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phillypham
·last year·discuss
They removed the docs and support for it https://github.com/googleapis/python-genai/commit/af3b339a9d....

You can see the thoughts in AI Studio UI as per https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/thinking#debugging-and....
phillypham
·last year·discuss
Depending how you count, parent comment is accurate. Hardware doesn't just appear. 4 years of planning and R&D for the first generation chip is probably right.
phillypham
·last year·discuss
Could some disgruntled employee offer proof of seeding and collect a whistleblower reward?
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
I wonder if this also applies to people that live urban environments that don't drive and have to navigate walking or using the subway.

From my anecdotal evidence, it does seem that the average elderly person in NYC is way more active and social than an elderly person in the suburbs. But of course, it could be that people that live in cities self-select.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
There is a lot of snark here. My non-cynical take is that they are aping the practices of top AI labs. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and many other AI startup darlings have a culture of in-office work. People in non-hub offices are encouraged to travel a lot.

Yes, it will take a lot more than RTO to create an innovative culture like paying more for one, but one can reasonably hypothesize that working physically together is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
Yes, but the ability to identify prodigies and give them the resources to realize their full potential is part of an education system, too. I don't know the full details of the IMO participants, but the team is geographically diverse.

Of course, another aspect of the education system are the resources given to the average student, and I don't think there is much debate that the US could do better here.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
At the very top, the US excels at math. We consistently place at the top or near the top in the IMO for instance (https://maa.org/news/usa-first-at-imo/). Yes the team is largely children of immigrants, but they are Americans, too.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
Initial versions were one-click. The attack became more sophisticated and became zero-click.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)#Development_... for timeline.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)#Saudi_Arabia for the iMessage version.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
It used to be possible to break into iPhones by sending just a text message without the target clicking on anything.

The only thing that kept this under control was there was an agreement to not target US-based numbers and the exploit was expensive.

Reference: The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/tensorflow-lite-is-now-... tries.

https://github.com/google/aqt is more explicit and preferable IMO.

Neither are as user-friendly as what Torchao has presented here.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
As an American with Southeast Asian immigrant parents, they will live in a way that most Americans would find intolerable. Whole families in a 1 bedroom, very long commutes, taking buses, and living apart from their children (CPS, I know).

To be clear, I did not grow up like this, but I know many that did.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
This is just (neurotypical?) human programming to be considerate of others. The driver feels this, too. I'd assume that the CEO of Uber Dara can manage his emotions and boundaries, well. But he mentions

> Some experiences made him feel slighted, such as when riders discussed personal problems and company secrets on speakerphone, as if there was no one else present.

https://archive.is/2023.04.17-151927/https://www.wsj.com/amp... (WSJ article)
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
The blog post (https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-2/) mentions tracking as a use case. Similar objects is known to be challenging and they mention it in the Limitations section. In that video, I only used one frame, but in some other tests even when I prompted in several frames as recommended, it didn't really work, still.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
Really cool. Doesn't really work for juggling unfortunately, https://sam2.metademolab.com/shared/fa993f12-b9ce-4f19-bb75-...
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
Awesome work environment for one person can be not ideal for another.

Pretty much all the top AI labs are both intensely competitive and collaborative. They consist of many former IMO and IOI medalists. They don't believe in remote work, either. Even if you work at Google DeepMind, you really need to be in London for this project.
phillypham
·2 years ago·discuss
You can break your sequence into two parts. One part goes through the encoder and the other goes through the decoder, so each token only goes through one transformer stack.
phillypham
·3 years ago·discuss
In ML/AI space, at least some people thing analog computing is the next big thing, https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2021/09/23/ibm-resea.... It hasn't taken off, yet, though.