Every physical model has its strengths and weaknesses. In this case you're correct that no emphasis has been put on the human-instrument coupling, but they've worked harder than usual on the air/instrument coupling which makes sense givwn their goal of helping violin makers. However there are plenty of research work on physical modeling between human and instrument (Serafin, Woodhouse, Chaigne etc from 1-2 decades ago) esp for violin. For string plucking & striking specifically, the coupling is modeled in a few commercial products (Pianoteq is a popular one) [disclaimer: I used to sell a guitar software doing this as well and met some of these acoustics experts a long time ago - these were fun times going down the rabbit hole of physical modeling]

It makes me think of this parallel: often in combinatorial optimization ,estimating if it is hard to find a solution to a problem costs you as much as solving it.

With a small bounded compute budget, you're going to sometimes make mistakes with your router/thinking switch. Same with speculative decoding, branch predictors etc.

> I suspect they just push what they want you to watch, like their own content.

Having worked close to the recsys folks at Netflix, I can tell you that this statement couldn't be further from the truth.

I noticed that for the last few years, my recommendations are almost the same for every category. 'Top picks' is 60% the same as 'We think you'll love this' which is almost the same as 'Your Next Watch' which is similar to 'Award-winning movies', 'Chilly thrillers', repeat ad-infinitum. If there is a new Netflix-owned movie it will definitely be in there.

Then on top of that, similar to YouTube, half of that content are things I have already watched. HBO and Amazon are even worse in this aspect but it just drives me crazy, feels like seeing the same 100 movie options over and over for months. Has the catalog shrinked that much over the years?

I started keeping a separate list of films to watch on IMDB, but 6/10 times they are not available on any service except for rent in AppleTV.

i have no idea how to even display a complete list of movies

On the native interface(s), surely, you can't.

I have a difficult time trusting their recommendations when those come along with more and more difficult to even know what exists in the rest of the catalog. It seems pretty obvious they want de facto scroll feeds instead of the streaming style they started with.

I also have some firsthand knowledge here and I can assure you that promo-driven culture will not result in optimization for the consumer.

I know nothing about photography, but I'll just comment on this point:

> (I'm guessing this is a CM4/CM5) is a disaster for a camera board. Nobody wants a 20s boot every time you want to take a picture, cameras need to be near instantaneous.

You can boot an RPI in a couple hundred milliseconds.

The article started really well, and I was looking forward to the empirical argument.

Truly mind-boggling times where "here is the empirical proof" means "here is what chatGPT says" to some people.

its Vitalik what do you expect? Do you think Bernie Madoff was speaking objectively when talking to his potential clients?

VB is a genius, no sweat (are you familiar with his work?). Madoff isn't in the same league at all, and it's disingenuous to imply otherwise.

In no way is it better than "according to Google".

Maybe when google actually did searches. A coworker today was unable to find a very straightforward quoted text on google, on duckduckgo the first few hits were exactly what we were looking for.

On the other hand, Groq seems pretty successful.

Ha! I have spent the last 2 years on this idea as a pet research project and have recently found a way of learning the wiring in a scalable fashion (arbitrary number of input bits, arbitray number of output bits). Would love to chat with someone also obsessed with this idea.

Also very interested. Do you have any code on github?

I also I'm very interested. I had played around a lot with Differentiable Logic Networks a couple of months ago and how to make the learned wiring scale to bigger number of gates. I had a couple of ideas that seemed to worked in a smaller scale, but that had trouble converging with deeper networks.

What is so bad about free trade?

Isn't competition in free markets something Republicans believe in anymore? Because forcing Americans to buy inferior locally-made products at a premium through artificial restrictions surely isn't that.

Free trade and globalization are also a pacifying force, by creating mutual dependencies between countries.

Protectionism doesn't work.

Nothing substantive to add to the discussion, but to praise Min's blog posts which I have found very well written and instructive.

11. notice that there's a unicode rendering error ("'" for apostrophe) on kernel_initializer and bias_initializer default arguments in the documentation, and wonder why on earth for such a high-level API one would want to expose lora_rank as a first class construct. Also, 3 out of the 5 links in the "Used in the guide" links point to TF1 to TF2 migration articles - TF2 was released 5 years ago.