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by Animats 2mo ago
You won't get much from the americium in smoke detectors. They're alpha emitters, and ordinary Geiger counters will not detect alphas. You can build an alpha detector.[1] Even a sheet of paper or a modest distance in air will stop
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by Animats 2mo ago
Three pictures from Getty Images and generic copy. Was this assembled by an AI? An instagrammer visiting a konbini in Kyoto would be far more interesting. (If you want that experience in coastal California, visit a Nijiya Market.)
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by Animats 2mo ago
It's a vinyl cutter. I've used those. TechShop used to have them. Theirs seem to be repurposed large-format HP plotter designs. Vinyl cutters are good at doing one thing - cutting out patterns in vinyl or similar materials. You ca
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by Animats 2mo ago
Now that's the value. OpenRouter has the power to step on the air hose of any provider they don't like. That's Google's real power. Works for them. Between search, ads, and the "app store", they can crush most
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by Animats 2mo ago
Depends on the AI's agenda. What's in the "SOUL.md" file?
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by Animats 2mo ago
> i am not certain but I would guess Claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it. Now that's a fascinating t
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by Animats 2mo ago
While having something done at Stanford's hospitals, at one point I was placed in a room with signs indicating it was on a heavily filtered ventilation system rated for COVID, etc. It was striking to be in an environment with air almos
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by Animats 2mo ago
This is a refining capacity problem, not an crude oil supply problem. The various wars have taken out refining capacity and transport capacity. On the crude oil side, the US strategic petroleum reserve is declining rapidly.[1] That took a h
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by Animats 2mo ago
The court got this right. This is when you need a special master to help with cleanup after a bankruptcy. We saw something like this when TechShop went bankrupt, with member property in storage on the premises. The bankruptcy trustee set up
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by Animats 2mo ago
The article author thinks that PJM is overpaying for resilience for failure. I'd argue that resilience is worth it. Especially for an era when the US is in wars with countries that might be able to get drones into the US.
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by Animats 2mo ago
The article's main complaint is that generating capacity has been overbuilt by maybe 10%. That's not a bad thing. There are worse things than extra generating capacity.
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by Animats 2mo ago
Nice. It's like a mini version of a slow sand filter.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_sand_filter
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by Animats 2mo ago
Leaders of Russia who lose a war do not, historically, survive long. Putin spends most of his time in bunkers now, terrified of both attacks from Ukraine and possible coup attempts from his own people.[1] [1] https://www.independ
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by Animats 2mo ago
> Did we get a grip on this problem? That's the right question to ask. For a while, it seemed that hallucinations went down as models got bigger. That may only have been because, with a big enough model, the desired data might be in
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by Animats 2mo ago
That sort of is the strategy. Ukraine says they pick targets in Moscow and St. Petersburg that hurt Russia's elites. The trouble is that Russia's elites have little influence over Putin. He crushed that a decade ago. The battlefro
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by Animats 2mo ago
I haven't seen the Lipton/Perlis/De Millo paper in years. I was around for that argument. Which really dates me. Those guys were pushing for mutation analysis.[1] That's a test for the test suite - you make some random
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by Animats 2mo ago
Is ASUS trolling to see if there is a market for the thing? If they were serious, it would be in WalMart at $279.95. If you want something like this, there are very similar items on Amazon, Alibaba, etc.[1] [1] https://www.alibab
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by Animats 2mo ago
Wildberries is Russia's equivalent of Amazon. Ukraine has apparently hit 7 of the 10 largest Wildberries hubs. This latest hit was on the hub for Moscow. [1] https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-knocks-
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Kyiv blows up biggest Wildberries hub in drone attack(independent.co.uk)
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by Animats 2mo ago
> injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site textlog.cc Cloudflare injected hostile code into a site they are not even hosting? If it's HTTPS, how do they even do that? Does it violate the "exceeds authoriz
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by Animats 2mo ago
I got that too and couldn't read the site.
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by Animats 2mo ago
This makes hallucination detection more important. There's no reason that an LLM should have a vast number of obscure facts encoded. It can go out to a search engine for such facts. But the LLM has to be clear on what it doesn't k
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by Animats 2mo ago
OK, you put in electricity and get hydrogen. So where are the efficiency numbers? Just using an electrolyzer to break up water is about 70% efficient, in terms of energy out / energy in.
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by Animats 2mo ago
The install procedure, for something that's supposed to be a security product: curl -sL https://dl.jitpass.com/jitpass/jit/releases/latest/download/jitpass_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar -xz jit
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by Animats 2mo ago
No price. No order form. No delivery date. Vaporware. Come on, ASUS. You're a real company, not some kickstarter scam.
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by Animats 2mo ago
"Training Day"
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by Animats 2mo ago
> Put differently, maybe there's something fundamentally unhealthy to having a "discussion" with something that never says no. Well, XKCD suggested an alternative.[1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1027/
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by Animats 2mo ago
There's one in Tempe, AZ that has a 1980s "Dialed digit recorder", but that's a much later microprocessor controlled unit. The mechanism is that of a "Morse inker", a recorder used to receive telegraph signals.
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by Animats 2mo ago
The IRS backed off from using "ID.me" back in 2022.[1] But apparently it is back. Is Treasury requiring face recognition, like last time? And of course this will be used to track down illegal aliens. [1] https://www.bio
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by Animats 2mo ago
Yes. That's how LLMs do programming, mostly. It's also why LLMs don't need abstractions or parsimony as much as humans. They can work on something complicated without simplifying it first. This has major implications that hav

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