> You can treat music as information. If it's not information, it's just noise.

In information theory we have:

A message has maximal information content if (and only if) its symbols are statistically indistinguishable from random noise.

Noise or noise-like elements are also important part of many kinds of music.

This is why a better acronym for IDM is Information Dense Music, it's less pretentious and it explains why it's very close to noise ;)

Of course, I'd argue Bach and Debussy are very information-dense too but they somehow manage to stay uncluttered. The really great thing about music is that encodes information on many different levels, Claude Shannon notwithstanding

If you would setup an RLM, would you set a higher temperature for the root LLM calls and a lower temperature for LLM calls deeper in the recursion?

Just wanted to say that I really like this question. Very thought-provoking :)

EDIT: makes me think of many computation systems in various substrates, and how they work. Focus vs distraction/creativity. ADHD workers in hierarchies of capitalism, purpose of breadth vs depth of exploration at various levels of the stack, who's at the "top" and why, etc etc

I'm interested in your choice to focus on French organs. Do you specifically aim to focus on French organs and not those of German type? Or is it more like a matter of convenience due to geography?

Where I live we can get deliveries by starships https://www.starship.xyz/. The vehicles are kind of cute when you see them in action.

They've been working on those things in Tallinn for years, and I've only ever seen them operate in a very limited area, and even then it's not unusual to see them seemingly stuck at the nearby rail crossing. Meanwhile a human on a Bolt scooter ate their and their investor's lunch IMO.

They do look cute, I remember being completely taken-aback the first time I saw one in the wild - I had to resist the temptation to stand in front of it, to see what would happen.

Though I did wonder how they'll cope in winter-weather. I can't imagine they'd do so well on snow/ice.

But there are plenty of places that don't have much snow and ice where they should be perfectly practical. Ice shouldn't be a problem, they could swap to studded tyres in the winter just like we do for cars here in Norway. Snow would be a much bigger problem though I agree!

I'd encourage you to stand in front of it. Commercializing public walkways like this is fine, I guess, but as a human walking around for non-commercial reasons, I feel like you have the right to do whatever you want (within reason) that doesn't impact other humans.

They've been using them in Milton Keynes too: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/12/robots-deliv...

Also DPD piloted something similar in Milton Keynes and is now going to do it i ten towns in the UK: https://green.dpd.co.uk/news/16

Ok that seems like far more practical idea

They seem practical until you realize how easy it is to steal one.

The starships on the road are free you can just take them I have 458 starships.

Those wheels look moderately impractical- larger wheels might have more clearance.

Reminds me that we had pneumatic tubes and miniature railways between buildings a century ago.

Yes they are heavily cherry picked. The web site itself has a disclaimer about it.

Sorcery. This is not possible by mere mortals to do in 4kb.

It's a little more possible now that iq has spent years teaching us all how to do it though

kB, not kb.

> Real accidents may occur because people cannot decide in time which of two alternative actions to take, even though either would prevent the accident.

Reminds me of one of the Boeing 737 crashes where pilots were reading the manual but had not enough time to reach the relevant pages.

Someone needs to combine this variant with four player chess.

Is there an arxiv link to the paper the author wrote about the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials?

I think industrial robotics is a well established and profitable field.

Industrial robotics focuses on single task, highly specialised machines that have few constraints on form, size etc. This is not that.

What tesla are conceptually pitching here (let's ignore that they'll deliver something that's pretty useless by comparison to what they're hoping you're assuming they mean) is a not-in-our-lifetimes leap in robotics in multiple ways

That 100% something else. Industrial robots are almost allways in a cage for safety. I know there are 'cobots' now, but I just never saw one, except in showcases. Industrial robots just do a fixed task and are dumber than a slice bread. Industrial robots are super heavy for what they can lift. Even they are very efficient with energy, they are still allways on main grid / no batteries.

The huge task is anyway not to build a robot. The huge part is to make the robot (or any device) smarter than a slice bread.

True, but humanoid robots have little to do with industrial applications. I'm not bashing Tesla or Musk in any way, but this seems more of a mix of PR and research. Robotics is indeed the future, there will be huge demand in a few years, and of course they want to keep a foot in that door, so they need a project which today allows them to say "we're doing robotics too", tomorrow could evolve in big "ooohhh!" and in the meantime let them build experience in the field. In due time all money spent in this field is going to return. In my opinion this robot will probably evolve either into a companion aid for lonely/ill people or maybe a future Tesla luxury car chaffeur, rather than doing any serious mechanical work. For most uses, today a wheeled/tracked platform with grabbers is still cheaper, stronger, better. The knowledge accumulated during the journey to get there however will represent the most valuable asset.

that Tesla is in the process of building up expertise in. The Fremont, Nevada, China, and German Tesla factories are all filled to the brim with industrial robots.