Personally I am waiting for the day I can realistically buy a second hand three year old datacentre GPU so I can run Kimi K2 in my shed. Given enough time, not a pipe dream. But 10 years at least.
For graph/tree document representations, it’s common in RAG to use summaries and aggregation. For example, the search yields a match on a chunk, but you want to include context from adjacent chunks — either laterally, in the same document section, or vertically, going up a level to include the title and summary of the parent node.
How you integrate and aggregate the surrounding context is up to you. Different RAG systems handle it differently, each with its own trade offs. The point is that the system is static and hardcoded.
The agentic approach is: instead of trying to synthesize and rank/re-rank your search results into a single deliverable, why not leave that to the LLM, which can dynamically traverse your data. For a document tree, I would try exposing the tree structure to the LLM. Return the result with pointers to relevant neighbor nodes, each with a short description. Then the LLM can decide, based on what it finds, to run a new search or explore local nodes.
My experience here in the UK, despite getting the highest "tier" of survey carried out on my (current) home when buying it, was that within the 74 page report they produced, there were at least a dozen occurrences of the surveyors recommending a "specialist".
They avoid any liability by saying, "we couldn't survey under the floor", we recommend getting in a specialist. "we can't assess the roof structure", we recommend getting a specialist.
By the time all was said and done, we were looking at tens of thousands of pounds in further "specialist" surveys, which nobody realistically is going to do only to decide after that you won't buy the house.
I can imagine once you're looking at houses priced in the millions it might make sense, but blowing the equivalent of your deposit just isn't tenable.
My home inspection report was two pages of useful information (here’s where the water shutoff is, the breaker panel is here), a page with two actual real issues (garage door opener didn’t work, kitchen foundation was settling) and then ten to twenty pages of “we don’t look at shit” legalese.
They specifically disclaim being experts in damn near everything.
If you want a real inspection you hire two or three building contractors to do it. I’d go with a general, a roofer, and an electrician. If I cared.
Without more information I'm very skeptical that you had e.g. Claude Code create a whole app (so more than a simple script) with 20 cents. Unless it was able to one-shot it, but at that point you don't need an agent anyway.
The key element for a bona fide sale at common law is the buyer’s absence of knowledge of the defective title of the seller.
Not sure how US courts have interpreted this requirement but that’s the onus and I believe it rests on the third party buyer (to show absence of knowledge through evidence).
The icc warrant claims it is an international armed conflict.
This is important, because palestine did not ratify the amendment to the rome statue criminalizing starvation in non-international armed conflict, so that charge goes away if it is just an internal thing as opposed to an international war.
I believe the argument goes like this: "fiat" depends on a declaration by a government that something has value. The way a government does that is by declaring something legal tender and accepting taxes denominated in that currency.
Contrast with a time when currency was pegged to a physical asset like gold and GBP so no depreciation in something like 300 years. Savings actually had meaning.
The government imposes a tax, the tax is due in the state's unit of account. The government can then spend its unit of account into circulation, and later accepts it back in payment of taxes.
> Contrast with a time when currency was pegged to a physical asset like gold
Even when a currency is constructed from a commodity, it is not the commidity that is the money. It is a commodity that bears the stamp of the sovereign.
> and GBP so no depreciation in something like 300 years. Savings actually had meaning.
When money was constructed from a commodity there was a terrible shortage of coin to support the economy and it was a horror show for almost everyone.
It's certainly possible to have price stability and full employment, but if you're going to choose, a bit of inflation is much, much better than deflation.
Human rights are intimately woven into International Law and state sovereignty. The work of the TWAIL scholars is relevant, especially as regards how human rights are deployed to undermine the sovereignty of the global south following the rapid “decolonisation” of the mid 20th century.
I’m afraid it’s almost impossible to divorce politics and human rights.
Politics are intertwined in every facet of the human experience, because they're effectively the net result of a social group
Some people however strive to "live above" politics, or to breathlessly demand things be "apolitical" based on their own biases. That bias in of itself being as "political" as anything else
First time I heard about TWAIL.
Ok, now human rights are controversial?
The one ideal, that whoever you are, wherever you are, you hold universal rights because you are a human.
This are Western ideas and are not true for the global south? This belief is weaponized?
I cannot believe this. Simply outrageous. I never understood the religious people before - to me this is a sacrilege.
Universal human rights are the hill I will literally die on.
human rights in spirit are not. but in practice (see the the argument below) they are used more as a rhetorical shield. they are toothless paper tigers, they are extremely easy to co-opt and corrupt the spirit. (eg. see how Putin loves harping on about self-determination of people in the annexed regions; how proudly democratic North Korea is.)
I hope my extreme summarization is not completely useless.
Second: the biggest straw man I have ever seen. Rage bait Philosophy.Just because human rights are violated does not mean, that they are useless or non existence.
It's a good word of caution specially the normalizing states of emergency and dehumanizing people.
Civil libertys and democracy are fragile achievements, that need to be protected by the citizens. Human rights are rights against an overbearing state.
All the examples given are valid points, that violate human rights. And for every issue there is a human right group, that fights against the violations.
I dont buy his conclusion about potential either... Another magical force.
Regarding organisations and corporations he should really read up on Luhmann.
So maybe I am a fanatic - none of his arguments strike true for me.
Yeah, I had the exact same sentiment. (As in "sure we don't live in a perfect world, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to set goals as a bare minimum baseline".)
Canada ratified it years ago (if we're not counting optional protocols), but according to https://indicators.ohchr.org/, the US hasn't. Do you have a source?
Politics follow ethics in democratic societies. However, our understanding of ethics is always developing. We now understand that homosexuality is ethical. We understand that transgenderism is ethical. There will be more things in the future where politics has to bow to our improved understanding of ethics. Ethics is always a foundation for democratic politics, because politics needs to govern how we as a society live together in peace.
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