Enginerrrd

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by Enginerrrd 6d ago
If you subscribe the the many worlds interpretation, you can basically look at observers as existing within the space of eigenvalues of operators acting on the massively entangled wave function of their respective universe.
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by Enginerrrd 8d ago
That’s… hilariously not exactly new either. It can be said that our enemies and allies in 2006 were the almost exact opposite of the conflict in the 1980’s when we were funding the afghan mujahideen to fight the soviets. So theoretically i
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by Enginerrrd 8d ago
It’s not so interesting I think. They’re basically just taking equations of the form f(x,y)=k where k=0, and asking “ah but what about when k!=0”? Indeed, looking at the constant as a variable by looking at the equation f(x,y)=z IS quite us
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by Enginerrrd 11d ago
To be fair, Russia also sends people out to inflame active protests and try to push them into greater extremism.
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by Enginerrrd 13d ago
I encourage you to try it sometime. They mash up wonderfully with the skins on.
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by Enginerrrd 16d ago
> Given the extent to of the gold rush and the long history of Silicon Valley stealing ideas, and arguing it’s not immoral Not just Silicon Valley but also OpenAI, specifically.
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by Enginerrrd 16d ago
The astrophage was pumped around the ship to act as shielding for cosmic rays too.
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by Enginerrrd 17d ago
I have to say having just done a very tricky project with a long DSP pipeline in gnuradio, that LLMs are a godsend for getting up to speed on gnuradio blocks. I too found it historically impenetrable, but was able to get a pipeline comple
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by Enginerrrd 19d ago
I think it’s just that Japanese culture represents a very sophisticated antithesis to many western cultural pillars. Collectivism over individualism, incredible development of the aesthetics of simplicity and emptiness compared to the oste
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by Enginerrrd 1mo ago
That’s not too much a concern I think. Most of the real pathogenic qualities result from known genes. Inventing a totally novel virus that is also pathogenic is basically science fiction right now. Splicing together known components th
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
I think it’s possible this might just require reworking the transformer architecture a bit to give it an inherent awareness of the contents of its attention. Kind of a working memory workspace of sorts. I.e. Instead of limiting autoregressi
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
I’m not endorsing the current administration’s policy, nor do I think it would succeed, but I find this comment really perplexing since this action is PRECISELY in line with the 2025 National Security Strategy. [1] Also, for further insight
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
I think this is a bad way to look at it. LLMs can probably conceive of most things that are representable within the embedding space. Ordinarily in mathematics there’s a TON of papers to write just combining low level problems with differ
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
I think what I mean is just that from an individual standpoint we can’t really answer that and it’s not how vaccine evidence is collected or decisions are made. Those are always made at the population level. (Vaccine harms 1 in every 10
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
It reminds me a bit of the tyranny of the rocket equation. You can always scale your fuel to get a little more delta V, with ever diminishing returns. …but for something like a DEEP space/interstellar mission, it almost always pays
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
Detecting radio signals never made much sense to me. Even a few light years away, it’s almost infeasible to build a radio transmitter that could be detected above the noise floor. The amount of energy you’d need would be absurdly wasteful
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
First pass through. After the machines invent time travel they end up accelerating the creation of skynet.
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by Enginerrrd 2mo ago
Yeah substantial degradation in really basic functionality in the last 3-4 years. I mean, new features I don’t use and useless UI changes have been added at a high rate over the same time period, but holy Christ, it’s pretty bad when some r
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
That’s impossible to know either way.
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
I completely agree, but I also think that an industry disrupting architecture tweak akin to the “Attention is all you need” is VERY possible to emerge at any moment. It feels like the cognitive gaps on current LLMs are indeed structural, bu
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
Depending on what they’re doing, good finish carpenters will definitely take a bunch of moisture readings on a slab of wood before working on it.
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
Because the space of people interested in such things is relatively small and so a single article has knock on effects where a reader of the article or a blogger sees it and starts exploring the space and posts more about it, increasing the
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
Having opinions on Wikipedia policies is perfectly appropriate.
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
I would think you could, in principle, deduce the bad key from a recorded segment of the jamming signal, and only revoke when identified. I would have to look at the math more specifically, but I would think it would be impossible to both d
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
Isn’t this the exact problem tree-based broadcast encryption schemes were designed to solve? You could surgically revoke the keys of a bad actor, and I’m not exactly sure, but I think the scope of their ability to affect the jamming resis
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
Yeah I scored well enough and only missed 3, but that’s just because it was very easy to “guess well”. There were many words I didn’t know though.
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
Yeah, it’s definitely higher risk. When riding a motorcycle, you’ll encounter people that don’t see you almost every trip. The same is not true in a car. Riding a bike is just a 100% engagement thing with higher risks and lower margins fo
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
The cynic in me thinks its an extension of the NSA having long ago switched from being defensively helpful to US companies, to deliberately introducing backdoors and issues that they can exploit.
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by Enginerrrd 3mo ago
Splitting Eucalyptus and big madrone by hand will test a man.
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
This matches my experience. LLMs are great at speeding up the easy but tedious bits, but they can’t even come close to independently identifying and solving the issues that come up in the development process which has always been like 90%

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