exactly, proceduralism is at the very heart of western democratic process, without that we have nothing

as long as this money goes towards bombing brown people, democrats will obviously approve

If people are using them for recruitment and education, that’s a good thing. We’ll see if this ends up building into anything substantial.

only in the court of public opinion

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Binary quantization and 1 bit vectors have definitely been floating around the space for years. The big difference here is not necessarily just better raw precision but how they completely eliminate the hidden memory tax that usually comes with extreme compression. Normally when you crush a 32 bit float down to a single bit you destroy a massive amount of scale and range information. To make the model actually usable after that traditional methods usually have to store extra full precision numbers alongside those compressed blocks to act as scaling factors or zero points. So your theoretical 1 bit compression actually ends up costing something like 2 or 3 bits per parameter in practice.

TurboQuant gets around this by using the Quantized Johnson Lindenstrauss transform which is basically a mathematical guarantee that the relative distances between different data points will be preserved even when the data is aggressively shrunk. By doing this and dropping everything to just a positive or negative sign bit they completely remove the need to store any full precision scaling factors. It literally has zero memory overhead. To make sure the attention mechanism still works they use a special estimator that takes a high precision query and runs it against that low precision 1 bit cache in a way that mathematically eliminates bias.

You also have to look at how they are actually applying it in the pipeline. They don’t just take the raw 32 bit vector and smash it down to 1 bit right out of the gate. They use that PolarQuant method first to map everything to polar coordinates and capture the main structure and strength of the vector. The 1 bit QJL algorithm is only deployed at the very end as a targeted cleanup to fix residual errors left over from the first step.

here’s an explanation from a former British diplomat for you https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/keir-starmer-agrees-to-deploy-5000

Their involvement is the same as the one of the getaway driver’s involvement in a robbery.

And I was solely explaining how that makes them part of the war.

I’m not angry. I’m pointing out the simple fact that the reason those bases are being attacked by Iran is because they’re used to wage a war of aggression against Iran. I’m just trying to explain to you why those troops are active participants in this war. I don’t know why it’s so difficult for you to understand that frankly.

The only one confused here is you. The goal is to enable military operations against Iran. That’s why those bases exist in the first place. These troops are part of the war of aggression, and whether they have an offensive role or not is utterly irrelevant to the discussion. To put it in terms you might understand easier, if you’re a getaway driver for a bank robbery, you can’t use that an excuse to claim that you weren’t part of the robbery.

I mean they are literally helping the US by working at the bases the US is using to attack Iran. You’re trying to draw a weird distinction here between them providing support by operating at these bases and actively engaging in attacks. In both cases they are active participants in the war of aggression against Iran.

I’ll try to explain this to you one final time. These troops are ‘defending’ military bases which are used to attack Iran. Let me know what part of that you’re still struggling with. Bases that are used to attack Iran and countries hosting them are the aggressors.

I looked at this recently, and it really doesn’t look like any of them work as a daily driver. I ended up going with GrapheneOS in the end.

And those troops will obviously be used to support military activities against Iran. They’re not going to just sit there and jerk off. Gulf states are direct participants the same way brits are. They’re hosting US bases that are used for striking Iran. Calling that defending yourself is the height of idiocy.

The British actively allow the US to use their bases for refuelling and staging attacks. These are absolutely actions that directly help the US in the war. Anyone participating in a war of aggression is doing the opposite of defending themselves.

They are very clearly participating and directly facilitating attacks on Iran. Let’s not try to spin this as anything other than that.

because Europe is American protectorate

reunification was a mistake