juliendorra

Isn’t that a function of density? The denser the place, the more random chance someone wrong would pass by?

I loved my DAT recorder back in the days, recorded incredibly good digital audio on small tape cassettes with a recorder the size of a Walkman

I’m not sure it answers the original question. Understanding the plan is not understanding how the code exactly works.

And Apple has had simple distributed video encoding since 2005, so yes it is not new in computing, but it is still useful for the gap before a given task can fit comfortably on one machine

Maybe not more professional widely distributed software, but personal software of limited scope and use has boomed around me: designers creating a tool for each new project, developers creating art software, super users asking for plugins or custom workflows… It is not unprecedented: HyperCard for example created a similar boom, of course on a smaller scale.

It seems more a regulate the nuclear missile watching agency problem than a regulate generic LLM tools problem. If my LLM tells me wrongly there’s missiles somewhere the impact is null

Indeed, in France the first to connect a home or a building of appartements has to let the other isp access

Several of the issues you point have been solved in France via regulations (on the ISP and on the tenants of condos). It tools several years, even decades, but we ended up with fiber regulations that are good (could have been better and faster).

If writing code is hard, how is it possible that so many kids learn it in a few months? I learned to program in basic at 9 with literally 2 books (no web back then), at 12 I was coding little programs in turbo Pascal, learnt with just the manual (it was a very good manual). I was not a genius. Granted it gets a certain type of mind to want to learn programming, but it’s far easier to learn than the pedestals it sits on (writing, reading, some maths and planning logic). Also code itself demands very few cultural background to start, hence why we have teenage dev genius but no teenage historian genius

Writing is not easy, and most children need years of training to write at sufficiently good levels. Writing is the technology we invest the most for training on as society

Magazines’ style is generally good but affected, with some distinct quirks mixed in. These quirks have been also picked up in the training and their automated repetition at scale made it weird and "AI-style"

You are right that at training the main goal is balancing between the sections to avoid certain paths becoming the only path. In the end the inference will be routed token by token to a mixture of say 3 or 4 sections of the model. The combination can change at each turn. It’s really a statistical optimization. As for many things in neural networks, the original intuition coming from anthropomorphism once implemented becomes something very non human!

For context in Paris (and probably other French cities) you would try that and the result would heavily depends on the driver and their mood of the day ! Because they too are not allowed to do it, but of course France is all about flexing the rules (a bit, not so much, and after some pleading)

Teen pregnancy (or unwanted pregnancy at all) has been extremely low in several countries, and the factors are not discipline but was of access, focus on health instead of morality, and public service campaign. If it is high in an otherwise rich country, it’s likely not a lack of discipline from teenagers but a lack of free and easy access to contraception and abortive means, social pressure and morality campaigns, lack of sex education (often by design sometimes by negligence after some period of activity)