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I’ll try!

Consistent interfaces. UI speed. Lack of telemetry/ads.


You can use hooks to keep them from being able to do this btw

I generally think of needing hooks as being a model training issue - I've had to use them less as the models have gotten smarter, hopefully we'll reach the point where they're a nice bonus instead of needed to prevent pathological model behavior.

And telemetry and tooling reports and usage by cloud code signs PR on GitHub and things like that.

It works well enough that I didn’t realize this wasn’t first party till right now.

It works, but there are fair amount of caveats, especially for someone working on things like Pytorch, the runtime is close but not the same, and its support of certain architectures etc can create annoying bugs.

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

Narrator: “It was nailed on Fox News.”


Wow.. my comment on that was means as a little tounge in cheek. Isn't there some expression about when life imitates parody?

People already mentioned the blank cards, but the Yoto club subscription is actually a pretty great deal. You get a ton of credits that you can just apply to books and the value works out pretty well.

You do have to watch out for Short content, but if you were buying audiobooks on Audible, you’d have the same issue .


Fun fact! Koko’s abilities to sign and communicate were a total fraud!

https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/


To dismiss it as total fraud is disingenuous, but I do agree that the personification of some of those videos is quite egregious. I don't think anyone expected a chimp to make coherent, grammatically correct sentences. But the relationship between sign/vocalization and emotion/desire is strong and seen in many animals, such as parrots. It depends on your definition of communication I suppose.

The main issue wasn't grammatical correctness, it was being grammatical at all. It's not surprising that an animal can learn individual pieces of vocabulary: anybody whose dog loses its mind when the word "walk" is mentioned, or watched meerkats for significant periods of time can observe vocabulary in animals.

Koko was intended to be taught grammar, specifically the ability to express new thoughts by combining her vocabulary in an ordered way. Despite Francine Patterson's best efforts to convince the world otherwise, Koko never achieved this.


There's some research that some birds understand grammar [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4co


There’s no evidence that KoKo ever communicated a word and had understanding of what the word meant outside of basic Pavlovian associations.

Is it?

Afaik they didn’t actually sign anything other than random words, an “food” every second word or so..


An astonishing number of people are type two diabetic in this country due to poor health and poor access to healthcare. But glp1 is covered as a diabetic treatment so a tremendous number of folks can get it at a reasonable cost.

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