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The problem is the background is often times doing a wave motion across the screen.

Then the foreground content is doing an in/out undulation on top. So you’re seeing an undulating in/out in every possible direction + the background. And the foreground animations are all at the same time. So it’s not that we’re emphasizing any one thing. We’re emphasizing all of it.

The key with animations is in what they’re trying to draw attention to, the character of the movement, and the timing of it. You usually don’t want everything to equally animate at once.

I would: • Use background movement that also isn’t a “wave” • Stagger the timing of foreground animations so the main content is emphasized, followed by a pause, followed by the sidebars • Change the nature of the animations so they’re not doing the same essentially thing “zoom and pan” - so have the center zoom and pan, but do something different for the sides.

I think you don’t want to anthropomorphize nature, not because you shouldn’t have empathy, but because it can cause you to draw the wrong scientific conclusions.

e.g. faithful bird conclusions when they aren’t always monogamous, ants forming societies and having loyalty when they don’t, alpha wolves when alphas aren’t really a thing.

Just noticed the “whataboutism”. I don’t have a particular take on the comment above but those countries do those things in their own parts of the globe.

The government of nations is anarchy and in anarchy the only rule is that “might makes right”. Some seem to have a view that there is a world government and that there are “rules” when in reality there are none.

Why do we use polytree in this context instead of DAG? Because nodes can’t ever come back together?

It’s already been said, but most companies already have those instant “alarms” that go off within minutes. 80% of the time, those alarms are red herrings that get triaged. At a lot of companies, they go off constantly.

As a company, you don’t want to declare an outage readily and you definitely don’t want it to be declared frequently. Declaring an outage frequently means:

• Telling your exec team that your department is not running well • Negative signal to your investors • Bad reputation with your customers • Admitting culpability to your customers and partners (inviting lawsuits and refunds) • Telling your engineering leadership team that your specific team isn’t running well • Messing up your quarterly goals, bonuses etcetera for outages that aren’t real

So every social and incentive structure along the way basically signals that you don’t want to declare an outage when it isn’t real. You want to make sure you get it right. Therefore, you don’t just want to flip a status page because a few API calls had a timeout.

Isaac Arthur has put it in a way that resonated with me. If you live in a universe that has FTL, it’s scarier in a lot ways. It means the really dangerous bad guys in the other galaxy can reach you. If you live in a world without FTL, it makes things happen really slowly and over generations. That’s not as fun and exciting, but it also severely limits the amount of bad guys that can get to you.

And any bad guy that can even reach you basically means you’re already dead if they so choose.

No, because you can only randomly measure the state of your particle and therefore the remote particle. (then lose the entanglement) But you can’t put the particle into a state.

I wrote elsewhere but I’m more interpreting this distinction as “RL in real-time” vs “RL beforehand”.

Looks like they added the link. But I think it’s doing RL in realtime vs pre-trained as an LLM is.

And I associate that part to AGI being able to do cutting edge research and explore new ideas like humans can. Where, when that seems to “happen” with LLMs it’s been more debatable. (e.g. there was an existing paper that the LLM was able to tap into)

I guess another example would be to get an AGI doing RL in realtime to get really good at a video game with completely different mechanics in the same way a human could. Today, that wouldn’t really happen unless it was able to pre-train on something similar.

If I was interested in getting started with Oxide, could I even do so? It seems like this is only tailored to large enterprise sales. The only other option is just using them as your AWS replacement.

Isn’t there a different observation for why planets tend to orbit in the same direction in a solar system?

I went to give a similar answer and realized that - in the instance that the two galaxies are sideways facing each other and with the text saying “it gets brighter” not “one side gets brighter” - I’m not sure if this is the actual answer.

I can’t figure out why the Doppler Shift would make the entire galaxy brighter. I assumed it would make the rotation side spinning towards us brighter. But also redshift the side spinning away.

Yeah, I thought the reason he was in jail was because he aired ads and sponsored arenas trying to convince folks to put money into his seemingly legitimate platform that he was actually using as his personal bank account.

Side note: I’ve found that it’s never quite so binary. I can enjoy having a beer with someone and shooting the breeze, while also talking about work and jobs.

Your gardener might be the person who finds you on the floor choking and saves your life.

Your coworker who you don’t even really know might be moved to donate an organ to you.

Humans are complex.