alan patterson
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BREAKING: In a shocking moment, GOP Rep. Bob Onder used hateful rhetoric to refer to Democrats in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, painting Democrats as "evil."
This should not be condoned, it is incendiary and wrong.
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@oren_cass I haven’t heard you talk about digital services in trade. A few US companies have a huge imbalance of trade in this. What is your view on digital?
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If I were Apple ID just give them the encrypted data and say here you have access good luck with that.
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Did the UK government really ask for access to all Apple users encrypted data? Getting access to the encrypted data is not what they want because they can’t read it. Surely they should’ve asked for access to the unencrypted data.
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@NikJohnsonCA @GoWhippet The 18 did not serve Short St Bourn this morning before 8am despite whippet stating it should. I missed the bus, my train and an investor meeting in London. People need to rely on info Whippet publish on their website. Their drivers clearly don’t
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@atrupar Aren’t windmills mills used to mill flour? I don’t think those are anywhere near the sea.
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Trump: "The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously."
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@CBLsupport broadband is down in Bourn Cambridgeshire for the past half hour
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@Apple the noise cancelling on AirPods 3 just got significantly worse. I understand there was a new firmware upgrade. I sincerely hope you haven’t degraded it to make AirPods 4 more appealing?
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@iAnonPatriot If you return everything to the states you’ll no longer be united. Looking at the numbers I think most red states would be bust.
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Donald Trump is closing up the corrupt Department of Education
This is HUGE! 🔥🔥
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@AngelaRayner removing 2 year hiring protection buffer and shorter probation period will kill seed startups in the UK who don’t have the funds to keep bad hires on board.
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@ylecun LLMs are noisy communication channels, where the sender is everyone who ever wrote anything in the internet. Like a book is a communication channel with a single sender the author and many receivers.
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Thoughts exist without language.
hardmaru@hardmaru
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought nature.com/articles/s4158… “Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from neuroscience and allied disciplines to argue that in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking. We begin by introducing the brain network that supports linguistic ability in humans. We then review evidence for a double dissociation between language and thought, and discuss several properties of language that suggest that it is optimized for communication. We conclude that although the emergence of language has unquestionably transformed human culture, language does not appear to be a prerequisite for complex thought, including symbolic thought. Instead, language is a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural knowledge; it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition.”
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@fchollet I think of it more as a noisy communication channel. From everyone who’s written stuff on the internet to every user. Take away the transmitting mind and what remains is vacuous. Talking and books are both communication channels too.
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Demos showing a LLM "generating" a working game of Space Invaders or Tetris with a single prompt would be *very* impressive if you could generate any game of similar complexity you might come up with. But you can't. You can only generate specific games that the model has memorized. Anything else, you're on your own. It's a glorified copy-paste function.
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@Liv_Boeree Visual recognition yes. Memory not necessarily. Google’s models have large context (input length) so they can feed the entire video into the model on every ask.
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I'm at Google I/O right now as a guest, and this actually blew my mind, especially the "find my glasses part"... it means it has legit spatial understanding, right? Plus actual visual recognition and memory 😬
We are officially in the future.
Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind
We’re sharing Project Astra: our new project focused on building a future AI assistant that can be truly helpful in everyday life. 🤝 Watch it in action, with two parts - each was captured in a single take, in real time. ↓ #GoogleIO
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LLMs are noisy communication channels. The printing press allowed one mind to communicate to many over time. LLMs communicate from everyone who ever wrote anything online to many who listen. Take the human sender out and there is nothing to communicate.
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To those of you who claiming that smarter-than-human AI is decades away, what *specific tasks* are you willing to bet me that AI won't be able to do within 5 years?
Rowan Cheung@rowancheung
OpenAI just announced ChatGPT's new real-time conversational chat. The model can understand both audio AND video, and can even detect emotion in your voice. This is insane.
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@GoWhippet Catholic Church on Lensfield Road. The bus time shown on my app at Drummer Street said 11:59.
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@GoWhippet the 11:59 18 Cambridge to St Neots left 3 minutes early. I missed it as I arrived on time. You might as well be an hour late than 3 minutes early.
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@GoWhippet Is that a timetable change ? On the Cambridge travel apps (MyBusTrip) that also show in the digital screens it said 11:59
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@alan_patterson Hi Alan - thanks for reaching out. Do you mean the 1155 from Drummer Street to St Neots?
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@paulg I’d be interested to see the inflation adjusted cost to travellers
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Damn, I used an s instead of z without realizing it. Next thing you know I'll be writing "colour," and it's only a step from that to "aluminium."
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Interesting. Privatisation is good for mass transit.
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Railway passenger numbers in the UK, 1829–2016.
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