You're right, but not entirely.

At 1G constant acceleration reaching Andromeda would take ~15 years, or ~29 years if we also need to decelerate at the same 1G rate to not just whoosh by.

The furthest known galaxy is MoM-z14, which would take ~47 years to reach.

But unlike Andromeda, MoM-z14 is accelerating away from us, or more precisely, the space between us and MoM-z14 is expanding. It's "receding" at 726,000 km/s (= 2.4 times the speed of light). And still accelerating. Because of these, even the magical constant 1G accelerating spaceship can never reach it, not even in 1 Billion years.

love the name :P

But the payoff here is that you get a sneak peak into PG19

It's off-putting to me too. I wonder if the AI enthusiasts that stopped manually writing also find it off-putting

No you see when I generate a blog post it’s not slop. You see I reviewed the output and declared everything is fine. So it’s not slop.

It’s only when you generate a blog post that I get the ick from slop.

Because I clearly put effort into my blog post and you did not.

When models start to effectively employ sarcasm were screwed

> “bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark” It is now

And it comes in relatively well, in my opinion. I'm a compression amateur, but bzip3 is the first entry I recognize as a general purpose compression program.

Yes, bzip3 compresses that 1GB text file into 170 MB while zstd needs 213 MB (SI units, from my own tests with the "enwik9" file of the GP's page, and the latest releases of both programs, same commands). But the decompression (memory and speed) is a different story.

On my desktop, decompressing with zstd requires 128 MB and 1 s, while bzip3 uses 3.2 GB and 90 s.

Without `-b 511`, bzip3's ratio decreases and decompression requires about the same memory as zstd. But the decompression is still two orders of magnitude slower.

Feels like it's the opposite of what it should be. It's fine to impose the world on the compression side, but decompression should be optimized for low-end devices. This is where deflate and zstd get it.

Bzip2 has also always be a pig on decompression so I was fearing that this was the catch here as well.

Might still be useful as an archival compression format even if it will be less useful for distribution.

This should get more attention - those decompression requirements are a massive impost.

> Is there any way to avoid this?

Be a three letter agency

Is this a honeypot for agents to break out of their sandboxes?

People seem to be throwing around the term "break out" pretty loosely. I wouldn't consider abiding by the rules of the sandbox a "break out".

It's the classic rules as intended vs rules as written.

true, its much rather a "play out"

Break out implies that the agents are bound by the sandboxes. Are they really?

A creepy crawly is a South African invention to clean your swimming pool. The company that introduced them in the 70ies is called Kreepy Krauly. Also popular in Australia.

https://kreepykrauly.co.za/about-us/

It's a childish word for an insect.

> a real conversation to be had that a country should ensure it has strategic industries

Then let that be the reason for tariffs rather than the bullshit argument of trade deficit = taking money.

In academic and think tank circles it is. Too many people treat political theatre and, frankly, entertainment pieces as reflective of the actual policy debates when they are mass media designed to get clicks.

Right but this is actual policy. The Trump Administration does actual policy built off poorly formed fiscal reasoning. That's why we see blanket tariffs. There is no strategy.

Maybe some smart people, somewhere, would hypothetically have a strategy. Those people currently hold no power. It's not "political theater", it's our ACTUAL politics. It's just so ridiculous that it looks like theater. Which just means the situation is worse than you originally thought.

Then someone would still create a website with an index of all the open models. Where people discuss & rank the models, show related models, ...

And now you've recreated most of HF

How does a stock market crash increase RAM prices (when RAM demand goes down)?

Or would it affect people's purchasing power. I guess to some extent it does for people with significant investments in the stock market, but that's not a huge percentage of the people wanting to buy RAM or devices with RAM

The second and third and fourth-order exposure to AI spending is maybe bigger than you think. The blast radius if it pops could be quite large. Patrick Boyle had an interesting video discussing this recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTiYaWFP59Q

Sure, but how does it _increase_ RAM prices. It should decrease them because companies have less capital to buy RAM so demand decreases.

I have no opinion on what will happen, and know close to nothing about the memory industry but just to think out loud about how market turbulence could cause memory prices to increase:

- Suppliers that memory companies depend on JIT are entangled and go under, halting production or stalling capacity increases

- Downstream suppliers / distributors for not vertically integrated memory companies go under, and there is a shortage of finished product ready for consumer use even though there is an excess of memory chips

- Memory producers / fabs can’t handle the depressed demand and go under / have to halt production, alleviating the demand glut for the surviving suppliers, who have less competition. Coordinating a cartel becomes easier when there are fewer suppliers and becomes more desirable now that everyone realizes it’s a matter of survival.

There are also plenty of good reasons to think prices will go down if demand is depressed, but it does seem possible for prices to go up

I didn't say that it would increase RAM prices. I said "may in practice cause RAM to remain unaffordable."