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Autonomous systems startup, after assembling one of the largest teams in differentiable computing, demonstrates super-fast differentiable AI training running two orders of magnitude faster than standard frameworks.

Collaborating with the Swift community and Apple compiler team, they are using the Swift language as a strongly typed embedded language for a generative autonomous platform using ahead of time compilation of graph neural nets. They are focus is fusing systems programming and AI support in a single native high performance language, to enable typed heterogeneous inference and training. The compiler development is open sourced as part of the standard Swift package. Try it yourself at swift.org.

C is already a subset. It's basically one step above assembly.

Not sure I'd take advice on UI/UX behavior from someone who professes to not leave a terminal window... 35 years after better things came along. I know I live back when terminals were all we had. Boy were we happy when that wasn't true anymore.

No matter how much you like typing everything in a terminal, it is the least efficient environment for file system navigation. It lists file systems in 1-D where you...have....to...type...out...paths and cache the organization in your own memory. The poor UX of the terminal leads to lot of bad habits, like shortening names to acronyms, reducing hierarchy for typing convenience, and dumping files an unorganized mess (looking at you usr/local/bin). GUI file navigation is 2-D or even 3-D organizations of files that together with spotlight indexing I know I outrun terminal navigators by 10X in a real-world file system.

On a Mac invisible files aren't important for even a "pro" user... except for occasional developer needs. It worth saying a feature like this doesn't come without cost.

Progressive disclosure and a bullet proof user environment are core user concepts on MacOS. In MacOS a user can rearrange nearly every file visable to them, and never break anything.

Windows and Linux clutter up the users environment with files that literally no one will ever care about (1000 library modules and asset files for a binary application?). And yet they are less flexible to user choice. Move application out of the Application folder... boom! Pathing all breaks. Do the same on MacOS no problem.

Exactly.

It's not just Google. Adobe or any other company installing always running updaters... is just wrong.

This is actually the core failure of the Linux approach and why they year of the Linux desktop never occurred. Because there is no 1-true approach, developers must support too fragmented of an ecosystem, thus Linux becomes too big a lift to target for software titles.

Similarly the mass market of users care less about pimping their ride (so to speak), as getting their work done. Thus little is gained by rearranging your display or initialization subsystem.

One of the key things I find attractive about MacOS is that design is more than skin deep or an ad-hoc assemblage loosely related libraries. Meaning that visual design, architectural design, APIs, and even silicon co-designed makes for better systems.

Interesting milestone, worth reflecting on the broader failures of OSS.

Open source user-facing software like Gimp, Openoffice & inkscape were supposed to be the wave of the future that would eclipse their commercial counterparts over the next decade.

But OSS developers turned out to be daft to UI/UX concerns and lacked user-centric empathy to make software that would ever really matter in the marketplace.

Meanwhile the OSS marketplace that did takeoff in stunning ways were developer frameworks, libraries and building blocks (ie. everything on Github). Which developers then used to build the far more insidious world of SaaS. Where couldn't even own the software at any price, and more dastardly... you can't own your data.

Your statement is de-latched from facts. What are you smoking.. seriously?

Who is following in the footsteps of strong-man totalitarian practices? Trump. You can not name any democrat that would fit this description.

Who uses propaganda incessantly. Trump. 25,000 provably false statement in 4 years. Fox news, owned by a Trump ally , maintained a stead stream of provably false pro-Trump right-wing propaganda. Does any democrat or other politician in US history is have such a record? None.

Who is trying on undermining government and shove an agenda down our throats. Trump and the Republicans, who despite have little popular support for many of their policies (by independent polling) use gerrymandering to twist the vote, actively obstruct the government from governing, jamb right-wing extremist justices into court positions. Do democrats ever do this? Almost never.

I grew up in the New York area, like other new yorker's who voted 90% for Biden, we all know something you don't. We've seen his ridiculous antics for decades. He has been a perpetual lier, tax-evader, serial failed business man, narcissistic self-promoter, and con-man. Heck he's been a democrat... but I guess that was back when he needed all those abortions for his mistresses.

In the end, he like much of his elections team, will be put in jail for his crimes. But because he knows he's done a lot of illegal shit, he will first pardon himself... just watch.

This.

There are in fact many parties in the USA. But unfortunately the USA is still using an early alpha release voting system that was invented in the 1700s before voting theory had been even understood.

The result of a majority win voting system is that it only legitimizes 2 parties in practice. This worked 'ok' so long as the 2 parties acted in good faith.

However the last 20-30 years the Republican party got twisted into a movement to undermine government, enrich themselves, and narrowly focus on a couple of right-wing Christian interests to distract a populist base. They've maintained their relevance by turning Fox news and other right-wing owned outlets into effectually state-run propaganda machines. Leaving only the Democrats trying to govern with the Republicans trying to undermine and obstruct that very government.

The only way out of the USA's problems is to have a modern preference voting method, or in the long term the country may be doom to fail.

Not sure they are bad people per se... but where do you draw the line?

Sure Hitler improved the German economy, does that make it defensible to support him?

This is the fundamental question in nationalist movements that are driven by ideologies, tribalism, and cult of personalities... instead of real facts backed up by science and data.

Given that provably almost nothing Trump ever says is even true, how can these people know he is the best person to govern? If there are no facts, it is just beliefs... and that is incredibly dangerous.

Totally agreed. The biggest problem in the political discussion is false equivalency.

If one side doesn't believe in truth, facts and science, and the other side defends them as fundamental to everything... than those are not equivalent positions.

This has been largely a one-sided war on decency. Don't kill the messenger.

I would say this is the fundamental reason to vote. What we saw in this countries current divisions is:

REPUBLICANS: voting for ideology over everything

EVERYONE ELSE: voting for democracy and stability over ideology.

Proves only gullibility has no racial boundaries.

Well said. Let startups be visionary, the government should be boring and centrist most of the time.

If everything is going well and on track in the government, there shouldn't be any news.The president of the united states shouldn't be the center of attention.