yogthos

yogthos OP , 16 days ago

Hopefully, one day DPRK can liberate the south.

yogthos OP , 16 days ago

I mean these are highly specialized professionals, they don’t grow on trees.

yogthos OP , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Indeed, occupied Korea has been brutalized just as much as the north, but in different ways. If the south can be freed from the clutches of the burger empire, things there would improve immeasurably.

yogthos , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

I find small services work fine for well defined and context free tasks. For example, say you have common tasks like handling user authorization, PDF generation, etc. Having a common service to handle that is a good idea. This sort of a service bus can be leveraged by different apps that can focus on their business logic, and leverage common functionality.

However, anything that’s part of a common workflow and has shared state is much better handled within a single application. Splitting things out into services creates a ton of overhead, and doesn’t actually address any problems since you have to be able to reason about the entirety of the workflow anyways. You end up having a much more difficult development process where you need a bunch of services running. Doing API calls means having to add endpoints, do authentication, etc. where within a single app you just do a function call. Debugging and tracing becomes a lot more difficult, and so on.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago

I can assure you that the world is paying attention to Africa kicking out colonialists.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago

If you bother to RTFA then you’ll see that they mean it’s useless from investor perspective because it uses a lot of energy, and there are limited practical applications for it. AI services that companies like MS and Google are offering are being subsidized by these companies, and they’re subsidizing them because they expect that they will be able to make them profitable somehow going forward. If they can’t then the bubble will burst because investors and shareholders aren’t gonna keep dumping cash into this tech. The hype cycle around AI isn’t new either, we’ve been here many times en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

yogthos OP , 17 days ago

That’s already happening actually.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago

I think the tech does have legitimate uses, and that it will continue improving over time. I’m just pointing out that it’s being massively oversold right now. I actually think it’s better if the bubble bursts early on in the hype cycle, and then people can focus on figuring out how to apply this tech where it actually works well.

yogthos , 17 days ago

They mean a supranational currency aimed at transforming international trade settlement that sounds very similar to the idea of Bancor that Keynes proposed. The key idea is to establish a common unit of account and clearing system for international transactions. This would prevent the dominance of national currencies in international trade, promoting a more equitable financial system that’s not dominated by the currency of any single country.

This concept would tackle persistent trade imbalances by incentivizing countries to maintain balanced trade, as excessive surpluses or deficits would incur penalties. The idea also has potential to enhance financial stability by countering speculative capital flows that often destabilized exchange rates and caused financial crises.

yogthos , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Westerners thinking the rest of the world can’t possibly get on without them will never stop being hilarious.

yogthos , 17 days ago

The military industry is around 6% of Russian economy, it’s not a war time economy LMFAO. By contrast, by the end of WW2, around 40% of US economy was devoted to the military. That’s what an actual war time economy looks like. It’s absolutely hilarious how people just keep parroting this nonsense without thinking about it even for a second.

The main reason for such rapid growth of Russian economy is due to the fact that decoupling from the west created a lot of economic niches to be filled. Meanwhile, the west effectively doing capital controls for Russia forced the oligarchs to invest their money domestically.

yogthos , 17 days ago

Go read up on the percentage of the Russian GDP spent on the military then delete your comment. 😂

yogthos , 17 days ago

Russia is obviously growing into new war unrelated sectors because the military industry accounts for only 6% of Russian GDP. Plenty of economic niches have been opened up by decoupling from the west, and many of those are being filled by domestic businesses. That’s where majority of the growth is coming from.

yogthos , 17 days ago

When faced with the basic facts of the situation, libs invariably go for personal attacks. It’s hilarious how people who run around calling everybody who disagrees with them trolls, are the ones following a script. 😂

yogthos , 17 days ago

I implore you to learn what a war economy actually is. Spending 6% of the GDP on military industry is not it. Here’s a starter for you online.norwich.edu/…/cost-us-wars-then-and-now

yogthos , 17 days ago

Again, even if you inflate it to 10%, that’s very clearly not a war economy. 90% of the economy isn’t oriented towards the war, and the war has practically no impact on day to day lives of the vast majority of the people.

yogthos , 17 days ago

Manufacturing, food production, research, tech, you name it. Meanwhile, I’ll reiterate my advice that I gave you last time. Go back through the channels you watch, look at their past predictions, and compare how they hold up today. If a lot of what they say turns out to be bullshit, as is the case with this channel, then maybe find a more reliable source. You seem to be a real sucker for these propaganda channels. Weren’t you peddling Perun last time?

yogthos , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Most of US economy isn’t productive manufacturing output, it’s stuff like service industry, software shops, financial economy, etc. Some of it, such as the health insurance industry, is actively harmful to society. There’s a great article explaining how US lost most of its productive economy at this point.

americanaffairsjournal.org/…/the-value-of-nothing…

Industrial output in US accounts for something like 15% of the overall economy, and steel production levels are comparable to Russia. That’s a pretty good proxy for the size of industry in a country. So, when you compare US military spending to the productive economy in the country, then it’s a very high percentage of the industrial GDP.

Also, the article you linked counts all the military adjacent economy to get to the 10% number, US military spending would also look a lot higher if we did that. US defense spending is currently well over $1 trillion a year.

thenation.com/…/tom-dispatch-america-defense-budg…

Meanwhile, US industrial output is around $2 trillion.

brookings.edu/…/global-manufacturing-scorecard-ho…

yogthos , 17 days ago

Russia—moved from the upper-middle-income to the high-income category:

Economic activity in Russia was influenced by a large increase in military related activity in 2023, while growth was also boosted by a rebound in trade (+6.8%), the financial sector (+8.7%), and construction (+6.6%). These factors led to increases in both real (3.6%) and nominal (10.9%) GDP, and Russia’s Atlas GNI per capita grew by 11.2%.

…worldbank.org/…/world-bank-country-classificatio…

I’ve found it’s pretty good matching up with predictions.

If you bother going back through the videos in the channel, then it’s pretty obviously not matching up with how things developed.

yogthos , 16 days ago

That’s sort of what Bancor is, in programming terms you can think of it as a common protocol that you can adapt your currency to, and then it can be used with anybody who’s also implementing this protocol.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago

I don’t really see why you’d classify Saudis and Russia as frenemies. They don’t really have much of anything to have disputes over and plenty of common interests.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago

Oh yeah, that’s definitely a tense relationship.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago

Russia and Saudis are both in OPEC, and Saudis have recently restarted relations with Iran with Chinese mediation.

yogthos OP , 18 days ago

unfortunately doesn’t seem to e on scihub yet

yogthos OP , 18 days ago

looks that way yeah

yogthos OP , 18 days ago

Same, I think there are genuinely useful applications for this tech, but it’s far more limited than what’s being marketed. The sooner we get past the hype phase the better, because then we can start focusing on figuring out what this tech is actually good for.

The aspect that’s driving the hype currently is that we don’t know what the plateau is. And people are figuring out ways to improve both accuracy and performance of LLMs, so it’s difficult to say definitively what will be possible in the near future. For example, using a router with a set of LLMs can drastically reduce energy consumption while maintaining quality of the output lmsys.org/blog/2024-07-01-routellm/

Another example, is using a consensus model leads to more consistent outputs wired.com/…/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-…

So, it’s possible that some of the more glaring limitations could be addressed, but it’s also possible that we’ll hit a wall because there are inherent problems with the approach. The context issue is one example where you start getting diminishing returns as the model gets bigger.

It’s going to be interesting to watch how this all develops.

yogthos OP , 18 days ago

I think the most concerning part of the article is that it sounds like the environment overall is incredibly polluted at this point.