If you work with voice agents, I think this is an interesting paper. The figure I would like to highlight is Figure 1. Basically, the distribution of times between turns in conversations is unimodal and the mode is somewhere between 0 and 200ms, in any of the 10 languages they show.
That is a good point. And this issue looks analogous to what is happening in the research publication world (arxiv, peer-review, etc). In particular, I wonder whether code pushed is of lesser quality, CI pipelines break more often too, and this saturates github servers.
You should go for it, especially because nowadays Claude is a powerful tool available to many. One piece of advise though, everything Claude mentions that you do not understand or not know, make sure you learn it. This is probably the most important part, and applies to everyone using Claude.
In my opinion, the suggestions mentioned are great. In particular: 1) starting early or working late, and 2) pick 2 or 3 time slots a week to mark in your calendar just for you (to go out for a run, pick up kids, etc). The important part is that you do not skip these scheduled breaks for the sake of work! While it is hard, most of it is being mentally able to split work and personal life.
I like bitbucket too, it's been really awesome and clean. No idea why everyone favored GitHub, but I had to have accounts on both for university and work
I really liked bitbucket, it's my favorite git management system I've used for real production work and it allows for self hosting. Self hosting is also way faster than gitlab from what I remember
Bitbucket was the perfect alternative. I used it back in the day when they were the only ones who offered free private repos. Ahead of their time.
GH beat them on UI/UX and the PR workflow I think. Really nothing more than having a better ~$120k Product Designer working there. Kinda funny what actually makes people stick with 1 choice over another. Very often it’s just having better UI/UX, or offering something useful for free.
It’s interesting how under the radar Bitbucket is these days.
I use it at work alongside GitHub (patchwork of merged companies).
There are random little things I like about it better than GitHub, especially in an enterprise setting.
And it has never gone down in my entire tenure at this company, while GitHub is like a weekly outage nightmare these days.
Atlassian is doing a whole lot of strange and desperate stuff lately including some pretty insane UI changes in Jira and their other products, but Bitbucket seems like it’s been neglected the exact right amount for it to be a pretty decent choice.
Text watermarking is another EU rule made without real world input. The Union is stuck on major economic crises (electricity prices for instance) because nobody can agree on anything. However, the bureaucracy forces tech into a privacy nightmare. Brussels cannot bring together its own members but it loves pretending it can govern the internet.
> (electricity prices for instance) because nobody can agree on anything.
I would say that's more like because the US has arranged for Europe's fossil fuel energy sources to be disrupted or cut off:
* Libya - NATO made a pig's breakfast of that, it's a failed state now.
* Iran - transitive sanctions, because why not prevent non-US states from trading with each other.
* Russia (& Kazahkhstan) - The US (with or without Ukranian involvement) bombed the NordStream pipeline(s), led the EU into the proxy war in Ukraine and a sanctions regime against Russia. Kazakh oil goes to Europe through Russia.
* Gulf states - until recently, possible but not very convenient
; since Feburary of this year, the war on Iran messed that up badly too.
the US is the winner here not just geo-politically, but also as an oil exporter, with the EU now depending on purchasing US-exported oil.
Spot on. Also, in 2003, the war on Iraq, still occupied. And the proxy war on Syria (stifling an unwelcome pipeline project). European “leaders” pretend to not comprehend how they're being screwed. Stockholm syndrome. Populations don't understand, propaganda (“free press”) working correctly.
It's very weird looking in from the outside. I mean, sure, the US is the dominant power and everything, so things like Iraq and Iran could be construed as just collateral damage from their imperial maneuvers. But it has just piled on, more and more, and even when they are hit right in the face with the massive bombing of NordStream, still practically nobody tries to draw any sort of line.
Reminds me a bit of that 'Yes Prime Minister' sketch about nuclear deterrant, when the skeptical conversant asks the PM: "So what is the last resort, Picadilli?"
« right in the face » — It's mainly Germany that's hit right in the face and where the Stockholm syndrome applies most closely. If we look at our dear neighbours, then we can see that some of them stand to profit from the Nord Stream bombings. Poland, of course, but also the honorable Norway (have a lot of gas) or the Netherlands (have the most important port). These two also happen to be more closely allied and aligned with the (F)UK/US complex, not directly “Five Eyes” (Anglo only), but “Nine Eyes” (plus France and Denmark). The war had been actively prepared since at least 2014 (military “#TrainToWin” etc), so there was enough time for scheming and dealing.
Guilt with a corollary of subservience to “Western values” having become the predominant ideology in Germany, strategic shortsightedness and failure to properly “relaunch” after 1990, also the occasional murder of more “promising” members of the political spectrum (sans doute at the hands of our dear “friends”), brain drain to the U.S., catastrophic “investments” like Chrysler or U.S. telcom, and barely anything of it ever raised to the threshold of public debate and intelligent reflection : a lot of things combine to explain the dismal state of affairs in modern Germany.
It cannot be ruled out that the German gov was complicit in the bombings; not wilfully, but passively, like someone too weak to resist for lack of self-esteem. Like chancellor Scholz on Feb 7, 2022, at the White House press conference where Biden threatened the pipeline:
▪ “If Russia invades, that means tanks and troops crossing the border of Ukraine, again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2, we will bring an end to it.”
▫ “But how will you do that, exactly, since the project is within Germany’s control?”
▪ “We will… I promise you we will be able to do it.”
There was no reaction from Scholz. Just nothing. By the way, could be I'm wrong, but that part of the press conference seemed scripted/scheduled to me. Not the exact words, but the contents.
Thanks for that YPM sketch. Incidentally, I think the “nuclear deterrant” story is total bogus from the get-go. But has worked great for decades as a framework to frighten people, or at least provide justifications and impose “global order”.
The trouble with drawing any sort of line is that when you're complicit and “aiding and abetting”, there's simply no motivation. And as long as the populace doesn't have a clue what's going on, their understanding being reduced to “evil Putin”, that's not even much of a problem.
Also, the authors claim the starch "inhibited lipid absorption." They do not argue why they used surrogate blood biomarkers instead of residual energy output in fecal samples (which is a better measurement).
For some companies there might be a need to run them locally. For instance, Apple decided to run LLMs on the phone locally. I guess it depends on how important latency and privacy are. Perhaps Meta is looking at how much interest for those local models is there.
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