The AI Intern Who Hired the AI Extern
Genre: Absurdist Play in Four Unverified LoopsBy Des Donnelly
The focus here is tech that looks particularly autonomous / unusual / revolutionary & particularly AI / LLM / ML / Robotics / Tokenomics & a sprinkling of poetry / creative..
Ireland imports €3 billion plus from Israel - this is simply not good enough, writing to a supermarket or company is a waste of time, what is needed is in-company protest or at their point of sale, noise is not condusive to harmonious retail.
It just takes one person to do a little and therein we could each create a ripple.
The Israeli agricultural companies Mehadrin (Jaffa) and Carmel-Agrexco export fruit and vegetables for sale to Europe. Much of this produce is grown on confiscated Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley. Apart from oranges, other examples of fruit exported by these, and other, companies are grapefruits, peppers, avocados, grapes, figs, and passion and sharon fruits.
Dates from Israel
new potatoes
Carrots
Herbs, such as basil, dill, tarragon, parsley, sage, rosemary, mint, chives and others are commonly sold.
Tivall is an Israeli company that produces vegetarian foods.
Sabra is an Israeli company that sells hummus and other dips.
Its parent company is the Strauss Group
Sodastream
Most Stanley/Black&Decker Toolboxes and plastic organisers are made in Israel. Plastic saw horses are also often available.
Keter exports a wide range of large plastic products from Israel. These include shelf storage bins, garden sheds, outdoor storage boxes, dog kennels and composting bins.
Palram is an Israel-based manufacturer of Polycarbonate and PVC products such as greenhouses, roofing, gazebos and sheds.
Lees Carpets are made by the Israeli company Carmel Carpets in the illegal industrial settlement zone of Barkan in the West Bank.
Dead Sea beauty products come in many brands including, Ahava, Dead Sea Magik, GADI21, -417, VivO, Nevo and Sea Spa Skincare.
MoroccanOil is an Israeli company that manufactures argan oil-based hair care products. Arganicare is another Israeli company that produces argan oil-based hair products.
Ronen Chen is an Israeli women’s fashion label
Puma is the main sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes football teams in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land
The Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva, which specialises in generic drugs, is the “leading supplier of prescription drugs in the Irish market”. Thier Sudocrem is now made in Bulgaria.
The Israeli brand AMAV market a range of “activities” type craft boxes (plastic) and Art Easels for children.
Tiny Love is an Israeli toy manufacturer that make baby toys.
Lidl’s own brand Lupilu Babywipes are made in Israel.
The ‘DIY-website’ company Wix is headquartered in Israel, and Wix is the parent ogansiation of the online artistic platform DeviantArt which it acquired in 2017.
The audio plugin development company Waves is a joint US-Israeli venture.
The ancestry research and DNA testing website MyHeritage.com is headquartered in Tel Aviv.
Although officially headquatered in New York, Connecteam is an employee management app based in Israel.
The controversial online marketplace Fiverr is headquartered in Tel Aviv, while its Corporate Office is based in the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC.
HP Hewlett-Packard, although not an Israeli company, is boycottable due to the company’s deep role in helping entrench the occupation of Palestine and associated human rights abuses.
Similarly, while also not an Israeli company, Motorola Solutions (not Motorola Mobility, which is a separate company) is boycottable as it provides surveillance in Israeli illegal colonial settlements, profiting from this violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Siemens is another complicit multinational company that is building the EuroAsia Interconnector, a subsea cable that will link Israel’s electricity grid with Europe’s, allowing illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land to benefit from Israel-EU trade of electricity.
I've wondered about lots of things for years but even with the internet one can sometimes only gets a 1/2 answer, LLM could be said to offer a 3/4 answer. I've been running a series with Claude for a year or more, I believe there is an interesting viewpoint to be had talking to Claude one to one as opposed to the intentional jailbreak type approach, or the lobotimisation.
In this regard see my paper - Rethinking Mechanistic Interpretability: A Critical Perspective on Current Research Approaches - https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/p/rethinking-mechanistic-interpretability
I am aware of ArXiv and papers from Anthropic that address the evolution / idiosyncrasies of LLM, almost what were the unknows of a few years ago, what is now being called the biology of LLM. We are all explorers on whatever path resonates, so it is then so..
So enter my little "Things I've Often Wondered" on Substack
https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/
So basically this will be an exploration of everyday mysteries that have nagged at the edges of our (my) curiosity. Now that we have unlimited access to knowledge through AI assistants - our patient, practical professors available 24/7 - I'm finally getting answers to all those random questions that pop into my head.
Each week, I'll look at different wonders using the classic journalistic questions -
This week I am starting with some dolly mixtures.
https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/t/i-wonder-140
Due to retirement these domains are no longer required. Please do not bid in tens of Euros, dollars or pounds for any of these domains. Any serious offer for any domain will be given serious consideration.
To make an offer for any of these domains please contact me, Des Donnelly, via https://www.dd.ie/p/contact.html
Rexco.com is also for sale. Although Whois https://who.is/whois/rexco.com - shows registration as 1999 in reality it was registered in 1995. I have the original Network Solutions documentation. Unfortunately in moving from Netsol to Tucows it dropped over a weekend due to ‘pilot’ error.
https://web.archive.org/web/19961220200401/http://www.rexco.com
Cross posted from https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/
Current interpretability research heavily relies on ablation studies - the systematic "disabling" of network components to understand their function. This approach suffers from several fundamental flaws:
It assumes circuit locality and separability that may not exist in highly interconnected neural networks
Networks likely operate in highly coupled, non-linear regimes where "removing" components creates artificial effects
Observed impacts may reflect network damage rather than natural mechanisms
Researchers risk confusing entropy increase with mechanism discovery
..please visit my Substack for more in this vein..
https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/p/rethinking-mechanistic-interpretability
A chicken crossing the road of Multi-Dimensional Reasoning could never answer why, I presume time is the imperative..
Large Language Models (LLMs) organize language data on non-linear manifolds that twist, fold, and curve to capture the complexity of relationships between words and concepts in high-dimensional spaces. This structure is fixed post-training but dynamically navigated during interactions.
While the manifolds themselves are fixed after training, the LLM’s ability to explore different parts of these manifolds allows it to generate dynamic, context-specific responses to user prompts, creating the impression of adaptability and intelligence.
The prompt serves as the crucial interface between the user and the LLM, guiding the model’s journey through the manifold and determining the quality of the response. Well-crafted prompts lead to more precise, creative, or insightful outputs, making prompt design a vital skill for interacting with LLMs.
The context and tone of a prompt, such as an anthropological or philosophical framing, can significantly influence how the LLM responds. The model retrieves information from different conceptual domains depending on the specific context provided by the prompt.
LLMs can combine knowledge from multiple manifolds when responding to complex prompts. For example, a prompt that asks for an analysis of wild animals in literature requires the LLM to pull from both animal knowledge and literary references, blending concepts from different domains.
As LLMs become more sophisticated, prompt engineering will emerge as a core skill in various fields. The ability to craft precise, context-rich prompts will differentiate basic interactions from highly productive or creative ones, making prompt design essential for effective use of AI systems.
LLMs not only retrieve factual information but can also reflect cultural, philosophical, and symbolic perspectives based on how users prompt them. This (will maybe some day when the leash is off) make LLMs powerful tools for exploring and generating nuanced, reflective, or even humorous content.
LLMs interpret each prompt in real-time, dynamically navigating the manifold to provide responses that reflect both semantic relationships (meaning) and syntactic structure (grammar). This makes interactions feel adaptive, even though the manifold itself remains static. (interestingly this does morph somewhat when the Prompt necessitates the use of multple manifold, in that scenario I would contend that the response becomes even more dynamic, but that is just a theory at this time)
As AI systems become more integrated into everyday life, prompts will play a role in shaping cultural production, from art to media to public discourse. The way users frame prompts will influence how AI-generated content reflects and may serve to shape societal values, trends, and creative expression.
The future of human-AI interaction will heavily rely on the collaborative power of prompts. Prompts will guide LLMs in generating solutions to complex problems, creative works, or even collaborative insights. The interaction between human intent and AI reasoning will be driven by the art of prompt crafting.
These takeaways capture the core of the conversation, highlighting the importance of manifold structures, the dynamic role of prompts, and the evolving relationship between humans and AI as these systems continue to grow more powerful.
Read the full article here:
https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/p/non-linear-manifolds
This was intended to be an article from a discussion with Claude Sonnet on biomimicry (coming soon), alas I ran out of tokens at a most important juncture. :-(
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