I worked on SSD firmware for more than a decade from the early days of SLC memory to TLC memory. SLC memory was so rock solid that you hardly needed any ECC protection. You could go months of use without any errors. And the most common error was erase error which just means to no longer use that back.
But then as the years progressed, the transistors were made smaller and MLC and TLC were introduced all to increase capacity but it made the NAND worse in every other way like endurance, retention, write/erase performance, read disturb. It also makes the algorithms and error recovery process more complicated.
Another difficult thing is recovering the FTL mapping tables from a sudden power loss. Having those power loss protection capacitors makes it so much more robust in every way. I wish more consumer drives included them. It probably just adds $2-3 to the product cost.
You're also getting pretty stale instances by the end of the 3 years.
At two difference companies, I've seen a big batch of committed instances finally go off contract, and we replaced them with more modern instances that improved performance significantly while not costing us anything more or even letting us shrink the pool, saving us money.
It's a pain, but auto scaling groups with a couple different spot instance types in it seems to be quasi necessary for getting an ok aws compute value.
> I'm convinced that very few customers think face scanning is an improvement.
But it is. In fact, we were getting a much rawer deal before, as this was data the government already effectively had but we as travellers derived no convenience from it.
The last time I reentered the US though, it was just a quick face scan and I was on my way. I don't know if that was because of the government shutdown or if it's actually SOP now, but either way it was much faster than having a customs agent manually verify my papers.
> It’s proof that humans will build absurdly long-horizon projects anyway
They used to. But these days the people who control the economy and funding for things like this are either politicians interested in 4 year cycles or VCs interested in 5-10 year cycles.
Nobody gives a damn about long horizon stuff anymore. We landed humans on the moon half a century ago, and we still haven't reached Mars. Instead we're building some stupid apps for people who are forced to work 7 days a week in the office to have someone to walk their dog for them and deliver their groceries for them and monitor their health because they can't get enough exercise.
I didn't go very far with my own benchmarks because my results were just so bad.
But for example, here's a line art with the instruction to color it (I can't remember the prompt, I didn't take notes).
Still, you can see that ChatGPT just throw everything out and does not do a minimal attempt at respecting style.
Flux is quite bad, but it follows the design much more (although it gets completely confused by it) that it seems that with a whole lot of work you could get something out of it.
Can you blame them, though? Between the notorious boom-and-bust cycle of semiconductor industry, and everyone (including much of this forum) thinking that AI is a bubble that will crash any minute, is it really that unreasonable that they're not trying to massively ramp up supply?
agentic coding seems like its not the top priority but more at capturing the search engine users which is understandable.
still i had high hopes for gemini 3.0 but was let down by the benchmarks i can barely use it in cli however in ai studio its been pretty valuable but not without quirks and bugs
lately it seems like all the agentic coders like claude, codex are starting to converge and differentiated only by latency and overall cli UX and usage.
i would like to use gemini cli more even grok if it was possible to use it like codex
Tech enabled the horrors of WWI and II, tech directly enabled the Holocast -- IBM built special computers to help the Nazi's more effectively round up the Jews.
Tech also gave us vaccines and indoor plumbing and the clothes I am wearing.
It's the morals and courage to live by those morals which creates good. Progress is by definition towards a goal. If that goal is say
> to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
and ensure our basic inherent (not government-given) rights to
> life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
then all good.
If it is to enrich me at the cost of thee, create a surveillance state that rounds up and kills undesirables at scale, destroys our basic inherent rights, then tech not good
CATL's Spain plant will likely be one of Europe's largest LFP battery production hubs at ~50GWh of production capacity, employing ~4k workers at a cost of ~€4.1B.
What is happening to this person sucks for sure. But one thing I have learned in this industry is the thing being replaced is always better than the thing replacing it when you talk to the team who built and run the thing being replaced.
Last time I tried krdp, it didn't fit my needs. I needed to have already started krdp locally if I want to connect remotely. Neither x11vnc nor freerdp-shadow have that limitation.
If you started with a deep neural network, one can't really use pruning to go all the way down to a parameter count that is directly intepretable (say under 100). One would at least have to try some techniques to get more disentangled representations. But local surrogate models are popular for explainability, see Shap and LIME.
For interpretable time series I would encourage to construct features and transformations the old fashioned way, and then learn it all end to end as a differentiable program. Then you can get the best of both worlds.
Show me code you've published that is used by real people in real systems that follows the philosophy you've espoused here. Otherwise I'm calling shenanigans.
Nuclear pulse and fission fragment designs require no new physics in the same way that a Saturn 5 didn't require new physics when compared to a Goddard toy rocket.
It's easy until you try to actually build the damn thing. Then you discover it's not easy at all, and there's actually quite a bit of new physics required.
It's not New Physics™ in the warp drive and wormhole sense, but any practical interstellar design is going to need some wild and extreme advances in materials science and manufacturing, never mind politics, psychology, and the design of stable life support ecologies.
The same applies to the rest. Napkin sketches and attractive vintage art from the 70s is a long way from a practical design.
We've all been brainwashed by Hollywood. Unfortunately CGI and balsa models are not reality. Building very large objects that don't deform and break under extremes of radiation, temperature changes, and all kinds of physical stresses is not remotely trivial. And we are nowhere close to approaching it.
That's a fabulous tale you've told (the notion that there's a bunch of Anthropic leaning sites is my personal favourite) but alas, the article is reporting on a GSBC report which they are justifiably sceptical if, and does not in any way, shape or form represent the FTs beliefs.
AI can both be a transformative technology and the economics may also not make sense.
People hit like and then comment "ai"... I think they love being mad at ai or aren't mad enough to stop hitting like. (Just today I saw a viral video on IG of a monkey on the side of a mountain path jumping onto a man's umbrella and getting taken away by the wind)
I have a slightly similar frustration; Netflix, Disney et al requiring me to figure out the name of the film by deciphering the poster. I don’t know how this passes any kind of accessibility testing.
Furry content is often deemed NSFW, and it can get annoying for it to be constantly flashed in your face.
Nothing wrong with it, but giving some sort of content warning isn't the worst thing in the world.
Personally, it does get annoying sometimes when two completely unrelated topics are fused into one - personally I'd find this kind of content equally as annoying as that cringe Gen X "Semiconductors with Brittany Spears" shtick, but to each their own.
There is nothing wrong with content flags or warnings, especially for stuff with a sensual or potentially sexual connotation.
This is a classic problem I identify across a wide variety of types of software. I call it "forcing a graph into a tree" and it comes up any time you have something that must be evaluated across multiple axises but the most convenient way to process it is with tree-like data structures and algorithms.
HTML is a tree. It's really great at trees. But defining a grid layout sometimes requires organizing data by both the rows and the columns. That can't fit into a tree.
I think a lot of people's complaints that "CSS is too complex, why can't we just do this in HTML" would go away if they could understand that CSS--being a rules-based system--can process the graph, but HTML can only ever define a tree. There are things that will just never work in just HTML.
I agree with you. My point was simply that most physicians only prescribe if the potential benefits are obvious and outweigh the potential risks / side effects. Doing nothing is something better than doing something without an obvious benefit.
If you’re obese, have metabolic syndrome, have T2D, or any other number of issues that we’ve seen GLP-1s (or metformin) help with - then the medications can be a godsend.
My experience has been the same. Hard drives fail more gracefully than SSDs.
> The vast majority of my SSD failures have been disappear from the bus; lots of people say they should fail read only, but I've not seen it. If you don't have backups, your data is all gone.
I just recovered data a couple weeks ago from my boss's SATA SSD that gave out and went read-only.
But then as the years progressed, the transistors were made smaller and MLC and TLC were introduced all to increase capacity but it made the NAND worse in every other way like endurance, retention, write/erase performance, read disturb. It also makes the algorithms and error recovery process more complicated.
Another difficult thing is recovering the FTL mapping tables from a sudden power loss. Having those power loss protection capacitors makes it so much more robust in every way. I wish more consumer drives included them. It probably just adds $2-3 to the product cost.