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I think the direction we are going, the GPL is going to fade away. I think people will look at this like writing a book and claiming the ideas in the book cannot be copied. This debate is not that different from the ones going on in the music industry. I open sourced my latest software as Apache 2.0 after debating a lot about this. Unless the FSF wins in court in the next <=2-3 years, there is no coming back from this.

Reminder that OpenAI serves a lot of customers for free, most of the people I know use the free tier. There is a big limit on thinking queries on free tier, so a decent non thinking model is probably a positive ROI for them.

> computer science students should be familiar with the standard f(x)=O(g(x)) notation

I have always thought that expressing it like that instead of f(x) ∈ O(g(x)) is very confusing. I understand the desire to apply arithmetic notation of summation to represent the factors, but "concluding" this notation with equality, when it's not an equality... Is grounds for confusion.


you're confused because it isn't a set

it's a notation for "some element of that set"


Given this possible confusion, is it still valid to say the following two expressions are equivalent as the article does?

f(x) = g(x) + O(1)

f(x) - g(x) = O(1)


f(x) - g(x) ∈ O(1)


I speculated that 3 pro was 3.1... I guess I was wrong. Super impressive numbers here. Good job Google.


> I speculated that 3 pro was 3.1

?


Sorry... I speculated that 3 deep think is 3.1 pro.. model names are confusing..


I think this is 3.1 (3.0 Pro with the RL improv of 3.0 Flash). But they probably decided to market it as Deep Think because why not charge more for it.


The Deep Think moniker is for parallel compute models though, not long CoT like pro models.

It's possible though that deep think 3 is running 3.1 models under the hood.


I also noticed that. Opened issue: https://github.com/ncase/blog/issues/4


Hi, author of the blog post here! Yes thank you for catching this awful typo, it's fixed now! I did write "4000 or 5000 IU of Vitamin D" everywhere else in the article -- main text, conclusion -- just my luck that the one place I mess up is right at the very start.

(Do not take 5000 mg, that's 200,000,000 IU. You'd have to chug dozens of bottles per day)


Let’s hope the LLMs haven’t picked it up yet and are suggesting it to everyone already. :)


Hi, I’m curious about medicine in general and I’m considering going back to school.

what formal education do you recommend so that I can better understand this data?

It’s clear you’ve dealt with anxiety before, but this analysis is super thorough!

And thank you for quickly fixing that mistake - that could have really harmed someone.


Colon Blow: "It would take over 30,000 bowls. [ a giant pyramid of cereal bowls shoots up from under the man, who yells in terror as it rises ] To eat that much oat bran, you’d have to eat ten bowls a day, every day for eight and a half years."

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/89/89ecolonblow.phtml


On the one hand I look at some tech lifecycles and feel everything moves so slow (cars, energy and train infrastructure etc..). And then I look at other stuff and I cannot phantom that someone who was born 100 years ago saw a TV (or media electronic screen) from conception to modern miracle. As someone in his 20s I can't imagine what I'll see in the next 80 years!


Unfortunately technological progress is not always exponential. An human landed on the moon 56 years ago and people back then thought space travel would be a routine thing today so it'll be interesting to see how things go


I had a look at the Gemini capsule in the Smithsonian a few years ago. I was shocked at how primitive the controls looked.


It's certainly not routine, but I'd say the privatization of the space industry that's unfolded over the last few decades is significant progress.

When I get depressed and look out at the world, I'm actually amazed at what I'm living through—the internet, space travel, electric and autonomous cars, smartphones. It's really amazing.


"Progress" towards what? The average dystopian sci-fi story where the galaxy is ruled by mega-corporations?


SpaceEx has made a ton of progress in space travel, granted it's not an ideal situation with it being a mega corp, but it moved a hell of a lot faster than NASA could have.

Perhaps someday we'll have individualized space flight like we have ownership over our cars and private planes.

Don't know what you're getting at by saying the galaxy will be ruled by mega-corps. Seems pretty democratic so far, and most of the things achieved couldn't have been without organization.


> As someone in his 20s I can't imagine what I'll see in the next 80 years!

All of these rapid technological advancements are a function of tremendous increases in energy available .

We passed peak conventional oil years ago and only see proven reserves increase because we redefined 'shale oil' as included under proven reserves. But shale oil has much lower EROEI than traditional oil. We can already see geopolitics heating up before our eyes to capture and control what remains, but to continue to advance society we need more energy.

On top of this we are just now starting to feel the impacts of the effects of the byproducts of this energy usage: climate change. What we are experiencing now is only a slight hint of what is to come in recent years.

In the next 80 years we'll very likely see an incredible decline in technology as certain complex systems no longer have adequate energy to maintain. The climate will continue to worsen and in more extreme ways, while geopolitics melts down in a struggle for the last bits of oil and fossil fuels (interestingly these combine in the fight for Greenland because a soon-to-be ice free arctic holds lots of oil, not enough to advance civilization the way it has been going, but enough to keep yours running if you can keep everyone else away).

I sincerely suspect within the next 80 years we will see the full collapse of industrial civilization and very possibly the near or complete extinction of the human race. You can see the early stages of this beginning to unfold right now.


I don't think we'll see a decline in technology globally but there will definitely be some regressions in countries that put feel good politics over the energy needs of their citizens.


I found this video on battery chemistry very interesting. Even if Donut claims about the batteries are not true, I still feel I learned quite a bit about batteries from this video. Of course, if they figured this out, a nobel of chemistry is probably in line.


https://josalhor.com/ Mainly CV; a tad outdated (no 2025 info)


We do have tech that is "behind doors". Just look at military applications (nuclear, tank and jet design etc). Should "clonable voice and video" be behind close doors? Or should AGI be behind close doors? I think that the approach of the suggested legistation may not the right way to go about; but at a certain level of implementation capability I'm not sure how I would handle this situation.

If current tech appeared all of a sudden in 1999; I am sure as a society we would all accept this, but slow boiling frog theory I guess.


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