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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
The combination approach jives well with my use of the models in a number of areas. I guide models to use best-in-class algorithmic approaches as available. (Eg using constraint solves for a particular problem where pure Monte Carlo rarely
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
That story roughly tracks the one I hold. One piece that's missing is that grok's / X's image also made it radioactive to the best researchers. 'Aligned AGI' is an easier sell to the best engineers than 'a
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
Seem reasonably concise, but I think Kreyzsig's Introduction to Functional Analysis with Applications fills the "gap" that this paper wants to fill. It's readable, has applications, exercises, and is more complete.
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
On the front page? LLMs got lots of us programmers dreaming of leaving the profession, I suppose.
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
This take clearly has a bone to pick. But ignoring that, the first sentence is just not reflective of the reality here—xAI is making a killing on renting out its GPUs, way more than "just power". The dynamics that normally make in
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
Right, and zero non-anonymous sources. A person plausibly "close to Anthropic" or vaguely "with knowledge of the situation" using the stock phrase "the best defense is a good offense"... this is not a news arti
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
The focus on AI is just to capture some of the current zeitgeist. Socialists generally think that most large businesses be run for the public benefit in some form or another. This is basically making that point with AI companies as their tr
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
Yeah, the order itself seems like a fairly reasonable response to Mythos level capabilities. It does solve one problem of the frontier labs, which is safely coordinating releases without hitting antitrust regulations. It also makes a bigger
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Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals(politico.com)
241 points by _alternator_ 4mo ago|172 comments
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
Yeah! SF does great work in making its public data, well, public; much respect to this team.
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
Ok, chatting with Claude and I found a way to salvage the approach! (Also, it's apparently in the paper that's referenced in the post, kinda cool that my sketchy algorithm got halfway to the published result). Basically, replace t
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
Ah, yes, this is true, but it's not really a counterexample, since this would show up in the N or U bucket. But I think the issue is that my sketch algorithm is, well, pretty sketchy. Working on coding it up... it converges to 17±0.5%f
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by _alternator_ 4mo ago
> You might be able to come up with a more efficient algorithm. Challenge accepted. Suppose we want to know the answer to 3 decimal places (so we'd match the headline). And suppose I allow my algorithm to be wrong one in a thousand
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Dear Claude: Please don't use regex to parse code(mbmccoy.dev)
3 points by _alternator_ 5mo ago|2 comments
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
There's pretty strong evidence that (mis)alignment in one area creates (mis)alignment in others. The "aligned behavior" vectors are not orthogonal from cybersecurity to bioweapons to prejudice, so having alignment in some wil
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
The event horizon = singularity metaphor is a little off. There is no breakdown in the laws of physics at the event horizon. It's just that there is no light or matter that escapes from the event horizon. But the laws of physics don&#x
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
This was a genetically modified space lobster talking to Mangred, right? I haven't verified but I've been assuming that the lobster mascot for OpenClaw was a reference to Accelerando.
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
To address this framing directly: "a bug exists" is a different truth/state of the world than "the bug is known to exist", and that's also very different from "this bug exists and an exploit is readily ava
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
My understanding is that decompilation into more readable code is an important step in building the path to an exploit. This understanding may be incomplete or outdated (things moving very fast right now). I'd love to hear from a someo
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
The article focuses on OSS, but closed-source software is at major risk too. Perhaps more. It's gotten much easier to reverse engineer binaries in general, and security patches in particular. Basically, an LLM can turn binaries into &#
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
This is a cool analysis. I reflexively chose red, but I'm convinced blue is the right choice here. I don't want to be in a society where people who choose wrong would die!
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
The key here is "high confidence" and "likely". For threat intelligence research, these words usually map to a probability estimate. In this case, "likely" would mean 55-80% probability [0]. The fact that they
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
Is the probability actually more interesting though? I find the symmetry of this type of result extremely compelling, beautiful even. Buffon himself restricted his attention to the case where the needle was short enough that "probabili
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
The simulation is always 2 for the closed circle of width W. Actually if you run it enough, the simulation will occasionally end up not perfectly equal to 2 because it's a 50 sided polygon, not a true circle. ;) But for a perfect circl
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
The article strongly implies they have the (Python) source code, and that it looks LLM generated. I don't know about you, but I can usually tell LLM code from a mile away.
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
I'm no genocide expert, but it does seem like legal scholars who _are_ genocide experts agree that the facts here seem to clearly meet the bar. The people who you credit with "hav[ing] the better side of the legal argument" d
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
So... "statements from leaders that suggest genocidal intent" ... meets the genocide bar, yes? I'll just quote wikipedia: The Gaza genocide is the ongoing,[19][20] intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian pe
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
Yes, I can. This is what being human is. You eat, sleep, laugh when you can, make plans with friends, fall in love, get married, and grieve when the people around you die. And there is a lot of grief in Gaza right now, but there are still l
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
Honestly it's difficult for me to respond to this comment because the premise is so clearly flawed. A semblance of civilian life does not mean genocide did not or is not taking place. Wholesale population displacement, destruction of a
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by _alternator_ 5mo ago
Is this not just a perspective issue? The fields we learn about in school are the ones that are in some sense mature, that have been cashed. When I was in grad school, we learned about wavelets, but we did research on convex optimization fo

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