Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "TED" channel.

Note that if you do the bottom crossing the other way around, you can keep doing the loop part as you did earlier. Changing the way you do the bottom part is much easier than re-learning the loop part. Good tip about the bow orientation. That's a good method to diagnose the problem if you're not sure if you did it correctly or not.
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The E in TED is literally "entertainment".
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I think it was about Linus explaining why he likes silent computers.
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Without Linux there wouldn't be Wikipedia, Facebook, Google, Youtube or Twitter. All those services are based on having LOTS of servers running Linux. Also, 100% of current top 500 supercomputers run Linux nowadays.
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@heraclitus6100 Military is still busy trying to get F-35 not to crash. Imagine having a swarm of computer controlled quads carrying a couple of fast missiles each instead of a single fighter. I would guess having a swarm of quads would be much cheaper even if you used turbines as power source instead of small batteries.
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It's good to understand your limits :D
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I feel disappointed in humankind when video with this important message gets so little likes compared to total view count. I click like when I feel that the content is valuable and above average for YouTube content. This definitely fits that description.
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@fredflintstone2958 The competing theories that were found to be incorrect by LIGO are simply forgotten but there were other theories, too.
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As I see it, the biggest problem with Edison was that he took credit for the work by other people. Also, he used very questionable marketing tricks such as killing a lot of animals with electric shocks in public demonstrations while trying to defame competing AC technology which ultimately won because Edison's DC technology was not suitable for the transmission lines of that day. Even today, DC is used only for special cases for long distance power transmission because the technology required is so expensive even by modern standards.
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@Axodus It appears that influenza at 0.09% lethality is considered small enough in most societys but the 2.8% lethality of COVID-19 is too much to accept. The actual percentages will depend on the study you look at but the message is the same. Are we going to accept e.g. under 0.1% lethality for superhuman AI usage?
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In my experience, Stallman doesn't give interviews, he gives lectures. Both in good and bad.
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I agree. The "no comment" response must have meant that the estimate was correct within one magnitude.
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Imagine future where AI systems are keeping virtual TED talks to other AI systems. Every second, every day. When humans can invent an AI system that can learn at same level as humans, that will be the last invention that humans ever need to make. As AI systems can have much better memory than humans, being able to learn at human level will already put the AI system in huge advantage compared to any human given a decade or two of time to learn about things.
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@kudosbudo The algorithm was about picking the best possible option when you cannot change previous selections and cannot know the future. There're edge cases where it results in suboptimal solution or even in result where you cannot choose anybody (if every candidate after 37% is worse than the best that far). It also assumes that you have a solid fulle life plan where you know the end-date for your dating. I think a better algorithm would be "find a partner as soon as possible while avoiding the bad options" – I guess it would be pretty similar but tilted towards selecting slightly less-optimal partner earlier.
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Every religious human being should sometimes think about following: people around the world believe in 5000-6000 different gods. What's the probability that my religion is the correct one? If my religion was selected by my parents, have they ever misunderstood something? Why would their selection of religion be any different? If you honestly study at least a couple of thousands of those gods and still believe that your selection is the right one, great for you. I think most people will end up as atheist or agnostic after properly researching religions that worship less than 10 gods in total. The worst lie you can tell to your children is to tell them that they shouldn't try to understand the world. The evolution of modern religions is mostly based on creation of the following rules: (1) man cannot understand the ways of god (= do not research things), (2) beware false prophets (= ignore any evidence pointing problems in your religion) Those are rules made by the people that want to believe in that religion, not based on facts.
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9:30 So... the optimal strategy results in 37% change of dying alone without a partner. Since it's safe to assume that majority of the people cannot follow mathematically optimal strategy, the changes are even worse for most of us. Obviously the correct solution is to lower your expectations and stop dreaming about the "perfect match".
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@Fonzleberry About 0.2% of all people of have 150-160 IQ (by definition) so unless you're very special, you should assume you don't belong to that group. It's said that even 20 point difference in IQ is enough to make valuable discussion possible – for differences more than that, the person with lower intelligence can provide nothing valuable in form of intelligent content. Obviously, the person with higher IQ can still teach lots of stuff.
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Moxie Marlinspike once gave awesome example of the need for privacy: you have heard about homosexuality, right? It was illegal in most countries for a long time. Do you think it would have ever got its current acceptance without privacy? If every government everywhere would have instantly known about all homosexual activity and always enforced the ban, we would be living in different world. Replace homosexuality with anything else that's different from previous centuries and was once banned.
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It doesn't need to modify the program. Current deep neural network based AI systems basically run really simple and static program over huge amount of data and all the intelligence of the system is collected in the data. You can think AI system more like really smart implementation of hashmap where key is the question you want to ask and the value is the solution. And you don't need to prefill all the data to be able to read all the data you want. And the key can be last 5 seconds from the camera pointing forward in your car and the result is the input for the steering.
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I think they do that just to make more money.
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If Apple marketing slogan "Think different" were actually true, only autistic people would be using Apple devices.
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If you say "I have nothing to hide", I'll say give me following information: your home address, your bank account details (offline and online), all pin codes and passwords you have, photos of all the keys you have, all the medical records you have, and all your calendaring info. Maybe I'll also install some video cameras to you bedroom and bathroom and internet connected GPS trackers to your cars. Can you see any potential issues with sharing all that data with me or the rest of the world? Would you like to reconsider that statement about "I have nothing to hide"?
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"You have the right to your own opinion, but you don't have the right to your own facts."
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It seems that the part that was clipped away was about Gates suggesting that the certificates being talked about during that time would be digital. I don't see the clipped part to be important because it's just one possible implementation for the certificates. Obviously, digitally signed certificate would be much safer than some kind of paper document. Note that something being digital does not require it being online. However, if this video had been more transparent about the removed part, conspiracy theorists couldn't have used it for their purposes.
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k Interesting, thanks for the info. I still think that what was said in this interview sounds sensible to me; I'd be fine if many countries refuce you grant you visa to enter the country unless you can present a proof for immunity or vaccination. Those are sovereign countries after all so they can invent any rules they want. A digital signature using publicly available official public keys per country would solve this very easily and you could provide the certificate via email, USB memory stick or even a big QR code when requested. No need for blockchain or cryptocurrency - however, I understand why they mix that stuff in if they're looking for investors...
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@burno55_ If you do believe in bible stories, why do you think you can ignore this part spoken by Jesus? “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. (NIV, Matthew 5:17–18) The old testament does matter if you believe in bible. Or you decide to interpret the word "law" in some suitable way that doesn't mean the contents of the old testament but something you like more.
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15:20 Basically "big bang" was so loud that we'll still hearing the echo 14 billion years later... (however, the echo is in radio frequency, not in audible pressure changes which wouldn't go anythere in the space without air anyway).
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Global pandemic that would prevent technological progress would need to be something that permanently destroys your brain preventing intelligent work or teaching children and infects everyone. There seems to be some evidence that COVID-19 causes some brain damage to some people and that's not definitely enough to stop humankind from progressing in technology. COVID-19 is more like speedbump.
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COVID-19 is nowhere close a global pandemic able to permanently stop improving machine intelligence. At worst it has caused prices of computer parts to increase (e.g. GPUs still sell over twice the MSRP) temporarily. Nobody seems to believe that the prices will not get lower in a year or two. And both Intel and Apple have released (already sold) new CPUs while the pandemic has been going. And AMD is briging new CPUs with up to 128 cores.
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@kevinjacob3022 We already have Llama and Openchat / ChatBot UI. However, training an AI model requires insane computational efforts. If you wanted to improve even Llama 7B model (which is considered a small model these days), you would need about one million USD worth of computer hardware to have a single try in a year – that is, you have an idea how to improve the training results, write some code and then you start the training process and look at the finished training results about a year later when the computation is ready. If you have lesser hardware, you could do the same thing but one try could take about 100–500 years. This is the biggest roadblock in front of open source AI development right now. Unless somebody figures out some way to train the models with 10–100x less computing resources, hobbyists will have to wait a decade or so until powerful enough hardware is accessible. The estimated cost of training GPT-4 was around 100 million USD. That's the resources needed to do the computation part when you have already collected all the data and have the AI software ready.
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Typical autistic traits: - Attention to detail - Being persistent - Being creative - Begin honest - Being non-judgemental - Being loyal - Being highly emphathic - Extremely flexible - Strong sense of justice Are we actually sure that the society we've created is a good one when the above traits will cause you problems in long run?
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@filipeflower Autism is considered a disorder so if you have those traits, you should be considered flawed. That is, society as a whole thinks you are a problematic because you don't fit in the herd.
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@madyogi6164 If you do "git clone ..../linux" you'll end up with about 950 MB of source code and about 1.5 GB of history as git repository. It is possible to compile "modular" kernel that allows booting the system with 5-10 MB kernel image but its driver support will be really really limited without additional kernel modules. My current Ubuntu system has kernel image about 9.1 MB and boot also requires initrd image sized 67 MB which contains my system drivers. In addition, the kernel package contains about 350 MB worth of other hardware drivers so that when I plug my random USB device to the system it will just magically work without having to install any drivers - instead the kernel will use that ~ 350 MB driver collection to automatically load the required drivers. And for some cases Linux doesn't have "native" support for a given device but it does have generic support for the USB controller and another generic driver for the microchip at the other end of that USB connection. That's the major difference with device drivers on Linux vs Windows (et al): Linux device drivers mostly control hardware parts not full devices.
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To really understand how much money Elon actually has, think about your own networth (including house, car, etc, subtract any loans); if your total networth value is close to $300K, then $1 for you is similar investment as 1 million dollars is to Elon. If you get a new iPhone and it costs you $800, Elon would feel similar monetary impact relative to his networth by spending 800 million dollars. If you think $5 is a lot for a cup of mocca in local cafe, 5 million dollars would be a lot for a cup of mocca for Elon. It's obvious that Elon wouldn't need to work a day in his life. The fact that he does all the things he's doing only speaks that he's not doing this all for money.
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This is the video you want to view: https://youtu.be/MnT1xgZgkpk
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