>The implication that the Reddit blackouts are related to recent AI advances is ridiculous.
The allegation is that most of ChatGPT can be traced back to their using sites like Reddit and Twitter to scrape the information from for its training data. Reddit is changing the cost of accessing its APIs as a direct result of this and not really about killing off third party clients. That's the connection.
It's very common for "technical details" of a system to receive a different classification than the "fact of existence" of said system.
In other words, it's widely known that the Navy has a system for listening. The internal designation, capabilities and limits of operation are not widely known and that information should be kept secret.
> The Navy asked that the specific system used not be named, citing national security concerns.
So the name, and internal designation, is "top secret"? You're saying the capabilities are also secret but the newspaper just reported the data it generated, which certainly suggests what its capabilities are.
And why is it "widely known" that the military has this listening system? If it's really "top secret" then no, the public shouldn't know about it. Seems like everything is "top secret" until someone wants to show off all the cool toys.
I think existence of automatic surveillance isn't a secret.
The secret bits would include what this can detect, but I guess the presumption here is that an imploding civilian sub is easier to hear than a Russian military sub. So not really giving anything away.
That's ridiculous though, either it is "top secret" or it isn't. There shouldn't be some arbitrary sliding scale of what's ok to reveal and what's not.
There kinda is though, this is true for almost all military gear: it's quite hard to hide the existance of a new tank once you're actually making it in large quantities, for example, but the detailed drawings of it, and the test results showing the strengths and weaknesses of it will be varying levels of secret. In the case of a listening system, it's the kind of thing which is pretty obvious to do, but the exact nature and means of it being secret makes sense (cageyness about the name of the system is odder: but it may be a concern about revealing exactly which system this came from, assuming there's multiple, for correlation with other information which may be less public).
(The same thing happened with the snowden leaks, BTW: it was suspected for a long time that the NSA or FBI had a survellance system similar to PRISM, because it's the kind of thing that they would want to do and have the means to do, even absent any concrete evidence of its existance. The leaks just confirmed the existance undeniably and also showed how extensive it was)
I'll note that Snowden, whatever you think of him, had the balls to come forward and put his name on all his disclosures. He got help from journalists as far as summarizing and prioritizing and coordinating with major newspapers but he never was "an anonymous source" or "a person with knowledge of the meeting."
As to the other points, when some top secret info does get revealed, legally or not, and the public reaction is pretty much, ehh, we already assumed that -- that seems like a pretty big failing of the whole concept of "secret." And on the other hand, I'll grant you a few exceptions, like the names of spies, position of gear or troops, perhaps the detailed weapons specs like you mentioned -- but when the name of this system is "top secret" and seemingly well over 90% of what is marked "classified" lacks any informational value whatsoever, that's a failing in the other direction, people stop caring about "secret" because so little of it is actually important.
The oceans normally undergo a cycle of patterns in ocean currents which also manifest surface temperature warming and cooling. You've probably heard "El Niño" and "La Niña" during weather forecasts.
The cycle is very irregular and I doubt we have good prediction models for it. However, the observations of the ocean currents line up very well with ocean surface temperature readings.
On it's own, the ENSO cycle would not cause an overall trend of warming. However, it is very capable of being the cause of the "bands in the data" that you noticed.
If I recall, you can absolutely loop through the elements in a tight loop and the compiler (e.g. GCC) will auto-vectorize for you (if you have the relevant optimization flag set).
The trick with coding for auto-vectorization is to keep your loops small and free of clutter.
I don't have the documentation handy but I think you only need to follow a couple rules:
- loop must have a defined size (for-loop instead of while-loop)
- don't muck with pointers inside the loop (simple pointer increment is okay)
- don't modify other variables (only the array should be modified)
The linked document describes Intel's autovectorizer, it's warnings and compiler flags that point out which loops autovectorized or not, as well as listing specific reason codes why.
Microsoft, GCC and Clang all do this too, though with different compiler flags and messages.
I'd say that the whole point of this document listed here is to build up the programmer to understanding these error messages and specifically know how to fix the errors that causes a autovectorization-fail.
I understand many people are familiar with what "open standard" means. There are lots of other people that are somewhat new to the phrase.
Consider these related terms:
- Open Source
- Open Data
- Open Standard
For people who encounter these terms in the listed order, "Open Standard" may or may not be understood by analogy. Some people will assume that it also includes the concepts of Open Source and Open Data. It does not.
> Redditors are staging blackouts.
The implication that the Reddit blackouts are related to recent AI advances is ridiculous. The embedded link also makes no mention of AI.
I dislike this kind of disingenuous clickbait. It's not worth my time to keep reading.
In a way I should thank them for the early red flag. This way I don't need to waste my time on the whole article.