Let them start somewhere. Inequality has only accelerated in the past decades, undoing the fabric of the fair and democratic society which many/most people perceive as a condition for long-term stability. If taxing wealth isn't it, then what else do you propose? We seem to agree that taxing income stinks while news like "50 richest families own 50% of the country" abound. Those didn't get there by working a job or being clever/lucky about betting their pension money on some ETF. Only extraordinary measures will make a dent on this extraordinary accumulation.
I pay a progressive 47% in Norway. I am sick of having half my salary taken over ~600kkr (60k usd). It’s ridiculous. Plus 25% VAT on everything. And it’s not like salaries are through the roof. Why bother paying me a salary at all at this point? Just let the state give me everything if they are going to take it anyways.
But then can't the case be made that narrower and stricter-defined use cases are better served by more conventional ML? If/Wherever efficiency is a concern, that is.
LLMs fit between well defined and poorly defined data; if you have well defined data, you can just feed it to ML models and they'll do what you want.
LLMs will take poorly defined data and "potentially" create well defined output.
So ideal systems will likely be constructed with a LLM on one end and a ML on the other and some how, if you can feedback poor data from the ML back into the LLM to clean up the data, you have a magic layer that doesn't care as much about the structure of the data.
That's a lot of supposition, but that's the difference I see between what we can do with LLMs and how ML models are structured. They might be classified as doing the same thing, but their data inputs are vastly different.
Or now that python has ~types, this is really an area where things could be improved. Filtering would just be lambda predicate with fields auto complete as seen in .NET, scala, etc
For what's worth, I only really started using passkeys after committing to bitwarden/vaultwarden as my password manager. I've been skeptical of Google's/Apple's/Microsoft's passkey implementations forcing you into their password managers and seeing them as yet another power play to lock you in their ecosystem.
Passwords+TOTP have that universality going for them that you can always move away to a different password manager/do without one if you ever want. With vaultwarden and that dependency/liability cut off, passkeys have phenomenal UX, especially coupled to a SSO/identity provider like pocketId.
I feel for them because I wouldn't mind paying 2/3 times the price for something of measurably higher quality and durability, but it takes effort and dedication to accomplish that as a customer. Effectively the market is saturated with premium-branded items that are marginally better or sometimes worse (a lot of what you see as "technical clothing" comes across that way at least), you feel gaslit by marketing, fake reviews and astroturfing campaigns, and there are only so many deceptions, defeats and financial losses you can sustain before going back to the devil you know: the default everyone else is buying.
> but it takes effort and dedication to accomplish that as a customer
Yes, that's true and IMO the main reason why even people with the money end up buying the same bad products: they often don't have the time to learn and form a taste.
Would you still adore it as much today, though? I know I don't adore my iPod classic as much now as I did in 2006, and that's inclusive of the nostalgia kick. It's just not very practical and usable in today's world.
The tactile experience is a nice throwback in a touchscreen mostly/no physical buttons present, but the display is garbage by modern standards, finding specific tracks sucks, and doing any amount of playlist management is an exercise in frustration. And that is with replacing the firmware with rockbox, which significantly improves on those areas :-)
I would really love to try MD: besides the "tactileness" of it, the storage limits imposes to actively curate playlists and make compromises on how much/what music you can carry with you given the circumstances. An iPod classic already has so much storage available that this thought is secondary and you don't have to engage with your music to the same extent.
Absolutely, and that's something I've tried to highlight in the FAQs on the site - limitation breeds creativity. It makes you appreciate the media just a little bit more.
One of the best places to have MD is in a car. You can quickly identify (by unique color or label) each disc, which is either a full album presented as the artist intended or a playlist you curated. There's no "shuffle all 5000 songs" or "here's a playlist Spotify calls 80s kitchen songs but is half 90s pop you've heard before"
Anthropomorphizing big matrices is how those "labs" managed to sell and advertise LLMs for more than what they are, and convince investors to shovel trillions into it. Really Claude should be looking for incentives NOT to do that, and with the American regulator sleeping at the wheel/having its hands greased they probably don't see any reason to change course.
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