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by delichon 4mo ago
I'm so old ... I got a coding job in 1991. The boss asked if I had any experience in Visual Basic. I said no, but it just came out last week. It's hard to describe what a huge leap for mankind that was compared to QuickBasic.
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by delichon 4mo ago
It's not exactly the Council of Elrond. It's appropriate for the design to be closer to Barad-dûr than Rivendell.
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by delichon 4mo ago
> and essentially codifies giving political appointees explicit discretion over what gets funded I approve of this. The people who make the funding decisions should be politically accountable. If you have a mental model of unappointed ci
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by delichon 4mo ago
Some good stuff here from Dwarkesh around mashing up training and inference: https://youtu.be/20p5-kQXF_Q?is=72ImTNxkOEKmOXQ9 He predicts this kind of model factory will become central to organizational learning and operati
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by delichon 4mo ago
Some napkin math. AC roughly halves the extreme heat mortality rate for users. If France (~25%) achieves the air conditioning penetration of Canada (~65%), 40% of the population will achieve half the deaths, down 20%. So installing a Canadi
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by delichon 4mo ago
The export control directives on Anthropic are under the authority of the Arms Export Control Act. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) implement the AECA for commercial exports, including the "technical data" unde
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by delichon 4mo ago
To stay near the frontier of AI without being subject to the discretion of foreign countries the EU has to stay near the frontier of R&D themselves. Even if they can get around ITAR now and self-host, they would be stuck with having to
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by delichon 4mo ago
You could fit all of Mythos on a t-shirt in microfilm size. But washing a microfilm shirt would be tricky.
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by delichon 4mo ago
The geoblocking is mostly a desperate attempt at self defense against a flood of scrapers crushing the site for everyone. Don't take it personally unless you are one.
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by delichon 4mo ago
It would be better if the AI censorship was lawless, rather than authorized by the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, since that would allow the Article III branch of the federal government to be a defense against it. The lawfulness makes it
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by delichon 4mo ago
I recently passed on some of my favorite books to a nephew. Probably nobody will break into his house and take the books off of his shelves when a license agreement expires. I'd like to be able to do the same with GTA 6 if it's go
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by delichon 4mo ago
Congress passed the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC 2778) in the Ford administration and it has been applied to software since at least the Clinton administration.
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by delichon 4mo ago
I read that Rossmann also operates a black market maple syrup smuggling operation. In his spare time, he gives lectures on ancient Egyptian history while knitting sweaters. After releasing his multi-platinum country album, he traveled to Ne
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by delichon 4mo ago
> Globalization is a proxy for technology-powered capitalism, which tends to reward fewer and fewer members of society. This is just false. The growth of income inequality does not diminish the clear global trend of increased median inco
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by delichon 4mo ago
Expect the feds to censor them soon too.
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by delichon 4mo ago
Maybe colleges and scholarships that make admission decisions based on adversity can someday objectively measure it by DNA methylation. Also for reparations or welfare benefits. It would seem to be a more direct proxy than melanin pigment d
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by delichon 4mo ago
This kind of intimidation sucks and I'd like to see individual officers who indulge in it lose their qualified immunity and be prosecuted for it. But I'm at least grateful to live under a regime that needs to break its own laws to
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by delichon 4mo ago
You may be able to effectively externalize taste by "hot or not" style pair testing. Enough comparisons and I'd expect ML to be able to mimic human taste by latching on to features we're not well aware of influencing us.
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How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths(quillette.com)
9 points by delichon 4mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 4mo ago
The design philosophy is that this is driver assistance where the driver is the supervisor, rather than the car supervising the driver. Sustained acceleration is interpreted as the driver overriding the car. For unsupervised autonomy in the
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by delichon 4mo ago
FSD has Automatic Emergency Braking but that does not apply to hard acceleration by the driver, which is an explicit UI to take control from the autopilot.
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by delichon 4mo ago
> They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash. There is no actuator that can press the pedal down, so if investigators find that the accelerator was still pushed down after the cr
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by delichon 4mo ago
> Hosted in collaboration with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance. Their climate resilience seems low. > The event will finish with a fire side chat Is this a prank?
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by delichon 4mo ago
Last month 2,400 University of California faculty asked for admissions to resume using the SAT "to ensure foundational fluency." Of course many employers want to ensure that too, especially when college degrees don't anymore.
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by delichon 4mo ago
Families transmit values via memes rather than genes. Politics is a meme competition and conservatives have a 2.1/1.5 advantage in reproducing meme transmitters. So without other interventions, liberals need about a 29% advantage in me
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by delichon 4mo ago
The dying gap doesn't have much effect at child bearing ages. The fertility gap is between between ~2.1 for conservatives (roughly replacement) and ~1.5 for liberals. To maintain political equilibrium liberals have to outpace conservat
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GPT-5.5-Cyber Tops Mythos 5 on Cybersecurity Benchmark(twitter.com)
5 points by delichon 4mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 4mo ago
> We have to consider what the unintended consequences are of public policies or practices where there are no immediate consequences for someone who falls behind on rent > Many [landlords] say they don’t actually intend to evict anyon
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by delichon 4mo ago
Agree. I was able to fix mine by wearing thin sole shoes and walking regularly on rocky terrain. See Born To Run. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Born_to_Run/4gS_0UwVI34...
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by delichon 4mo ago
I only use it a couple of times per year, and simply threading it is a genuine challenge for me. So is keeping a stich running. People who sew more or have good fine motor skill may just not remember the noob experience. I expect a lot of n

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