When it’s in a browser you don’t need to install anything on the local machine. I used to use Apache guacamole to access my machine at home from work when I was stuck in a cube all day.

https://guacamole.apache.org/

> We argue complexity conceals underlying regularity, and that deep learning will indeed admit a scientific theory

That would be amazing, but personally I’m skeptical.

There is an analogy with statistical mechanics. It's not crazy.

Sane & interesting enough to have been disproven, by Boaz Barak iirc. Maybe not surprising since simulated annealing never achieved the results of gradient descent + backprop.

You might be trying to be too literal.

What makes statistical mechanics so brilliant is that it takes first principle ideas (particle energies + ensemble) to derive macroscopic thermodynamic rules, all of which were originally derived from observation.

What the OP is proposing is a mathematical analysis of SGD + generic deep learning architectures might be able to derive the rules we have empirically derived from experiments in model training.

biology thrives in complexity though; yet all the electrons are identical

“Good” for their bottom line, not for the people.

There was a sci-fi story that explores this idea. The person who wanted to live past their death had to transfer their assets to a trust controlled by the person derived AI (uploaded consciousness in this story) in a roundabout manner. The person was legally dead.

Edit “Mr. Boy”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Boy

> This is like going to work in a drug-lab where everyone is required to strip naked to ensure no "product" can be smuggled out.

I believe this has been the reality of diamond mining.

Which has also long been associated with inhumane labor practices, including slavery.

Upwork is such a miserable platform. Have you diversified to other sources?

Cogent point, expertly applied, thank you.

I assumed from the context the arb was California salary vs their local salary.

And to make that an arbitrage you'd need to subcontract someone local to do the job you've taken the California pay for. It doesn't mean 'get a better deal in a non-obvious way/place', it's taking both sides of the trade in different markets.

lol greetings fellow Basic pencil coder! I used to also write basic programs by hand because I didn’t have a computer.

Pournelle original claim to fame was as one of the authors of “Strategy of Technology“ which was very influential in the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_Technology

My people. My first paid programming was hand translating a BASIC app to C. I did it on the same paper the original was printed on (green/white continuous feed). When I thought I had it right I went to my mom’s work in the middle of the night to type it in and check it. Over the course of a summer I made it work.

The money went to buying my first computer (kit).

Hail, fellow BYTE'ian!

I took what I learned from BYTE and wrote a CP/M terminate/stay-resident 'driver' that got some interesting hardware working well enough to get me the contract, as a teenager, to write the DOS driver for thing as well.

That led to a rocket-ride career through decades of systems programming, and I just can't thank the BYTE folks enough for those mind-expanding days ..

Me too. We'd write and discuss them at school, then run home and try them out. QBasic, and batch file viruses. Ages 10 and 11. Fast forward 35 years and kids play minecraft, programming is dying, and modular desktop computers themselves are seemingly becoming a rarity between surveillance mobile phones and surveillance TVs. Disposable vape pens have more processing power and screen resolution than our household PCs back then, which cost thousands of dollars.

Yea, I hear Ya! I wrote BASIC programs by hand, as well at home while in high school for the same reason :)

There’s something deeply wrong with the executive branch controlling law enforcement and who gets prosecuted in the US. Jack Smith had him dead to rights in two cases (read the indictments they are water tight) that his attorney general then dismissed. It’s a travesty. Thank you “let the courts handle it” McConnel.