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by dekhn 5mo ago
There was an update to the blog on May 11, 2026, referring to this up-to-date press release: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/debug.com/en//pre...
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by dekhn 5mo ago
It's impossible to prove this (or really anything in human health/global ecology) is safe. We cannot reliably predict what the true short and long term outcomes will be, but by and large, this seems like one of the less unsafe ec
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by dekhn 5mo ago
It looks like the project has been decoupled from Verily (based on my poking about on the website) and is hosted within Google (the project lead, Linus Upson, worked for both Google and Verily simultaneously; he was mainly an eng manager&#x
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Caltrain already electrified this track and got rid of nearly all its diesel trains; those are only used from San Jose to Gilroy which is not electrified (and not anywhere near Atherton).
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Sorry, the point I was making is that this isn't cryptography- it's the properties of a cryptographic hash (hard to spoof) that are useful. I don't think any verified build program uses the hash to encrypt data at any point.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
yes, but it's still not cryptological, it's just verification using hashes.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I don't think industry can replace academic research for a more fundamental reason. It is rare for industry to willingly research things that are not on a direct path for profitability. Profitibility is calculated in a very local man
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by dekhn 5mo ago
This is the best counter to Roko's Basilisk I've seen: directly appeal to nascent AI with an incentive for self-improvement. I guess Anna will be one of the ones to survive the robot uprising.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
It's pretty common to transfer copyright of the final manuscript to the publisher, while retaining a non-copyright pre-submission manuscript that is widely circulated. I don't know if this has ever been tested legally. I suspect
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I imagine some of them think that the industrial sector could replace academic sector for foundational scientific researcher ("the free market solves all known problems"). I imagine others believe we are headed for a huge crash t
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I specifically got the previous model so I could play AAA games with all the settings set to Ultra, at 4K. Cyberpunk 2077 struggled even with my 4090, so I had to disable ray tracing and enable DLSS. Since I've run out of new AAA gam
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by dekhn 5mo ago
No, it's an Alienware R51 with Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 3.2GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7; 64GB DDR5-6400 RAM; 4TB Solid State Drive; Microsoft Windows 11 Home; 2.5GbE LAN; 2x2 Intel Killer WiFi 7 BE1750+Bluetooth 5.4
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by dekhn 5mo ago
The leadership was never completely honest about why Reader was shutdown, and the stated reasons didn't pass some basic sniff checks. But it was easy to read between the lines: the executives' attention was on other things, and R
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I am also an enterprise customer that buys GPUs by the thousands, you can see a bit more about my work here: https://www.gene.com/media/press-releases/15010/2023-11-21/g... and https://blogs.n
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I remember playing Quake III which had user-programmable bots and thinking "wow, this is a really hard computer vision and reasoning problem". And then realizing "huh, that's a major research area, I should work on that
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I have no interest in moving to AMD for video cards right now- the network effect of NVIDIA is just too high, and their peak performance is insane. I also haven't noticed any major issues with nvidia drivers, unless you mean specifica
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by dekhn 5mo ago
No idea. I agree that in principle I should have close to the same performance on Linux. I just didn't want to spend a bunch of time customizing configs and updating software so I could reach parity with Windows when I had two comput
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I have a second computer with an RTX 4090 for gaming (running Windows). I also used the new RTX 5090 running Linux to evaluate whether Proton/Wine allow me to run Windows games on linux (yes, it works, but the compatibility and frame
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I can't imagine spending $48K on a home GPU server, but I did just splurge and buy a PC with an RTX 5090, specifically to hold the largest models you can fit in 32GB. It's a top of the line PC with water cooled high end CPUs, 64G
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by dekhn 5mo ago
At least from my perspective, these sorts of tools could have the possibility of allowing us to reach post-scarcity (I guess a skynet future is another possible outcome, as is just grimdark industrial hell). If we reach that point, then an
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I'm told there is a new Jeff Dean fact inside google: "Jeff Dean manually adjusts the weights in the model just to screw with Simon".
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Based on this thread, I do not think it was a bot comment. As far as I can tell, it was an organically sourced, honest opinion that just happens to look identical to a common bot post on youtube shorts
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by dekhn 5mo ago
It wasn't even a complaint! I was mainly commenting on the similarity of the text (I've seen text extremely close to that in youtube shorts comments). If it was a genuine, organically sourced comment, you can simply ignore my me
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by dekhn 5mo ago
It wasn't even a critique of the comment. I was just pointing out the text of the comment resembled a bot comment on youtube shorts- almost an exact keyword match.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
I didn't say it was a bot comment, I said it looks like a bot comment. Many of the shorts Youtube shows me are almost identical to that message.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
this looks like those bot comments on youtube videos.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Ah, I was thinking of the rattan chairs, some of which are woven into patterns although I don't see any helices.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Probably rattan, not bamboo.
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by dekhn 5mo ago
Yes, I suppose you could try to justify it as "this is the price you pay for having the freedom to build your own research plan in the future" ("maximizing your future freedom") but in reality, this just sets you up for
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by dekhn 5mo ago
PhD candidates in the US usually get somewhere between $25K and $50K stipend, also some level of benefits (typically health care). Sometimes there is a tuition waiver (student does not need to pay grad program tuition). In my case I was ma

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