Gabriel Ledung

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[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

US intelligence officials believed Israel may have been plotting to kill top Iranian negotiators during US-Iran talks Iranian top negotiator Ghalibaf had to make an emergency landing in Mashhad Iran after two Israeli warplanes crossed into Iranian airspace from Iraq-NYT

[Gabriel Ledung @GabrielLedung]

@TheRujiK Looks legit! Would love a YouTube video on that process. I’ve really enjoyed the others over the years

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

8/ So, when someone says that some region of Ukraine is “russian speaking”, read the above list again. It’s a miracle that Ukrainian language even survived, and many people sacrificed their lives for it.

[Carl-Oskar Bohlin @CarlOskar]

Det finns en besvärande asymmetri i det faktum att kommunikation från terrororganisationen Hamas plockas upp och sprids okritiskt som om det vore nyheter. Samtidigt som invändningar från regionens demokrati, Israel, behandlas som partsinlagor som alltid avkrävs oberoende verifiering. Av förklarliga skäl är detta ofta nästan omöjligt i den hastighet som nyhetscykeln opererar.

Denna standard är dubbel och talar för en beklämmande bias. Den som inte vill bidra till att aktivt upprätthålla en bias som lutar till Hamas fördel bör naturligtvis ta detta i beaktande.

Vi klarar i hög grad av detta när det kommer till hur vi hanterar information med ryskt ursprung. Det borde inte vara mycket svårare i förhållande till en terrororganisation som opererar efter en helt annan moralisk standard än den vi vill ha i vår del av världen.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1

“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy

“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy

“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison

Lies

We are being lied to.

We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.

We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.

We are told to be pessimistic.

The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.

We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

We are told to be miserable about the future.

[Gabriel Ledung @GabrielLedung]

Wow this is so cool, incredibly useful!

[akhil @fkasummer]

here’s the multiplayer browser engine i’ve been working on in action @braidbrowser

Sound ON + rt

invite link 👇

[François Chollet @fchollet]

My interpretation of prompt engineering is this:

1. A LLM is a repository of many (millions) of vector programs mined from human-generated data, learned implicitly as a by-product of language compression. A "vector program" is just a very non-linear function that maps part of the latent space unto itself.

2. When you're prompting, you're fetching one of these programs and running it on an input -- part of your prompt serves as a kind of "program key" (as in database key) and part serves as program argument(s). Like, in "write this paragraph in the style of Shakespeare: {my paragraph}", the part "write this paragraph in the stye of X: Y" is a program key, with arguments X=Shakespeare and Y={my paragraph}.

3. The program fetched by your key may or may not work well for the task at hand. There's no reason why it should be optimal. There are lots of related programs to choose from.

4. Prompt engineering represents a search over many keys in order a find a program that is empirically more accurate for what you're trying to do. It's no different than trying different keywords when searching for a Python library.

5. Everything else is unnecessary anthropomorphism on the part of the prompter. You're not talking to a human who understands language the way you do. Stop pretending you are.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Superconducting magnet engineer chiming in.

This result could be very big news, and overnight revolutionize all of electronics and energy. It might not.

Here's a mental model for the non-expert to understand what's going on.

RTAPS: The good, the bad, and the ugly: 🧵

[Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti]

This is a particularly bad take, epitomising a dangerous kind of triumphalism that also does Ukraine no favours. A short thread 1/
Take away Russia’s nuclear weapons – for Putin is finished and his country may soon collapse https://t.co/u5oFFcqG8i

[German Marshall Fund @gmfus]

❝The beginning of liberation of Russia from Putin's fascism will not start before Ukrainian flags raised in Sevastopol, period. Anything else is wishful thinking. It's psychological. You have to kill the idea of the empire in the minds of Russians.❞

@Kasparov63 @vmsalama

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Don't wonder what will happen if Russia collapses. It already did! Years ago. It's not a state, it's a mafia front with factions fighting each other for money, resources, and power.

[Gabriel Ledung @GabrielLedung]

När man lämnar sin fru ensam i skogen lyssnar hon på fåglar 😍

[Kajsa Li Paludan @KajsaPaludan]

Går morgonpromenad med bofink, koltrast, gärdsmyg, talgoxe, duvor och kanske en enstaka rödhake, men underbart och fint är det iaf när man har skogen nästan för sig själv 🥰🐦‍⬛☀️

[paul shmotolokha @PShmots]

@sumlenny Things like this often happen when they want to deflect from another news story. The latest one being the identification of Russian boats near the Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion. Poof, it’s out of the news cycle

[Gabriel Ledung @GabrielLedung]

@bitpixi @icreatelife @Moderubu So sinister 🤩

[Gabriel Ledung @GabrielLedung]

Thats a great reminder! https://t.co/ObuhjfwWKJ

[Jan E. Jørgensen @JanEJoergensen]

Var til frokost med repræsentanter fra det ukrainske parlament. Jeg spurgte, hvad de mente om danske virksomheder, der fortsat driver forretning i Rusland. Deres svar var, at deres arbejde og skatter finansierer Ruslands krigsmaskine, og de har blod på hænderne. ⁦@ecco⁩

[Gabriel Ledung @GabrielLedung]

Read my clever wife’s thoughts on sustainable transition and innovation, and not the least, see her moderate interesting talks at Sweden Innovation Days 2023! 🙌 https://t.co/nqJmgMOodD

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

We had the Tokyo and Nuremberg tribunals, but there was never a Moscow tribunal.

If people’s minds and eyes are shut before past atrocities, there are no limits to committing new ones in the future.

This is exactly what we see Russian soldiers doing right now in Ukraine. 4/12

[Kajsa Li Paludan @KajsaPaludan]

Please help! 🇺🇦How can I send my knitted gloves, scarves and other warm garments to #Ukraine️? 🧶🧦🧤Is there a trustable organization that collects knitwear/clothes?

#UkraineRussiaWar #helpinghand #SupportUkraine

[Gabriel Ledung @GabrielLedung]

Yes, I’m in, tell me what to do next!