why have an AI oven when you could just relax and be gently roasted in your smart bed?

www.pcworld.com/article/2948...

I've been reflecting on this, having been making extensive use of Amazon Q CLI recently. It's changing how I explore and develop ideas - for the better. So, I agree, next token prediction isn't sufficient to describe what it's doing.

and I'm sure we can expect the weirdness to show up in EUSPRIG's spreadsheet Horror Stories real soon...
eusprig.org/research-inf...

I think "stochastic parrot" is a useful reminder that no matter whether we judge the output of a model to great or garbage, it was the same process that produced it - next token prediction.

The value of marshmallows could easily collapse in the meantime. Probably best to take them now while they are still worth something...

And in a rivetting conclusion to this story, they are now back together again in close harmony.

To be fair they had been moving apart for some time.

#SkyAtNight seems to stand alone as a programme that regularly brings cutting edge science to a wide audience whilst treating them with respect and not oversimplifying. Long may it continue.

I've yet to find anyone that's actually read the Dunning-Kruger paper or any of the subsequent work on the topic.

The Voyager probes were, and continue to be, engineering marvels. The work that has gone into managing issues (in some cases from the very early days) is extraordinary. Section 3.7.2.6 of this document gives a feel for what is required.
voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/Deep...

this is a starter kit for a DuckDB cluster, right?

another excellent episode! The RTLS abort procedure sounded...courageous. Bet everyone was glad they never had to try it! There's some good writeup on wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_S...) which emphasises just how many factors would have to be juggled to make it successful.

very much here for this content (reaches to the bookshelf for Bringhurst's 'The Elements of Typographic Style').

Another great episode. I loved the description of the fuelled shuttle waiting on the pad, alive with moaning, creaking and valves firing. Brilliant stuff!