a) Self driving was far from completely solved before LLMs.
b) Text generation essentially means passing the Turing test, which for a long time was the bar for general intelligence. Locomotion does not necessarily require general intelligence.
> I believe that an ML should be the First Language for Computer Scientists.
I'm not sure how much influence a First Language has - the biggest impact might be whether someone decides to continue learning to program. I'd also worry that we might lose something if all computer scientists are too similar. There are lisp believers, and there are those who swear by C; and I think the field of CS would be less rich if either were missing. Given that, it's a good thing that there are a variety of languages taught as first languages, and I'd like to see the variety widen (I don't know of any CS degree which begins by teaching Forth).
The best programming course I had in college was one on comparative programming languages (and not just 'cause I was the only student who was able to do all of the Lisp exercises solo) --- it was quite striking getting an overview of the history of computer science and to see the myriad approaches which had been used.
> Some languages are less permissive, and have a culture of searching harder for corner cases and dealing with them than others, that is true. I would expect to find less cases like this in Rust, but more cases like this in Python.
My expectation is that when I think I've found a bug in the programming language implementation I'm using, it's actually me that's mistaken (or at least that language lawyers consider me to be mistaken). Hearing about someone who has encountered multiple bugs (in regular use, rather than running a fuzzer or being directly involved in implementing the language) makes me very wary.
Yeah, this is crazy. It's literally a cliché for most programming languages that it's never the compiler's fault. Granted a lot of the Julia bugs seem to be in the standard/core libraries, but still. Even if the bugs are overstated, this cavalier attitude towards correctness in a numerical language is super disconcerting to me.
In that case let's look at what reaching .01 degrees means for a desktop. At normal viewing distance, a 20 inch screen needs to be 4k, and a 30 inch screen needs to be 6k. Very few desktops reach the level where pixels are mostly hidden.
> like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine
My understanding of that section was that Ukraine were using it to find launch sites in occupied parts of Ukraine - they go on to describe how they helped someone who had been doing the tracking:
[From article]
> We emailed back and forth and provided documentation on how to run the predictor locally.
Edit: my recollection of which parts of Ukraine are occcupied was wrong, leaving me rather confused about who they thought they were helping.
I think the actor they were monitoring was not tracking real launches but rather simulating where a hypothetical balloon launched from their territory would land.
Please could you link to the study if you can find it. The definition of "better" seems quite critical here, as well as whether it's specific to code hosting websites. A messaging platform is pretty useless if I'm the only user, but Github would still be useful to me without anyone else having an account.
> False. If they were threads they'd have their own PC. They do not - only the warp has a PC.
They are using the term SIMT as it is normally used[1]. The "single instruction" part means that there is only one PC shared across multiple 'threads'.
Did you consider the alternative calculation of how many plants you need to grow to feed yourself? A few thousand potatoes growing simultaneously might do it.
That would overestimate the number you need to remove excess exhaled CO2, since you could throw out the parts you can't eat rather than letting them decay and release CO2 indoors.
b) Text generation essentially means passing the Turing test, which for a long time was the bar for general intelligence. Locomotion does not necessarily require general intelligence.
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