True! If only grandma wouldn't insist on bringing 250kg of weapons and ammunition with her everywhere I'd get much better range in my EV, but alas this is the USA.
Instead of technological advancements of EV motors, we can immediately use existing pharmaceutical tech (Ozempic, GLP-1) to immediately deliver weight reduction to cars. However, this will be immediately offset by the increase in weight of weapons carried, thanks to Jevons Paradox.
My employer uses Outlook/Exchange and those reactions are a lot less annoying than short mails expressing the same thing on mailing lists and also is an alternative to notes not really demanding a proper response ending in the void. (Like a fun/life sharing post)
I don’t see any issues with it using outlook either but from what it sounds like when people do it for emails not managed by outlook, they’re getting a whole new email about it? If so, I could see how that would be annoying.
You're that guy who everyone thinks is weird for doing the thing. In the real world language changes over time. We need not be dogmatic about it, you know what it means.
When you have actual "real world" experience, you learn that while language changes, there is professional language that you use in the workplace, and there is informal language that you use in a bar.
You don't use a single vocabulary for every interaction in every situation of your life. You alter your speech for the situation. You don't talk to the cop that just pulled you over, or the bank manager you're trying to get money from, or your mom the same way you talk to your friends watching a sportsball game.
"Annoying" is probably a more accurate word to describe what they're thinking. Coworkers have to remember to not use the reaction buttons with this one specific person who responds like an ass to them.
Yes, the term block chain does has a specific technical meaning: a sequence of hashed values where each contains the hash of the previous, similar to the way a git commit includes the hash of its parent commit. But the term blockchain has also taken on a broader colloquial meaning of "log with certain cryptographic properties", which both block chain and merkle tree implementations can satisfy with various advantages and disadvantages. I think it's fair to allow usage of the broader definition.
Have you heard of XTDB / Bitemporality? The basic idea is to make time 2-dimensional, where each record has both a System Time range and a Valid Time range. Designed as a write-only db with full auditability for compliance purposes.
With 2D time you can ask complex questions about what you knew when, with simpler questions automatically extended into a question about the current time. Like:
"What is the price?" -> "What is the price today, as of today?"
"What was the price in 2022" -> "What was the price in 2022, as of today?"
"What was the price in 2022, as of 2023?"
You probably don't want to just switch to XTDB, but if you pursue this idea I think you should look into 2D time as I think it is schematically the correct conceptualization for this problem.
Yeah, I did actually pursue this for a time (heh), but I might revisit it later. It was too much complexity for debateable value-add, though the value is growing on me.
So what happens when we figure out how to 10x both scale and throughput on existing hardware by using it more efficiently? Will gigantic models still be useful?
Of course! We still have computers the size of mainframes that ran on vacuum tubes. They are just built with vastly more powerful hardware and are used for specialized tasks that supercomputing facilities care about.
But it has the potential to alter the economics of AI quite dramatically
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