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Any ideas how these interactive animated diagrams were made?


Looks like a React component tree binding to SVG nodes. Right click and inspect element. Right click on the svg element in the (chrome) inspector. Choose `break on` > `subtree modifications`. That led me to look through the network tab for this: https://cursor.com/marketing-static/_next/static/chunks/0sqf... (look for the text "GitObject" in this file)


Cursor's entire schtick is providing AI coding tools. I'll give you one guess as to what they probably used for the diagrams.


Small refinement: the underlying model isn’t stochastic at all. The forward pass is a deterministic function of the weights and input, it just produces a probability distribution over the next token. The stochasticity is an optional sampling step layered on top, not something inherent to LLMs. Greedy/argmax decoding (or temperature 0) makes the whole thing deterministic.

So “purely stochastic” overstates it a bit: the distribution is computed deterministically, and you choose whether to sample from it or not.


There are more layers to this problem, if we want to get into the details. The LLM is defined in terms of floating point operations, and those are not actually fully deterministic, on most hardware and in most performant implementations.

IEEE 754 only specifies precision requirements for certain operations, not precise bit patterns (e.g. for exponentials). So, at least in principle, the same hardware performing the same operation could produce different results at different times, as long as they are close enough to the theoretical answer. I'm not sure if any hardware actually works like this.

IEEE 754 also specifies that many of the basic arithmetic operations are not associative - so any reordering (which is common when batching multiple queries at the same time) will introduce indeterminacy from the perspective of your own query (that is the result for your query will change depending on what other query happens to be processed at the same time, which is not under your control).

Finally, even if we take the case when a query is processed alone, and even if one particular hardware is completely deterministic, the result will be different on different hardware - which can again look like non-determinism if you're sending your query to a load balancer.

So, the math for LLMs is deterministic in theory, but implemented with non-deterministic approximations & optimizations in practice, and their results are then normally used only as a probability distribution to be sampled from.


What's in the SpaceX Files and why aren't they already public?


Details of alien encounters and abductions, paranormal and psychic phenomena, as well as crypto-zoology and curious human abilities.

reads headline again

Oh. Probably all the money burnt in AI training and data centers.


the truth social is out there


That is what I'm talking about, finally someone is asking the real questions.


The big numbers are the cost to train a frontier LLM and the GPU cost per hour.


Outstanding comment.

4 different levels to unpack: Literal IPO question, Epstein cover-up (gov. won't just do it), aliens (X-Files) cover-up, and finally the Elon-Epstein connection (email files thread to host him at SpaceX).


Just more pedophiles and their supporters.


What? OP wasn’t trying to make an Epstein files joke?


Clintons?


Clintons aren’t connected to Space X though so that’s a silly answer.


Sensitive financial information. It is normal for companies to file confidentiality to avoid leaking information early.


Parent commenter is making a joke about the fact that, in the title "SpaceX Files to Go Public", the word "Files" could be read as either a noun or a verb.


:)


Maybe dumb question but how do I just take a sat image and create the scene? The scripts in the repo are all about training which I assume requires you to have the 3d data too.

These sort of projects always look cool but I think the real "wow factor" would be a file upload where you can see the result on your image. I assume there are reasons why this isn't done.


Do you mean converting your image into a 3D scene?

This is where we were heading with our 3D volumetric video company https://ayvri.com

We were working on blending 3D satellite imagery with your ground view (or low flying in the case of paragliders) photos and videos to create a 3D scene.

Our technology was acquired prior to us being able to fully realize the vision (and we moved on to another project).


The mask becomes the face


This is exactly what he is proposing, because it is more "useful". But it hardly gives you agency to be someone you are inherently not.

Authenticity is what we lack in the modern world and he is totally fine with that.


We all change with time, whether we want it or not. You can influence that change of your mind and soul, just like you can influence how your body changes.

If you fake being a better person than you are within, then by time you will be given by others more trust, more love, more opportunities. The sands of time will start to erase the old personality and implement the new, which is more reflective of the better environment you're finding yourself in. The good parts of the old you stay, while the bad parts are washed away.

This can be implemented on an industrial scale with military indoctrination, where they can take absolute scum and turn them into honorable soldiers and officers.


To what extent is this administration concerned with breaking laws?


Not in any way, but I think it's still important to be noisy about the violations as they happen


Strawman Front


Is there anyone monitoring US government websites for deletion of pages beyond what people may notice in an ad hoc way? I feel like this should be automated.


There's an Archive Team project for the government, although it's just trying to get as much of a snapshot as possible: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/US_Government Detecting changes across all pages in real time is going to be difficult to accomplish.


You can use a combination of the website capture data available in the Internet Archive along with what the Internet Archive and ArchiveTeam crawl to analyze and track when page status changes (both content and http codes, 200->4xx for example). Look for the diffs across the .govs of interest. Crawling continues.

(no affiliation, friendly reminder to donate to the archive)


I've got a bridge to sell you


What’s offensive with MCP?


I don't know but I'm personally triggered by the acronym MVC that is wrongly used by so many programmers.


In the seminal SF movie Tron (1982), MCP stood for "Master Control Program", and it has already been firmly established that "Master" is a problematic word we must expunge from our repositories.


The repository uses it to abbreviate "Model Context Protocol".


No. Like "master" as a branch name, even if it's perfectly fine in this context, as long as it could be suggesting the word use in a problematic context, it should be banned. That's how we banned "master" as a branch name, so why not MCP?

Yes, I mean we should ban all abbrev with M in it /s


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