I am also working on low-resource languages (in Central America, but not my heritage). I see on Wikipedia [0] it seems it's a case of revival. Are you collecting resources/data or using existing? (I see some links on Wikipedia).
We are fortunate to have a (comparatively) large amount of written and recorded language artifacts. Kiksht (and Chinookan languages generally) were heavily studied in the early 1900s by linguists like Sapir.
re: revival, the Wikipedia article is a little misleading, Gladys was the last person whose first language was Kiksht, not the last speaker. And, in any event, languages are constantly changing. If we had been left alone in 1804 it would be different now than it was then. We will mold the language to our current context just like any other people.
It's a very minor thing in the face of the idiotic insanity going around, but I just saw and was annoyed by Altman's twitter bio: "AI is cool i guess".
Is this like some kind of ironic detachment? It almost makes you long for corporate pablum about building a world for us all.
I don't think Bernie fits here. You can disagree with him, but he basically makes political / policy comments (the same ones he's made for decades too.
AOC falls a bit into the twitter-feud commentary, but Musk and Trump are on another level of embarrassing, lie-filled, garbage (also at all hours of the night, I think which tells you something too)
You know who he is when I mention him by first name. That is what makes him a target, irrespective of the quality of his ideas or whether he's a decent person.
Is there some standard markup assumed for LLMs? I just looked at a couple and saw markdown-like text (which I expected), but also "$\boxed{foo}$". Looks like LaTeX, but is there some subset of LaTeX LLMs are assumed to know/use?
> We really don’t know what data is being accessed.
> As a tax payer I am appalled that this data is not already public and broadcasted live.
How are you mad it's not public if you don't know what it is? Sure there is data in computers of the Treasury department that should not be public - individuals' social security numbers, personal financial information, etc.
Stop being so pedantic, we have an idea what it is. When I say “we don’t know what it is” is a nice way of saying the things you say it is you have no proof of it being.
How about you give me an argument of why we should not have this sort of audit?
I am also willing to bet there is no situation where it could be done “right” and have the stated outcome Trump and Musk have outlined be okay. Which makes most of your arguments bad faith ones. Given the things already exposed should have all Americans upset.
We should know where our tax money is going. As far as I can tell, the alleged fraud that Musk has been tweeting about was already public info. The viral tweets about Politico, etc, were showing screenshots of public dashboards.
The one place that has famously failed audits year after year is the defense department. We shall see if Musk brings his chopping-block to DoD.
Anyone operating in good faith knows to curb spending, everything Musk has been saying won't make a dent until you get to DoD, Social Security, or health care. And of course, any savings are going to be totally swamped by big tax cuts for the billionaire class.
> Anyone operating in good faith knows to curb spending, everything Musk has been saying won't make a dent until you get to DoD, Social Security, or health care
This isn't accurate. Anyone who's managed a large and complex budget knows death by a thousand cuts is a very real thing. Yes, there may be bigger opportunities in the larger pots of money, but to suggest saving a billion here or few million there isn't worth the time is simply wrong.
Simply having the finances be looked at will have an impact on behavior. I see it in my own personal spending. If I'm not watching it, I spend way more. Now what happens if its not even my bank account the spending takes money out of and no one is paying attention? And then it goes on like this for decades?
> And of course, any savings are going to be totally swamped by big tax cuts for the billionaire class.
Aside from 2020, collected tax revenues did not drop under Trump in his first term, even after 2017 tax cuts. The one exception was for 2020 when the economy ground to a halt due to covid and gdp shrunk by a few %.
The point is, the problem is not that the government needs more money. The government needs pressure to be more effecient with the money it has. Thats the root of the issue that needs solved. Until that is solved, increasing tax revenue (which may not even be needed) won't make any difference whatsoever.
Follow-up: "How is Elez both a child who shouldn't be held responsible for his actions from as recently as 2 months ago, but also the right person to be trusted with extensive access to government systems?"
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
The doge boys are in-group, so they are protected, and the law will not be brought to bear against them. Simple as that.
“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before,” Trump said.
Funny, I don't see those extra qualifiers in there.
No journalist is going to ask him this because they’re afraid of retribution and a loss of access. If they do he’s going to deflect - nobody will press him on a genuinely galling statement of values.
I am also working on low-resource languages (in Central America, but not my heritage). I see on Wikipedia [0] it seems it's a case of revival. Are you collecting resources/data or using existing? (I see some links on Wikipedia).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Chinook_language
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