Link. Short demo and very well done.
Daily Archives: September 4, 2023
Damn Interesting: “We’re not going to post things on Twitter X anymore.”
Link. Their revenue has fallen dramatically however. The death of Twitter is bringing a lot of things to a quicker ending.
LLM Python tools: “An embedding model lets you take a string of text – a word, sentence, paragraph or even a whole document – and turn that into an array of floating point numbers called an embedding vector.”
Link. Proximal vectors are expected to be semantically similar. (PS. Python may finally be the “next C”.
Google Cloud Services Outages.
Link. Fantasy uptime numbers.
“We suggest that any trustworthy general AI will need to hybridize the approaches, the LLM approach and more formal approach, and lay out a path to realizing that dream.”
Link. Doug (Cyc) Lenat’s final paper with Gary Marcus, written as he was dying.
Skip to the conclusion first. I think we will do something like this.
Douglas Lenat obit: “The project was called Cyc. He set out to define the fundamental but largely unspoken laws that outline how the world works”
Link. “In the fall, as ChatGPT captured the public imagination, Dr. Lenat and the cognitive scientist Gary Marcus began work on a new paper meant to show the new generation of researchers what they could learn from his nearly 40 years of work on Cyc. While working on the project, he had a recurrence of cancer that had first appeared in 2021.”
https://bit.ly/3LbcPVD is the short paper written as he was dying.
#AI #Cyc
Swimming in the pools of Paris.
Link. Very much my kind of tourism. #paris
Remote work around the world: “In South Korea … many workers never left their offices”
Link. Of course they never left. SK is extreme.
“an expanding pattern of what has become known as Iran’s “hostage diplomacy.”
Link. Diplomacy is doing a lot of work here. It’s cheap and effective, Russia and China like it too.
“If you’re ever tempted to buy something you see advertised on Instagram, do an image search on AliExpress first. You might find the identical product for 90% off.”
Link. You may wait months for the container to arrive though.