Nicolas Vair

ingé son • prod / compo • créa sonore ✨
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► Son live pour @collectifmedzbazar
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Works ☇

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Last photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh as he walked towards the Israeli tank .

[⭐🟥🟩 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗟𝗮𝗱𝘆971⭐🟥🟩 @KaribGyal97118]

"Notre" nouveau Ministre des Outre-Mers, Manuel Valls...
#gouvernementbayrou #MacronDémission

[United Nations @UN]

There is no safe place in Gaza, and the war is taking a catastrophic toll on children.

Safe, sustained humanitarian access is urgently needed to ensure life-saving aid reaches those in desperate need.

Above all, what children in Gaza desperately need is peace.

via @UNICEF

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Turns out, it's all in how you ask the question. Prompting is super-powerful.

A single finite Transformer can compute anything computable, just by changing its prompts

Mathematical proof that prompting makes Transformers universal computers

Original Problem 🤔:

The field lacks theoretical understanding of how a single LLM can perform multiple tasks through prompting. While empirical success exists, we don't know the fundamental capabilities and limitations of the prompting paradigm.

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Solution in this Paper 🔧:

→ The paper introduces a novel computational model called Two-tape Post-Turing Machine (2-PTM) that can efficiently simulate Turing machines

→ They construct a finite-size decoder-only Transformer that can execute 2-PTMs through chain-of-thought steps

→ The solution uses ReLU activation, layer normalization, and causal attention to implement boolean operations and equality checks

→ The paper develops special encoding schemes to represent arbitrary computations in finite-sized prompts

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Key Insights 💡:

→ Prompting is Turing-complete - a single finite Transformer can compute any computable function with the right prompt

→ The model doesn't need to memorize all functions or have answers embedded in prompts

→ The solution achieves nearly same complexity bounds as unbounded Transformers

→ Chain-of-thought steps are necessary for universal computation

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Results 📊:

→ Can compute any TIME(t(n)) function within O(t(n) log t(n)) chain-of-thought steps

→ Achieves O(log(n + t(n))) bits of precision for any length-n input

→ Can decide any P language within log-precision

[François Ruffin @Francois_Ruffin]

"Vous êtes content d’être en France ! Parce que si ce n’était pas la France, vous seriez 10 000 fois plus dans la merde !"

Un archipel dévasté, Macron au mégaphone, les manches retournées. Et un président qui jamais n'irait tenir les mêmes propos en Aveyron ou en Alsace : Mayotte mérite mieux que ça. La France mérite mieux que ça.

[Fabien Escalona @fab_escalona]

lol

[Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel]

Aux admirateurs de gauche de la Syrie d'Assad : au jour de joie de la chute de cette dictature, lecture recommandée de ce texte du grand Farouk Mardam Bey, à l’adresse des tenants d’un campisme aveugle au sort des peuples. En accès libre sur @Mediapart https://t.co/qkLKbFLnrU

[Tommy Siegel @TommySiegel]

bird sounds

[Nicolas Vair @NicolasVair]

@CMEPro1 hey any news about iwa ? I’m soooo impatient !

[Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot]

The Extreme Weather Report, October 3, 2024:
It wasn't just Helene. This is your weather on fossil fuels.

[BLAST, Le souffle de l'info @blast_france]

E. Macron : un grand pervers à l'Élysée

➡️ https://t.co/9281TVsZq3

Ce zoom arrière vertigineux avec le sociologue Marc Joly permet de comprendre ce qui nous est arrivé et ce qui va encore nous prendre en traitre. Cœur sensible ou macroniste s’abstenir.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown
Via Reddit

[Nicolas Vair @NicolasVair]

@rasbt @deliprao WoW great ! Would that work locally in a smartphone too ? Converting it I suppose ?

[L'Humanité @humanite_fr]

"N'embauchez pas une domestique qui a déjà travaillé pour des occidentaux, elle risquerait de se montrer plus exigeante." Voici le genre de conseil que donnait la nouvelle ministre de l'Éducation nationale, Anne Genetet, sur son site "Help Agency."

[Nicolas Vair @NicolasVair]

@seatedro Would you share how to have images in Color in ascii ?
Would it work on a video feed ?

[Nicolas Vair @NicolasVair]

@bbssppllvv Would love to use it !

[pascalriche.bsky.social 🔆 @pascalriche]

Montage un peu flippant.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I got this community note 👇 in the thread, which is NOT true. In the elections of 2022 - the prior ones - Macron's party arrived first without winning a majority yet Macron didn't hesitate to nominate a Prime Minister from his own party 🤷‍♂️

[Denys Shtilierman @DenShtilierman]

Elon Musk has complied after all and provided a list of X Holding Corp shareholders who helped the billionaire buy Twitter. And who do you think turned out to be the investors of the X platform? That's right, Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich. Now it is absolutely obvious where Musk got such love for Russia and where the roots of “filters” due to anti-Russian publications grow from. Let me remind you who Aven and Moshkovich are.

Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, which is one of the main wallets for Putin. This man is controlled by the Kremlin as much as possible, for example, in 2018 he traveled to Washington with his colleague Fridman to lobby on behalf of the Russian government to lift international sanctions on Russia. Aven is one of Putin's oldest friends. In general, without Peter's interference, Putin would be in jail rather than becoming president. After all, Aven covered for Vladimir Putin in 1992, when he organized the illegal trade in export licenses. Aven promptly approved him as an authorized representative of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Affairs with the right of foreign economic activity, thus saving the future dictator from prison. Aven also attended a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 to mark the start of the invasion of Ukraine. He did not express any protest, started the special military operation and silently supported Putin. By the way, he along with Friedman is trying to get sanctions lifted, just yesterday he received another rejection in this matter.
Twitter is represented in the purchase by 8VC Opportunities Fund II, L.P., a company in which his son Denis works.

Vadim Moshkovich is a sub-sanctioned Russian agrarian billionaire who was a member of the “Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation”. In other words, he was officially part of Putin's closest circle. Moshkovich owns Russia's largest agricultural holding Rusagro. Naturally, he also attended the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 and, like Aven, did not express any protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Twitter is represented in the purchase by 8VC Opportunities Fund II, L.P., a company in which his son Jack (Eugene) works.

Also an interesting personality is Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, who both personally and through his Kingdom Holding Company is represented in the list of investors as many as three times. This man continues his investment business in Russia and does not publicly support Hamas in the war against Israel. He regularly works with Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom on investments in Russia.

Knowing all of this, how can there even be a discussion about Elon Musk's bias? Everyone was thinking how is it possible that Twitter (X)'s stock is plummeting, advertisers are breaking contracts, and no one is doing anything about it. I mean, that's a direct loss to investors. But what everyone overlooked was the fact that investors didn't care about profits, they needed a platform to promote their narratives, such as: supporting Putin and Russia; lobbying to freeze the war in Ukraine; taking the Ukrainian agenda out of the top news; the righteousness of Hamas, etc.

It is now obvious that all the changes to Twitter that are ruining this beautiful platform are a consequence of Elon Musk's collaboration with people like Moshkovich and Aven.

#ElonMusk
#RussiaUkraineWar #RussialsATerroristState