So, GPT-4 tries to come up with its best guess as to what is going on in the4 tiny little mindlet of GPT-2. Sometimes it produces useful explanations, but mostly it vomits out voluminous "this neuron sorta responds to everything, maybe the phases of the Moon too, who knows", and that isn't useful for giving researchers insight. So
Somewhere a light is going to go on. Or more likely heaps of lights will go dark from all the power being drawn by the Gonkulator.
Is it me, or is this outfit's EULA more expansively
As I was reading through it I kept half expecting to see terms like "heriot" or "merchet" or "amercement" or "enfangenethef".
This is the first I've ever heard that zebra stripes might have anything to do with discouraging biting flies. I have read, however, that any time zoologists have attempted to place tracking devices on individual zebras the tagged zebras inevitably fall prey to predators. Apparently no matter how inconspicuous they made the tracking tags, the tags allowed predators to single tagged zebras out. Rather than chasing a bunch of different zebras because predators usually can't quite track individuals in the herd, tagged animals stand out. They thus get chased relentlessly without other zebras to take the pressure off until they tire and succumb.
...and that crazy telepathy hemet seems to shrink brain tumours. I have questions.
Does it also scare girlfriends away? Would altering the magnetic flux strength *attract* any girlfriends?
This is Science Timmy, not a Brouhaha! It is so important to investigate and document ALL the anomalies.
So the universe might be something like a vertical dipole antenna radiation pattern?
Hmmm.
Maybe with the right transmatch we might *finally* be able to get through to speak with Management. Or at least Management's voicemail system:
Press 1 for all Starfaring Extra Plus questions.
Press 2 for routing problems.
Press 3 for how to set up your Starfaring Basics account.
Press 3 for billing questions (what, you thought any of this would be free?
For all other questions press 4, or wait for a Team Member to assist you or your successor civilisation.
We are currently experiencing median waits of -- 3.15576 E 16 -- Hydrogen transition times.
You call is important to us, please stay on the line.
Press 5 to hear this menu again.
A 9V battery and Daft Punk would be unbeatable...
Sounds rather like site reconnaissance to me. Casing the joint, if you will
Access time for holographic storage, at least as envisioned in the '80s, would have been limited by the electromechanics of the read/write optics, comparable to the way HD seek times are limited by the time constants of voice coil actuators. Electrothermal erasure time constants would have been a problem too, perhaps with a limited erasure lifetime of the media.
Holographic data storage densities would have seemed quite appealing in the mid-'80s, but that was in the era of barely sub-micron feature sizes on semiconductor wafers. The limitations of optical lithography that prevented nanometer scale lithography would have prevented density increases without a corresponding decrease in the R/W wavelengths. Maybe it's a failure of imagination, but I just can't see excimer lasers being miniaturised to the point they would be useful as data storage drives for anything but mainframes or server farms.
At least in Europe there seems to be a surge of legislative attention to this, though (as far as I know) purely for its temporarily living citizens.
Assuming such archives survive all the new laws, will there be fair use cases? What about for Famous People? Will we see changes to copyright to accomodate such use? Is an archival account of a person copyrightable? Who owns the copyright? Sure, Facebook has the right for certain admittedly expansive uses of our data, but no legal doctrine I know of dissolves an individual's natural right to their own works (other than the old "possession is nine tenths of the law", of dubious validity for digital archives).
Since no person could ever reasonably read, much less compile useful historical information for writing about our times from such archives, AI would necessarily have to do that work. Could it be that, for once, history won't ultimately be written entirely by the victors? Or would it merely mean the victors who write history would be the AIs?
We've heard much talk about the 24-hour news cycle, pretty much ever since the first Persian Gulf war, nearly thirty years. Back then folks used to laugh at the idea of posting newsworthy things to list servers, it being a fact Known By Everyone that the radio and television media would always have the latest news.
But now social media has gotten so far inside that 24-hour news cycle, should we be surprised attention to individual stories decays so quickly? In this regime of information overload, each story behaves more like a few molecules of air colliding than a whole thunderstorm, so much so that all the contradictory stories begin to cancel out, on average, and what we are left with is the much more slowly changing reality of the physical world. In other words, all these micro-trends become a gas—a chaos, as the word 'gas' derives from.
Trying to discern anything useful about the world from obsessing over these micro-trends is akin to Maxwell's Demon attempting to sort the fast from the slow molecules in an attempt to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Perhaps we might eventually come up with an Ideal News Law analogous to the Ideal Gas Law, though I have no clue what the analogous properties of temperature, volume, and pressure would be for news dynamics. Naturally, this all about hot air.
"en route" is standard American English, no sic required.
I believe TurboStar was just referring to inflation, where $1795US in 2007 would be something like $2100US in 2018 dollars.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.
