.1
D: box "D" fit
move 0.1
E: box "E" fit
] with .w at A.e+(0.5,0)
arrow from A to G.B chop
arrow from A to G.C chop
arrow from A to G.D chop
arrow from A to G.E chop
To me, it's not as clear that your intent is that you want several nodes right of A. However, in reladraw, it's clearer to me that the intent is "these things are right of A":
node a "A"
node b "B" right of a
node c "C" right of a
node d "D" right of a
node e "E" right of a
edge a -> b
edge a -> c
edge a -> d
edge a -> e
However, that's a subjective taste thing and I could see some people liking the pikchr approach.
Oh interesting! I plan to add custom attributes, functions, variables. I was also thinking about macros and will add your parameters for object labels in as another idea. Thanks :)
For "Solitaire Together" instead, I recommend the game NERTS (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131190/NERTS_Online/). It's a multiplayer competitive solitaire game by Zachtronics. Out of all the games I've played, it's the one that stresses me out and takes me through emotional rollercoasters the most.
Oh this is fun! I'm a big Zachtronics fan but didn't know about NERTS.
I grew up playing "double solitaire" (basically multiplayer competitive solitaire where you play on each others' aces) with my family and love it, and it definitely contributed to me making this site. So I'm excited to play some Solitaire Together!
Even in the quote given in this article, most instances of the word "word" are "logos" in Greek, which means something closer to speech, argument, reasoning, logic, etc. This doesn't really change the meaning of the quote dramatically, but some slight nuance is lost.
> In 1965, Widlar left Fairchild to work at National Semiconductor. While there, he released his design for the industry’s first high-power voltage regulator, the LM109. This finding came at a time when engineers hotly debated whether it was possible to develop a high-power regulator on a single chip.
> Widlar, established as an engineering genius in 1969, wrote a paper settling the debate, claiming temperature swings and packaging limitations made the device impossible. The industry took his word for it and stopped all efforts to build such a device. However, in 1970, Widlar shocked his contemporaries with the 20-W LM109, the industry’s first high-power voltage regulator. The device included all of the features Widlar had claimed were impossible just one year prior.
"Quite common"? I've spent more than 3 decades here, visited most of the countries on the western side, both north and south (although embarrassingly little eastern parts), and have not seen this once in my life. Thinking about it, I haven't seen this anywhere in the world.
You will usually see these in public places that have no other access controls - think in a park, rather than in a restaurant. It's for places that have a high risk of people sleeping in them.
Yeah, I do visit public bathrooms from time to time, especially in Spain, Germany, France, Denmark and Sweden, and never seen that once anywhere, although I've seen much worse things on single occasions than a timer for the door to open.
I've seen them in some of the shadier parks in the Netherlands, Italy and Austria. Yppenplatz, Vienna, has a particularly nasty (smelling) one which the countdown clock does very little to obviate.
The fact that you haven’t been in central or Eastern Europe might be the key.
I haven’t seen an actual countdown timer, but many of the public toilets in Poland have time limits that are displayed on a sign, and announced by the computer voice loudspeaker. Usually it’s 30 minutes though IIRC.
I'm not going to pile on since there is already a handful of comments stating the same, but I think we can all be guilty of "This thing exists/happens specifically where I and most people I interact with live, so it must be common (in [superset])". It's very good to be mindful of when making assumptions/imprinting generalizations.
I think what's inconceivable is that anyone thinks that these kinds of questions really work. The intersection of high-skilled people that can work there with low-awareness people that can't navigate these questions in a "politically correct" (for lack of a better term) way must be near 0.
"Oh, of course I wouldn't mind stopping if we decide that something is too dangerous to pursue. I think the mere fact that we'd get close to knowing how to do it would satisfy my curiosity. Plus, if we'd be close to it, I'd probably take some time to spend with my loved ones, as the competition would likely be close as well."
It's not hard to see these kinds of questions as more than kabuki theatre. I'd put them in the same vein as those "do you intend to perform any terrorists acts while in our country" questions you get while travelling.
No that is not inconceivable. What is inconceivable is believing that group of individuals is not a small minority, and the question will filter everyone else out.
Interesting. Wasn't Deepseek's founder saying that they had explicitly decided not to focus on multimodal models at all and were going text-only because they believed it was enough to achieve AGI?
Nevertheless, as a component, we will undoubtedly implement multimodal support — and we are already doing so. We plan to develop relevant models, ensuring that versions like V4 and subsequent iterations will natively support multimodal functionality.
Earlier, the following was said, which might match more what you had in mind.
Achieving excellence in AI training does not require a global model or even multimodal approaches—by narrowing the scope of AI training and eliminating multimodality, certain tasks may remain unachievable without compromising the algorithm's validity.
Multimodal approaches ultimately need to be implemented.
It is difficult to tell who said what, since the speaker ids are missing.
Autolith (https://autolith.rocks/) and some other CL-based harnesses allow the LLM to modify their own harness within the session.
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