whatifitoldyou

I must say that this AI thing is going more or less as I felt it would back about a year ago. I think there is no real moat in AI models. It's a commodity and the big labs have predictably been caught in a race to the bottom. Not sure if this is going to turn better or worse for all of us common folks. I must say I'm a bit happy though in the sense that "intelligence" is not going to be controlled and be rented out by a small minority.

I think us people do not have the capacity as societies to effectively anticipate and solve problems that we can see approaching but have not become catastrophic yet. We always act shortsightedly and ..hope for the best. Most of the people will just not vote/support anything that might bring them some minuscule pain. Even if we know by logic that the problem is coming, we tend to follow whomever will tell us that it's not a problem and base our hopes on him/her. Think of a problem that we saw coming in the future and we collectively solved. I can think of none.

It is very hopeful that renewables are being pursued and developed by China at least to some degree and have become economically attractive. That's the only feasible way to minimize the damage that's already been done.

You're right. I mean MiMo V2.5. The smaller model compared to MiMo V2.5 Pro.

I'm running minimax m2.7 locally (pretty good!). Tried stepfun 3.5 flash (kind of weak) and mimo v2.5 flash (tended to loop real hard). Looking forward to testing stepfun 3.7. Looks pretty good benchmark-wise.

pthread_cancel is never the answer. Abrupt thread cancelation is always a risk for leaks and/or even worse, deadlocks. No matter of it was blocked in one libc function. The function is not one instruction you don't know what the poor thread was doing when it was killed.

Do you think that issues being discovered in 2018 with 2 planes and 346 people lost and systemic safety issues persisting since then qualifies as "relatively quickly"?

Sure, I even have a similar taxonomy of foods. I think of pizza as high tech good. You need agriculture, all the knowledge of yeast and fermentation you need cow farming, cheese making, meat curing for the toppings etc. You need centuries of knowledge and an entire economy to make pizza. Compare all that to grilling a steak or making a fruit salad.

But isn't apple that's overpassing Intel an equally big organization? How is it exempt from the rules of bureaucracy?

A pretty good summary of the state of C++. I actually enjoy the language and most of the new features. The 'modern' part is not at fault here. This has always been a problem. The cult of generic metaprogramming was always a pain to deal with. In part, the new language features can help reduce over reliance on templates. As a community we must push for features that can get is out of this situation, like a sane modules system.

I think Bjarne Stroustrup is partly to blame here. He has succeeded in creating a versatile and popular language but has given little priority to problems like build time, error messages and debug performance. These sound like petty, practical problems that the tooling guys should eventually figure out. Except they aren't. They are hugely dependent on the language design.

Another thing we are missing is a high profile figure that will show the way on correct patterns and that will literally publicly shame the authors of too "meta" template heavy libraries. You are not smart if you are writing these monstrosities. It should not feel good. Making it simple requires much more intelligence.

OK, in theory one could use an exploit on the PDF, to compromise the sandboxed converter and create a malicious image. ...in theory.