The detail missing from this explanation is that structs and classes are the same thing with different default visibility. I found this enormously confusing when learning the language, and I think it was a major mistake. My assumption was that a struct was exactly the same as a c struct, and the "new" functionality was all a part of the classes.
Yeah when I read things like this, I always sit in awed wonder for a moment, trying to figure out where these people are totally full of crap, or whether they really think about things this way, and are just very different than me.
Interestingly one of the things that came out of 2020 was that nobody appears willing to control the police. Unless by police you mean FBI, which would both make sense for investigating a national politician and be directly under the control of the executive.
> one of the things that came out of 2020 was that nobody appears willing to control the police
While I don't agree with that statement, I will clarify that I was using the term "police" to encompass all agencies in both USA and Canada capable of legally conducting an investigation at the federal level and carrying out an arrest. As far as I am aware, these agencies are all funded by our federal governments. Even though in my mind I was thinking of only the USA and Canada, the structural flaw probably applies to most governments, if not all governments ( speculating ). The flaw being that the leaders of our nations conduct national affairs as though they are shielded from the law policing its citizens. They are getting away with using our national resources ( financial, material, human etc ) in ways that may benefit their own agendas, but are observably harmful to our economy and therefore the citizens at large. If an investigation could prove that my speculation is true, then it would be in both our nation's best interest to deal with the problem both swiftly and legally. My hope would be that such an outcome would instigate reform to address the root cause. Without an investigation, we are at the mercy of waiting for the next election, but if our leaders are egregiously harming the interests our nations' citizens as a whole, we should not have to wait until their term is complete. I will add one more thing, the problem is not limited to economics. but also the abuse of the press and education to influence how we as a nation are able to learn about and understand both national and global politics.
Surely there is some middle ground between "we should ban this behavior entirely the second this comment is read" and "we should never acknowledge or discuss or take responsibility for the inevitable harm that this behavior causes"
Perhaps the middle ground could be the health certificates or vaccine passports? More mRNA concoctions with a side dish of myocarditis or pericarditis?
What do you prefer?
> Vector search is almost never the winner relative to full text.
Full text search is certainly the winner in the time dimension, but can it compete in quality? Presumably which method is likely to provide relevant results depends greatly on the query. Invoking LLMs to pre-process the query and select a retrieval method is going to be quite expensive compared to each of the search methods.
I mean from a retrieval quality perspective, not a latency perspective. Search latency is not a constraint because the long pole in the tent for us is always the user facing model.
We also have a lot of numbers in our customer requests, which do not typically play to the strengths of the vector searches.
COGs is not a large concern as our audience is internally facing along with a few of our partners, so inference and infrastructure costs are nothing compared to engineering time as we don’t have a way to amortize our costs out across a bunch of customers.
It is also a very high value use case for us.
The other factor is that we’re using fast and cheap models like haiku and mixtral to do the pre processing before we hand things to the retrieval steps, so it’s not much of a cost driver.
Unless you disable all JavaScript you’re leaking something.
Honestly, you’re still leaking a bit without js, as long as where you’re connecting to is checking.
The game is just choosing what you’re okay telling wherever you connect to.
> In January, New York state announced plans to build up its AI research bona fides through a $400 million public-private partnership dubbed “Empire AI.”
"Empire AI"? Now we're just putting "AI" after geographic labels now? Like how NYC tried to be "Silicon Alley" and Northern VA tried to be "Silicon Dominion".
I guess next century we'll have people say "I grew up in one of the rundown AI Belt cities then moved here."
Many of the most prolific artists of all time are now forgotten by the masses. The choice of "artist" is particularly perplexing here because the implied sentiment seems to apply primarily to industry and not to artists.
Agree. In addition, there are also plenty of artists who either shipped yet died poor (van Gogh, for example) or who were prolific proposers/thinkers/sketchers with "low actual ship rate" (Leonardo never built his helicopter, yet "dreamed in drawing" about it a lot).
Measuring the "influence" of an artist my "number of artworks created and sold" is a bit like measuring academics by "number of papers published". It's at best a very coarse approximation of "the real thing". At worst, total bull.
That’s two hits: the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Also several academic pieces in his professional field. Not including the material subsequently published by his son and estate.
Back in the day, it only took one hit, and after that one could drive off of Skyline Blvd in a sports car, or retire to a horse farm, or run a SF nightclub, etc.
A clear counter example would be someone like Franz Kafka. He hid much of his works in his lifetime, and willed for them to be destroyed posthumously whether published or unpublished.
That anything came down from him was the executors of his will ignoring his stated intent.
And yet he's considered a literary Great of the 20st century.
Still. There's always extern "c".