That statement caught my eye. It's either trivially true or quite clearly wrong, depending on how you mean it.

In the literal meaning it's true. Given any finite set of real numbers, I can easily produce a different set (like taking the original set and adding a number which wasn't in there like one plus the largest or so) from which you can trivially produce the original set computationally.

But if you mean you give me both sets then that can't be true. For example if you give me a single real number as set A and the empty set as set B then I can't create a program which generates set A from set B. Your real number in set A could encode anything.

That is your takeaway from the 1991 story?

From a circuit perspective that makes kinda sense, but from the abstract "bit" perspective, the "switching bit" is a mechanism that operates on bits which in the end are also data. In other words there is only one type of bit: the data bit, and the switching comes on top of it.

Hm? It's what counts in court, so it is the only relevant test.

> Even legitimate cases of misbehaviour on aircraft rarely lead to prosecution (in the US).

People have been removed from aircraft by the police for decades. Yes, there is lots of precedence here. Whether in the end that leads to prosecution is secondary. What we are debating here is whether the PIC had the right to have them removed in these cases, and clearly they had.

Such a document may not make a difference to the person that eventually will have died, but it can make or break the life of generations to come in countries that are so heavily optimized for dynasty building like the US.

And that my friend was the joke. Achievement unlocked, congrats!

And that you as a pilot would personally not do that in many situations may be commendable, but doesn't mean others won't nor that they don't have the authority to do so since in the end of the day it would be hard to counter in court.

That's likely a false statement, even if unintentionally so.

If the t-shirts print is offensive enough then I'm sure a strong enough argument can be made. After all, how are a "bomb" bluetooth name or a "free palestine" wifi ssid much different from a t-shirt with similar contents?

Try wearing a t-shirt with "I'm carrying a bomb and will blow this aircraft up" and see how far it gets you on your next flight. The crew (including the PIC) won't be amused.

While I agree with you that this was obviously a ridiculous overreaction, an air plane is not a public space. It's more akin to being in someones living room in that the pilot has absolute authority over whom to kick out for whatever reason. If they don't like your hair, they can have you escorted out by police if you don't comply. They won't do it normally because it's bad PR and their employer wouldn't like it, but they could. Not free speech amendment violated.

Fundamentally, decompilation is not solving a technical problem most of the time (because the source already exists somewhere) but a social one (that the owner doesn't want to release it).

Not ruthless enough and no backing by a corrupt govt administration that has no morals but focuses on self-enrichment instead.

Might sound drastic but I think that's actually closer to the truth thn everbody likes to admit.

> My fear is that you are really only getting really good models by training on very dubious data (outputs from the frontier models etc) and that Mistral is too European and too enterprisey to take those risks.

Exactly.

Why would it not? The typical new phone today has 16gb of RAM. 20 years ago that was somewhere around 32mb. Factor 512. It's not hard to see that we'll get there rather soon, especially if there is an application that provides demand.

> You people fundamentally don't understand the memory requirements for running inference.

You seem to be overlooking how fast things change in this industry, especially if tons o money can be made as a consequence.

> Your cute local models seem good enough because you have no standards and anything an LLM produces seems like magic to you.

Please don't generalize. I'm an expressed AI skeptic and have to deal with the bad consequences of AI slop every day. But you can't deny that there are enough applicationn areas where people have use cases and those will be much easier if things don't need a few round trips to a data center that sucks all the electricity and water out of neighboring communities.

The days of requiring a data center to run anything resembling opus 4.6 are already counted. (But the industry will fight hard to get people to keep paying the Claude tax.)

The consequence is that they don't get to enjoy your competence as an employee nor that of others who don't feel treated well, with implications for their future strength in the market. That's a much stronger consequence that being rude for a moment to somebody who doesn't care anyway.