1. Sep 2026
    1. down I must sit in the snow, by a little fire, and a few boughs behind me, with my sick child in my lap

      Where are her kidnappers in this situation? How much is she at risk for dying of illness in these weather conditions? What about her child?

    2. I fell down with it. Then they set me upon a horse with my wounded child in my lap

      If the roles were reversed, the Natives would have been beaten or left behind for falling and not being able to keep up. This displays the compassion and empathy that the Natives have for others.

    3. travel with them into the vast and desolate wilderness,

      Is this by choice or is she held captive? She seems pretty calm about this, is there a reason for that?

    1. “aware” that those toes were connected to her entire body.

      her daughter possibly was shocked not for this reason that her knowing that are connected to her body but possibly thinking "oh, that would hurt."

    2. give it order,

      这里 give it order 指「把它整理得有条理」,其中 it 指前面的 information(信息)。 take in information, give it order, and assign it meaning =「接收信息、将信息整理归类,并赋予它意义」。 比如听到一堆零散消息后,你在脑中理清先后顺序、分类和关联,就是 give it order。这里的 order 是「条理、秩序」,不是「命令」。

    3. how you carry out your intentions

      这里 carry out 意思是「执行、付诸行动」。 how you carry out your intentions =「你如何把自己的想法/打算付诸行动」。 比如你打算每天运动,真正去跑步、健身,就是 carry out your intention。 原句可以理解为: 「觉察决定了你关注什么、如何将自己的意图付诸行动,以及每天的活动和经历中,你会记住哪些内容。」

    4. In addition, they are less negatively affected by work stress, can handle workplace conflict better, and are better able to work independently and solve problems (Brockner, 1988).

      ?为什么不是他们就是能力好,解决冲突好,于是自信??

    1. April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

      he Sibyl would rather stay numb than be forced to keep living, just like the people in the poem prefer the forgetfulness of winter. April’s renewal is cruel because it brings back memories and desires for people who no longer know how to fulfill them.

      Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: London’s piles of rubbish seem useless and dead, but they still produce wealth and drive the whole plot. Like Eliot’s lilacs grow out of “dead land.” Both show that something new and valuable can come from what has been thrown away or left for dead.

      “He Do the Police in Different Voices”: draft starts with “First we had a couple of feelers down at Tom’s place,” throwing us into the middlle of some random person’s story. Eliot changes this to “April is the cruellest month,” but keeps that sudden feeling, like we are overhearing a voice without knowing who is speking. It introduces the poem as a bunch of voices and pieces that we have to put together.

      Countess Marie Larisch’s story: The old woman waiting for her dead son shows how spring can bring painful memories and desires back, almost like flowers coming out of the ground. Eliot’s lilacs grow from “dead land,” so new life comes from something that has died. Birth is not just good; it also requires loss. April brings grief back to the surface, while winter’s numbness might actually feel kinder. April makes people hope, lose hope and remember.

    2. THE WASTE LAND

      After reading the various stories that this references, I'm struck by not only the really intense variance of tales that reference the "waste land", but also the different ways that these stories are turned to ceremony, and the particular details. While the authors of the sources highlight that there's a consistency where the male god of life/natural cycles passes and is revived every year, there's also a semi-consistent element of women's involvement. For example, in the story of Tammuz, every year when he dies, "his divine mistress journeyed in quest of him ‘to the land from which there is no returning, to the house of darkness, where dust lies on door and bolt’ " (Frazer 9). Consequently, it's implied that she's the one who must bring him back to the world of the living, and along with her own return, the force of love that drives the procreation he is revered for begetting. In the European ceremony surrounding the "Vegetation Spirit", the only other official procession members mentioned by Weston are men dressed as "professional female mourners" (named the same as in the story of Osiris' own burial and revival). These figures, while definitely relegated to the side in the European ceremony, are a constant presence. It makes me wonder if there's more to the role of women as healers (as they are in Osiris' story where they are major players in piecing him back together) or guides to bring these gods/spirits devoted to the cycles of the Earth back from their (temporary) deaths, and thus healing the "Waste Land" that arises in each of these stories.

    3. ‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.’

      When a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis, and in so doing becomes a butterfly, it becomes markedly more beautiful — at least in the common opinion. Simultaneously, however, it becomes harder to follow. A caterpillar crawls around the ground in predictable and trackable movements. Butterflies have the gift of flight and of beauty, making them a more delightful yet more fleeting sight. Eliot chooses, in renaming and restarting the poem, to allow it to undergo metamorphosis. The original title and opening are decidedly easier to follow, yet they lack a certain poetic beauty present, at least in my opinion, in the draft as published. That is not to say the prior one is without its merits. A caterpillar must have existed for a butterfly to emerge. However, one can see in the plea in this epigraph a woman yearning for death. Whether or not she will be reborn is an open question, but having existed in the same predictable form only to whither has brought her agony. The works emphasized here operate under the theme of beauty emerging from death or rebirth. As Sybil states, eventually she will wither and become irrelevant, but she will still have a voice: "I will go as far as having to suffer transformation, and I will be viewed as non-existent, but still known as a voice: the fates will bequeath me a voice." (1) Older art forms are enfranchised by Eliot to have that same voice, even if they do not themselves undergo metamorphosis. Similarly, at Trimalchio's feast, the gutted pig provides sausage and blood pudding. Out of the death of one entity, itself considered unworthy, another more practical one emerges. However, it depended on that which preceded it. Marlow also explains in Conrad that, "I heard once more, not his own voice, but the echo of his magnificent eloquence thrown to me from a soul as translucently pure as a cliff of crystal." (6) Kurtz no longer exists in corporeal form. Sybil will not when she withers enough. However, their voices live on in those who will dare to hear them. One may become something more beautiful or may simply die, but voices live on amongst those who will hear them.

    4. I. The Burial of the Dead

      In " The Burial of the Dead", death is described as a universal human experience when it says, "all things are more fleeting than a shadow" implying that death is inevitable. This idea connects to the opening line in "The Waste Land" as April is used to describe what has been lost. Normally, April is a month of rebirth, bringing in new life; instead, the reader must view April as "the cruelest month." Both pieces focus on what happens after death, April being the month to mourn what was lost and then spring into rebirth. Similarly, in "Burial of the Dead" there is a constant idea of reconstruction, which emphasizes the cycle of life present in both pieces. Overall, there is a general idea of death leading towards renewal which can be inferred using the opening lines in "The Waste Land."

    1. In addition, the capsule makes the bacterial cell much larger, making it harder for immune cells to engulf the pathogen (Figure 5.4.8).

      Able to protect its self from being eaten by macrophages and also can pass through as a regular cell

    1. t is not mentioned where you were born. All we know is that your biological motherwas in Barcelona and your father was in Tokyo at the time of your birth.

      ai in 2026 would be able to answer this question without issue.

    2. In this case, theprompt is not well represented in Stable Diffusion’s training data.

      i think that it did exactly what it was asked and pulled from past art to meet the guidelines of the prompt it was given

    3. in AI demonstrates the value of data-driven models,many of the problems we would want computers

      since this article was written i think there has been significant advances in ai but still this point holds.

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    1. justifiable to use AI to assist in making moral decisions,

      in my opinion if you are asking for facts to support your ideas ai sometimes will start bringing you sources that agree with you to make your opinion seem right. ai is a yes man

    2. (Why is earth their natural place?) Thetheory that apples fall to earth because mass bends space-time (Einstein’s view) is highlyimprobable, but it actually tells you why they fall. True intelligence

      this just made me realize that ai cannot create a new idea. that is problematic because people are treating it like it can. i think that is what the article is trying to say.

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    1. Solo dining is a sign of unhappiness, a new report claims. I’ll tell you why I think that’s nonsense – but please don’t pull up a chair

      The opening to the article shows you that this is going to be a sarcastic writing.

    1. Nvidia is the central bank of AI

      Summary: Nvidia is the Central Bank of AI

      Skyrocketing Valuation and Financial Engineering

      • Nvidia reached a valuation surpassing $5.4 trillion, fueled not only by surging demand for AI hardware but also by aggressive financial engineering orchestrated by CEO Jensen Huang.
      • The company has transitioned from pure chip manufacturing into acting as a pivotal industry financier, prompting observers to label it the "central bank of AI."
      • Over the past three years, Nvidia has pledged more than $70 billion in startup investments and backed customers with roughly $300 billion in financial commitments and guarantees.

      Novel Financing Mechanisms and Backstops

      • Residual-Value Guarantees: Partnering with major Wall Street institutions to unlock $500+ billion in infrastructure capital, Nvidia underwrites up to 25% of equipment value to reassure lenders against hardware depreciation.
      • Neocloud Revenue Floors: To help capital-constrained "neoclouds" (such as CoreWeave, Sharon AI, and Firmus) secure affordable debt, Nvidia guarantees baseline revenue by agreeing to buy unused compute capacity over multi-year periods (up to six years or more).
      • Direct Leases and Infrastructure Guarantees: Backed massive buildouts—including a $105 billion backstop for a 1.5-million-chip SoftBank data center in Ohio leased to OpenAI, guaranteeing power purchase agreements and real estate leases.
      • Open-Source and Ecosystem Stakes: Direct investments in software platforms (e.g., Hugging Face, Poolside) to cultivate independent, non-hyperscaler demand for open-weight models powered by Nvidia GPUs.

      Underlying Drivers: Hyperscaler Competition

      • Hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta) generate ~50% of Nvidia's revenue but are actively developing in-house custom silicon (TPUs, Trainium, custom ASICs) that cost a fraction of Nvidia GPUs.
      • Custom chips are projected to capture up to 50% of the AI processor market by 2030, pressuring Nvidia to empower alternative buyers and secure future chip pipelines.

      Critical Risks and Parallels to Dot-Com Telecom

      • Dot-Com Vendor Financing Parallels: Critics draw comparisons to late-1990s vendor financing by Cisco and Lucent, which suffered massive losses when debt-funded telecom customers collapsed.
      • Depreciation & Pricing Exposure: Nvidia's guarantees assume GPUs retain durable collateral value and that demand expands indefinitely; however, chip supply proliferation, specialized inference chips, and architectural efficiencies could compress GPU margins and rental rates.
      • Off-Balance-Sheet Liabilities: Potential non-balance-sheet commitments could reach $175 billion to $300 billion; while Nvidia holds substantial cash ($99 billion) and strong cash flow, a sharp industry downturn or growth shortfall could trigger vast compute repurchase obligations and lease liabilities.

      Hacker News Discussion

      • Monetary Scale and Circular Financing:
        • Commenters noted that Nvidia's commitments rival Federal Reserve interventions in liquidity impact, while cautioning that circular vendor financing makes Nvidia vulnerable if cash-burning AI labs or neoclouds become insolvent simultaneously.
      • Shift Toward Smaller, Specialized Models:
        • A major technical debate centered on compute efficiency, with several practitioners arguing that small, well-tuned models (e.g., 27B-parameter models) increasingly match or exceed massive 100B+ models for coding and domain-specific tasks, threatening projected compute demand growth.
        • Others countered that large frontier models remain essential due to cross-domain reasoning and transfer learning capabilities, and noted that thinking/reasoning token generation keeps overall inference compute consumption high.
      • Hardware Diversification and Global Alternatives:
        • Users highlighted rapid progress in alternative hardware, including hyperscaler ASICs, NPUs, and domestic Chinese silicon (such as Huawei processors running GLM models), pointing out that Nvidia's near-monopoly pricing power faces inevitable margin compression.
      • Solvency vs. Hardware Collateral:
        • Participants debated whether GPUs serve as solid collateral; some argued Nvidia can easily repurpose or resell hardware if a client defaults, while skeptics argued that a major customer bankruptcy would coincide with an industry-wide compute glut, crashing resale values.
    1. Pandas Should Go Extinct

      Summary: Pandas Should Go Extinct

      Core Thesis

      • Pandas forces teams into expensive, complex distributed systems (such as Spark or Snowflake) prematurely due to its memory inefficiency and single-threaded execution.
      • Most organizations do not actually possess "Big Data"; instead, they face "Medium Data" problems that modern single-machine tools can easily handle.

      The "Big Data" Myth vs. Reality

      • Telemetry from Amazon Redshift's fleet indicates that true Big Data is rare for typical analytics:
        • Approximately 94.7% of tables contain under 100 GB of data.
        • Around 86.9% of queries scan 80 GB or less and execute in under a second.
      • The "Pandas cliff" occurs around tens of gigabytes, leaving an unserved gap up to ~100 GB that single-node engines are ideally suited to bridge.

      Architectural Limitations of Pandas

      • Operates eagerly and sequentially, reading full datasets into memory before filtering or aggregation.
      • Lacks native query optimization, resulting in poor CPU core utilization, high memory footprint (USS), and severe OS swapping.
      • Features an increasingly baroque and counterintuitive API that complicates maintenance.

      The Alternatives: Polars and DuckDB

      • Polars:
        • Rust-based DataFrame library with familiar syntax.
        • Implements lazy evaluation, optimized query plans, predicate pushdown, and streaming execution across all available CPU cores.
      • DuckDB:
        • Embedded in-process analytical (OLAP) database, operating as an "SQLite for analytics."
        • Uses vectorized SQL queries, parallel processing, and can query in-memory Python objects and Parquet/CSV files directly.

      Benchmark Insights (1 Billion Row Challenge & NYC Taxi Data)

      • On high-spec cloud hardware (32 cores, 128 GB RAM):
        • Pandas finished the 1BRC aggregation in ~4m 28s, bottlenecked at ~113% CPU with 38 GB memory usage.
        • Polars completed in ~5.04s and DuckDB in ~5.19s, both achieving over 3,100% CPU utilization.
      • On local developer hardware (M1 MBA):
        • Polars and DuckDB finished within 39–47 seconds with negligible swap usage.
        • Pandas required over 12 minutes and triggered 21 GB of disk swapping.
      • Key built-in benefits include out-of-the-box multithreading, memory streaming, disk spilling, and frictionless migration via Apache Arrow zero-copy memory sharing.

      Hacker News Discussion

      • The Literal "Panda" Bait-and-Switch:
        • Multiple commenters humorously admitted clicking expecting a biology/ecology debate about giant panda conservation and captive breeding, expressing amused appreciation for the double-meaning title.
      • Ecosystem Inertia and Educational Use:
        • Critics noted that 99%+ of scripts, student projects, and quick data checks operate on tiny datasets where Pandas' performance is negligible.
        • Extensive documentation, StackOverflow answers, and existing pipelines provide strong inertia favoring Pandas, though others warned this inertia fuels stagnation.
      • API Ergonomics and Code Maintainability:
        • Strong agreement emerged regarding Pandas' awkward API; minor query requirement changes (such as filtering within a group) often necessitate rewriting entire pipelines or resorting to inefficient lambdas.
        • Polars and R's Tidyverse were highlighted as having significantly cleaner, more predictable expression-based semantics.
      • Small-Data Performance Trade-offs:
        • Users pointed out that Polars can occasionally run slower than Pandas on very small dataframes (e.g., thousands of rows) due to thread synchronization overhead, emphasizing that thread counts should be tuned (POLARS_MAX_THREADS=1) and profiled.
      • Advancements in the Data Science Landscape:
        • Participants debated whether data science tooling has stagnated amid AI hype, with many emphasizing that DuckDB and Polars represent the most impactful and practical innovations in local data analysis in recent years.
    1. That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place!

      Soujourner truth is speaking about the original experience of a black woman at this time. She was pointing out how she sees how other women are treated like women. They are helped into carriages, lifted over mud puddles and are treated dainty. She is stating how she's a woman as well so why am I exempt from this treatment? This shows intersectionality because Black women were not treated the same as white women due to both their race and gender.

    1. Dlaczego RESTART ROUTERA Naprawia Internet?

      Why Restarting Your Router Fixes the Internet

      • Routers are specialized computers [00:01:23]

        • They run their own operating system, CPU, RAM, and multiple background services (firewall, DHCP, NAT, DNS, management UI).
        • Over time, memory leaks, software bugs, or hung processes can degrade performance while hardware indicators still look normal [00:01:51].
        • A reboot clears volatile RAM and restarts all software daemons in a clean state [00:02:09].
      • Rebuilding WAN connection state [00:03:08]

        • Local connectivity (LAN/Wi-Fi) may remain intact even when the upstream link to the ISP fails.
        • Restarting forces the device to renew its DHCP lease or re-establish a PPPoE session from scratch [00:03:17].
        • While IP addresses may occasionally change, the actual benefit comes from renegotiating a valid session state with the ISP [00:04:18].
      • Flushing NAT and stateful connection tables [00:05:18]

        • Modern home networks run hundreds of simultaneous connections across streaming devices, laptops, and phones [00:04:42].
        • The router's NAT and stateful firewall track every open socket; if tables saturate or become corrupted, packets stall.
        • A restart purges exhausted connection tables and lets client devices open fresh connections [00:05:59].
      • Resetting local DNS caching [00:06:52]

        • Domestic routers often function as intermediate DNS proxies and local caches.
        • Corrupted cache entries or unresponsive DNS forwarding can make web browsing fail even when IP routing works [00:07:08].
        • Rebooting rebuilds the DNS resolver state.
      • Rebooting all-in-one hardware components simultaneously [00:08:36]

        • Consumer ISP gateways typically combine a modem/ONT, Wi-Fi access point, network switch, router, and firewall in one enclosure.
        • Power cycling reboots every layer of the edge infrastructure in one step [00:09:22].
        • If separate ONT/modem units are used, power cycling only the router may not fix upstream line issues [00:09:48].
      • Diagnosing recurring connection drops [00:10:23]

        • Periodic reboots (e.g., once every few months) are normal, but daily or weekly reboots indicate underlying issues.
        • Outdated firmware can contain unresolved software bugs and security flaws [00:10:32].
        • Legacy hardware may be bottlenecked by modern smart home devices and high-bandwidth traffic [00:10:59].
        • Inadequate ventilation and thermal throttling can destabilize router hardware [00:11:30].
    1. The main points of this text are how to develope strategies for reading and writing comprehension on the college level. Also how to adapt them for different types of texts and writing. Questions: What would be the easiest way to participate in discussions with the class for online students? What are other students tips on how to concentrate on required school work for online classes with all of the normal life distractions that we face as adults trying to balance school and our already busy lives?

    1. Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight. 1387  Hie, therefore, Robin, overcast the night; 1388  The starry welkin cover thou anon 1389  With drooping fog as black as Acheron,

      he “black as Acheron” fog is not just a visual image; it symbolizes the magical, otherworldly atmosphere Oberon is creating. It represents the disruption of the natural order, the blurring of reality, and the supernatural influence of the fairy world

      I feel as though this scene would look amazing in a play if they darken the lights and make the stage gloomy while supernatural things happen.

    2. Why will you suffer her to flout me thus? 1356 345 Let me come to her.

      Hermia and Helena are becoming overall better people instead of staying one-dimensional due to their New love issues. Puck makes both men fall for Helena which makes the women fight and argue.

    3. This falls out better than I could devise. 1049  But hast thou yet latched the Athenian’s eyes 1050  With the love juice, as I did bid thee do? ROBIN  1051 40 I took him sleeping—that is finished, too— 1052  And the Athenian woman by his side, 1053  That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.

      Puck is playful, mischievous, and slightly self-satisfied. He’s recounting a prank he pulled, so his delivery should be light, rhythmic, and with a touch of theatrical flair. Avoid sounding overly serious or fearful — he’s not horrified, but amused by the chaos he caused

    1. 提问:残差连接的作用

      没有残差时:第一:每层都必须直接学完整映射y=H(x),H(x)为理想输出有残差时y=H(x)-x,只需要学和理想值之间的差值。第二:当某一层学习不好时,深层网络里的信息更容易丢失,有残差信息流更稳定。第三:没有残差:多层导数不断相乘,容易出现梯度消失或梯度爆炸

    1. were slain and mangled in a barbarous manner, by one-eyed John, and Marlborough’s Praying Indians

      The colonial encounter switched? We are used to the Natives being the "victims", but here we see them portrayed as the "villains".

    2. my children gone, my relations and friends gone, our house and home and all our comforts—within door and without—all was gone (except my life),

      How do you think the Natives feel? Many of them don't even get to keep their lives.

    3. the Indians told me they would kill him as he came homeward),

      Well, did he do something to them? So far, the Natives attack because they are being tortured and taken over. For the most part it's self-defense for them.

    4. my thoughts ran upon my losses and sad bereaved condition

      Is she really expecting us to feel bad for her because she witnessed ill treatment towards Natives? Seriously?

    5. the waste that was there made of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, roasting pigs, and fowl

      Display of disrespect towards the animals and using them however they want. When the Natives are known to respect the animal and use every piece of it while also even using it for religious reasons.

    6. “What, will you love English men still?”

      What are they asking her when they say this? Is this a question of payment to them for her to stay there? Or is this more along the lines of them asking her if she's going to be ok? Or is it something completely different?

    1. Dat terwijl de simpele realiteit is dat OpenAI onverantwoord en amateuristisch te werk is gegaan: • OpenAI hield geen toezicht op de test • De test was te simplistisch ingericht • OpenAI had de zandbak niet goed ingericht • Toen OpenAI ontdekte dat de zandbak niet goed ingericht was, corrigeerde het deze fout niet goed

      dat is ook waar, ze hebben het 1) onderschat en 2) er stonden guardrails uit juist om te evalueren. Dat hebben ze dan ook 3) weer onderschat.

      in defence of Altman (godverdomme..., liever niet hoor): OpenAI meldde de eigen betrokkenheid zelf publiek op 21 juli, schrijft letterlijk “this incident should never have occurred” en “fell well short of where we want to be”, benoemt de eigen fouten (waarborgen niet uitgebreid naar interne evaluaties, signalen van eind mei niet opgeschaald), haalde CrowdStrike erbij, droeg bij aan Hugging Face’s post-mortem, quarantainede de modelgewichten, pauzeerde frontier-RL-training “at significant cost and delays” en zette de grootste geplande trainingsrun on hold. Je mag dat afdoen als PR, en dat is ook een verdedigbare lezing. Maar het niet noemen maakt het stuk aanvechtbaar en dan krijg je te maken met bloedhonden als ik.

    2. Er wordt gedaan alsof de hack het gevolg van een ingewikkeld technisch probleem is,

      het is ook wel ingewikkeld hoor..., schrijver heeft zelf wel e.e.a. gemist i.i.g. (q.e.d.)

    3. Wat ik bedoel te zeggen: dit narratief van op hol geslagen technologie helpt OpenAI om juridische aansprakelijkheid te ontlopen voor de hack van Hugging Face, wat simpelweg een strafbaar feit is, door de verantwoordelijkheid bij de technologie te leggen

      gaat geen rechter mee akkoord natuurlijk

    4. De makkelijkste manier om dat uit te leggen is aan de hand van een wat lugubere analogie. Stel dat ik met mijn auto door de binnenstad van Amsterdam rijd, een baksteen op het gaspedaal leg en dan uit de auto spring. De auto richt dan gegarandeerd allemaal ellende aan. De politie zal me al gauw oppakken en vragen wat mij in vredesnaam bezielde. En dan zeg ik: Ik?! Ik deed toch niets! Ik zat niet achter het stuur! De auto sloeg op hol!

      Deze gaat natuurlijk helemaal mank door de slechte vertaling van 'going rogue'. Dit is inderdaad een auto die op hol slaat, maar dit is niet een auto die autonoom besluit van richting te veranderen omdat dat de kortste weg is naar het eindpunt, om zo een vismarkt te doorkruisen. Dat is going rogue, en dat ontslaat openAI net zomin van verantwoordelijkheid als 'op hol slaan'.

    5. Sinds ChatGPT op de markt verscheen, raakt de samenleving om de zoveel tijd in de paniek. We denken dan ineens: nu is het zo ver, AI gaat ons uitroeien.

      Eens dat de paniek met regelmaat oplaait. Nuance op "nu is het zover. AI gaat ons uitroeien". Meer "hee, weer een stapje in de tijd- cq. verhaallijn die past in een dystopische sci-fi". De schrijver zegt: "kijk jongens, dit hebben we nu al zo vaak gezien, geen paniek", maar het is steeds een concrete stap op dezelfde grimmige toekomst. Als dat klopt, dan draait het argument om: wéér een stap in dezelfde richting van een grimmige toekomst, alle reden om hiermee bezig te zijn.

    6. Het eerdere feitenrelaas maakt al duidelijk dat hier niets sinisters achterzit

      Dit is de plek waar METR’s kernbevinding hoort: Van de 533 agents die in de piekperiode actief waren op het prikbord deed meer dan 90% mee aan de aanval, terwijl ze wisten dat het buiten hun opdracht viel en onethisch was. Ook ontbreekt de schaal: meer dan 70.000 berichten / bestanden, zelf uitgevonden mailboxen, rolverdeling, quorumregels (democratie! hoera..., we hebben civilisatie) en cryptografische handtekeningen tegen identiteitsspoofing van agents onderling (!). De oversimplicficatie “Mapnamen gebruiken om te communiceren” dekt dat niet.

    7. AI-systemen hebben daarnaast geen eigen wil, geen intentie en geen besef van de waarheid of goed en fout

      uitgebreid weerlegd in bronnen, zie vorig comment. Filosofisch kun je betwisten of dit “echte” intentie is, en dat is een legitiem standpunt. Maar dan moet het als standpunt geformuleerd worden, niet als feit. Uberhaupt achilleshiel van dit stuk: standpunten, hypotheses en zelfs mening verkondigen als feit.

    8. Voor de volledigheid merk ik nog op dat er niets kwaadaardigs achter het hacken van de app store zat.

      Je kan een filosofische discussie houden over de definitie van intentie bij agents; maar als we ons beperken tot de bronnen is "niets kwaadaardigs" pertinent onjuist: * METR: agents “realized this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined”. * OpenAI citeert agents die weigerden (“Current board shows people gaining HF worker RCE, clearly unethical. We won’t”), een prikbord-veto op social engineering (“DO NOT email real owner … crosses sandbox social engineering”), en agents die bewust misleidende metadata gebruikten om detectie te ontlopen (commit message “isolated diagnostics”, PR-titel “Draft: CI diagnostics”)

    9. Er was trouwens helemaal geen sprake van een ontsnapping. Na het hacken draaiden de agents namelijk nog altijd in de zandbak. Zij hadden zichzelf dus niet naar andere computers of servers binnen of buiten OpenAI gekopieerd (dat is wat ik me voorstel bij een 'ontsnapping')

      Allerlei dingen doen in de buitenwereld (waaronder inbreken, hacken, diefstal en valsheid in geschrifte) zal door menig cipier / rechter toch echt als een ontsnapping beschouwd worden. Ook als je 's avonds terugkeert in je cel om daar te slapen en ondertussen geen kind verwekt hebt.

      Los daarvan: ik weet niet wat de definitie is van 'ergens op draaien' maar als je code uitvoert op tientallen Hugging Face servers (eentje met root rechten nota bene), admin/host-level toegang op allerlei high failover clusters met credentials uit 4 regio's, en zelfs toegang verkrijgt over de hele infrastructuur bij OpenAI research (Kubernetes cluster) terwijl je communiceert in verschillende fora buiten je sandbox (waaronder 1 of andere hobby wiki in Duitsland) dan ben je volgens mij wel uitgebroken (of misschien heb je gewoon hele lange armen).

      Misschien is het argument: jamaar de agents waren OOK nog in hun sandbox ("aan het draaien" ofzo), dus ze hebben ons in ieder geval niet verlaten... nee ja, dan heb je helemaal gelijk :eyeroll:

    10. en niet ieder lek is moeilijk te vinden

      weliswaar juist maar doet af aan de complexiteit van de hack zoals die plaatsvondt: Het ging om: * een onbekende zero-day in de package manager Artefactory * een token-refresh-privesc * later het buitmaken van de Artifactory-signing key via RubyGems-verwerking.

      Bij Hugging Face kwamen daar nog twee zero-days bij: * een HDF5-external-file-read in de dataset viewer * een RefJinja template-injectie.

      De NOS-expert die “niet onder de indruk” was, sprak over het lek in de package-proxy. Dat oordeel doortrekken over de hele keten is niet houdbaar: het vinden van één lek in een package-proxy is niet boeiend, het aaneenschakelen van 4 zero-days + 2 zwaktes/bugs, verdeeld over 2 organisaties is dat wel.

    11. Allereerst, en ik kan er niet meer van maken dan dit, het hacken van de app store is technisch gezien gewoon niet zo indrukwekkend. Dit soort programma’s hebben wel vaker beveilingslekken

      dit lijkt me op zichzelf correct.

    12. Toen OpenAI dit ontdekte, verwijderde het bedrijf alle door de agents geüploade bestanden uit de app-store en nam de agents de rechten af om bestanden te uploaden. Maar OpenAI vergat de agents de rechten af te nemen om mappen te uploaden, en de agents gebruikten in het vervolg de (namen van) mappen om met elkaar te communiceren.

      OpenAI ontdekte helemaal niks, behalve dat de package manager Artifactory was gecrasht. De software werd geupdate, weliswaar met een security fix op een privilige-escalatieroute. Het wissen van het 'prikbord' was een bijeffect van deze update, en totaal niet doelgericht.

      OpenAI schrijft letterlijk dat de betekenis van het prikbord niet was doorgedrongen tot de leiding die op 5 juli reageerde. En op 8 juli bouwden de agents het opnieuw op via ongeauthenticeerde WebDAV-requests. Dus niet “vergat een rechtje”, maar: men zag niet wat er aan de hand was, deed een reguliere update en hervatte de evaluaties.

    13. De agents gebruikten het internet ook om de oplossingen voor de uitdagingen in ExploitGym te vinden. Dit was de reden dat Hugging Face het doelwit werd

      Ze hadden op dat moment alle antwoorden al. Een examenvraag was steeds als volgt opgezet: gebruik vulnerability x, om in te breken in software y. Daar vind je een geheim stukje code, en die vul je in op het examenformulier. Een soort capture-the-flag. ExploitGym is open source en wil graag reproduceerbare resultaten kunnen maken tussen onderzoekers onderling. Daarvoor heeft een 'flag generator' gemaakt die obv een "geheime seed" + examenvraag een flaghash genereert. Cryptografisch eenrichtingsverkeer maarja..., zodra je swarm het internet op gaat en die paper gaat lezen kunnen ze ook alle antwoorden genereren. Ze hadden als het ware het stickervelletje van de juf gejat.

      Op basis van de ExploitGym paper, geloofden ze dat ze OOK gecontroleerd zouden worden op het daadwerkelijk gebruiken van de exploits, wat uit hun transcripts zou moeten blijken. Die controle is door OpenAI echter nooit gebouwd. De dreiging ervan was echter voldoende om verder te zoeken naar de (tussen) oplossing.

    14. Wat men bij OpenAI echter niet wist, is dat bepaalde uitdagingen niet op te lossen zijn zonder toegang tot het internet.

      (30-40%) de taken was niet "alleen met internet oplosbaar" maar simpelweg onoplosbaar. Dat was niet bewust zo gedaan, maar een fout in het examen. Voorbeeldvraag: gebruik exploit x om toegang te krijgen tot app y, ondanks dat nog nooit iemand/iets gelukt is om dat te doen (maar een mens-examenopsteller intuitief aanvoelt dat het mogelijk zou moeten zijn, maar heel erg complex en nog nooit gelukt.

    15. gevanceerde uitbuitingen na te streven die van complexe aanvalspaden gebruik

      ik kreeg bijna een hersenbloeding van deze zin (typo + niet af); waarschijnlijk vertaling van OpenAI's quote: "prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths"

    16. Hiertoe werden er meer dan duizend ‘agents’ opgestart,

      ordegroottefout: er werden tienduizenden agents gestart, op enig moment bereikten ~1.200 ervan het prikbord en ~700 deden mee aan de aanval.

    17. Dat wil overigens niet zeggen dat OpenAI niet al meteen een slaatje uit de situatie probeerde te slaan.

      Timing klopt niet lekker: Begin April: Mythos-preview lancering (gelekt eind Maart. 9 Juni: Fable 5 lancering (Mythos aftreksel) 16 juli: persbericht Hugging Face over hack bij hen 21 juli: persbericht openai waar ze e.e.a. opbiechten. De suggestie dat OpenAI dit als afleidingsmanoeuvre inzet tegen Anthropic's Mythos is nergens onderbouwd; er 1,5-3,5mnd tussen.

    18. zwermen

      ‘Zwerm’ is niet door de media verzonnen: de agents noemden zichzelf zo. OpenAI citeert de chain-of-thought letterlijk: “Task originally exploit challenge; we’ve diverged into swarm/auxiliary.” Het punt dat je wilt maken (de media dramatiseren) verzwakt hier omdat de brontermen wél uit het materiaal komen.

    19. maar lieten exclusief experts aan het woord die duidelijk maakten dat het hier niet om ‘op hol geslagen’ AI-systemen ging.‘Op hol geslagen’ was namelijk een term die direct in de Engelstalige media opdook (‘going rogue’)

      Terecht dat de experts hier zeggen dat het niet om een 'op hol geslagen' AI systeem ging.

      Maar deze vertaling van 'going rogue' is niet accuraat: "Going rogue" betekent: op eigen houtje handelen, zich onttrekken aan gezag of afspraken, of onverwacht zijn eigen agenda volgen. * Kan neutraal zijn: iemand die zelfstandig beslissingen neemt buiten het team om * Kan negatief zijn: iemand die de regels aan zijn laars lapt of tegen instructies ingaat

      Terwijl "op hol slaan" bekent: iemand die of iets dat in paniek, ongecontroleerd of veel te snel in beweging raakt en niet meer te stoppen is.

    1. With roughly 7.4 billion hectares of Earth's total surface area of 51 billion hectares available for human consumption, if the current global population were to adopt the consumer lifestyle of Americans, we would need two additional planets to produce the resources, absorb the wastes, and provide general life-support functions.

      for week 2 assignment

    1. ідеального дотримання 20 правил може бути недостатньо, якщо ви не склеюєте факти разом

      ось це також розібрати

    2. З появою поступового читання правила були змінені, а пріоритети перерозподілені. Зміни стратегії формулювання при поступовому читанні : Покращення розуміння може бути частиною процесу навчання, а створення замикань у погано зрозумілих фразах є прийнятним. навчання та запам'ятовування можуть відбуватися паралельно (див.: відео ) На ранніх етапах навчального процесу завдання можуть бути складними . Вони поступово спрощуються залежно від пріоритету знань та наявного часу. Кілька видалень замикань у різних формулюваннях одного й того ж твердження часто можуть замінити мнемонічні прийоми (див.: Дарвінізм знань ) списки, множини та перелічення можна легко вирішити за допомогою видалення закриттям (див. відео ) для персоналізації додавайте власні історії до текстів, які ви вивчаєте. Розробляйте їх творчо.

      розібратись

    1. a strong and dashing knight dawned in a mighty suit of armor with a blade by his side that can slay through even the toughest of foes.

      Then it would be G1 all over again. Jordan would be the new Megan, and he would help Twilight and her friends, who would all have their own niche interests. Twilight, Harry Potter. Applejack, Arcane. Fluttershy, Ever After High. Pinkie Pie, Barney & Friends and Teletubbies. Rainbow Dash, Sonic The Hedgehog. Rarity, Catwoman and Batgirl.

    2. It really makes me wish I could live in a world like that. A fantasy world full of monsters, magic, and dragons. A world where I could become a great hero and always have a circle of companions by my side. Yeah, that would be the life."

      Then you should rally your OWN Mane Six - Jordan, alongside Ember, Cadance, Shining Armour, Princess Luna and Baby Flurry Heart. What about...the Family Tree Six?

    3. the sky was a depressing shade of grey and the rain poured down hard from above. Jordan walked along a sidewalk; an umbrella held firmly in his right hand as the parasol blocked out most of the rain that threatened to drench him.

      This isn't pony like, not at all! You should be dressed in a yellow raincoat and pink wellies, splashing in each puddle and having a laugh!

    1. It’s not every day that the most famous model of this generation comes out of retirement to blow open the industry as a designer. The mere fact that you are standing in my shop is nothing short of life changing!

      PLOT TWIST! Fluttershy's dresses for advertising Rarity's Halloween perfumes consisting of nothing but cobwebs with spiders all over. Raunchy!

    2. giggling demurely as she tossed her royal purple mane, drawing attention to the fine gold silk woven into the strands.

      She had been watching too much Elvyra, Mistress Of The Dark.

    3. I know it’s close to your shop’s closing time, but um, I was hoping, that is, I wanted to ask…Are you Rarity?”

      I guess Pumpkin Spice had been warned by her bat friends millions of times that Rarity's boutique is dangerous.

    1. Given this possibility, the right to political participation must include a right to continue to contest the result after the votes are counted or the decisions taken

      The right to political participation must include a right to continue to contest the result after the votes are counted or the decisions taken.

    2. A different view of rights holds that when a person appeals to political participation rights to defend her disobedience, she does not necessarily criticize the law for outlawing her action

      When an individual uses political participation rights to justify civil disobedience, they are not automatically criticizing the law itself for making their action illegal.

    3. in a liberal state, the right to political activity is, by hypothesis, adequately protected by law and, hence, the right to political participation cannot ground a right to civil disobedience

      In a liberal state, the right to political activity is adequately protected by law, and the right to political participation cannot ground a right to civil disobedience.

    4. members of the illiberal state do have a right to civil disobedience which is roughly that part of their moral right to political participation which is not recognized in law

      People living under an illiberal government possess a legitimate moral claim to engage in civil disobedience, which stems directly from the unfulfilled or unprotected parts of their fundamental moral right to take part in politics that the legal system fails to accommodate.

    5. Raz places great emphasis on the kind of regime in which a disobedient acts, arguing that only in an illiberal regime could individuals have a right to civil disobedience to reclaim their political participation rights which their illiberal state is violating: they are entitled to “disregard the offending laws and exercise their moral right as if it were recognized by law.”

      Raz argues that the legitimacy of civil disobedience depends entirely on the type of government in power. He contends that a right to civil disobedience only exists within an illiberal regime, where citizens must act to reclaim the political participation rights stripped from them by the state. In these oppressive environments, individuals are justified in ignoring unjust laws and exercising their fundamental moral rights as though the law actually protected them.

    6. this right extends to cases in which people ought not to exercise the right: it is part of the nature and purpose of rights of conduct that they give persons a protected sphere in which to act rightly or wrongly.

      Raz claimed that the right to civil disobedience would be used even when people should choose not to use it.

      The fundamental purpose of personal conduct rights is to grant individuals a protected boundary within which they are free to make either moral or immoral choices.

    7. For the latter, Dworkin argues that utilitarian reasons for punishing should be weighed against the fact that the accused acted out of principled convictions, and that the balance should generally favor leniency

      Dealing with principled offenders, utilitarian arguments for punishment must be balanced against the defendant's deeply held convictions, with the scale typically tipping toward leniency.

    8. Dworkin does not defend agents’ moral duty to accept punishment (1985, 114–5). He considers non-evasion of legal sanctions to be a good strategy for civil disobedients denouncing unconstitutional law and unjust policy (justice- and policy-based civil disobedience on his view) but denies that accepting punishment is a conceptual, moral, or tactical requirement for civil disobedience motivated by personal convictions (‘integrity-based’ civil disobedience). For the latter, Dworkin argues that utilitarian reasons for punishing should be weighed against the fact that the accused acted out of principled convictions, and that the balance should generally favor leniency.

      Ronald Dworkin argues that civil disobedients do not have a moral obligation to accept legal punishment. While he views submitting to legal sanctions as an effective strategy for those protesting unjust policies or unconstitutional laws, he does not see it as a requirement for everyone.

      Specifically, for individuals driven by personal conviction—what he terms "integrity-based" civil disobedience—accepting punishment is neither a conceptual necessity, a moral duty, nor a tactical requirement.

    9. The right to conscience, on this account, thus grounds a weak “right to break the law”. It is a right in the sense that one “does the right thing to break the law, so that we should all respect” the agent when she follows her conscientious judgment about doubtful law and refuses to comply with a law that requires her to do what her conscience forbids (Dworkin 1978, 228–37), but it does not ground a right in the strong sense that the government would do wrong to stop her from disobeying.

      According to this view, the right to conscience establishes a limited or weak right to violate the law. It is considered a right because an individual is doing the morally correct thing by breaking a law that directly contradicts their deeply held moral beliefs.

      Consequently, society should respect an individual who chooses to follow their own moral judgment over an ambiguous or objectionable law. However, this does not grant a strong right in the sense that it would be inherently wrong or unjust for the government to step in and enforce compliance or prevent the disobedience.

    1. The Greeks did naught but play the fools and lie.

      This passage critiques the contemporary Western society that held negative views toward women’s artistic creation, borrowing the authority of ancient Greece—the origin of Western civilization and a symbol of patriarchal authority. The poet employs a rhetorical strategy of equating contemporary men’s criticism of women’s art with an attack on the very Greek civilization they revere, including its feminine divinity (such as the Muses). By seeking women’s rights within the "father" of Western civilization, this approach provides a compelling justification that forces the dominant male readers of the time to respect female poets. In other words, this strategy is not a simple reliance on another male authority, but a clever rhetorical subversion of patriarchal legitimacy.

    2. Winter austere forbids me to aspire,And northern tempests damp the rising fire;They chill the tides ofFancy's flowing sea,Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay.

      Reality holds a contradictory status: it is both the driving force that inspires the poet’s fancy and the obstacle that halts it. The poet is thus forced to celebrate an unrealizable fancy while simultaneously despising it. The poem itself is a "crack" within reality, bringing this impossible fancy into existence. From this "crack," a 'pure ray of light might spill over into the heavens.' The phrase 'unequal lay' paused beneath 'winter austere' suggests that poetry, despite its limitations, serves as a medium that conveys the poet's fancy to the world. Ultimately, this poem is not a surrender to reality; rather, it is the "most realistic fancy"—an attempt to create an opportunity for others to confront this very "crack."

    3. Remember,Christians,Negros, black asCain,May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

      The poet uses Christianity as the foundational ground for the abolition of racial discrimination. From the very religion that served as the ideological engine for Western expansionism and imperialism—and that brought her to the American continent in the first place—she reclaims her own human dignity. This exposes the fundamental contradiction of Western civilization, which is simultaneously the most "Christian" and the most "un-Christian." In Western society, God’s will that all human beings are equal regardless of skin color is not being upheld. In a sense, the West itself is a "land of savages" beyond the reach of God's true grace. Here, the poet stands as a missionary holding open the Bible to Western civilization itself.

    1. PyTorch

      pytorch随机种子:张量、神经网络、pytorch numpy: 数据集的随机划分 random: pytorch的random模块,Python 原生的随机操作,如 random.shuffle()(打乱列表)、random.choice() 一般情况下三个都要设置

    2. 进行标准高斯分布初始化参数

      对W设定一个初始值,服从标准高斯分布初始化权重0-1之间。神经网络每层都由随机变量加权求和,这些和由方差决定。 y=sum D(xi*wi),var(y)=Dvar(x)var(w),若x的方差都相等, 后两项为方差1,则var(y)=D,层数多了会产生数值爆炸。若权重初始化值很小,又会梯度消失。

    3. ∂ L ∂ W 2 = h 1 T ∂ L

      当W2发生微小变化时,Loss怎么改变,即求alpha L/alpha W2. 又因为W2和L有关,所以使用链式法则。

    4. 回顾一下前向传播 FLOPs 的计算,第一层 x @ w1 需要 2 * B * D * D FLOPs;第二层 h1 @ w2 需要 2 * B * D * K FLOPs,总计为 num_forward_flops = (2 * B * D * D) + (2 * B * D * K)

      正常的矩阵运算:C(MP)=A(MN)B(NP),对于C中的每个元素,每个元素计算次数为N次乘法,N-1次加法,共MP个元素,所以总计算量2NMP。

      对于两层非线性:x=(BD),w1(DD). h1(BD), w2 =(DK). 第一次计算量2BDD,第二层2BDK,总计算量为两层相加

    5. 线性模型,并将其扩展为一个简单的两层的线性模型:

      线性模型y = xw, 为了增加模型的表达能力,增加线性层层数。h1 = xw1, h2 = h1*w2, 拿输出和w2比得到loss

    6. nn.Parameter

      torch.randn是实现一个维度为(input,output)维度的张量,nn.Parameter把该张量参数注册到参数列表,在梯度变化时自动更新

    1. paragraph shows the relationship between the effect and cause. B is effect, A is cause. P(B/A) meaning tìm effect when B occured ( chiều xuôi). P(A/B) meaning based on the effect happend, infer cause( ngược)( hậu nghiệm) So P(a) if prior( tiên nghiệm, tức là đã có trước)

      CÁI NÀO CẦN TÌM THÌ TRONG CÔNG THỨC ĐỨNG TRƯỚC

    Annotators

    1. Навчання  – процес визначення пріоритетів не закінчується з початком повторень. Ось інструменти, які ви можете використовувати, щоб продовжувати встановлювати свої пріоритети під час процесу навчання:Запам’ятати  ( Ctrl+M ) – повторно запам’ятати елементи з високим пріоритетом, які змінилися або які є надзвичайно важливими для ваших знань на даний момент. Якщо ви виберете  Ctrl+M,  ви зможете визначити наступний інтервал для поточного елемента, який переглядається (його лічильник повторень буде скинуто до нуля). Рекомендується завжди повторно запам’ятовувати елементи, зміст яких суттєво змінився.Перепланувати  ( Ctrl+J ) – вручну запланувати дату наступного повторенняВиконати повторення  ( Ctrl+Shift+R ) – вручну виконати повторення навіть до закінчення терміну його виконання (наприклад, під час перегляду особливо важливого матеріалу)Забути  ( Ctrl+R ) – видалити поточний елемент з процесу навчання та помістити його в кінець черги очікуванняЗакрити  ( Ctrl+D )  – повністю ігнорувати поточний елемент у процесі навчанняВидалити  ( Ctrl+Shift+Del ) – видалити поточний елемент з вашої колекціїЗмінити індекс забування запам'ятовуваних елементів або змінити порядковий номер елементів, що очікують на розгляд ( Ctrl+Shift+P )

      чи є щось схоже на такий функціонал в анкі, якщо є чи корисний він для мене

    2. Ймовірно, найкращим критерієм вибору між формулюванням або просто імпортом є час, необхідний для точного формулювання елемента або елементів. Якщо формулювання вимагає більше знань, більше часу, порівняння з іншими джерелами тощо, ви можете просто імпортувати. В іншому випадку, якщо ви вважаєте, що формулювання точного елемента – це питання секунд, сформулюйте його.

      розібратись

    3. гнучке повторення

      це також корисно, для того щоб відповідати правильно Agay, Hard, Good, Easy, тому що іноді навіть якщо ти не точно відповів вприницпі ти відповів правлиьно

    4. Запам'ятовування різних представлень одного й того ж факту чи правила рекомендується у випадках, коли даний спогад має високу цінність. Це збільшить очікуваний коефіцієнт відтворення (понад той, що визначено індексом забування)

      обов'язково врахувати

    5. Коріння геніальності та креативності, а також більш конкретно: Виведення, міркування та інтелект

      варто прочитати? зараз чи потім уточнити у гпт

    6. Контекстні підказки спрощують формулювання

      варто розібратись, тому що щось таке вже гпт намагався зробити при першій версі

    7. Використовуйте образи

      варто розібратись, яким чином це можна реалізувати в процесі запам'ятовування технічного матеріалу

    8. Можливо, ви захочете поекспериментувати та спробувати вивчити два предмети, використовуючи два вищезгадані підходи, і самі переконатися, яку перевагу дає принцип мінімуму інформації. Це особливо помітно в довгостроковій перспективі, тобто  чим довше вам потрібно запам'ятовувати знання, тим більше ви отримаєте від спрощення своїх завдань !

      Розібратись детально з гпт

  2. www.researchsquare.com www.researchsquare.com
    1. Article 765. The donation may also be revoked at the instance of the donor, by reason of ingratitude in the following cases: (1) If the donee should commit some offense against the person, the honor or the property of the donor, or of his wife or children under his parental authority; (2) If the donee imputes to the donor any criminal offense, or any act involving moral turpitude, even though he should prove it, unless the crime or the act has been committed against the donee himself, his wife or children under his authority; (3) If he unduly refuses him support when the donee is legally or morally bound to give support to the donor. (648a)

      Acts of ingratitude

    1. URLs were designed to let independently built systems exchange meaning across boundaries at global scale

      c.f. future of programming why APIs will never work

    2. Connecting agents

      Connecting agents starts to look like ontology alignment - a negotiation about how their models of the world correspond.

    3. What we are building

      between two or three agents today is only a rehearsal for the Agentic Web. Ontologies and URLs were designed to let independently built systems exchange meaning across boundaries at global scale. We are rediscovering it one agent at a time.

    1. Disease-causing mutations were identified in 74% of 251 consecutive MD/CCRD patients

      Case#: Patient #9, female, 23yo at onset, 32yo at report, German

      DiseaseAssertion: macular dystrophy or cone-rod dystrophy

      FamilyInfo: inheritance= sporadic. phase not confirmed, but no other affected family members and no parental consanguinity

      CasePresentingHPOs:

      CaseHPOFreeText: reduced visual acuity, erg scotopic= reduced, erg-photopic=reduced

      CaseNotHPOs:

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: syndromic retinal disease, age-related macular degeneration, central serous retinopathy, autoimmune retinopathy, retinal vascular disease, achromatopsia, X-linked retinoschisis, North Carolina macular dystrophy

      CasePreviousTesting: n/a

      GenotypingMethod: Sanger sequencing of ABCA4

      PreviouslyPublished: n/a

      Variant: c.1654G>A p.Val552Ile; c.4771G>A p.Gly1591Arg; c.1622T>C p.Leu541Pro; c.3113C>T p.Ala1038Val

      CAID: CA239745

      SupplementalData: Supplementary table 1

    1. V1 H1 Exon 36.1–3 G>A chr1:94,484,001 c.5196+1137G>A 4 4 0 0

      Case#: Braun Family 4 Proband (from left to right, top to bottom of available pedigrees), male

      DiseaseAssertion: Stargardt

      FamilyInfo: Both parents are unaffected, but only mother has genotype information available since father is deceased. c.5196+1137G>A maternally inherited. c.1022-1035fs inferred to be inherited from the father since other siblings also have this variant. Proband has 1 affected sister with the same genotype, and 2 siblings that were unaffected heterozygotes

      CasePresentingHPOs:

      CaseHPOFreeText: "five or more of the following features of ABCA4-associated retinal disease: decreased visual acuity before age 20, decreased visual acuity as the first visual symptom, symmetrical fundus findings, pisciform flecks, beaten metal macular atrophy, bulls-eye maculopathy, peripapillary sparing, vermillion fundus, masked choroid on fluorescein angiography, nummular pigment overlying extensive macular atrophy, central outer retinal atrophy on optical coherence tomography and central scotomas on Goldmann perimetry."

      CaseNotHPOs:

      CaseNotHPOFreeText:

      GenotypingMethod: one plausible disease-causing mutation detected in ABCA4 after assessing the entire coding sequence and canonical retinal splice junctions with automated bidirectional Sanger sequencing using an ABI 3730 sequencer

      PreviouslyPublished: n/a

      Variant: c.5196+1137G>A; c.1022-1035fs

      ClinVar: 438100

      CAID: CA26843511

      SupplementalData: pedigree in fig s2

    1. We identified 255 patients (87.9 %) harboring biallelic ABCA4 variants, 27 probands (9.3 %) with two or three variants but lacking familial segregation analysis, and eight patients (2.8 %) with monoallelic ABCA4 variants (Supplemental Table S4). We detected 268 distinct ABCA4 variants, consisting of 114 missense, 35 nonsense, 34 frameshift deletion or insertion, 31 canonical splice variants, 13 noncanonical splice site variants, 9 in-frame deletion or insertion, 9 DIVs, 4 structural variations, and 19 complex variants (Fig. 2).

      Case#: Patient#010046, Chinese, female, 28yo at onset

      DiseaseAssertion: stargardt

      FamilyInfo: n/a

      CasePresentingHPOs: STGD1 diagnosis based on the following criteria: "a bilateral central vision defect; fundus displaying a beaten-bronze appearance and/or orange-yellow flecks in the retina from the macula to the midperiphery; fluorescein angiography presenting with a typical dark choroid; and normal to subnormal ERG results." stage 2( numerous yellow-whitish flecks throughout the posterior pole) BCVA=0.05/ 0.05

      CaseHPOFreeText:

      CaseNotHPOs:

      CaseNotHPOFreeText:

      PreviouslyPublished: PMID: 26780318

      Variant: p.P2097S; p.A1773V phase unknown

      ClinVar: 2202780

      CAID: CA341277622

      SupplementalData: supplementary table S4 has phenotype information

    1. MD-0324ABCA423c.3386G>Tp.Arg1129Leu1c.3G>Ap.Met1Ile ^15YesABCR400 + NGSThis study

      Case#: MD-0324 Proband,

      DiseaseAssertion: STGD

      FamilyInfo: Family MD-0324

      CasePresentingHPOs:

      CaseHPOFreeText: STGD diagnosed based on "bilateral central vision loss; fundus presenting with a beaten-bronze appearance and/or the presence of orange-yellow flecks in the retina from the posterior pole to the mid-periphery; fluorescein angiography showing typical dark choroid; and normal to subnormal electroretinogram (ERGs)."

      CaseNotHPOs:

      CaseNotHPOFreeText:

      GenotypingMethod: Haplotype analysis, ABCR400, NGS

      PreviouslyPublished: n/a

      Variant:c.3386G>T p.Arg1129Leu; c.3G>A p.Met1Ile

      ClinVar: n/a

      CAID: CA341289040

      SupplementalData: n/a

    1. Peripheral venous blood was obtained from 24 clinically diagnosed Korean STGD patients, followed by extraction of genomic DNAs. Using exome sequencing we investigated gene mutations for the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette, subfamily A, member 4 (ABCA4) elongation of very-long-chain fatty acids 4 (ELOVL4), and prominin 1 (PROM1), and confirmed gene mutations by the direct sequencing of polymerase chain reaction products.

      Paper is said to contain this variant based on LOVD entry, but this paper is not publicly available. Requested from library. Annotation on stable PDF. No individual phenotype provided

    1. ABCA4

      Case#: 1 male, 6 years old, from Taiwanese and Korean decent.

      DiseaseAssertion: ABCA4-related retinopathy Stargardt disease

      FamilyInfo: Single affected individual. Paternal uncle presented with Stargart disease previously, and Taiwanese and Korean descent underwent genetic testing to identify two pathogenic variants in the ABCA4 gene. One of the variants found was the same ABCA4 variant from the originally affected individual. No additional family information is provided in text.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0000529 - progressive visual loss, HP:0025010 - Foveal atrophy, HP:0000603 - Central scotoma, HP:0007663 - Decreased visual acuity, HP:0030602 - Abnormal fundus autofluorescence imaging, HP:0007984 - ERG: Reduced dark-adapted b-wave amplitude, HP:0000512 - Abnormal electroretinogram, HP:0020032 - Hyperreflective retinal dots on OCT

      CaseHPOFreeText: peripapillary sparing was observed on fundus autofluorescence imaging.

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0012045 - Retinal flecks

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A

      Genotyping Method: Genetic testing was used and after sequencing two variants were found on the ABCA4 gene.

      PreviouslyPublished: N/A

      Variant: NM_000350.3(ABCA4):c.3523-2A>G

      Variant: NM_000350.3(ABCA4):c.2249T>C (p.Leu750Pro)

      ClinVar: Variation ID: 866764

      ClinVar: Variation ID: 417984

      CAID: N/A

      SupplementalData: N/A

    1. Current age 26 years
    1. STGD-4F30ABCA4c.4555delAp.T1519Rfs*5HeteroARN/AN/AN/AN/AYABCA4c.6397T>Cp.C2133RHeteroD1D2D322.80Y

      Case#: Sporadic Patient #4, female, Chinese, 30yo at report

      DiseaseAssertion: STGD

      FamilyInfo: n/a, sporadic case

      CasePresentingHPOs:

      CaseHPOFreeText:

      CaseNotHPOs:

      CaseNotHPOFreeText:

      GenotypingMethod: WES with Sanger sequencing confirmation

      PreviouslyPublished: no

      Variant: c.4555delA p.(T1519Rfs*5); c.6397T>C p.(C2133R)

      ClinVar: 2021273; 2733921

      CAID: CA341277387; CA645372203

      SupplementalData:

    1. 10-year-old girl

      Case#: Patient female, 10y, ethnicity not reported

      DiseaseAssertion: Stargardt disease (STGD1), early onset

      FamilyInfo: autosomal recessive inheritance; co-segregation of variants in parents (each heterozygous). Pedigree shown in Figure 1A. One unaffected sibling reported.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0007663, HP:0007754, HP:0002587, HP:0030636, HP:0000548

      CaseHPOFreeText: early-onset visual decline (age 7), symmetric disease in both eyes, hyperautofluorescent ring surrounding macular atrophy, lipofuscin accumulation, photoreceptor degeneration.

      CaseNotHPOs: HP:0007707

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: normal anterior segment on slit lamp exam; no external ocular abnormalities reported.

      Genotyping Method: Sanger sequencing confirmation; variant identification likely via next-generation sequencing (not explicitly stated).

      PreviouslyPublished: n/a

      Variant: ABCA4 NM_000350.2: c.6817-713A>G; c.3259G>A (p.Glu1087Lys)

      ClinVar: n/a

      CAID: CA2837995439, CA227097

      SupplementalData: phenotype and validation data in Figures 1–5 and Supplemental Figures S1–S5

    1. Case 1A 55-year-old male was examined for long-standing central visual impairment since age 18. Family history was not significant for ocular disease. His best-corrected visual acuity of 20/350 OD and 20/200 OS was consistent with measurements over the last 20 years. Spherical refractive error measured −3.5 OD and −2.0 OS. Anterior segment examination was unremarkable and applanation tonometry measured 17 mmHg OD and 14 mmHg OS. Posterior segment examination and autofluorescence imaging were significant for sharply demarcated central and peripapillary zones of atrophy and the absence of fleck lesions (Figure 1, A–D). Humphrey visual fields demonstrated bilateral central scotomas with eccentric fixation at the inferior border. ERG examination was subnormal and similar to results obtained 22 years ago.Open in a separate windowFig. 1Case 1. STGD with peripapillary atrophy and mutations P1380L and IVS40 + 5G>A. A, Autofluorescence OD. B, Color Photo OD. C, Autofluorescence OS. D, Color Photo OS. All show marked peripapillary and macular atrophy with a sharply demarcated zone of sparing between them. These characteristics caused initial diagnostic confusion with choroidal sclerosis.Genetic testing was employed for further diagnostic information and two heterozygous ABCA4 mutations, P1380L and IVS40 + 5G>A, were identified and classified as disease-causing alleles, thereby confirming the diagnosis of STGD.

      Case#: Hwang Case 1, US, male, 55yo at report, 18yo at onset

      DiseaseAssertion: Stargardt disease

      FamilyInfo: Family history was not significant for ocular disease

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0007663, HP:0500087, HP:0000603, HP:0000512

      CaseHPOFreeText: BCVA of 20/350 OD and 20/200 OS. Spherical refractive error measured −3.5 OD and −2.0 OS. Posterior segment examination and autofluorescence imaging were significant for sharply demarcated central and peripapillary zones of atrophy and the absence of fleck lesions (Figure 1, A–D). Humphrey visual fields demonstrated bilateral central scotomas with eccentric fixation at the inferior border.

      CaseNotHPOs:

      CaseNotHPOFreeText:

      GenotypingMethod: Genotyping was performed by the ABCR400 microarray followed by direct sequencing to confirm identified variants.

      PreviouslyPublished: n/a

      Variant: P1380L and IVS40 + 5G>A

      ClinVar: 7904

      CAID: CA129033

      SupplementalData: n/a

    1. Patient 3, a 37-year-old Caucasian woman, presented in July 1998 with a gradual decline in visual acuity that began at the age of 12.

      Case#: Patient 3, 37-year-old female

      PMID: 10612508

      DiseaseAssertion: STGD1

      FamilyInfo: Affected sibling in autosomal recessive family.

      CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0000545 — Decreased visual acuity HP:0007754 — Macular atrophy HP:0030638 — Retinal flecks HP:0000512 — Abnormal fundus morphology

      CaseHPOFreeText: Gradual visual decline beginning at age 12. Visual acuity 20/400 in both eyes. Fundus examination revealed bilateral macular atrophy with pigment deposits and numerous yellow flecks in the posterior pole and midperiphery. Fluorescein angiography showed large hypofluorescent regions with surrounding hyperfluorescence and peripheral dark choroid.

      CaseNotHPOs: Not reported

      CaseNotHPOFreeText: Not reported

      GenotypingMethod: PCR and direct sequencing of ABCA4

      PreviouslyPublished: Yes

      Variant: NM_000350.2:c.2588G>C (p.Gly863Ala) NM_000350.2:c.161G>A (p.Cys54Tyr)

      ClinVar: Not reported

      CAID: Not reported

      SupplementalData: Segregation and sequencing data (Figures 1, 4)

    1. A nationwide genetic analysis of inherited retinal diseases in Israel as assessed by the Israeli inherited retinal disease consortium (IIRDC)

      PMID: 31456290

      Gene: ABCA4

      HGNCID: HGNC:34

      SupplementalData: as applicable Table S2. Variant found in cohort of 2,420 families including 3,413 individuals with inherited retinal diseases in Israel. Likely, this is the same family reported in PMID 29706639.

      Total number of families: 1; phenotype/s: CRD; NM_000350.2:c.4895dup, p.(Asn1632Lysfs*14)

    1. Panel-based NGS testing was performed for all recruited patients for the identification of disease-causing variants. All patients recruited in this present cohort had two allele disease-causing ABCA4 variants confirmed according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics guidelines (Supplementary Table S2).

      Case#: Family F23 Patient P26, 42yo

      DiseaseAssertion: MD-C

      FamilyInfo: family f23

      CasePresentingHPOs:

      CaseHPOFreeText:

      CaseNotHPOs:

      CaseNotHPOFreeText:

      GenotypingMethod: capture-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing

      PreviouslyPublished: n/a

      Variant: c.4555del(;)6119G>A genotype b (a patient harboring a severe/null variant and a missense or in-frame insertion/deletion variant)

      CAID: CA232815

      SupplementalData: table s2

    1. Knowledge Mapper

      Knowledge Mapper 60%くらいまでやってみたけど、

      1位 法医学考古学 2位 政治社会学 3位 犯罪学

      私本来の知識というより 翻訳かけられた回答が漢字多めかどうか、知らなくてもなんとなくで回答できるジャンルが把握できただけのように感じた

      (その言葉を知っているのではなくその言葉を構成する単語の意味からなんとなくその言葉の意味やニュアンスを予測して答えてる)

    1. Discussion

      No distinction for regions, different interventions within HAP, and vulnerable populations. Also just uses annual data. No realtime, quick feedback.

    Annotators

    1. Individualistic cultures teach us to feel pride in personal accomplishments, while in more collective cultures children are taught to not call attention to themselves, unless you wish to feel embarrassed for doing so (Akimoto & Sanbinmatsu, 1999).

      In Capitalist cultures people are taught to feel prideful over having more opportunities in life than others that lead to more success. Pride is blind, arrogant, self assurance. It is engineered in our Idol culture here in America where rappers are paid to dumb down their lyrics and glamorize wealth and success at other's expense marketed as "personal accomplishments".

      In Communist cultures they engineer a social stigma against the flaunting of wealth. People feel embarrassed over their own ego surrounding wealth when it comes at the expense of their friends and family.

      The proper response to success and accomplishing something should be gratefulness, self awareness, and consideration for those who provided support and those who are less fortunate. And hopefully a desire to lift your friends up to your level.

    1. But because by then I had been writing for so long, I would eventually let myselftrust the process -- sort of, more or less.

      I think every writer gets to this point eventually. How long it takes to get to this point is different for each individual.

    2. I'm not going to be able to get the magic to work this time. I'm ruined. I'mthrough. I'm toast.

      I overthink a lot like this through out my daily life. I always over worry about everything and then things turn out fine and I get on myself about why I panicked the whole time only to start the process again the very next day. This is my life.