I think what people tend to forget when speaking of inevitability is that the scope of their statement is important.

*Existence* of a situation as inevitable isn't so bold of a claim. For example, someone will use an AI technology to cheat on an exam. Fine, it's possible. Heck, it is mathematically certain if we have a civilization that has exams and AI techs, and if that civilization runs infinitely.

*Generality* of a situation as inevitable, however, tends to go the other way.

> "Mastery, even partial, is one of the few genuine avenues toward agency."

Philosophical claims have been made around this point. See, for example, "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent", an essay by John Erskine.

So many problems would be solved if a fraction of people would be more inclined to understand what's in front of them.

But then the pinch of resistance makes an island of likewise thinkers. And there doesn't need to be more than .05% of techies to make great products that otherwise anti-correlate with what people claim as inevitable.

We should stop with over-generalization like "The future is defined by the common man on the street." It's always much more complex than that. To every trend, there is a counter-trend (even sometimes alt-trends that are not actually opposites).

Actors that go against the current, for the sake of going against the current, exist. Always a minority, but never negligeable, I believe.

Just started going through the tutorial, and it is, indeed, mega-cool.

Btw, here's the identity matrix of size 3:

˙⊞=⇡3

(It takes the range [0,1,2] then outerproducts it with itself through equality.)

My opinion on the "Attention is all you need" paper is that its most important idea is the Positional Encoding. The transformer head itself... is just another NN block among many.

TIL that Earth crust is pushed down by glaciers, and that when glaciers subsides, the crust swells up a bit over years from the missing weight, pushing away water, slush and sliding glacier even faster.

Hard to fathom how "fluid" our ball of magma really is.

Interesting notion, I'd never come across that before. I've seen many demos of what the Earth could look like with all the ice melted but I'm not sure any of them took what you're describing into account.

Posted 12 days ago under "Swiss Glaciers have shrunk..." and more previous to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503882

" The mass of ice on the earth's poles has also led to the shape of the planet via tectonics over thousands of millennia. As that mass melts and redistributes from a solid to a liquid spreading around the globe our spheroid will begin to rebound. We have sensors everywhere, even in space, so the resulting effects will not be a surprise to some when the 'mass'ive shift begins. As those tectonic events increase in frequency so too will volcanic activity so I ask if anyone else has been checking on such data? "

> since its commands were an inscrutable jumble of ill-fitting incantations, and it has remained this way until today

What command is he talking about? When you get that git is a graph manager, it gets really easy to manage, very quickly..

I thought so as well. A long time got seemed quite mysterious, but after I understood what git actually was, it became very coherent and the naming became intuitive.

Also, while I think the UI of git can be improved, it is not more complex than it needs to be.

I like seeing something along the line of constructive logic in the wild (i.e. not (not p) != p).

Sounds like a development à la Cory Doctorov.

(Such as in his novel Attack Surface.)