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by areoform 2mo ago
I think this is impressive backwards reasoning. Before my lifetime, copyright law all but choked and killed the public domain. And now everything is stale and the same. This particular battle was lost with Google Books and the attempt to ma
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by areoform 2mo ago
This isn't a class or an assignment. This is real life with stakes. This is sales. And the right words means tens of thousands of more customers / users / contributors / stars / whatever over time. The wrong ones
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by areoform 2mo ago
(Although I'm not completely sure this maps onto Anthropic, which was never primarily targeting consumers.) This pisses off businesses though. I guarantee you that multiple businesses will set up workflows with different AIs
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by areoform 2mo ago
> Is there any provider that doesn’t do this? That’s the one I want to support. Yes, IIRC, OpenAI. In sama we trust??
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by areoform 2mo ago
This reminds me of Reddit killing off third-party clients and Twitter doing the same. The decline wasn't immediately obvious at first, but it happened and it capped the growth trajectory of both. Twitter never grew as fast as it did du
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by areoform 2mo ago
Yes, it takes a month or two. Depends on the project.
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by areoform 2mo ago
Ever since someone brought up this system a while ago and confused it with a Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875605 , it has been bothering me that seemingly no one is talking
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by areoform 2mo ago
Can I afford to? No. But will I have to? Yes.
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by areoform 2mo ago
Something like this happened to me and it has cost me $20k+ over time, https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/on-apples-expanded... Mercury unblocked my accounts because their founder is a very kind man wh
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by areoform 2mo ago
I think it's time to remind people of Ted Nelson's line; "The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." When I see something like this, I&
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by areoform 2mo ago
How do you have access to the thinking trace?
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by areoform 2mo ago
> RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell has 96GB of GDDR7 VRAM A mac studio with 96GB unified memory costs, $5,299.00. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio/m3-ultra-chip-... LLMs can re-write and cross
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by areoform 2mo ago
I'd love to learn more! How can I contact you? Also, I think you're being done a disservice. The above quote is a verbatim extract from that paper's CB section, and it's similar to other sections from other such papers.
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by areoform 2mo ago
I have a perspective on this that will read as unkind to these people, but that's not my intention. I respect and even admire what they're trying to do. I just think the effort is maladaptive and misplaced. Without directly touchi
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by areoform 2mo ago
For the first time in human history, the cost of surveillance has dropped below the cost of privacy. It is more expensive today to maintain your privacy and anonymity than it is to surveil you. The collective surveillance grid makes it poss
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by areoform 2mo ago
As someone who has worked with companies in the space more than a decade ago, I'm glad that you're doing this! Genuinely love the "embedded not installed" approach. I suspect that applying an aerospace approach of dissim
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by areoform 2mo ago
> Interim relief is a case study of how AI, like a heat-seeking missile, can lock on to the most obscure provisions of the law—and create carnage. The impact on Britain’s employment tribunals (courts that resolve disputes between
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by areoform 2mo ago
> Just curious, are there lifeforms today that rely on these metals to live in anaerobic environments? Maybe the hydrothermal vents that are talked about? Yes! There are a few interesting variants called, "dissimilatory m
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by areoform 2mo ago
That's a fair point! I think I've found a few more things, but reading through / verifying first. Will update accordingly and leave notes. Thanks for helping! edit - I updated to delete my over claim. Thank you!
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by areoform 2mo ago
Apologies was editing the comment, but I looked into it more and it wasn't a preprint. They published it. Multiple times. "Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2," March 2026, https://www
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by areoform 2mo ago
I have been diving into / reading up this area lately. A few quick notes. Worth specifying that these were hand selected candidates. Out of these human selected ones, 5% were successful. The Stanford researchers picked the most p
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by areoform 2mo ago
Looking at this thread, I can see that a lot of technical people have ambivalent to negative feelings towards AI, but with each new generation, I become more and more convinced that they're missing out on something interesting. It is i
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by areoform 2mo ago
From the article, What can we learn about what other people are thinking, about their mental models of the world, by paying very careful attention to the words they use? A lot of people will make fun of you, but I think everyone sh
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by areoform 2mo ago
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3205-l... MacOS has supported RDMA over thunderbolt since March 19th.
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by areoform 2mo ago
“I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working if you want to remote in and check" Cdr. Reid Wiseman to Mission Control, Artemis II, Earth-Moon Coast.
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by areoform 3mo ago
I read a dozen inbound cold emails every day. I used to love it. I don't anymore, because every other single email uses The Sentence. Or, The Paragraph. Whatever model these people use, it always always puts in The Sentence (I don&#x
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by areoform 3mo ago
But this seems like it's attacking a strawman. AI is a force multiplier in the hands of an expert. If it took a team before, maybe a single malicious actor can accomplish it now that AI can fill in the parts they aren't wel
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by areoform 3mo ago
Yes, and did you see them oppose computing? They promoted it and tried to use nuclear energy for peace.
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by areoform 3mo ago
If you're good enough at cybersec, but not good-good at specific skillsets like offensive, then LLMs and a comp sci degree makes you quite capable in the ways that count. This is a fact, full stop. Wet work in a lab isn'
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by areoform 3mo ago
This experiment has been run, and even the biological stuff is far fetched. I've written about this before, but the issue is that these people have worked with computers their entire lives, and they keep projecting outwards from there.

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