Probably stating the obvious here, but this would be a good way for an LLM to attempt to write or modify music.

If you're an engineer capable of holding a $440k/year job then you should care where your talent goes and who benefits from it. There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.

> There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.

Ah, yes. Google? Meta? Amazon? Microsoft? Hahaha. You're right, they aren't doing it in the open, and some certainly aren't doing a bad job about it. But they are all playing at world domination.

This isn't really true though... The US tech sector owns big salaries right now.

That proud phrase "HR Tech" in that link, gives me the heebie-jeebies.

I'd say "if you work in a company like this you're a bad person", but sociopaths, sorry, Wharton graduates won't give a shit anyway.

It seems like the term Wharton graduates is now a wart on graduates' resumes.

There's an unfortunate lack of fear.

How do these modern Atoms compare to the Apple ARM chips? Does Apple make something comparable in terms of power/performance?

The competitor would be the efficiency cores on the M-series chips. I don’t know how well they compare though. Apple doesn’t have any skus with only efficiency cores afaik. If they did it would be something like the Apple Watch, but since arm has had big.LITTLE architecture for many years there was no need to have chips with only efficiency cores to achieve efficiency.

Apple Watch SoCs are "just" the efficiency cores of their iPhone cousins

You can use IP based tracking or something like a query parameter to track within that session

You're describing a session cookie. Changing the technique slightly doesn't allow you to bypass the law.

Yes I think I’ll post the design here when it’s done.

Huh, I think I agree. Not only are the banners slow, obnoxious, have a tendency to being manipulative and are different for every website, a web developer can easily ignore the user's choice and track them anyway. Apple made a big leap with the “ask app not to track” and I think browsers should have this as well. If only to get rid of those infernal banners.

I've been in Europe for almost 2 months now and started seeing the GDPR banners a lot more often. I've yet to feel like I'm missing anything by either clicking reject all, or by avoiding the site if I can't reject all non-required cookies in a few clicks.

The absurdity of suggesting optical computing is a good pathway to efficiency is that our brains efficiently use electrons and are doing just fine.

Hmm, I think that is a non-sequitur. How does the brain's use of electrons say anything about the efficiency of photons for computing?

Our brains are subject to very different design constraints. Wheels are very efficient, but nature doesn't use them because the environment and the exigencies of biological reproduction and repair indicate other strategies.

It really isn't a simple thing.

Interesting analogy, and I see your point. What I'm trying to say is, we know that there's way to perform certain computations that's orders of magnitude more efficient than we've ever achieved. We have a working example of it. And yet, we choose to develop a wholly different technology, from scratch, that's unproven, instead of trying to emulate or understand what already have.

We are far from having a model of how the brain really works.

Furthermore, i know it's a really common analogy but the brain is not really comparable to a computer. The brain is not programmable, it only have a single function which is "given x input, what output is more likely to keep the organism alive and well". It's a complex task, for sure.

But that's not a computer.

A computer is a machine on which you can run arbitrary programs. I can't plug some wires in your brain and program it to do what I want. It's not that the sockets for my wires are missing, it's just that the physical structure doesn't allow generic computing. If you really wanted to make an analogy, you could say that the brain is an electric circuit. You cannot program an electric circuit. It does what it's wired to do. You can't say that your electrical circuit is faster than a computer. It makes no sense.

So it's a false assumption to say that brains are faster than computers because it's just something that you cannot compare.

> The brain is not programmable

But that is not true, is it? You take a person and train him/her the right way and you will get a fighter pilot, or an equestrian or a poet. The difference between your fingers and the fingers of the finest goldsmith or cellist is thousands of hours of practice. And that didn't change their fingers, it reprogrammed their brain.

So yeah, you can't upload a new program to it with a USB port, but it definitely can be programmed.

No, training is not programming.

Training is feeding the "complex electrical circuit" some input data, repeating it as nauseam in hope that somehow, the machine manages to store and interpret enough of this knowledge to do something with it.

Programming is just throwing data somewhere into some memory and instructing the processor to interpret this data as instructions to follow.

There is no such thing as a processor in the brain that somehow would read some memory somewhere and execute a set of actions.

It’s just « eyes see cake. I know that grabbing it and eating it releases dopamine so I’ll send the required signals to get this into mouth » it’s not ./eat_cake -f --ignore-consequences

I doubt that computers would be as useful as they are if some coach had to train brain-based computers what is Excel and how it should work.

This feels a little bit like a rhetorical trick. You're right that there is _something_ similar about training a person and programming a computer, but I'd hardly call the two things directly analogous. It strains the definition of the word train to say you trained a computer with a python script and it strains the definition of the word programmed to say you programmed a person to play the cello.

Tech people see everything as essentially similar to tech, but its come to be my understanding that biological systems are a fundamentally different kind of thing than technological ones.

Came here to say this. I also don't understand why "secret chats" can't be kept in the cloud. Why can't they store encrypted messages and give them to me to decrypt when I want to?

My guess is that it's a security thing. Even if they don't know the security key, I would prefer if they kept no record of the message.

The real issue is that they could just make a lever that would still store "secret chats," unless if they're being delievered p2p.