I know nothing about this, but in the article they mention that their trial was for 5g a day, but I see you mention 5mg - was that a typo? It's interesting either way - not meant as a jab.
You've stumbled upon Chaos Theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory), which aims to study chaotic systems (charactesised by very high relation to initial variables - see weather prediction, double pendulum, etc).
Some problems are too sensible to initial variables and solutions are not prescriptive like regular physics - meaning that variability at the 20th decimal in your initial variables will induce massive output differences. Lorentz discovery of this is interesting as he was working on weather modelling, it's a clear example of the issues with chaotic systems. He was running simulations of weather systems with multiple fixed initial variables (temperature, wind speed, etc) and seeing how the system progressed over a few hours. He realised that after a typo on a very far away decimal on a single parameter, the system was modelling the complete opposite of what we had seen in the previous test (think it was forecasting a typhoon when it used to say sunny day), even while using values that would be "equal" with relation to the precision of the measuring equipement. And that's nothing to talk about getting clean, precise enough data for such models, which is practically impossible (see the observer effect, between other causes). Garbage in, garbage out.
All this to say that problems in this sphere are characterized by quickly becoming untractable and impossible to model precisely how they evolve over time.
I can recommend James Gleick's Chaos: Making a new science for a overview for the layperson.
From a cursory search it was recorded at 1080p but the aspext ratio was 16:9, and the final.movie was to be 2.41:1, which means they had to crop the image, meaning less than 1080p.
If I'm trying to see how it's useful, attaching your country's identity to a cultural practice is a good first step to then fund and prop up/support said practice - while the list itself doesn't change much, you can refer to it to show the demoscene is worthwile and argue for funding/support.
I wonder how this would look in practice in the case of the demoscene.
I feel like there was a moment in the earöy 2010s-ish when there was an interest in the demoscene as one aspect of "digital art", along with games, animation etc. Seems to have faded a bit, maybe because the focus of the demoscene shifted towards size limits where the aesthetic accomplishments can be less immidiately obvious to the uninitiated.
These are not set in stone and if a dream company comes may be overruled, but:
At least one or more of the following MUST be true:
- Take home takes 2 hours or less
- Take home has a posterior instance that will take place with a human being in order to allow me to defend/discuss/expand the take home. Of course this assumes I eliver something that is not just the word "farts" in a txt.
- Take home is monetarily compensated.
These are heuristics that do not imply I am an impressive IC or something like that. It's just self defense.
"Signs of wealth and prestige, these all-stone buildings were also fireproof, leading to a terrible but effective tactic: take your family, treasures & goods up into your tower then set fire to enemies’ homes and let the city burn around you while you sit safe above. This was VERY BAD for cities."
I'd want to stay as far away as possible from the fire I guess.
Also, it seems to be quite a busy city - presumably they weren't necessarily able to acquire more land to make an actual fortification and are stuck with a fixed perimeter, the only place to go is up.
Mine is how we have evidence of wheels being used on children's toys in some south american cultures but not for transportation - they fully discovered everything to create wheeled transportation, but it's suspected that living on hilly terrain made it much less advantageous and it was not adopted.
Edit1: from the source:
"Rather, and as Hernandez said (1950: 40), the ancient inhabitants of Mesoamerica did not apply the concept of revolving movement to transportation “simply because they did not want to, because of atavistic concepts worthy of being taken into account.” In a perceptive way, Hernández emphasized the indigenous ethos towards sacrifice and the offering of physical effort to the deities. Today, in Western thought, the constant technological innovation that leads to consumerism is valued, but in other cultures - ancient and modern - greater value is given to conservatism."
Wheels are hugely beneficial for human-powered transportation too though, well, such as the luggage example up-thread.
It's thought the moyai on Easter Island were moved into place rolled on logs, they didn't have oxen or horses either, but rolling on logs or if they'd built a wheeled trailer make it much easier for a group of humans to move them without damage than just be dragging or rocking.
To be clear south american civilisations had the wheel and used it for throwing pottery, for drills and many other uses different than transportation - it is also suspected that they used the same log method to move large objects. Just not a wheel-axle-bearing "vehicle"
Coiling was actually the main method and there's not any evidence they used potters wheels until after European contact and even then it didn't take off.
On cleared and mostly flat ground yes. But if you are going up any sorts of inclines human power doesn't really cut it over any real distances without adding mechanical assistance that slows everything way down. And on rough terrain its a wash even before you consider the difficulties in making wooden wheels that can survive off-road abuse for any length of time.
Over hilly terrain in jungle-y environments I bet that goes down a fair amount though, you have to make the simultaneous leap of wheeled carts plus road paving or maintenance to make the carts not a slog probably.
Yes, the horse is actually an American species that expanded into the Old World.
The pre-Columbian civilizations (and by that I mean the highly organized socially stratified societies that we are aware of) only emerged several millennia after the paleo-Indians hunted horses to extinction, though.
You can’t scale up a wheel on a children’s toy and expect it to work on a loaded cart. It would just break. Cartwheels that will go the distance require fairly skilled carpentry.
Another potential reason it was never scaled up to carts is they didn't have access to a great draft animal candidate. Without that early carts are a lot less useful. The largest options were llamas or alpacas which are still fairly small and weak as draft animals go. The nearest option would have been buffalo in North America but they don't have great base temperaments for domesticating and they're not geographically relevant to South America even if they were.
"People do so enthusiastically every year. In 2024, the Fish Doorbell attracted around 2.7 million viewers, from America to Brazil! The project has gained global recognition, helping people worldwide learn about fish migration and Utrecht’s underwater world."
I don't think solving the problem is the goal, it's attracting attention while solving the problem, which is a different goal
> you can just search your files using your prefered file explorer
This only work if you remember specific substrings. An LLM (or some other language model) can summarize and interpolate. It can be asked to find that file that mentions a transaction for buying candy, and it has a fair chance to find it, even if none of the words "transaction", "buying" or "candy" are present in the file, e.g. it says "shelled out $17 for a huge pack of gobstoppers".
But isn't that candy example non-sensical? In what situation do you need some information without any of the context(or without knowing any of the context)?
i really believe that this is not an actual problem in need of solving, but instead creating a tool (personal ai assistant) and trying to find a usecase
Edit0: note to self, rambling -
assuming there exist valuable information that one needa to access in their files, but one doesn't know where it is, when it was made, it's name or other information about it(as you could find said file right away with this information).
Say you need an information for some documentation like the C standard - you need precise information on some process.
Is it not much simpler to just open the doc and use the index? Then again for you to be aeare of the C standard makes the query useless.
If it's from something less well organised, say you want letters you wrote to your significant other, maybe the assistant could help. But then again, what are you asking? How hard is it to keep your letters in a folder? Or even simply know what you've done (I surely can't imagine forgetting things I've created but somehow finding use in a llm that finds it for me).
Like asking it "what is my opinion on x" or "what's a good compliment I wrote" is nonsensical to me, but asking it about external ressources makes the idea of training it on your own data pointless. "How did I write X API" - just open your file, no? You know where it is, you made it.
Like saying "get me that picture of unle tony in Florida" might save you 10 seconds instead of going into your files and thinking about when you got that picture, but it's not solving a real issue or making things more efficient.
(Edit1: if you don't know Tony, when you got the picture or of what it's a picture of, why are you querying? What's the usecase for this information, is it just to prove it can be done? It feels like the user needs to contorts themselves in a small niche for this product to be useful)
Either it's used for non valuable work (menial search) or you already know how to get the answer you need.
I cannot imagine a query that would be useful compared to simply being aware of what's in your computer. And if you're not aware of it, how do you search for it?
I think your brain may just work differently to mine, and I don't think I'm unique.
> "get me that picture of unle tony in Florida" might save you 10 seconds instead of going into your files and thinking about when you got that picture
I don't have a memory for time, and I can't picture things in my mind. Thinking about when I took a picture does nothing for me, I could be out by years. Having some unified natural language search engine would be amazing for me. I might remember it was a sunny day and that we got ice cream, and that's what I want to search on.
The "small niche" use case for me is often my daughter wants to see a photo of a family member I'm talking about, or I want to remember some other aspect of the day and the photo triggers that for me.
> But isn't that candy example non-sensical? In what situation do you need some information without any of the context(or without knowing any of the context)?
I know the context and the content but not the specific substrings in an email I received several years ago.
Here's one of the first things that gemini in gmail actually helped with. I wanted to check when I bought a car seat for my kids, which one it was and how much it cost.
So I knew the rough time it was when I bought it, I know it's a receipt I'm looking for, it's for a child seat, and roughly when. I know the context here.
What I struggled with was finding the exact text that would be in that. There are hundreds or more emails with invoice/receipt/order in. I didn't recall exactly who I bought it from, and there are large numbers of more advertising emails with kids seats in.
I couldn't easily find it, because the actual email I wanted did not say child seat in it. It had a brand and other information, but nothing in the text had a substring I was searching for. I might have found it with "booster seat" but I didn't think of that exact phrase at the time.
Instead I asked gemini to find it. That can then trawl through a bunch of emails and find things that mean but do not say child seat.
Makes total sense, I'm not entirely sure why but I had assumed we were talking about an AI assistant being device specific, which I understood as "based on my offline data and files" - I'm saying I'm not sure why because the parent comment is specifically mentionning the cloud. Anyhoot.
Here’s an example of a type of feature I want: I’m looking at a menu from a popular restaurant and it has hundreds of choices. I start to feel some analysis paralysis. I say to my computer, “hey computer, I’m open to any suggestions, so long as it’s well-seasoned, spicy, salty, has some protein and fiber, easy to digest, rich in nutrients, not too dry, not too oily, pairs well with <whatever I have in my fridge>, etc..” Basically, property-oriented search queries whose answers can be verified, without having to trudge through them myself, where I don’t really care about correctness, just satisficing.
But file explorer does not read the actual files and build context. Even for pure text files that sometimes search functions can also access, I need to remember exactly the string of characters I am looking for.
I was hoping an LLM would have a context of all of my content (text and visual) and for the first time use my computers data as a knowledge base.
Queries like “what was my design file for that x service” ? Today it’s impossible to answer unless you have organized your data your self.
Why do we still have to organize our data manually?
Most people I see at work and outside don’t care and they want stupid machine to deal with it.
That is why smartphones and tablets move away from providing „file system” access.
It is super annoying for me but most people want to save their tax form or their baby photo not even understanding each is different file type - because they couldn’t care less about file types let alone making folder structure to keep them organized.
Curiously, the things I search most often are not located in files: calendar, photo content/location, email, ChatGPT history, Spotify library, iMessage/whatsapp history, contacts, notes, Amazon order history
