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Don’t. It doesn’t matter. Join Ed Zitron and shout at clouds while the world passes you by.

It's not "becoming the norm." It's been the norm for decades. And yes, you should not be mad about the norm.

Does Europe not enjoy the benefits of global stability?

I interact with lots of engineers, some who got CS or Math degrees, and some who went to bootcamps. The difference in competence is very noticeable.

> You learn far more in a single year on the job than in your four year college degree (and I say this as an engineer)

I do not believe this is true in the slightest. I learned more in a single OS class than i learned in years of industry work. What you learn in industry tends to be distinct from what you learn in college, and if it isn't, then your college curriculum was probably a waste.

Encoder: Text tokens -> Fixed representation vector

Decoder: Fixed representation vector + N decoded text tokens -> N+1th text token

Encoder/Decoder architecture: You take some tokenized text, run an encoder on it to get a fixed representation vector, and then recursively apply the decoder to your fixed representation vector and the 0...N tokens you've already produced to produce the N+1th token.

Decoder-only architecture: You take some tokenized text, and recursively apply a decoder to the 0...N tokens you've already produced to produce the N+1th token (without ever using an encoded representation vector).

Basically, an encoder produces this intermediate output which a decoder knows how to combine with some existing output to create more output (imagine, e.g., encoding a sentence in French, and then feeding a decoder the vector representation of that sentence plus the three words you've translated so far, so that it can figure out the next word in the translation). A decoder can be made to require an intermediate context vector, or (this is how it's done in decoder-only architectures) it can be made to require only the text produced so far.

These sorts of comments are going to go in the annals with the hackernews people complaining about Dropbox when it first came out. This is so revolutionary. If you're not agog you're just missing the obvious.

Correct. You shouldn't decide whether there's a genocide going on in Gaza by consulting official statements from interested governments. You should decide based on independent human rights researchers, international law scholars, journalists, and so on. Opinion on the subject among these people is very much split.

What I'm disagreeing with in your statement is the conflation of "real knowledge" with "power." It is true that all the most powerful governments in the West have taken roughly the same line on the charge of genocide in Gaza, but it is not at all the case that everyone with "real knowledge" has agreed with them.

"Everybody in the US's alliance structure agrees that the US's top Middle-East ally is behaving completely appropriately, which is strong evidence that they are. I am very smart."

Lol, they just intersect with the people who are still thinking about COVID. That's all.

I am just repeating what I have heard from people who should know.

Correct. People with no real view on the events in Israel get very excited to sneer at the "spoiled brat" protesters (who just willingly walked away from extremely fat paychecks). It makes them feel more comfortable about their own lack of moral fiber. The strong Zionists opposing this, I understand, but most people mocking it are just enjoying "the wokes getting owned."

This is textbook civil disobedience. They believed they could not quietly aid an ongoing injustice, so they loudly protested in the full knowledge they would be punished. This is how protest is supposed to work.

Of course the protest is about technology -- it's about the provision of technology to governments who use that technology for war. Why wouldn't you expect the employees of these companies have a position on that?

Like a lot of people here, I have family who died in the Holocaust. It is highly likely that the camps they moved through were using tech supplied by IBM. Would it have been "culture warring" for tech employees circa 1938, to publicize the human rights abuses being enabled by their companies? Because that's what the people who support these protesters think is going on here.