Delta-state CRDTs: indexed sequences with YATA
In this blog post we're coming back to indexed sequence CRDTs - we already discussed some operation-based approaches in the past. This time we'll cover YATA (Yet Another Transformation Approach): a delta-state based variant, introduced [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=
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Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
Failure of Charisma: The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan 0195859502, 9780195859508
Drawing on extensive archives and interviews with more than 80 activists, this book by a former Red Guard sketches the h...
Tethered Reasoning: Decoupling Entropy from Hallucination in Quantized LLMs via Manifold Steering
A fundamental challenge in quantized inference is the temperature-entropy trade-off: low sampling temperatures yield repetitive, mode-collapsed outputs, while high temperatures (T>2.0T{>}2.0) cause what is conventionally termed “hallucination”—semantic incoherence and factual errors. Quantization exacerbates this: 4-bit models exhibit earlier collapse than full-precision counterparts [5, 6]. Most inference frameworks cap temperature at T=2.0T{=}2.0, treating high-entropy regimes as inherently unstable.
Economic futures for LLM inference
Inference providers will look for other lines of business.
Why I'm Worried About Job Loss + Thoughts on Comparative Advantage — LessWrong
David Oks published a well-written essay yesterday arguing that the current panic about AI job displacement is overblown. I agree with a few of his p…
The Secret History of the Hakkas: The Chinese Revolution as a Hakka Enterprise
The Paradox of Hakka Obscurity and High Political Position. Few China scholars or Chinese citizens know one of the most basic facts about Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, Zhu De, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo or many other modern leaders: they were all Hakka. Most
McMartin preschool trial
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983, with arrests and the pretrial investigation taking place from 1984 to 1987, and trials running from 1987 to 1990. The case lasted seven years but resulted in no convictions, and all charges were dropped in 1990. By the case's end, it had become the longest and most expensive series of criminal trials in American history.
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Fruits - Graph All The Things
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關隴集團
關隴集團，又稱關隴世族、關隴門閥、關隴軍事貴族、關隴胡漢集團、武川集團。關隴集團一詞由陳寅恪所創，是指北朝的西魏、北周至隋、唐期間，籍貫為陕西关中和甘肃陇山周围的門閥士族，范围为陕西、甘肃、宁夏、内蒙古阴山周围，漢胡混血、文武合流是其。在鮮卑拓跋部統治下，他們佔據了當時的統治階層。關隴集團不但以武川人為濫觴，數個朝代的肇造者亦出於武川，或武川人後代。清代考據學史家趙翼所著的《廿二史箚記‧卷十五》提到：「北周隋唐皆出自武川。」
Political Aspects of Full Employment
Why do capitalists hate full employment? Because it weakens their power over workers.
