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And this strict liability will come with an expectation of insurance. The insurance policies will necessitate audits, which will actually improve security.

Strong disagree (especially under US law). Consider what this means for union organizing in the context of this 2022 NLRB memo. > Under settled Board law, numerous practices employ…

Provenance matters. An LLM cannot certify a Developer Certificate of Origin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Origi... ) and a developer of integrity cannot …

The colloquial definitions have always been more cultural than technical, but it's become more acute recently. > I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact…

Many journals require LaTeX due to their post-acceptance pipeline. I use Typst for letters and those docs for which my PDF is the final version (modulo incomplete PDF/A in Typst), …

If you are asking a professional high-stakes questions about their expertise in a work context and they are just bullshitting you, it's fair to impugn their motives. Similarly if s…

Their developers have intent. That intent is to give the perception of understanding/facts/logic without designing representations of such a thing, and with full knowledge that as …

> customers at the national labs are not going to be sharing custom HPC code with AMD engineers There are several co-design projects in which AMD engineers are interacting on a wee…

The point is that LLMs are never right for the right reason. Humans who understand the subject matter can make mistakes, but they are mistakes of a different nature. The issue remi…

The cross-over can be around 500 ( https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2016.58 ) for 2-level Strassen. It's not used by regular BLAS because it is less numerically stable (a concern that be…

> It's trivially easy to find a real-world situation where conservation of energy does not hold (any system with friction, which is basically all of them) Conservation of energy ab…

What is the state of tiling in Plasma 6 and how does it compare to Pop Shell ( https://github.com/pop-os/shell ) for GNOME?

They tripled the price of my grandmother's service over a five year period despite no speed increases so I figure they were going to charge you more regardless.

If you spend weeks drilling flash cards on copyrighted code, then produced pages of near-verbatim copies with copyright stripped, any court would find you to have violated the copy…

The LM industry valuation would be way smaller if they were not laundering behavior that would be illegal if a human did it. If "AI" were required to practice clean-room design ( h…

Language models don't understand anything, they just manipulate tokens. It is a much harder task to write a spec (that humans and courts can review if needed to determine is not in…

Even MIT licensed code requires you to preserve the copyright and permission notice. If a human did what these language models are doing (output derivative works with the copyright…

This is possible using branded indices. https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/paper.pdf https://gitlab.mpi-sws.org/FP/ghostcell/-/blob/master/ghostc...

> it's pretty clear that GPT is producing an amazing level of comprehension of what a series of words means It comprehends nothing at all. It's amazing at constructing sequences of…

Relevant context: Mencken is the namesake of a white supremacist hate group.

"random index lookups into sparse arrays" is almost always an anti-pattern in HPC. Successful data structures are designed for streaming access and fine-grained parallelism, even w…

It's a start (and I use it too), but it's so far from parity with Magit that even when working in VSCode (where rust-analyzer is better), I often switch to Emacs for Magit.

> AMD/Intel were long at 16 operations and only the latest Intel went up to 32 operations. Intel has had 256-bit dual-issue FMA since Haswell (2013); that's 32 flops/cycle/core. AV…

TexText (Re-editable LaTeX graphics for Inkscape) is a neat plugin. https://textext.github.io/textext/index.html

Five years ago, I got a 40-inch 4k@60Hz for under $400. I recently got a 43-inch 4k@60Hz for $450. The new one is lighter and somewhat more color accurate. I don't get the obsessio…