The media has a big hand in steering the vast majority of people away from critical thinking and proper outrage to useless, powerless disaffection that leads to impulse buying and binge-watching.
> That is a transfer of money from bond investors to the government. No new money is made.
All forms of debt are money creation. All loans are money creation. Fractional reserve banking is money creation. It doesn't have to be "oh now we are making dollar bills" to count.
The only thing that changes behavior is consequences.
If there is no justice system enforcing the law and its requisite consequences, then there is no justice. I don't think those in power understand the anarchy that their intentional dismantling of the justice system has and will cause, and how the blowback from that anarchy will be visited upon them.
I think I may end up coming full circle on Virgil. Circa 2005 Virgil I compiled to C and then with avr-gcc to AVR. I did that because who the heck wants to write an AVR backend? Circa 2009 I wrote a whole new compiler for Virgil III and since then it has JVM, x86, x86-64, wasm, wasm-gc and (incomplete) arm64.
I like compiler backends, but truth be told, I grow weary of compiler backends.
I have considered generating LLVM IR but it's too quirky and unstable. Given the Virgil wasm backend already has a shadow stack, it should now be possible for me to go back to square one and generate C code, but manage roots on the stack for a precise GC.
FWIW I think the LLVM bitcode format has stronger compatibility guarantees than the text IR. But I agree it's a bit of a pain either way; plus, if you forgo linking to the library and just rely on whatever 'llc' the user has installed, figuring out bugs is not a fun time...
It doesn't match the pictures in your head, but it nevertheless does present a mental representation the author (and presumably some readers) find useful.
Instead of nitpicking, perhaps pointing to a better visualization (like maybe this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfEO8l-fas) could help others learn. Otherwise it's just frustrating to read comments like this.
It's not nitpicking to point out major missing pieces. Comments like this might tend to come across as critical but they are incredibly valuable for any reader that doesn't know what he doesn't know.
It just sucks to put in a ton of work into something and then show it off to people but the first reaction is someone comes out of the woodwork to loudly crow that it "misses the mark" and is somehow crap.
It's a completely avoidable experience when the community has a more generally positive attitude. All it takes is a little different phrasing of exactly the same feedback, but with a positive emotional and encouraging tone.
For example, instead of writing:
> Nice visuals, but misses the mark. Neural networks transform vector spaces, and collect points into bins. This visualization shows the structure of the computation. This is akin to displaying a Matrix vector multiplication in Wx + b notation, except W,x,and b have more exciting displays.
> It completely misses the mark on what it means to 'weight' (linearly transform), bias (affine transform) and then non-linearly transform (i.e, 'collect') points into bins
Here's more or less the same comment but with a completely different attitude:
> Oh wow, that's cool! That must have been a ton of work to put together. That got me thinking as to how it's akin to Matrix vector multiplication in Wx + b notation, except W,x,and b have more exciting displays.
> An idea I am wondering about but don't know how to solve is what it means to 'weight' (linearly transform), bias (affine transform) and then non-linearly transform (i.e, 'collect') points into bins.
> Here's some other links that are related and cool: ...
> Cheers, nice work!
Let's not crap on people's work so readily. After all, we have no idea about who the author is. Maybe it's a teenager or a university student and this was their first project. It's really a jarring and demoralizing experience to have your first visualization immediately crapped on.
When it comes to most in person interactions I approximately agree with you. But on HN brutal honesty seems to be the norm and at least personally I appreciate it for that.
A large part of the problem is a cultural mismatch I think. People have a tendency to interpret even entirely valid criticism as negativity. One of the nice things about a more analytical environment (ex STEM research labs IRL, HN on the net) is that you don't need to worry about that so much. The expectation is that things will be critiqued - that this is a good thing that helps further personal growth and intellectual endeavors more generally.
I'll grant the original comment could have been worded a bit more gently without losing the intended meaning. That said, the alternate example you gave there changes the meaning, sounds rather sycophantic, and honestly reads like corpo-posi-speak or LLM prose to me.
Regarding the original criticism. Notice that the title implies this to be an illustration of how a network does what it does. And the visualization flows through internal to output cells. Yet a number of key concepts aren't explained at all. Vaguely analogous to throwing up some ASM on a PPT slide and remarking "so you see, that's how it works". There's a matmul there, but _why_? What's the _point_ of an activation function? Unless I missed something the visualization doesn't even mention nonlinearity despite it being an essential property.
> There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them.
> ...but including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking.
Sadly, with my disillusionment with the tech industry, plus the trend of the past 20 years, this smacks of Larry Page's early statements about how bad advertising could distort search results and Google would never do that. Unsurprisingly, I am not able to find the exact quote with Google.
It will rewire the hard sacrifice of limiting individual wealth to less than a billion dollars per person. Trajectory of present indicates we won't be doing that soon.
It is interesting, I wonder is it possible to get so rich and be kind, probably examples. I'm the kind poor person myself even what money I have I have given too much of it away. In which case I'm a dumbass for doing so but yeah.
His relationship with Epstein and the alleged secret dosing of his wife with antibiotics to clear an STD he gave Melinda from the escorts.
I hadn’t seen Bill’s denial of the STD claim when I made my comment and what went on there is murky according to the below. Bill denies and Melinda expresses sadness. What actually happened?
"Oh he cheated on his wife so he's gonna cheat on the country"
If anything the Halloween files are more of a preoccupation as it pertains to the foundation and the ability to keep its mission intact or the fact that of course it's very autocratic when one guy has all the money and everybody else is an employee
> Maybe I need to to separate the art from the artist?
Yes. We die but the consequences of our actions resonate indefinitely. Ideas make good idols and people do not. Better Родина-мать зовёт! (a statue in Stalingrad approximately "Motherland [ie Russia] calls") and Liberty, which are both definitely statues about ideas than the Lincoln Memorial for example, or even arguably the "Statue of Unity" which is named for Unity but in practice is explicitly a statue of a specific man - Sardar Patel.
In the US one can retire comfortably on $3 million without relying on Social Security. From the downvotes, it's crazy to me that people think a limit of 300 "ordinary people's" retirements is unreasonable.
I really don't think people understand how little difference there is between having $1 billion and $10 billion or even $100 billion. It makes no difference whatsoever to have that much money; they can't enjoy it.
I can't tell what you're actually saying. Is "Musk says Moon is made of blue cheese" as a title, without pointing out the fact that the moon is not made of blue cheese a kind of "rigorous" reporting?
Dealing in hallways gossip is not the job we granted the press extra constitutional protections for.
I was poorly trying to raise this trite distinction, asserting skepticism falls closer to Opinion than Journalism. The line gets more fine every day. I know. Take it up with them/their peers.
'Rigorous' would be "Billionaire says '<crazy shit>'", not "Billionaire says '<crazy shit>'... and here's how we feel/think about it".
There is no accountability anymore. Literal crypto pump and dump schemes mint millionaires and funnel money to billionaires and not a single investigation, indictment, court case, sentence, or even fine!
It's a casino and the mirage of billionaire competency would vanish instantly if the media were even slightly skeptical.
The media is owned, it's a sham. It's a play.
> And techies fall for his stories every time, hook, line and sinker, because he's speaking about core geek fantasies.
Not all techies, but enough of them to keep the raft afloat.
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