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How is the linear algebra that implements the transformer attention mechanism (key, query, value, softmax, etc) an imitation of biology?
It seems like a departure from the (albeit tenuous) neuron/dendrite inspired design of the perceptron from which multilayered CNNs could trace their lineage.
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Even worse is when the LLM spits out a gibberish proof or a chain-of-thought that is actively lying to you about how it arrived at its answer
youtu.be/r7wCtN3mzXk
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Gemini 2.5 still sucks at combinatorics problems that have already been solved by mathematiciams in the 1970s
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Could it be a loss leader?
We're all gonna end up paying the full cost of it later.
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Have the AI tech companies given the "walrus and pelican open a teashop joke" microtask to a human gig worker with a sense of humour yet?
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"Astronaut riding a horse" was one of the earliest text-to-image challenges. You'd think they would have added every common creature riding some form of transport combo to the training data by now.
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I like this demonstration where Eliza uses linguistic tricks to fool users into believing it understands the text that was typed by the human
youtu.be/4sngIh0YJtk
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And that is, it really sounded like a library that would have been perfect for training AI on. Music that was specifically designed around very particular keywords that could be then fed into a model and used to create new music.
I thought I was being bitter in paranoid then. But yeah here we are.
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I thought we've moved beyond chicken with this regime.
Probably offer an "opportunity" to become Puerto Rico II in exchange for DOGE getting access to the entire NHS.
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A college student built a tool for this that is broadly available. It transparently overlays so as to even work in a screenshare situation. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/09/g...
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In which category is the Cobol codebase upon which Social Security runs?
www.computerworld.com/article/3953...
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Best not to expend any effort trying to understand anyone in the Trump regime
finance.yahoo.com/news/commerc...
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If they were remote operating one of those Optimus robots that don't have any AI from their home, they could claim to be working in manufacturing while also not being in a factory.
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The British have personal experience of how spiking yields in government bonds can feed into the rest of the economy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
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Have a read of this:
www.fanniemae.com/research-and...
Article was written in December when their expectation was:
"existing home sales will remain subdued through the next year due to the significant increase in mortgage rates and other long-duration bond rates since September"
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You don't need a microphone to have a podcast. Just a text file and NotebookLM is sufficient.
youtu.be/iV6TS7Ww4Ds
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More from RobWords
youtu.be/F12LSAbos7A
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Different scan ratio?
1/32 vs 1/16
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Did you unlock* those extra firmware capabilities that already come with the scope but have an expiry time?
* Wink, wink
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I listen to so many podcasts at night. This one might be quite interesting to you from The Rest is Politics US. Episode 78. It specifically mentions the bond market which can force America to renegotiate its foreign debt. This has flow on effects to domestic interest rates.
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Compare what is happening now to US treasuries and dollar, with what happened to the UK when the PM lost confidence of the bond vigilantes, and you can decide for yourself how bad this is
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...
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Bond yields for a very special type of bond -- those issued by the US government
www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bond...
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Back during the financial crisis of 2008 I too needed it explained "as you might to a young child. Or a golden retriever." (to quote John Told, Margin Call, 2011)
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Or some very big fund managers are selling their treasuries because they are too highly leveraged
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Just wait until you learn what an interest rate swap is and how these rising treasury yields can negatively impact everyone's mortage payments and ability to take out a loan.
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The British learned this painful lesson 2 and a half years ago with short shelf-life PM Liz Truss. Before long gilt yields became the main topic of family dinner conversations.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Great news for Germany. Their government can afford to borrow more money to spend on their much needed military defence now that NATO can no longer count on America
www.reuters.com/markets/rate...
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Yield also rises if people are selling off their bonds, often forced to by margin calls because their investments are highly leveraged
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