I build a plot generation chatbot for a project at my company andit used matplotlib as the plotting library. Basically the llm will write a python function to generate a plot and it would be executed on an isolated server. I had to explicitly tell it not to save the plot a few times. Probably cause all many matplotlib tutorials online always saves the plot
This is why I am leaning towards making the llm generate code that calls operates on took calls instead of having everything in JSON.
Huggingfaces's smolagents library makes the llm generate python code where tools are just normal python functions. If you want parallel tools calls just prompt the llm to do so. It should take care of synchronizing everything. Ofcourse there is the whole issue around executing llm generated code but we have a few solutions for that
It's a truly bitter pill to swallow when your whole area of research goes redundant.
I have a bit of background in this field so it's nice to see even people who were at the top of the field raise concerns that I had. That comment about LHC was exactly what I told my professor. That the whole field seems to be moving in a direction where you need a lot of resources to do anything. You can have 10 different ideas on how to improve LLMs but unless you have the resources there is barely anything you can do.
NLP was the main reason I pursued an MS degree but by the end of my course I was not longer interested in it mostly because of this.
> That the whole field seems to be moving in a direction where you need a lot of resources to do anything. You can have 10 different ideas on how to improve LLMs but unless you have the resources there is barely anything you can do.
I think you're confusing problems, or you're not realizing that improving the efficiency of a class of models is a research area on it's own. Look at any field that involves expensive computational work. Model reduction strategies dominate research.
I felt that way maybe an year or two ago. It seemed like the most research were only concerned about building bigger models to beat benchmarks. There was also this prevalent idea that models need to be big and have massive compute. Especially from companies like openai. I was glad that models like deepseek were made. Bought back some hope
When COVID was spreading around china the state govt was putting out public announcements about this disease and what symptoms to watch out for. I remember that even in the month of Feb 2020 there were public announcements in train stations. There is a lot of emphasis on education and health in the state. Granted it may not be rich as other states but it leads other states in a lot of other markers
That may be but the topic of the thread is how rich Kerala supposedly is, not how super awesome their public train announcements are. The claim is not just false, the article is outright propaganda given how one of the co-authors works for the state government.
I guess my main point is that a communist type govt was not exclusively bad for Kerala since they took a lot of effort to improve education and public health.
You can look at other sources to see how good kerala is doing wrt other states but I do agree the article over emphasised the good parts without any hint to it's bad parts
To put this in context, during Covid, hundreds of bodies were being dumped in the Ganges river, buried in shallow graves on the sandbars in states like Uttar Pradesh. The state govt took an active role to remove the grave markers so that an accurate estimate of the numbers could not be ascertained. These were covered by local bloggers, vloggers and news channels.
Kerala is one of the few states that managed medical supplies of Oxygen pretty well. In many other states many died because hospitals ran out of it.
In India atleast, 'communism' or 'Marxism' in the names of political parties that actually run a state is just a name that has stuck. These entities and people have to be a lot more pragmatic. This is in contrast to those who are arm chair think tanks that you would find in advisory boards, universities etc. These would be people who do not run for elections.
Now, as for Kerala's handling of Covid, that was funded by state govt coffers. So Middle East money had a negligible contribution. What made a difference though is a history of preference for investing in social safety nets and basic infrastructure for people, such as schools, nutrition, hospitals.
What really happened was that the health authorities in Kerala were prepared for an outbreak because Kerala has had a history of past outbreaks and a health system with very well trained doctors and health professionals to handle it. See the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala that was handled really well, there was even a popular movie about it (Virus) that came out the year after.
It's the same story in east Asian countries where they had the SARS outbreak in early 2000s and so they were prepared for new outbreaks.
To be clear I'm not saying Kerala is particularly bad by regional standards, it's not. But compare Kerala and India as a whole with other parts of Asia, they're not doing well. Look at China vs India in the 1970s vs 50 years later. Compare India/Kerala and Thailand in the same time frame. Kerala and Korea, etc etc. South Asia as a whole is doing worse than many other parts of Asia. Kerala government excels at what many socialist governments are good at: Praising themselves. In reality is has made little difference.
India has a lot of other issues, I grant you that the socialist ideology probably had a positive influence in some ways other than economics, particularly socially. But no offense, if you've ever walked the streets Trivandrum and other cities you know there are much more pressing issues.
The hygiene hypothesis is mostly for childhood allergies and even then it wouldn't explain everything. Here is a counter anecdote: my sister has some skin allergies but I don't. I was allowed to play outside and used to just run around in my backyard and my neighbours. Those places can be pretty muddy. My sister was not allowed to and she has allergies.
Look I've lived in India my whole life and this is how it is there. People take a lot of effort to keep their homes clean but public property? Nope. Not my responsibility not my problem, that's how the thinking goes there.
And besides what is the point of talking about how Europe did it 100 years ago? We know better now and still we are not taking an effort to instill some basic civic sense here.
I see it as more of a side effect of an immune system that is designed to adjust itself for whatever pathogens are present in its environment.
Depending on where you are born, you can be exposed to a completely different set of microorganisms or compounds present in the environment. Your body first needs to know which of those are benign and not. A simple heuristic is to tolerate most of these that you have been exposed to till a certain age.
But hey this is just my armchair biology. Don't know if there is anything supporting it
Not just the US but a lot of right wing or authoritarian govt in general.
The problem with this zero sum thinking is there is another player outside of the countries if the world; nature itself. Think natural disasters, climate change, diseases. No one can negotiate with it or form alliances. It does not care about our survival. The only choice we have is to come together to make sure we don't get screwed over.
Or... here's another strategy collect as much money as you can for yourself, and maybe your family... making hay while the sun shines... drilling and selling oil and gas... Demolish sanctions, play the stock market, kill off carbon taxes and environmental measures...
Sprinkle a little cryptocurrency backed money laundering here... some tax cuts there... Make sure your closest friends are well taken care of...
Then hole up in armed compounds with plenty of fresh water and air conditioning ... and say "f you" to everyone else.
Now you understand the rationale of America's new ruling class.
Those same people could hold up in a compound today. But they like the nice things, restaurants, social events, football games etc. They better start liking the locked down life now, because if things go bad their 20 security detail won’t protect them later.
20 armed men vs. their beach houses sinking into the ocean, forest fires burning heir land, hurricanes throwing everything every which way, and potentially nuclear hellfire... IDK, I'm betting on Nature (and man's folly wielding nature) on this round.
Which is why they build massive compounds both onshore and on various islands, and acquire the means to move between them unimpeded.
I don’t know if they’ve considered all the logistics but they do rather seem to be at the point where society’s ability to either ignore or impede them is to be done away with.
Zuckerberg will pay his burly security force by providing a better future for the security force’s family. Like fresh water and golf courses. Security forces will not leave the compound at the end of their shift-they will live there with their families.
(Edit fixed a typo in a word. Sorry I am on mobile)
Well, I am not an expert in governance. I just offered an example to how security forces would be compensated when there is no currency. One could imagine multiple layers of security forces... or some resources under the direct control of Zuckerberg and his direct reports, etc.... Granted, it would be a more dangerous and less fun world for Zuckerberg to live in, but I answered a hypothetical question.
Billionaire bunkers are just billionaire tombs - the only reason billionaires are in charge is the very society they plan to hide from in their bunkers. They have plans for bomb collars, but someone has to maintain them and they could deactivate them, and if your bodyguards want you dead then you're dead.
It doesn't have to be literal bunkers. Just look at the structure of your average "third world" city -- glass towers and luxury condos ringed by miles of shanty towns and slums -- and then a barrier and villas and luxury estates out in the countryside.
This is, in fact, how the end of the western Roman empire looked. No bang, just a long series of whimpers as the elite retreated to armed estates with private armies, taxes stopped being collected, overall trade declined, cities declined, and the agrarian peasantry became bound to lords and estates out of need of protection, etc. etc.
When civic institutions and the taxes that support them are openly attacked and predated upon, weakened and then combined with environmental, disease, or security crisis, one needn't think hard to picture the kind of eventual world that results.
China is on track to reduce its use of fossil fuel for energy production