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π§ Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image
ο½’ to ensure reproducibility, the pacman keys have to be stripped from the image, meaning that pacman is not usable out of the box in this image. While waiting to find a suitable solution to this technical constraint, we are therefore providing this reproducible image under a dedicated tag as a first milestone. ο½£
https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
As a follow-up to the similar milestone reached for our WSL image a few months ago, Iβm happy to share that Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image! This bit-for-bit reproducible image is distributed under a new βreproβ tag. The reason for this is due to one noticeable caveat: to ensure reproducibility, the pacman keys have to be stripped from the image, meaning that pacman is not usable out of the box in this image. While waiting to find a suitable solution to this technical constraint, we are therefore providing this reproducible image under a dedicated tag as a first milestone.
One of the things I think a lot of people get wrong when they debate whether AI is actually intelligent is that it actually takes less than you might think for something to be intelligent by the technical definition. Even natural selection is a rudimentary form of intelligence.
People program intelligent systems all the time based on very simplistic principles such as natural selection, the way ants or bees navigate, or even the way particles in a gas collide.
What if your maturity is just surrender with better posture?
The funny thing is, I don't think endlessly scaling LLMs is likely the end all of AI. I think there's a legitimate conversation about what other kinds of AI could be added to the mix and how silly it is for AI companies to slash basic research in favor of scaling.
But I can't even have those conversations because everyone is coming up with the most braindead criticisms of LLMs imaginable.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sorceressofmathematics/116342229402330815
Though another interesting part of this story is that the design of the first punch card reader was inspired by the loom, so maybe Marx was poetically more right than he could possibly have imagined.
*new computer technology*
*looks inside*
*it's a loom*
jbz