We are practically machine elves.. we enchant, transmute and bind mystical inscriptions onto crystals that are charged through an invisible and intangible energy to perform actions we could never do with our biological bodies. All of this is produced succinctly through an empirically pragmatic yet slightly esoteric process of a form of gnostic meditation we call the scientific method...
What is mystical to follow a procedure? And even breaking a big nut with a stone is an "action that we could never do with our biological bodies".
Currently it is more esoteric on how a baby (human but not only) is formed than how we build a microprocessor. So if anything I would say we are statistical acrobats, existing despite the numerous approximations in biology. Compared to us humans, microprocessors are predictable and boring.
The mysticism is an emergent property of sufficiently complex and "obfuscated" procedures... No intelligent entity can lay claim to an omnipotent and perfected understanding of all known procedures... The fragments between silos of rational derivations of existing predicated truths we have discovered about the natural order of the universe is where it feels more like an enchantment than a discovery.
I strongly disagree around how forming a baby is amore esoteric.. cell mitosis is a pretty well understood science at this point and eventually we will reach a hard limit of covering all the surface area of that domain of knowledge. However technological discoveries unfold more like a fractal.. it isn't really a bounded domain as far as we know.
You think so? For me personally, there's few things that are more inspiring than understanding something and being able to reproduce it. This for me is the wonder of science.
Just create a RAG with wikipedia as the corpus and a low parameter model to run it and you can basically have an instantly queryable corpus of human knowledge runnable on an old raspberry pi.
Even then, it depends how you use them. Some embeddings pack the highest signal in the beginning so you can truncate the vector, while most can not. You might want that truncated version for a fast dirty index. Same with using multiple models of differing vector sizes for the same content.
Do you preprocess your text? There will be a model there. Likely the same model you would use to process the query.
There is a model for asking questions from context. Sometimes that is a different model. [2]
True, but the fans add weight and use energy that could be better spent in computing.
I dislike the power loss failure mode - it will prevent their use in places such as factory floors where AR will be very impactful, because a suddenly blinded worker next to heavy machinery is usually a terrible idea.
But I also appreciate how they solved the transparency issue of AR by instead of overlaying stuff on the real world, they just replaced it with an Apple-made one, which is insanely clever and totally Apple.
I also want to know what they can do with additional sensors - extending vision into IR and UV and beyond will certainly prove interesting, as well as providing better perception at low light.
The key thing is that it’s not a head set for an existing computer, but a computer with a new shape, with an OS designed for that. We shouldn’t discount the initial problems - this thing is impressive. It’s a quantitative improvement so large it will become a qualitative one.
I don’t think their goal is to make something to use along with heavy machinery. I’d say they’re leaving that market for other operators. All their promos (and of almost all their hardware) pitch a pretty consistent crowd.
Not to mention latency... however if autonomous get's good enough, i'd imagine it just becomes a command and conquer game and you just set the target and forget.
Or just do both? I’m currently 25 and doing all of the above whilst making more than my peers in FAANG. There is no reason having more fun means getting paid less. Work hard play hard.
Mostly government incentives... the taiwanese government had amazing foresight when most other countries didn't and was well positioned to attract their nationals back from the USA (at the time intel / TI veterans) to build out taiwain's hardware manufacturing sector.. which eventually led to the founding of TSMC.. and the rest is history. Right time and place, but more importantly, a government with amazing judgement and foresight.
woah. As I mentioned, this thing is going to have sass. Do your push notifications ask you why your task too way too long, implying you've been awol? I don't think so.
Not sure why this would matter, generally medication is incredibly expensive because of the research that needs to go into it not scaling well to the amount of people that might need it for rare disease. If drug discovery costs go down to almost nothing, and trialling is greatly assisted with AI driven protein folding, it would almost become trivial to cure most diseases.
Barely anyone takes the Sunrise Seto. I managed to easily book it while I was there. I really want to take it again when I am back, 100% quintessential Japanese bliss. I hope they never get rid of it.
>Decentralisation is the key... but no... just blanket hate on anything related crypto/blockchain.
Blockchains are not the be all and end all of decentralization. In fact, most decentralized use cases don't require (and performance would suffer significantly if used) blockchains at all.
I'm not hating on blockchains, they have some important uses. But decentralized communications ala the Fediverse[0] wouldn't gain anything from blockchains, and ActivityPub[1] is most certainly decentralized, and while I suppose someone could bolt a blockchain onto it, it's unclear to me what value could be added.
And there's this one weird thing I heard about the other day. It's so outlandish I thought it was somebody's psychotic fever-dream. Supposedly, there are these things called "websites." Not sure what they are, but apparently, just about anyone can set up/own/run one (or more) all by themselves on skinny hardware without any blockchains. I heard about this and just snorted derisively because that's clearly bullshit -- no one could ever do anything like that. /s
> And there's this one weird thing I heard about the other day. It's so outlandish I thought it was somebody's psychotic fever-dream. Supposedly, there are these things called "websites." Not sure what they are, but apparently, just about anyone can set up/own/run one (or more) all by themselves on skinny hardware without any blockchains.
Until someone who doesn't like you sues DNS providers for resolving your hostname, or your nameserver provider decides to kick you, or the FEDs decide to seize the server hosting it, and then you'll wish it was all on IPFS and you were using a Web3 domain (Unstoppable, ENS, etc.). It's not a panacea, but I think it would be step in the right direction.
Before we start talking about Tor (which is awesome) I'd like to remind that onion addresses are absurdly horrible and would never be adopted by mainstream, the only way to have limited domains per physical person (and thus the abillity to choose a somewhat good looking domain) is for them to cost something, and cryptocurrency is the decentralized way we have to do it for now, thus that's where Unstoppable and ENS come from.
The fediverse is not decentralized, it is “federated.” Large portions of the fediverse are censored by a few powerful admins that control the majority of users and speech that flows through the network.
Better examples of decentralized social platforms might be Bluesky or Farcaster. The former relies on DNS (which has some central points of failure) and the latter relies on Ethereum (which does not have the same central points of failure).
>The fediverse is not decentralized, it is “federated.” Large portions of the fediverse are censored by a few powerful admins that control the majority of users and speech that flows through the network.
Really? No one can force me to post (or not) anything on my Pixelfed[0] instance. And if they wanted to, they'd need to commit felonies (using violence or breaking into my premises physically or over the network) to do so.
You're seem to be under the misapprehension that self-hosting isn't viable. I don't believe so (and self-host many services), but I respect your opinion.
Don't like what "a few powerful admins that control the majority of users and speech that flows through the network?" Don't use or federate with those instances.
As I said, I run several ActivityPub instances and I don't even know who such "powerful admins" might be. Nor do I care.
I get your point, but (not attacking you here, just the idea that you have to interact with "big" sites not under your control, that (might) make moderation decisions you don't like).
If your goal is to reach the largest number of people, presumably for commercial purposes, I suppose that you might feel limited by folks who don't want your unsolicited commercial posts on or federated with their sites.
That could be limiting. But the vast majority of us just want to share and interact with people we know about non-commercial stuff. Setting up you own instance is absolutely decentralized (go ahead -- block my Pixelfed site -- I don't care -- I don't know you and I don't want to interact with you).
There are many use cases and perspectives here, but your assertion that ActivityPub (AP) (as a protocol, not any specific instance, which is why I separated the applications that run on top of AP) isn't decentralized isn't accurate.
The existence of instances with large (relatively speaking) numbers of users is irrelevant to whether or not the protocol and the platforms that rely on it are decentralized or not.
Feel free to disagree -- As I said, I get your point, but it's not relevant to any of my use cases. If the current AP ecosystem doesn't meet your needs, you have other alternatives as you mention -- But AP is definitely decentralized.
Agreed, and it's really frustrating to see how little HN understands that decentralized != 'cryptocurrency' or blockchains. There's such an immense hatred due to laziness in categorizing anything remotely close to blockchains (without regard for how close e.g. git is to these technologies). There is a lot of value in them to solve some of our problems (e.g. the foreseeable closing of Docker hub, huggingface, and many others).
