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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap

> Thucydides Trap, is a term popularized by American political scientist Graham T. Allison to describe an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon

> Allison led a study at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs which found that, among a sample of 16 historical instances of an emerging power rivaling a ruling power, 12 ended in war.[3] That study, however, has come under considerable criticism, and scholarly opinion on the value of the Thucydides Trap concept—particularly as it relates to a potential military conflict between the United States and China—remains divided.


Relatedly, we find LLM vision models absolutely atrocious at counting things. We build school curricula, and one basic task for our activities is counting – blocks, pictures of ducks, segments in a chart, whatever. Current LLM models can't reliably count four or five squares in an image.


IMHO, that is expected, at least for the general case.

That is one of the implications of transformers being DLOGTIME-uniform TC0, they don't have access to counter analogs.

You would need to move to log depth circuits, add mod-p_n gates etc... unless someone finds some new mathematics.

Proposition 6.14 in Immerman is where this is lost if you want a cite.

It will be counterintuitive that division is in TC0, but (general) counting is not.


The law did not require them to suspend the service.


The law requires Oracle who hosts their data companies that provide cdn services to stop working with them. The law did require them to suspend service, but not quite as soon as they did and nothing had changed legally


The law required them to choose from among several options, one of which was suspending the service. The law did not permit maintaining the status quo as an option.


No, it does not at all require ByteDance to suspend service.

It requires Apple and Google to stop distributing the app on their app stores, and it requires any US-based hosting providers that host TikTok services to stop providing those services.

ByteDance could shut down any US-hosted services and serve from outside the US, and be entirely compliant with the law. The TikTok mobile app might become out of date and stop working (for people who already had it installed on their phones), but www.tiktok.com would continue to work just fine.


>and it requires any US-based hosting providers that host TikTok services to stop providing those services.

And they were forced to use those hosting providers (oracle) by the US. It's not like investing loads to bring all the data over to singapore or so would serve them well either. They'd still lose the US business relatively quickly and with lower chances of turning things around like they might've. Why bother?


What do you mean, "no"? You agreed with me.

The option you describe is another among the several options available.

Unless you're saying that the service shutdown would not have brought Bytedance into legal compliance, which would be a novel assertion.


I calculated the "cost per dollar" of all of the offerings on the website at the moment.

The best "deal" is the most expensive – $100 x 16 for $1,860, at $1.16 per dollar. The worst deal is the cheapest – $1 x 5 for $18.50, at $3.70 per dollar.

Sheet here - corrections welcome:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nb_WLW_WxOYSUS12fslf...


I myself do not, but some people I know who are intelligent and articulate and also dyslexic struggle to get their thoughts expressed in writing adequately for professional life, especially in the “everyone live co-editing” environment these days. Many of them report Grammarly being a valuable tool for them to feel like they’re on a more even playing field.

So yes, fancy autocorrect, but apparently better enough to matter for them.


Yes.


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If you click on the moleskine notebook, you can read seven pages of "handwritten" notes, though they are full of analogies and exhortations that still don't actually explain what it is.


I did click on it and got nothing. It appeared to 'pick up' and then immediately 'put down' the notebook. Guess I wasn't holding my mouth right..


If you look at it as if it were an everyday object, where would you start opening it?

I also appreciated the subtle hints of the VHS logo on the tape and the display.


There's no notebook for me. There's a black square for some reason.


However if you double click and it zooms in there is no way to zoom out to actually see both sides of the notebook.


Thank you and congratulations!

How (in your opinion) does this project compare to https://www.librechat.ai?

(My company selected LibreChat to host our internal “GPT Teams” implementation after surveying and evaluating the current state of tools as of about six months ago, but I’m sure it’s a rapidly evolving space.)


Thanks for the question! I was kind of expecting it :)

It is indeed a rapidly evolving space and I think choosing LibreChat was a great choice. We only have good words for them!

In our case, we'd like to put our efforts on addressing specific needs of businesses & organizations that aren't always well covered by similar open source projects. Foundational things like granular permissions, advanced auth, usage reports, spend control and content moderation are top priorities in our roadmap. And then, we'd like to invest heavily in data integrations and RAG.

Finally, we'd like to make it extremely easy to self-host by making the deployment and upgrading process a breeze.

Hope this takes us to a place where people find value in our work!


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