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Comment last time that had me chuckling.

I first remember reading this phrasing here on HN and I've been using it for years to explain to others that what I am doing is not "work", its just a hobby.

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  > Some images contain indications of chemical composition. All measures used on the pictures are defined in the first few images using physical references that are likely to be consistent anywhere in the universe.

  > The pulsar map and hydrogen molecule diagram are shared in common with the Pioneer plaque.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Vo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

Sure, the odds of another civilization discovering and fully decoding it are slim. But the Record was never simply meant as a practical tool, like the Svalbard seed bank or the LHC. Instead, it's an intentional gesture of optimism, an attempt to capture and communicate the essence of who we are at this unique moment in our history.

Importantly, the Golden Record was carefully designed using universal scientific principles—binary notation, hydrogen atom properties, and pulsar maps—ensuring that any intelligent civilization might realistically decode it. The instructions etched onto its cover rely on fundamental concepts universally understandable across the cosmos.

The greetings, music, and even brainwave recordings aren't strict instructions but rather snapshots showcasing humanity’s diversity, creativity, and complexity. Even partial understanding by an advanced civilization would provide profound insights into human emotion, ingenuity, and our deep desire for connection.

In the end, the Golden Record is NOT just about practical outcomes; it's about reflecting humanity’s best qualities back to ourselves and inspiring us to strive toward the ideals we've shared with the universe.

Can't wait to dig in on the research papers. Congrats to the llama team!

One of my favorite facts ever is that Voyager 1 contains something called the Voyager Golden Record [1]. It has the following quote written:

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

I get chills every time I think about this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

Perhaps the real challenge isn't balancing innovation and marketing—it's creating a culture that genuinely rewards bold ideas and meaningful risk-taking.

The key insight we discovered was that explicitly enforcing brain-like topographic organization (as some academic work attempts - such as this one here) isn't necessary - what matters is having the right functional components that parallel biological visual processing. Our experience showed that the key elements of biological visual processing - like hierarchical feature extraction and temporal integration - emerge naturally when you build architectures that have to solve real visual tasks.

The brain's organization serves its function, not the other way around. This was validated by the real-world performance of our synthetic visual cortex in the Tesla FSD stack.

Link to the 2021 Tesla AI day talk: https://www.youtube.com/live/j0z4FweCy4M?t=3010s

Edit: Demon involves decaying the momentum parameter over time, which introduces a new schedule or formula for how momentum should be reduced during training. That can feel like additional complexity or a potential hyperparameter rabbit hole. Teams trying to ship products quickly often avoid adding new hyperparameters unless the gains are decisive.

The best build I have seen so far had 6x4090's. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C548PLVwjHA

  Specifications
  - GPU Accelerator - 6 x 24GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
  - Processor - Intel Xeon W7-3465X, 28C/56T, 2.5GHz - 4.8GHz
  - Memory - 256GB (8x32GB) DDR5 ECC 4800MHz
  - System Drive  - 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD
  - Storage Drive - 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD
  - Operating System - Ubuntu 20.04

The cost of this... not even sure. Astronomical.

For the Pro $200/month subscription: you get unlimited generations a month (on a slower que).

Nope.

100,000 applications. In under a single day.

With that kind of applicant pool, I’m honestly not sure what the best approach is—even though, in a perfect world, your suggestion would be the more appropriate route. The reality, however, is that these numbers are just absurd.

Courts have upheld this because Congress has the power to regulate the military, but it still feels like a huge shift in rights for someone forced to serve.

It feels... intuitively unjust that the government could compel service and then subject individuals to a system that limits their constitutional rights.