Animats

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by Animats 14d ago
Bing has done that for years. Hated it.
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by Animats 14d ago
You can read the PDBs from 1961 to 1977 on the CIA's site.[1] [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/president...
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by Animats 14d ago
If there was ever a site that needed a .gif main image, that one is it.
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by Animats 14d ago
This is a PR problem, not a mathematical problem. It's possibly the worst PR problem mathematics has faced since the execution of Hippasus for whistleblowing on the cover-up of the regular dodecahedron. It's still a PR problem. So
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by Animats 14d ago
Downtown Shenzhen is rigged for that. For a while, the SF Bay Bridge was. I once went to an Autodesk event in SF where the guy behind it was controlling the lights from his laptop.
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by Animats 14d ago
There's also a working PDP-10 console replica you can buy.[1] There was a really nice IBM 1401 data center simulator written in Unreal Engine at [1]. You could mount tapes, punch cards, push buttons, and actually operate the machine. B
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by Animats 14d ago
See this introduction to limits.[1] If you allow infinite recursion, you soon get to Godel and undecidable problems. Finite deterministic systems are decidable, because you can in principle enumerate all the states. The halting problem is d
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by Animats 15d ago
The CIA has considered Fox News style reports as a form of the daily brief that Trump might be able to understand.[1] Trump does get regular briefs several times a day, by Natalie Harp. Her job is to find flattering press reports, print the
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by Animats 15d ago
There's an unpopular branch of mathematics which does not have infinities - finiteism.[1] The constructive version of finitism takes the position that there is no such thing as infinity, just arbitrarily large upper bounds. You can hav
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by Animats 15d ago
> creating large minorities of disenfranchised. That's called "elite overproduction". Too many people going to college when the jobs aren't there. In the US, about half of college graduates have jobs that don't r
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by Animats 15d ago
Amazon gave up on Mechanical Turk recently, too.[1] If everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, you're fucked. [1] https://www.mturk.com/help
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by Animats 15d ago
Not enough info yet. Clearly they landed too fast, but why? Was there some problem on approach which caused a fast landing? NTSB hasn't gotten to that part yet. From the timeline, one pilot knew they were too fast 90 seconds before tou
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by Animats 15d ago
This seems to be a known technology but hasn't made it as a product.[1] It might have potential for very specific types of extinguishing, such as grills and grain silos, where the distance from extinguisher to trouble spot is fixed. [1
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by Animats 15d ago
If you found, say, four LG TVs running as a DDOS node, you'd have a pretty good case.
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by Animats 16d ago
> The Present Works and is Boring "Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. I'm tired of the overcomplication. The page jerking around as more crap is loaded. One m
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by Animats 16d ago
Doesn't matter from the point of view of a lawsuit from an outside attacked party.
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by Animats 16d ago
This is a spherical cow model. Here are their stated assumptions: • Production involves a combination of tasks, where each task is performed by labor or by capital. The final goods market is perfectly competitive. • Labor is supplied exogen
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by Animats 17d ago
China is going for what's sometimes called "L3.5" - hands off wheel, eyes off road, driver may have to take over if alerted, but if the driver doesn't, the vehicle must safely stop and pull over if possible. The trouble
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by Animats 17d ago
I'd like to see more of a legal response. First, find out who's on the other end of a few hundred IP addresses. Start with ones in the US. Sue for damages. Use discovery to find out what's on the other end. Sue the maker of t
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by Animats 17d ago
"Patch and release" security is dead. AI assisted attackers will have come, stolen, and gone before the patch gets out. Developers need to get this. So is "swiss cheese" security. AI systems have the patience and breadth
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by Animats 17d ago
General Motors LLC ("New GM") still holds five trademarks on OLDSMOBILE, but they're all for merch, not cars. Trademark classes are hub caps, apparel, catalogs, badge holders, and metal banks. The trademark for the automobile
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by Animats 17d ago
Trademarks are use it or lose it. OLDSMOBILE, for example, is a cancelled General Motors trademark for automobiles.[1] No cars sold, no trademark.
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by Animats 17d ago
Another example of a society of AI agents. The shape of this is starting to emerge. People on here laughed at Gas Town. Now it's clear that a group of agents with an organizational structure are more powerful than a single agent. This
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by Animats 18d ago
> “We’re sorry, but our business model precludes timely responses in times of system stress." It doesn't have to be that way. Here's Haley Dragoo, former head of the New York Subway's "Twitter Division".[1]
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by Animats 18d ago
> The cruel irony is that the very trait that makes you valuable - awareness of what’s possible - makes you incapable of enjoying what you have. Brought to you by the HR department's retention section.
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by Animats 18d ago
Interstate transportation of marijuana is illegal in the US.[1] But why is DHS doing this? Stopping interstate drug trafficking is DEA's job, and DEA is in the Justice Department, not Homeland Security. Homeland Security should be look
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by Animats 18d ago
The Longaberger Building, the giant picnic basket, is for sale, and currently abandoned.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F6n_xlckNE
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by Animats 19d ago
Here are LG's contract terms for appliances.[1] They are awful. Not only can they listen in. You have a contractual requirement to tell everyone in range of an appliance that they may be eavesdropped upon. CONSENT REQUIREMENT: You ack
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by Animats 19d ago
The NYC subway system now writes, on X, "Customer care has moved to the MTA app, chat with us there 24/7. Get service status, arrival times and more all in one place. Visit MTA.info/apps". The web page with similar data
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by Animats 19d ago
Surplus stores have been replaced by online auctions.[1] If you have something really obscure, you might find a buyer on online. Piling the stuff up locally means most of it sits there for years. Weird Stuff Warehouse. Haltek. HSC. All gone

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