Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. @25:34 It wasn't just the broken treaty, The USSR and PRC were in open ground battles in Manchuria during this time. So from the Chinese perspective, they were caught between 2 nuclear armed enemies (three if you count England, a former colonial invader), which was highly motivational and worth the cost even during the worst of the "Grate leap forward", from their perspective. I know you hit on that, but I don't think you really emphasized that context enough.
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  2. This. Even in these comments you see ppl conflating the two. The ML technology is far more important than just chatbots.
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  3. Still waiting for my cold fusion powered graphene magic carpet...
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  4. They had a better "narrative"; "You (meaning the State) will own the land vs going back to being serfs."
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  5. Notice how in most of the facilities pictures every horizontal surface looks brown? That is dust. So keeping solar concentrators clean in a desert is a problem. Also they don't work at night, so you lose half of your production capacity.
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  6.  @richardarriaga6271  Mistakes were made. However, no. Check your sociopathy.
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  7. The breakup of Yugoslavia and decent into chaos and mediocrity of all the constituent groups is such a tragedy on so many levels.
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  8. Would we be able to recognize it even if there were?
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  9.  @mikebrown1970  The Battle of Zhenbao was the culmination of the territorial disputes that had been going on since '64. It was very much the scenario that drove their atomic program.
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  10. NATO didn't break up Yugoslavia. It was already broken before the UN ever did anything.
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  11. Well, I mean you can't just eat your own children, think of the... oh never mind.
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  12. Meh. The LLM datasets are less important than the algorithms that build them. GPT is just a chatbot. A big, good, training set is valuable for its functionally and the cost it took to build. Lots of datasets are being built these days. They are going to be like cyptos. The first one was valuable, but then everyone made one and the value of all dropped. Chatbots are good at "talking", as in it can predict what a human would say based upon the keywords in the prompt input. But the model does not "know" or "think" anything. Most of them are dumb. There best utility is in making serendipitous connections of concepts and ideas from masses of data.
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  13. Nit: The aerobrake was for terminal decent and landing where Venus' atmospheric pressure supercritical C02 is much denser than air on Earth. Not quite water, but I remember reading where they tested the lander in a pool for that. The high altitude test was for the parachute separation, and I guess to make sure it didn't go tail over teakettle on the way down.
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  14. And it only takes about a week to find and retrieve any specific file from it.
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  15.  @isbestlizard  That is not what the human mind is any more than it is a computer, or any other poor metaphor used before.
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  16. "Japan was still recovering from its ill-advised participation in WWII..." You win Internet understatement of the day.
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  17. One hopes that they would have had the sense to not nuke their neighbors that were all well within the fallout zone of each other. But the it would have made the UN and then later NATO intervention much more... complicated.
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  18.  @Janezslovenski  They voted for it and are "glad" because the unresolved issues and bigotry were never overcome only suppressed by Tito. All would be vastly better off if they had remained in a republic or commonwealth instead of minor petty ethnic states. Not to mention the waste and misery of the civil war.
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  19.  @felipea1399  Perhaps. Or it would have prompted a full scale "intervention" to secure the weapons as soon as Yugoslavia fell apart.
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  20.  @user-pd9ju5dk5s  Except you are wrong. Mining and refining materials is just an application of engineering, likewise so is assembling a device. Knowing cars exist and what they are made of is not the same as designing and building one.
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  21. They had the advantage of being on the periphery of the Soviet empire so could maintain links and gain advantages with the free West.
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  22.  @alanywalany6460  I guess you didn't pay attention to the end of the video...
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  23.  @pretty7545  No and no. The fuel used for these desalination plants is a literal drop in the bucket compared to what is produced for power generation, vehicles, much less for export. But thanks for playing.
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  24.  @user-pd9ju5dk5s  Knowing something is possible is much different than solving all the engineering that makes it so.
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  25.  @user-pd9ju5dk5s  Irony. Go build a warp drive then. I'll wait up.
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  26.  @Alex-fr2td  Prices dropped due to market price collapse during the Great Depression not mechanization. This also has nothing at all to do with Soviet grain/food supply/demand malmanagment during the Civil War and 20s when demand and prices were high.
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  27.  @idzkk  A lot of inventions have no use cases. The US Patent Office is full of them.
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  28.  @t9h3m  Watch the video again and pay attention.
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  29. "The staggering sum of $53 million for the bomb..." Is "only" $700 million today. Not much as far as nuk'ler wa'pons go. Or was that supposed to be sarcastic?
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  30. AI Jailbreaking is probably going to take on a new meaning in the next while...
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  31. Quantum computers is the same as fusion power, always a decade away. And funded similarly. AI is just software. It has no practical limitations.
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  32. You can't really describe this subject without going into the jargon. Otherwise you are doing a Pop Sci "I like pie" video that is pointless at best. Current computing architecture and computing in memory is a completely apples and oranges comparison. So much so, that our way of thinking about it to try to make an apple that looks like an orange. I think this video does an inadvertent demonstration of that.
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  33. Sometimes its profitable, sometimes it was just stupid.
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  34.  @JohnWayne-dh8gl  Your post bears no resemblance to reality.
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  35.  @deniskhafizov6827  You whatabouted all over that...
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  36. Not really. Its all VC and PE money. You have some retail investors but its all speculative investing. Money is still cheap historically. In fact there is far to much of it. Trillions of dollars could evaporate and it would not effect the real economy at all. Far less disruptive than if all the fever dreams of AI came true.
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  37. Except most development is based upon prior work. When you have a bot that can churn thru a million patents and papers it can put A, B, and Z together better than any human, or even collection of humans can. The intellectual theft problem isn't in the stealing of the LLM, its the theft of the documents or works by the company that builds the training model. Its common to pay for research papers and for books etc. The claim is that they are scraping the internet for these documents without compensation or paying royalties. Yeah, the CCP being able to develop a 5th gen fighter aircraft really weakened them. More insidious is that the authoritarian states like the PRC have institutionalized IP theft. They do this by forcing expats to spy with extorting them with implied threats to family and themselves. Chinese nationals really are a security threat to other countries and companies. That isn't sinophobia, its just reality.
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  38. @12:30 I doubt that is the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. @21:20 "Stalin's passing largely ended the threat of a Soviet...so Tito canned the program." Hungarians and Czechoslovaks would probably disagree. There is no way Tito would not have watched those "interventions" and not taken note of what happens to those who wanted to do their own thing. Its far more likely that Rankovic simply failed to establish a workable bomb program so they "retconned" the story to save face.
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  39. But no one knows which path leads to that future. So the money flows in.
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  40.  @KevinBalch-dt8ot  That estimate is nothing but a WAG, much like anything about it that you can read in open-sources.
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  41. Watch video again. It was drastic circumstances, it was sheer incompetence.
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  42.  @illusion9423  Crypto is still a bubble that hasn't fallen yet.
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  43. A human being is a bit more complicated than an MPEG codex...
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  44.  @tzoa4443  That you think that only means you are ignorant.
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  45.  @Alex-fr2td That is wrong, completely backwards.
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  46.  @kuni45  You missed the part about cogeneration.
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  47. The robots will solve that problem by putting the humans into a circulated filterd vat of fluids and plugging them into simulated virtual environment. Careful what you ask for.
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  48.  @MickeyMishra  Disneyland's real world practicality is separating people from their money.
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  49.  @MickeyMishra  So we'll be thought of like squirrels? Ignored unless we make pests of ourselves? Thats nice...
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  50. AMZN
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