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Why is structured output a safety issue?

Is <blank> the only ML paper title?

Fast, cheap or good. Pick two. It seems like they've been prioritizing fast (lots of planes) and cheap (low staffing, outdated equipment) and paying lip service to good (safety).

Publishers are using AI to generate pages. I want AI to extract the worthwhile bits. Why shouldn't users have tools too?

Will your device measure hydrogen sulfide levels?

Buck2 doesn't seem to support JS/TS, so it's not ready for our use case.

We're trying to hire an Angular design engineer, so now the recruiter is the person trying to get management to switch to React to make his search easier. The tech doesn't matter too much, but the market forces do.

An issue I've noticed with court imposed fines is that they seem to be set based on the cost of the incident involved, not relative to the finances of the org/person being fined. A pipeline is very expensive, so fines end up being very expensive regardless of the receiver's ability to pay. OTOH, a large company can destroy lives with impunity since the cost of a person's entire lifetime earnings is not material to a multinational corporation's bottom line. This seems backwards to me. Fines should be set in such a way as to properly disincentivize behavior and adjusted to the means of the person/organization paying them.

This is a good way to ostracize people on other platforms.

I'd love to see the training data open sourced for all models so we can be sure no copyright material has been used. Just kidding, we all know it's stolen.

We just moved from Elastic to Quickwit. Sigh. What other open source, object storage backed logging databases do people recommend?

Is 14B parameters still considered small?

Lots of people have mentioned Polars' sane API as the main reason to favor it, but the other crucial reason for us is that it's based on Apache Arrow. That allows us to use it where it's the best tool and then switch to whatever else we need when it isn't.

This has already happened. We won't use software, open-source or otherwise, from an adversarial nation.