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Uh, pitr is a thing in many many postgresql management layers.

https://pgbarman.org/


Yes, but PITR is not surgical, you can’t easily undo just the faulty transactions.

You can see possible existing environments even if you explicitly blind yourself to them, through reflections off of environments that you do not blind yourself to. Even with the benchmark excluded, the social zeitgeist that has considered the benchmark and included it or ideas from the benchmark either implicitly or explicitly in their code, documentation, et cetera is still part of your training data.

Unsupervised? They aren't remotely supervised or intervened at all?

They've already started using other models, both ioniq 5s and I think Zeekrs.

I agree that Waymo doesn't need to ramp up manufacturing themselves until they really start hitting walls with vehicle makers, or want tighter integration with the vehicle.


One critical feature of these octopuses is that they don't just die after mating (most species of octopus do)... Which opens up possibilities, like teaching their young skills they have acquired.

That is indeed a tantalizing eventuality which we may one day discover .. imagine the things they could do if they start teaching future generations of octopus how to deal with things!

Another of my favorite octopus facts, is the existence of octopus settlements, which .. if you think about it .. is kind of astonishing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis

All the elements for civilization are there .. social life, building constructions, edge-case evolutionary triggers, etc.

I surely hope one day to learn that octopus are on the evolutionary path to take over (not so long) after we're gone .. I've spent countless days in my youth playing with the octopus of the reefs off the coast of Western Australia .. I love them.

They are absolutely wonderful creatures.

I once lured an octopus out of its lair with an Aussie gold coin, reflecting sunlight into its hole until it got curious, and we then spent an hour playing fetch - I'd take the coin to the water surface, let it sink in the sunshine, the octopus would dart around excitedly, catch it, swim around a bit, drop it like a dog playing fetch .. over and over, just the two of us having fun until the surf got too rough and the sharkiness levels went a bit too high for both of us. I sure wish I'd had an underwater camera back then, it was a wonderful moment.


Life expectancy is 2 years. They can mate more than once, but not many times more.

A lifespan of 2 years for intelligent creatures is heartbreaking

They are extremely intelligent for a mollusk(like, these folks are family with slugs and clamshells), but they are not that intelligent if you compare them to a pig or a dog.

Their main brain is after all very small(although huuuge for a mollusk), most of it is dedicated to the processing of vision, with two big lumps next to the eyes, and there's a small lump in between these two for the brain proper.


Only if their critical flicker frequency isn't in line with those 2 years.

oh wow, I'd never heard of this. Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold - now I think I understand why I can always tell GM vehicles with LED taillights at night. I can spot them a mile away, literally, because their taillights blink slower than others and I can see it, and it drives me crazy.

Thanks for opening me up to this!


Well, unfortunately - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Reproduction - a just-hatched young octopus doesn't stick around, but drifts away in the current.

Also worth a read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory


The deep-sea octopus Graneledone boreopacifica has the longest known observed 53 month egg brooding period.

We could test this if we managed to get a dna sample of the colonies. It does seem unclear if the colonies are "chosen" family or biological.

So do you think offline language models should be outlawed or restricted?

I don't know how you inferred that. I said nothing about restricting offline computing.

Ok, so the rules for someone who selfhosts vs. Hosts for others should be different? What if I provide inference services to my family members, should I monitor their interactions and report them if I find anything dangerous?

It's more about what I can expect.

If I keep a diary offline on paper I can expect that to be private.

If I keep a diary on a hosted diary-as-a-service, I cannot.


Many people have different expectations. Isn't that what this whole conversation is about?

You didn't answer my question.


Yeah this administration may have some of the worst intent imaginable, but at least they're bad at hiding it and hitting opposition at every corner... Absolutely more room for evil in this world.

The chinese cars was a consequence of the tariff (and other) threats, not a cause.

Big enterprises have heard of ChatGPT and Claude, not Devin.

I am not sure what is devin's value proposition, but one can build lots of enterprise stuff into coding harness: integration with various internal doc, auth, db services, some enterprise jiras, meeting software, security/privacy certifications, limits/budget management, etc/etc/etc

They bill per token, what do you expect?

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