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by dboreham 11mo ago
Because of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense ?
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Will we know AGI has been achieved when it stops using em-dashes?
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by dboreham 11mo ago
"Consciousness" is just what we call the thing we can't quite define that we believe separates us from other kinds of machine.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
ianam but I'm not sure there needs to be a "why" -- these things are defined to have certain properties, and so they have those properties. That's the purpose for which they were defined.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Re-reading the 1979 report might be helpful here. This isn't my field, but it seems that the engine is attached "hard" to the pylon, then the pylon is attached via a bearing mount system to the wing frame. The bearings wear o
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by dboreham 11mo ago
If you read the original 1979 report in full, I think you'll begin to realize that this "improper maintenance" thing was a cover-up. Actually quite similar to the 737MAX -- find someone or something to blame other than the de
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by dboreham 11mo ago
I found this to be very interesting reading in light of today's MD-11 Preliminary Report[1] [1] https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/1...
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NTSB DC-10-10 Aircraft Accident Report (1979) [pdf](ntsb.gov)
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by dboreham 11mo ago
> LLMs can only give you what its been trained on, i.e. it will not be "creative" or "revolutionary", that it will not output anything "new", but "only what is in its corpus That's not true. Or at
880.
by dboreham 11mo ago
It's a kind of apples vs pears problem: You have a bunch of tooling that deals with apples. You have a clear conceptual picture of what an apple is and what it does. Then someone brings you a pear. It's kind of like an apple but n
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Supreme Court rulings it seems. This is the law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1357# But it only says "any reasonable distance". SCOTUS appears to have come up with the 100 mile limit in
882.
by dboreham 11mo ago
Was go to say - MIT, dec-10: probably not obscure.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
I came up on the cusp of the calculator take-over, so although slide rules were around, and we were taught how to use them in school, I never really used them for any practical purpose. However, since they were the buggy whips of that day,
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by dboreham 11mo ago
> mandatory tug boats Which there are in some places. Where I grew up I'd watch the ships sail into and out of the oil and gas terminals, always accompanied by tugs. More than one in case there's a tug failure.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Also the zeroth failure mode: someone built a bridge that will collapse if any of the many many large ships that sail beneath it can't steer itself with high precision.
886.
by dboreham 11mo ago
My rule for a couple decades: any failover procedure that only gets run when there's a failure, will not work.
887.
by dboreham 11mo ago
Religion and Cult are obviously very similar things, if not in some cases just different names for exactly the same thing.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Imho pre-commit is an antipattern. It tends to break (or rather the janky things it typically runs break) but more importantly whatever needs to be run to gate commits has to be run server-side anyway (people disable precommit, it sometimes
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Also Google discontinues everything in short order, so personally I'm waiting until they haven't discontinued this for, say 6 months, before wasting time evaluating it.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
That's not quite how LLMs work.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
I've lived in Montana for 25 years, a place where there are deer (and moose and bears) rampaging all over the place. People hit them all the time. But the only place I ever hit a deer with my car was North Yorkshire.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Why are your CI servers open to the public network?
893.
by dboreham 11mo ago
Internet search engines have their origins in government projects fwiw. They had search engines before Alta Vista, used for searching data sets that pre-date the internet, and some of the people involved in those went to work on the origina
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Note that the rise of Linux was caused by the rise of low cost, high performance x86 CPUs. There was a period of time when it was obvious you could get much more bang for the buck from x86, but there wasn't a viable OS to use (for se
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Can confirm Claude doesn't even work in Hong Kong. That said I fired up my VPN and...then it did work.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Everything you read is in service of someone's business model.
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by dboreham 11mo ago
Not sure it really qualifies but certainly nice to see some history not written by the victors. As Ken's article cited below details, none of these chips were really "invented". The designs, or very close to the same design a
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by dboreham 11mo ago
To vampire squids.
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by dboreham 1y ago
Although the article has an SEO-optimized vibe, I think it's reasonable to take it as true until refuted. My rule of thumb is that any rarely executed, very tricky operation (e.g. database writer fail over) is likely to not work becaus
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by dboreham 1y ago
In MBA-speak this is "capturing more of the value chain".

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