Srikumar
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Srikumar
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Math, music (@patantara.com), human and computer languages, small data and natural intelligence, visiting prof of computer science at Krea University. Blog - https://sriku.org
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Probably right ... it's just so hard to not to fall for post hoc ergo propter hoc.
I keep wondering what Cho Ramaswamy would have to say about the union gov and its actors today had he been alive ... given that he was their supporter back then.
.... and perhaps another series on how llms will solve quantum's problems.
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Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
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"the financial system is very often a wealth extraction mechanism. it's not a wealth creation system for the many. it's a wealth extraction mechanism for the few" Eat The Rich: The Gamestop Saga (Netflix)
I've likely annoyed both the French and the Chinese by making Oolong tea in a French press.
India's doing better there - (1) gets lauded as a #MasterStroke no matter what it is, (2) is given in discourse as an already *materialized* reason and those who discuss (3) are branded as anti-national.
We do have small capable models and people continue to work on them. The conundrum though is that many of these happen to be distillates of larger behemoths. I wonder whether a better strategy than huge data centres to serve these large LLMs would be to only use them to train and deploy small ones?
Kid was wearing my 3M ear protectors last night.
And this is what they exploit and make worse with disinformation/misinformation. I saw that NYT didn't cover the "No Kings" rallies across the US. Dead media.
The comment is mostly snark. There is some real utility in being able to pull together and connect existing work in a way that search alone doesn't quite manage. Even Terence Tao acknowledged that and obviously he has awesome "basic research" skills.
Generated some simple mental math questions for kid using Claude Sonnet. Then kid grabbed phone & wrote "make it easier". & kept doing it until Claude gave problems like "You have 1 apple. You buy one more. How many apples do you have?". And then "ok You're messing with me." & then "I give up" :D
Super cool.
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?

In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.

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Mr.T has everything covered already.
Sorry that as an outsider I find this hope to be ... adorable. I mean after all this, 42% are in favour?!! It looks like the US has a multigenerational internal battle ahead of it. (Same with India)
Oh what superb weather in #Chennai for cycling. Many areas around us which used to get water logged for even light rain are nearly water free after these incessant rains.
Rejoicing about this ... especially with an asthmatic kid. Slightly affected, but not as badly as many years ago.
The really funny one I thought was "left handed guitar" for lefties where the left hand does the strumming and the right hand does all the fret work :)
? Many harmonium designs have LR symmetric bellows no?
Do LLMs not provide source links (reliably or at all) because they were not trained to do so for fear of being sued for copyright violations ... Or did everyone know this already and I'm late to the party?
The company I worked for the longest in Singapore had at one point a strength of about 60 people of about 15 different nationalities.
I'd even go as far as to say that one might be hard pressed to find *less* racism anywhere else in the world.
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Yes I'm aware of that and some gerrymandering too. However at the grass roots level, the law is not applied in a biased manner like it is in India. Also between the people too, there is little friction of that kind. It isn't perfect, yes, but I have many close multiracial friends & colleagues.