It’s pretty obvious why they didn’t, they’re GC by default. That’s already enough to put people off, even if it’s “not a problem” in reality, people will just avoid it for systems programming if they hear that, they will assume all the good features need the GC
Nim is stack allocated by default, and you annotate types explicitly with `ref` to use the GC. Even then, the compiler elides reference counting using borrow checks, you can choose different GC options, and the GC isn't stop the world like most. You don't need to touch reference counting if you don't want to, and Nim fits embedded dev pretty well for that reason.
A theoretically perfect next token prediction machine is just an LLM with a temperature of 0, which performs worse than one with a non-zero temperature (i.e. imperfection)
The "prediction" has nothing to do with predicting the future, it just means choosing the most likely next token for existing human text
No that would be a pretty terrible next token predictor. It would perfectly match the training data, but the training data is just a sample of what we are really trying to predict: human language, knowledge, and thinking, which is inherently probabilistic. Perfectly matching the training data is a pretty good sign that you've overfit.
The point of fantasy or even surrealism is to contrast with the parts of the work that are chosen to be realistic. When random parts of the work are broken in meaningless ways it becomes slop
It's one of the reasons Microslop have been pushing Windows for ARM, only for them to discover that ARM doesn't actually solve this problem. It's less likely to cause problems just because there are less Windows ARM devices out there, with less variety and thus more consistency, but the underlying problem of drivers and other BS being able to block sleep and Windows not being able to handle it is unsolved. Heck, sleep working just fine on x86 Macbooks should have told them that.
Even worse is the fact that support for S3 sleep is going away, so if that did work for you, you'll be pushed over to using S0 sleep, which also doesn't actually solve this problem to any significant degree.
Going by the article, Asus clearly don't. Given the stories floating around about the others, I doubt they have it too, except maybe Lenovo on Thinkpads and the like, although they too aren't immune from problems that really should be caught in QC.
I have little sympathy, since I think it is a result of many decades of complacency when it comes to thinking about why want to people do what they do and instead just enjoying being the ones with the results and money. People who love the process and see the human as inherently valuable won't have a problem. I'm more shocked that there are so many brilliant people who are so results-oriented and don't even have a concept of value outside of that. I'm kind of disgusted by the tears actually
> I have little sympathy, since I think it is a result of many decades of complacency when it comes to thinking about why want to people do what they do and instead just enjoying being the ones with the results and money.
It's not clear from your comment: Are you talking about math professors?
If so, what money? They make a living, but it's not that great. I just checked the salary of two associate professors at my university: $80-85K.
And keep in mind they often start their careers quite late. Often multiple postdocs after PhD. Starting a tenure track position in your mid 30's is not common.
> I'm more shocked that there are so many brilliant people who are so results-oriented and don't even have a concept of value outside of that. I'm kind of disgusted by the tears actually
The whole point of the article is that the person crying is because he loves the process and is worried the human connection will be gone.
This is exactly my perspective as well. Seeing humans as inherently valuable is the key. It's shocking to me that so many people seem to have been reducing humans to the results they are able to produce and now that the results appear to be drying up, their perception of their own human value is going down with it.
I’m fully STEM: software developer with a physics PhD with a mechanical engineer wife, but this is certainly just deserts for the STEM people, who mocked the humanities and especially philosophy for centuries (literally, this started back with Kant even) for spending time thinking about these questions. STEM people are not at all spiritually prepared for it, and this is the main disappointment for me. I spent many years struggling with publish or perish in physics but all those around me claimed they simply loved doing physics and that that’s what mattered. Now as soon as their exclusive ability to give results is slightly threatened the love of physics/maths/coding is no longer spoken about. I get maybe they weren’t the same people, but I thought more people loved the process than it seems today. If anything these new developments make it even clearer for me what I love about this kind of work. I’m so happy it has made me not have to defend based on results, a razor sharp contrast that makes it so clear really why humans do things
it is a little ironic that after the "creative destruction" of industry after industry all of a sudden now it's unfair and we weep. I say this as a software dev with his neck on the line like everyon else.
It’s not necessarily their fault. Our economic system puts zero intrinsic value in humans, it only puts value on their output. It’s hard not to feel this type of way when it’s the only system you know.
Anyone who would replace me with a robot never loved me anyway. If that happened I would go and seek out the humans who really do care, and take solace in the fact that Christ will always love me
Handle what situation? Why would people who love me ever replace me with a robot? It’s a random posed situation that no one discussed and doesn’t make any sense lol
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