My theory is that Google wants to bake Gemini into Chrome to preempt a future antitrust ruling ordering them to spin the browser out, for the same reason Microsoft made IE an integral part of Windows 98.
Maybe it's a personal preference, but I don't want external programs to ever touch my package manager, even with permission. Besides, this will fail loudly for systems that don't use `apt-get`.
I would just ask the user to install the package, and _maybe_ show the command line to install it (but never run it).
I don't think this should be a personal preference, I think it should be a standard*.
That said, it does at least seem like these recent changes are a large step in the right direction.
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* in terms of what the standard approach should be, we live in an imperfect world and package management has been done "wrong" in many ecosystems, but in an ideal world I think the "correct" solution here should be:
(1) If it's an end user tool it should be a self contained binary or it should be a system package installed via the package manager (which will manage any ancillary dependencies for you)
(2) If it's a dev tool (which, if you're cloning a cpp repo & building binaries, it is), it should not touch anything systemwide. Whatsoever.
This often results in a README with manual instructions to install deps, but there are many good automated ways to approach this. E.g. for CPP this is a solved problem with Conan Profiles. However that might incur significant maintenace overhead for the Unsloth guys if it's not something the ggml guys support. A dockerised build is another potential option here, though that would still require the user to have some kind of container engine installed, so still not 100% ideal.
I would like to be in (1) but I'm not a packaging person so I'll need to investigate more :(
(2) I might make the message on installing llama.cpp maybe more informative - ie instead of re-directing people to the docs on manual compilation ie https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/troubleshooting-and-faqs#how-..., I might actually print out a longer message in the Python cell entirely
Hopefully the solution for now is a compromise if that works? It will show the command as well, so if not accepted, typing no will error out and tell the user on how to install the package
The whole mess is a good example why benchmark-driven-development has negative consequences.
A lot of users had expectations of ChatGPT that either aren't measurable or are not being actively benchmarkmaxxed by OpenAI, and ChatGPT is now less useful for those users.
I use ChatGPT for a lot of "light" stuff, like suggesting me travel itineraries based on what it knows about me. I don't care about this version being 8.243% more precise, but I do miss the warmer tone of 4o.
Because benchmarks are meaningless and, despite having so many years of development, LLMs become crap at coding or producing anything productive as soon as you move a bit from the things being benchmarked.
I wouldn't mind if GPT-5 was 500% better than previous models, but it's a small iterative step from "bad" to "bad but more robotic".
CityMapper, a local transport app, tried to do this in London a few years ago.
It was a failure because they couldn't compete in price with the government-subsidised buses, so the vans they used were almost always completely empty. It was also a bad service: the few times I took it it was extremely late compared to the app time estimation.
I can see Uber succeeding if they have routes that are not covered by existing public transit, and are actually good at estimating pick-up and drop-off time to make a reliable service. This is a much harder problem that it looks.
Francis was seen as being too close to the Kirchnerists in ideology and too conflicted with the Kirchnerists in actions when he was Archbishop. Visiting Argentina would have forced him to take a side and trigger a political crisis he probably wanted to avoid.
As far as I know there's no similar conflict with the new Pope, and he wasn't even in America for the most important part of his church career.
Francis was the most important supporter of liberation theology in Argentina, which was very ideologically aligned with the Kirchners. He was also strongly opposed to almost every politician who opposed the government.
Bergoglio had several conflicts with the Kirchner government when he was an Archbishop. Cristina didn't tell the position the government would take when he got elected Pope, but the government-aligned (but not government-controlled) mass media associations preemptively filled Buenos Aires with anti-Bergoglio propaganda.
A week later Cristina met the Pope and announced that they were politically aligned, and the same mass media associations filled Buenos Aires with pro-Bergoglio propaganda.
> Francis was the most important supporter of liberation theology in Argentina
Really? I am Italian, so I known Bergoglio only by name before he became Pope, but I always heard that he was not really a supporter of liberation theology.
Anyway, during his papacy he showed that he was influenced in many aspectes by liberation theology and peronism approach.
The tragedy is not that some students are going to college to get a diploma while learning as little as possible. It is that the boards of many private universities see their students' cash as more important than their education, and force the professors to pass everybody who went to higher education to buy a diploma.
This has a negative feedback loop where universities have to lower standards to bring dumber and lazier students to compete with other diploma mills.
I'm still using Facebook for this, which works for the very few of my friends who are on it. It's actually nice if you aggressively report and unfollow everything you don't want to see.
Does anybody here know of an alternative that works like 2010 Facebook?
Bad in the sense that it is at it's core a denial that there exists something such as good, and even something such as bad — in almost every sense of the word, whether it be aesthetically or morally.
The human race, according to religion, fell once, and in falling gained knowledge of good and of bad. Now we have fallen a second time, and not even that remains to us.
One of the core contentions of the Christian faith, is that there is something more abhorrent than doing something bad, and that is the denial that it is possible to do something bad. Yet, this is about the only article of faith for our modern insanity.
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