drabbiticus

I can somewhat understand your point about issues tied to branch, but have some remaining questions about how this working in practice:

- If I am on a branch where this issue exists and unaddressed, is it easy to find out if there is another branch where this issue has been addressed

- I am on a branch that does not have the issue reported, but know it's reported on another branch -- does that mean the issue doesn't exist on this branch? Is it on the reporter to correctly identify the root branch where the issue was first created? Do you have to somehow merge to make this work "right"?

It's cool, but the headline is really pretty misleading.

The new result seems to be that researchers have identified different progenitors for fore/midbrain vs. hindbrain and have found that they can be identified by some specific developmental gene markers. That's genuinely cool.

However, organs are not typically defined by a single tissue characterized by a progenitor that can be labeled with a single gene marker. I suppose it's fine if on a functional and anatomical level you want to split the fore/midbrain and hindbrain into two different "organs", but whether you think of the brain as 1 organ or 2, it really doesn't change much in terms of how you would think about these regions.

It isn't at all surprising that different regions of the brain have localized functions; some of the earliest evidence of this was how focal injuries (like strokes) have characteristic deficit patterns depending on brain region affected, and obviously there has been a lot of work since then further showing the organization, function and development of different brain regions.

Thanks, a lot of this helps.

Having said that, if

    - y is a binary "ironic"(1), "not ironic"(0) label and
    - x is the content of a tweet and
    - LLM(x) is meant to represent some probability range [0,1] representing p(y=1|x)

then it seems that p(y=1|x) === LLM(x) already.

Why bother with p(y=1|x) = σ( α + β*LLM(x) ) as in the article? You are right that I missed the case where LLM(x) = 0, but that just means that p(y=1|x) has exactly 2 values when defined as above and β -> inf.

    - when LLM(x) = 0 then p(y=1|x) = 1/(1+e^-α)
    - when LLM(x) = (0,1] then p(y=1|x) = 1/(1+e^-inf) = 1

This is substantially lossy and converts a continuous output LLM(x) of range [0,1] to a step function not even defined as a set {0,1} but instead the set {1/(1+e^-α),1} for unclear gain. It also loses all sensitivity to LLM(x) near 0, and only detects/changes value when LLM(x)=0 exactly. It might make more sense if LLM(x) is not limited to [0,1] like you have claimed because then at least the logistic regression is clamping the output to [0,1]. If you were wrong about the range of LLM(x), this would come back to asking authors to actually define their terms.

My point is that when math is used to justify something or communicate something, it should be explained or very apparently right. If when someone goes to try to understand the math it doesn't match the claims being made in the article ("recovering the LLM") then it throws the rest of the article into doubt.

I really wish people would define terms when using math. What is y? What is LLM(x)? Presumably it evaluates to some real number so that it can be fed to the logistic sigmoid function. If it is the logistic function, then why does beta going to infinity matter? It seems to just collapse the output of the sigmoid function to 1 and make the value of LLM(x) meaningless instead of their claim that it recovers the LLM classifier. What is the function I()?

Maybe these are well understood terms in some field? Maybe I'm just lost?

I don't think that the Anisakis species discussed in this article would generally be considered microscopic, as demonstrated by various photos included in the article. The Trypanorhyncha larvae are smaller, but also likely to be visible without microscopy as well, on the basis of the scale I'm inferring from the included photos vs. the muscle striation in the tuna.

I would argue that "works fine" != "direct support" when discussing vendors and platforms. Support is a commitment signal, not just a technical capability.

Seems likely to be another example of LLMs replicating training corpus. My expectation is that there will be more writing showing why something is counterfeit than why something is genuine, in part because disproving that something is counterfeit from visual/physical clues alone is essentially impossible. Lack of any definitive counterfeit proof is not proof of authenticity, hence why provenance and trust as such integral market factors. For example, even if the packaging were to be identical (e.g. say it's stolen from the factory), this is still not proof that the contained product is the one advertised.

And yes, packaging mistakes with chemical names and typography are quite common for anyone who occasionally pays attention to these things.

The presence of social constructs is advantageous to group survival, and an individual operating within a given set of such constructs may choose to adhere to or reject the norms of those constructs. As you say, you do learn things about people through interacting with them. I think ideally this interaction includes discovering what their norms are, whether they believe they are conforming/rejecting/otherwise to a status quo, and the reason for it. The action itself is may not be sufficient to infer an individual's values without the context and reasoning, especially in the absence of clear communication. Social constructs are local to social groups and subgroups, with differing levels of conservation and generalization between groups.

Who is making these rules up? Why do you think they apply universally?

This seems likely to be cultural, possibly even microcultural.

I know many adults who believe that splitting bills is a normal and reasonable thing to do.

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You have introduced a comparison, which thus begs the following questions:

1. What is the event that defines "China proper"? 2. What is the event that defines "Europe [proper]" to you?

I don't think Firefox should automatically spoof a Chrome user agent.

Not even saying you are wrong, but the linked article does not appear to support your premise that AI was related to this decision at all.

Is there further evidence you have that specifically relates to the specific decision of this particular dev to step down from Arch?

As you yourself say, being a maintainer is a big commitment, one that many people naturally tire of as their interests, goals and other life needs change over time.